File under "permit reform" and #Abundance, too. Just absolute hubris. Captain Planet villain shit. Paging Dr. Blight, Hoggish Greedly, and Looten Plunder.

AOC: "I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses. I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, and just dumb so many of the people architecting this were going to be."

Genuinely moving that so many people spoke up to challenge the Trump administration's attacks on the Greater Chaco landscape in New Mexico--despite the administration affording a mere 7 days (over the Easter weekend) to provide comment. 👊🏼🙏🏼

When Trump v. United States mentions Hamilton’s “energetic” executive, this is what Roberts et al. had in mind.

I’m not quite sure I’ll ever get over the fact that many of my fellow humans thought this was all a good idea.

This looks very interesting. Wednesday, April 15, 2026 — 1 pm ET / 10 am PT w @triofrancos.bsky.social, Jordan Kinder of NYU, Krystal Two Bulls & Vivek Bharathan of the No Desert Data Center Coalition RSVP for Zoom link 👇 thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/events/the-d...

Trump isn’t beating the antichrist allegations with these attacks on the pope

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

JD Vance just keeps on winning

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

I can't even find the words to express how spectacularly dumb and damaging this administration is, not just for US science and healthcare but for the world. Innovations like mRNA vaccines - for pathogens, cancer, autoimmune diseases etc - benefit all of humanity.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

This argument also sweeps away the multi-dimensional aspects of fossil fuel supply dependencies, such as ecological & community harms. And fights that account for multi-dimensional aspects = potent way to foreground why fossil fuels must be wound down & to shape what that looks like.

I think it's telling that even though most Americans loathe tech oligopolies and their air-conditioned warehouses full of computers, almost every energy pundit with a big platform takes it as understood that adding entire cities' worth of electricity demand from data centers is Good and Inevitable.

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

huge thank you to everyone involved in this mission for reminding us of the best of humanity and I am tremendously glad it all went off as planned space is pretty cool and so, in many cases, are people

When I was a kid, I made friends with our school librarian. He'd order books about science & space for me. And I'd watch space shuttle launches from a TV in the library with him. Watching Artemis reminds me of him--a kind, curious, good teacher. Also reminds me of the promise I once had of America.

Holy smokes! An incredible start to the 'Wildfire Season' in the US this year - owing to an abnormally hot and snowless winter in some parts of the country.

I love how much people love the American Woodcock every time they make a splash in Bryant Park. Here’s the full migration map for these dancing little weirdos. I’d love to see one someday explorer.audubon.org/explore/spec...

I hate the fact I know what this refers to.

I am finding it so hard to believe how fucking stupid everything is right now.

"Limiting the public’s ability to sue when the executive branch operates outside of the laws passed by elected officials is an anti-democratic reform, particularly as the Trump administration has basically stopped enforcing environmental laws against polluters altogether."

Permitting reform and stripping back public lands protections are the peanut butter and chocolate of Trumpers, oil and gassers, abundancers, and other grifters who hate people power.

Note: Congressional "permitting reform" legislation would radically bolster the Trump administration's attacks on New Mexico's Greater Chaco and the Upper Pecos Watershed--beloved regions where communities have long fought against the ravages of unbridled resource exploitation.

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Every conversation about a political issue is a choice, revealing what you think is important in the world

Why do we survey business owners on their perspective on regulations? What results are we expecting? I mean, we don't survey kids eating vegetables policy, do we? www.theregreview.org/2026/04/09/t...

It'd be very helpful for folks to acknowledge that "permitting reform," in this Congress, is a euphemism for eroding bedrock environmental laws under the pretext it'll boost energy development to support the buildout of AI to win a xenophobic-tinged race against China. It's not about climate.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

This. Posturing against China—which I've witnessed in policy discourse on *both* sides of the political aisle—is lazy and cheap. Further, it's being used as a cudgel to smash core domestic U.S. ecological & community protections. Reject it. Be better, folks.

Great NEPA "permitting reform" article with a bunch of zingers that ring true. My favorite: "they want to shrink NEPA so that they can drown it in a bathtub” by @anauc.bsky.social. @riogranderift.bsky.social also has good points to make! Great work, @hannahstoryb.bsky.social.

we cannot live this way.

Trump posts all caps tantrum following meeting with Rutte “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!! President DJT”

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

there’s a reason we have diplomats and ambassadors and foreign services and do not simply conduct international negotiations by off the cuff social media posts the new system we have is not “disruptive” it is not “bold” it is not “unorthodox” it is “tremendously fucking stupid”

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

This new post from The Breakthrough Institute reads as a constructive defense of the National Environmental Policy Act. It is not. It is a bait & switch that creates a permission structure for Democratic legislators to sign NEPA's death sentence through "permitting reform."

This 💯 from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social regarding congressional permitting reform battles: "This pursuit of what is politically feasible is increasingly coming at the cost of considering what is necessary for our planet’s future, as well as what communities deserve."

if trump had been potus in the 70s he would have called the fall of saigon "a massive military victory and im looking forward to doing powerful business deals with the vietcong, so true"

The world stumbles unevenly into an eletrofuture to shield itself from the intrinsic volatility of oil & gas. Meanwhile, the U.S. willfully spins its Big Ass Truck wheels deeper into the ditch of a failed & flailing petrostate hegemony. Read this whole 🧵.

“[T]he cavalier rhetoric of annihilation from this who claim to be on the side of freedom does not liberate anyone. It just adds new terrors to an already terrorized people.”

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Cunning of History: “The most fossil fuel-friendly government in recent U.S. history has shown us all just how risky reliance on oil and gas can be — and taught the world that true energy security lies in accelerating toward a cleaner, electrified future“ Proud to be in this by @jmingle.bsky.social

2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

People give @davidsirota.com shit about "Don't Look Up" but he nailed it, sorry