New Good Authority post by me goodauthority.org/news/china-u...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit. This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

While procrastinating on the insurance piece, I made the mistake of checking up on a few headlines I've seen recently about China's green tech manufacturing & exports. Big mistake, huge etc.

I fell while hiking near Folgefonna glacier & broke my femur, pelvis & some vertebrae. I was trapped on the mountain for 6 days & had to drink my urine. Bad calls got me into this. What got me out of it was the love of my wife, family & friends. I’m lucky to get a 2nd chance youtu.be/EM96OFPR6Mc?...

Electricity prices in California's investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and community choice aggregator (CCA) territories have more than doubled in a decade, after accounting for inflation. What are these power providers spending the increased revenues on? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The answer to the many, many stories of shady carbon credits has been verification. Surely if these credits are audited, we can trust them, right? A new study says nope, conflict of interest abounds. @rishpardikar.bsky.social has the story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/carbon-...

Nations are largely ignoring a growing source of greenhouse gases in their climate commitments & risk assessments: emissions driven by climate change itself, like methane released from warming wetlands. A new research collaboration aims to address that gap in our understanding:

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

thanks @latimes.com for sharing my perspective on the opportunity for California to pull forward clean energy procurement and qualify for rapidly expiring federal tax credits. I hope other states can similarly act quickly to pull forward these savings. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #energysky

Another deeply insightful thread from Josh.

why does coal use she/her pronouns

Right then... A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts /thread/

Land sector ones C: “burning biomass is carbon neutral because the plant already absorbed the carbon” R: you just burned it though, which emits relative to not burning C: “biogenic CO2 and methane are ‘better’ than fossil CO2 and methane” R: these sources warm the climate just like fossil-based 1/

I'm a co-author on a new perspective out today in Nature on forest carbon credits, drawn from a workshop series organized by Bill Anderegg at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next week I'll be joining CDR Policy Scoop with @evetamme.com and @sebastianmanhart.bsky.social to talk about the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism’s draft rules for managing non-permanent carbon storage. Wednesday 30 July 9am PDT 🇺🇸 / noon EDT 🇺🇸 / 6pm CEST 🇪🇺 www.linkedin.com/events/73541...

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com. on.ft.com/4kKqiTb The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

New paper out today in @iopp-environment.bsky.social with @adamsobel.bsky.social illustrating how a value of information (VOI) framework can be useful for evaluating climate information intended for risk management and adaptation decisions: #climaterisk #EconSky iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.

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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I would like my senator to stand in solidarity with his colleague and his constituents, instead of just skeeting and voting for bad crypto legislation.

Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are struggling to survive Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and the era of streaming. Great reporting from @felixgillette.bsky.social 🎁

This is an important and well-articulated criticism of what passes for bipartisan climate "realism" in these United States. I appreciate that's a tough brief in the best of times, but CFR's effort misses the mark and is fundamentally unanchored for the reasons Jeremy politely + firmly articulates.

California asks drivers to pay for methane offsets at factory farms. While the climate benefits are often illusory, the impacts on people and places are anything but. Please take a moment to read this deeply reported story from @evanhalper.bsky.social. California can do better. (gift link)

RIP BC #carbontax. A brief history. A Liberal BC government introduced a revenue neutral tax in 2008. Then in opposition, the BC NDP ran the first populist anti-carbon tax campaign and coined the phrase "axe the tax," which spread to Australia then back to Canada. 1 vancouversun.com/news/bc-gove...

Astonishing. Inexcusable. Any Democrat who allows a Republican to lie to them, or in front of them, about the 2020 election result without any pushback, challenge or correction should be ashamed and not taken seriously again by other Democrats.

1/ "I wish my father were still alive so that I could ask him, will this be how our democracy dies? Or will we be able to rebuild it anew?" As billionaires attempt to dismantle our democracy, APEN's Connie Cho shares lessons from her father. apen4ej.medium.com/reclaiming-d...

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

The office of Gavin Newsom's phone number is: (916) 445-2841 You can call him just like you call your representatives. If you are disgusted by his conscious and intentional betrayal of us all, by cozying up with nazi Charlie Kirk and offering up trans people for slaughter, please tell him.

RIP, George. I know this was a dvd extra, but it’s a fitting tribute. Head ‘em up! Move ‘em out! youtu.be/Q28MilXHPIQ?...

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X