The lawless Trump regime is trying any means necessary to kill offshore wind. Now the excuse is "national security" * Vineyard Wind 1 off Massachusetts * Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind off Virginia * Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind off New York * Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Connecticut

Life in the Anthropocene, Presented By Exxon

"I think we’ve got individuals who might be caught up in the moment, caught up in the internet." @meeks.house.gov thinks voters who are angry with incumbent Democrats are fools.

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

I was talking to a colleague on Friday and he said, oh, I didn’t know you wrote a book?? and clearly I have not been obnoxious enough anout this. So: I wrote a book. Some people thought it was good. You should read it www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Sea ice extent in the Bering as been basically flat the past week and is now decidedly below the 1991-2020 median. Storminess early this week will likely result in some retreat of the ice edge but then a shift to north winds later in the week would allow for some expansion. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

From the Kennedy Center protest this morning. #kennedycenter

Project Drawdown minimizing the danger of the data center boom doesn't feel very draw down

'It's a small percentage of global' was the same line run by the Bitcoin mining folks when trying to dimiss the impacts of their activities. You can put any highly-polluting activity atop a massive denominator to get a teeny percentage and happily dismiss it Wrong for them and wrong for this

98-99% of abuses ICE/DHS agents and contractors commit against detained migrants will go unnoticed—and unaccountable—unless there's infrastructure in destination countries to hear victims' testimonies after deportation. Here, @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social shows the power of this essential monitoring.

Sean is usually pretty chill, it takes a lot to piss him off.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Yes, we're at this stage already

The anthropocene isn't very affordable

“Over the last three years, Duke Energy’s rate increases have significantly outpaced inflation, gouging customers to defray their own costs and protect investor returns. Duke recently filed requests for additional rate hikes in 2027 and 2028.” 🔌💡

Although the corporate media is refusing to cover the case of Marcus Mitchell, the Dine Standing Rock water protector blinded in his left eye when he was shot by a mercenary cop, Censored News is on it

the funniest part is an American Airlines spox claiming they "don't have the wherewithal to pressure the FAA"

The leopards, they ate her face

US Treasury quietly removed sanctions from several companies previously accused of supplying Russia's military - from Cyprus, Dubai, Turkey, and Finland - offering no explanation for the move.

Death cult!

funny thing nobody likes him and never will

death cult!

"somewhere near the core of Technopoly is a vast industry with license to use all available symbols to further the interests of commerce, by devouring the psyches of consumers" - Neil Postman, 1992

the photo is of Beatles fans in Miami on February 15, 1964, before their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. (it's one of the top getty hits for the phrase "women screaming") h/t @kiilertofu.bsky.social

"Liberals should support America’s oil and gas industry." fun fact: yglz has children

My Congressional politics newsletter doesn't have quite as many buzzy scoops as Punchbowl BUT it never pimps the fracking-powered data center apocalypse Hillheat.news/subscribe

The #bigballsgoonshow continues in DC - vehicles with illegally duct-taped license plates going on patrol with MPD in Ward 1

Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...

as a budding parliamentarian this makes my blood boil

hey fellow Ward 1 DC Democrats: help craft our candidate questionnaire! ward1democrats.org/survey @ward1democrats.org @dcdemocrats.bsky.social

NEW: D.C. deserves a police chief who will follow the law and respect the constitutional rights of District residents. Read ACLU-D.C.’s Executive Director Monica Hopkins' statement on Mayor Bowser's Wednesday announcement of D.C.'s interim police chief: bit.ly/4qc8Hql

The destruction of NASA is *mostly* Trump and Musk's fault. But boy is it fucking embarrassing that @cantwell.senate.gov, the Senate's top science Democrat, is cheering it on.

We know it has been an especially challenging year for science. Sharing how science cuts have impacted you can make a huge difference. Share in person at #AGU25 or online: agu.quorum.us/campaign/150...

@davidshor.bsky.social is not very good at interpreting academic papers, rookie mistake here

I am so mad at the science community's doormat approach to the Jared Isaacman nomination. He's going to accelerate the ongoing demolition of NASA's earth science mission. #agu25

I'm so angry about the science community's doormat approach to the Jared Isaacman nomination. He's going to accelerate the ongoing demolition of NASA's earth science mission.

@cdelawalla.bsky.social why did @standupforscience.bsky.social back Jared Isaacman? It seems clear he supports the Trump efforts to eliminate NASA's earth science mission.

A lord of the rings cover band called Earth, Wind, and Shire

@joeneguse.bsky.social, who represents Boulder CO (home to #NCAR) in Congress, is expected to zoom in to #AGU25 this afternoon to address NSF moving to dismantle the center.

16 Senate Democrats, including the ranking member of the science committee, voted today for the Trump regime's NASA Administrator. #agu25

The lead Democrat in charge of NCAR oversight, Commerce, Science, and Transportation ranking member @cantwell.senate.gov, responded to the Trump regime's climate-denier assault on NCAR today by voting for Trump's NASA nominee. #agu25

exergue: the space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription

It turns out that "chomp" is the U.S. spelling of "champ" (we Americans only use "champ" to mean "chomp" in the idiom "champing at the bit")

Every GOP and 16 of 47 Democratic Senators voted to install Jared Isaacman, the billionaire acolyte of neo-Nazi soon-to-be-trillionaire Elon Musk, as NASA Administrator, knowing he plans to dismantle and privatize NASA, in particular its earth science mission. (2 GOP and Coons were absent)

pat summerall must have really sucked

Don’t be mad about boiling the ocean for the stupidest possible solution to an already comprehensively solved problem, man

like Vought needs an excuse

News in a nutshell: Bucket shops, crypto, and flash crashes. Garbage is poisoning Gaza. Welcome to the Houston Heat Dome. “The whole concept of winter is being redefined.” Global warming could trigger a reptile sexpocalypse. “They killed our ostriches up in Canada.”

It’s only the 21st Century, but the results of the largest-scale weather-control experiment of all time are already here.