“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Matt Yglesias consistently treats net zero as if it’s some arbitrary goal that activists want, not a goal that scientists say is necessary to preserve a livable planet for all. He so badly wants a solution that sounds "reasonable" that he's willing to ignore and dismiss scientific reality.

FYI because there will be false claims: Carbon capture has never been used successfully at a commercial gas-fired power plant in the U.S., and no existing carbon capture facility has ever consistently achieved a 90 percent capture rate. heated.world/p/exxons-new...

Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly. Critics say that's a dangerous fiction. Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one! www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

This from a huge story about the buildout of methane gas plants to fuel data centers for the AI bubble written by @emdashsanders.bsky.social and edited by @emorwee.bsky.social. Today's must-read! open.substack.com/pub/heated/p... 2/2

Promising at 90% capture rate at methane power plants is the zombie greenwashing that WILL NOT DIE, no matter how often point-source carbon capture fails in the real world. 🧟‍♂️ At least Exxon still feels the need to lie about their business! That's ... hopeful? 1/2

Bro I will literally become the Joker right now I’m not even kidding

Reminder that Trump solicited & received a massive bribe from Big Oil & Gas, and our billionaire media treated it as a one-day A12 story never to be mentioned again Maybe worth mentioning again now that he’s explicitly sending our kids off to die so Big Oil & Gas can profit?

This idiocy is governance as Grand Guignol. It will cripple atmospheric science in this country. “What we are seeing is the administration canceling the freedom of scientific thought and inquiry.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Holy fuck

Sigh.

This is the stuff, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

If you enjoyed last month’s “international climate change summit catches on fire,” you may also enjoy:

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.

Great reporting by @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social probing at why so many celebrity chefs keep defending non-stick pans made with toxic PFAS, given everything we've learned about these "forever chemicals." atmos.earth/political-la...

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

As someone who covered the restaurant beat for years and knows these chefs, so many of them suck ass to a T. Bad bosses, bad people. I'm never gonna write a book, but if I did it would be about the odious celebrity chef culture machine

This is a good article and I would like to add that Teflon sucks and you have to replace your pan regularly making them an expensive option in the long run.

Running a short interview with him tomorrow! Subscribe to get it (it’s free): heated.world

fuck this shit. i finally got a carbon steel pan a few years ago and after a bit of prep it is just as non-stick as our non-stick ones. and it certainly has kept being non-stick for longer. and they also only cost like $30 bucks instead of $100.

This is the shit that annoys me. Like chef advocacy for gas cooking. They know they’re selling us pollution. But it pays, so *shrug*. Meanwhile A LOT of these personalities have made their bonafides on the back of progressive causes.

the nonstick pan conversation is one of those times when I feel like I grew up on a commune away from civilization. I grew up on stainless steel. I've owned one nonstick pan ever, it lasted about a year (the average life of a nonstick pan) and I was like well that doesn't seem very long

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo. He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it. "He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."

Irons in the fire. “It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka

Every day I say a little prayer we get to see Dark Gore and today feels a little good.

I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo. He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it. "He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."

Gore on Bill Gates’s climate memo

"The days off of Donald Trump directing policy in other countries are quickly coming to an end," Al Gore tells @emorwee.bsky.social. "He is now well and truly a lame duck." open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

"[The fossil fuel industry] no longer feel any compulsion to pretend that they're not [at COP] to......fart in church" @amywestervelt.bsky.social on @fisherdanar.bsky.social's fantastic #COP30 pod along w/ @katharinehayhoe.com cece.american.edu/cece-launche...

more like escargone

It's almost like the head of a data center is financially driven to not understand, and outright lie, about how data centers drive pollution by their insane draw on local aquifers.

Some of us can read, Andy.

The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists

Probably gonna regret this but…before you curse all “DC media,” please consider that most of us are just working on our little stories, never mixing with VIPs and horrified by these freaks too

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

Don’t forget the other core tenet of ethical journalism: paywalling said urgently newsworthy information to the tune of $80 a year

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Since I tried to read the excerpt (yeah, dumb move, I know), it's bugged me how she uses the LA fires as a lazy metaphor for her personal life. Good to see a writer articulate the problem with that.