Our entire government is comprised of the people who used to leave me Jack Chick tracts instead of a tip.

I'm putting, "AOC as the new Lincoln" on my bingo card.

Last I checked, making sure your citations are accurate is expected of undergrads doing intro-level papers, nevermind published scholars with actual careers and publications. However, I do appreciate these folks willingness to tell on themselves and to doublecheck THEIR citations.

“No matter what happens to Cuba,” Cashman said, “this is a clear signal to other countries that renewables are something that they need to focus on.” 100% correct. Renewable energy = energy security

“Solar is so cheap, batteries are so cheap and EVs are getting so cheap that this is the first energy crisis where people say, ‘but there’s an alternative,’” Turner said. 💡 paywalled

This is why any assurances that America won't see gas price rises due to being an oil exporter are mostly hot air. The oil and gas industries know they can make more money in the export market and will always prioritize profit over ensuring a reliable supply for US consumers. #EconSky #EnergySky

An excellent thread on the state of oil & has markets, why we are running out of time before a major spike hits, and how strategic reserves have mitigated damage but will also exert price pressure once the Strait reopens as reserves scramble to rebuild. #EconSky #EnergySky

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Since Roy Scranton's name has reappeared lately, here's an excerpt on him from The #NewClimateWar (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

Enough already www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Perfect metaphor. Twitter has fully morphed into a Habermosh-pit at a neo-Nazi skinhead concert. Niche platforms like Bluesky will never match the reach of Twitter or Facebook at their peak, but that doesn't mean it can't be a pleasant place to hang out, talk about cool shit, and learn new things.

Every state should be a single district proportional vote: vote for a party and each party gets as many members as their proportion of the votes. There is no way to impose fair maps and districts are meaningless anyway.

An excellent piece by @aselrod.bsky.social on the present political crisis. We are facing the worst assault on voting rights & substantive democracy since the rise of Jim Crow. We, the people, need to respond accordingly & not repeat the mistakes that saw Reconstruction fail. Now is time to act.

Totally uncool as in "global warming, whatever." Climate change is an economics issue, a health issue, an ag issue, a housing issue, a refugee issue, a public safety issue; you can talk about it in those terms, but not talking about it is not addressing the largest crisis of our time.....

This is a "significant watering down of key provisions, postpones necessary decisions and will ultimately make the transition more expensive and more chaotic” I told Euronews on Germany's decision to scrap its renewable heating law. www.euronews.com/2026/05/14/c...

The fundamental premise right now is that there are fascist parties (GOP, Reform) and anti-fascist parties that are often flawed in other ways (Dems). It requires a rewriting of the basic facts of our present reality to create a scenario where the Democrats run on the exact same policies as Farage

This tracks with all available data. The base of current inflation is a major supply shock to energy, which is upstream of everything, the cause of said shock doesn't seem to be getting fixed anytime soon, & mid to long term damage to energy infrastructure will continue to limit supplies. #EconSky

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @ucs.org in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @urbantruth.bsky.social poster. #UrbanTruth

The wind is the perfect complement to the sun for energy generation. When the sun goes down the wind comes up. It blows harder in the darker north, and in the winter. They are the dynamic duo, with their faithful assistant the Battery billmckibben.substack.com/p/everyone-k...

The shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity is going to be a step-change improvement in our impact on the earth -- on mining, on materials, on minerals, on whatever metric you choose. Plus they can be recycled.

And what's the plan other than hoping for the invisible hand to pry the Strait open?

This is only just the beginning. Rising prices, Spirit Airlines, all of it is only the tip of the iceberg that the present US government has slammed us all into. What comes next is a wave of low-margin business failures, shortages, and an escalating spiral with no easy answers. #EconSky #EnergySky

1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵

Pictured: every energy trader & analyst right now. #EconSky #EnergySky

Once again, the only people who benefit from the gas tax suspension are the people who are already profiting handsomely from the present crisis. At least Trump is, very predictably, using the crisis to benefit himself & his cronies. You'd think markets would grasp that by now. #EconSky #EnergySky

Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

I must yet again repeat that suspending gas taxes won't make a significant dent in the price at the pump when the root cause is an unprecedented supply shock which will persist well after the war ends. #EconSky #EnergySky

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

Pretty disappointing to see @adamtooze.bsky.social posting that climate issues around data centre growth are just barely "real" and are verging on "fake" Me and many others have done a huge amount of work I think solidly demonstrating how real they are. Much more than.......whatever this graphic is

I genuinely do not know what it is going to take to convince people. Data centre developers are building country-sized fossil gas power plants, grid coal plants are having closures cancelled, climate targets are being explicitly weakened on the grounds of DC growth. The evidence base is massive

How long are we going to keep pretending Elon Musk is a business genius and not the fraud & fabulist that he actually is?

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

Such capabilities have been an open secret for decades. I even cited an Air Force War College paper from the 1990s in my book on how the Israeli government pressured Nixon into resupplying the IDF in 1973 by visibly loading & arming their nuclear weaponry. 1/2

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

This war, like Trump, is over. The real question is the consequences felt by the rest of us, many of which are only just beginning to be felt. The immediate supply shock is about to be exacerbated by the destruction of a significant chunk of critical Gulf energy infrastructure. #EconSky #EnergySky

I'm sure the collapse of petrocapital is a major factor there. #EconSky

It's going to be interesting when we all find out the hard way how overleveraged Elon's Tesla stocks are.

Australia is one of the most mature residential PV markets. If you're finding explosive growth there, you're going to find it in a lot more places. The Trump Effect.

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

In-depth reporting on the coming wave of data center projects in NY.

That's because no one can afford to buy things on their wages and credit, for most people, has limits. Hassett and Trump wouldn't know what that's like but it's reality for everyone else and is a sign of much worse to come. #EconSky

Any analysis of the present energy crisis that doesn't start with the ongoing destruction of fossil fuel demand and production capacity is not meaningfully engaging with the foreseeable consequences of Trump's war. #EnergySky #EconSky #ClimateSky

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We have an independent judiciary in the lower courts. It's the Supreme Court that needs to be weakened, specifically. The court system can remain strong and independent.

lol a solar project is being delayed five years because the company developing it connected to the wrong transmission line & now has to restart the process with pjm

"the global conversation has shifted from whether to phase out oil, gas and coal to how to do it, with financing emerging as one of the biggest obstacles." - @sjgrattan.bsky.social @apnews.com #EndFossilFuels apnews.com/article/clim...