any politician supporting data centers is backing a thing that very easily will hurt them in the next election. in all cases

“What you get in the end is a populist conflict appealing to younger people that bridges the ends of the political spectrum, connecting the left and right.” Hmm this is important and might be interesting for Dems looking for new coalitions…

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars bsky.app/profile/newy...

this seems at least partially as significant as mamdani’s win to me

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know. Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model.

Oh ok, it's Ted Nordhaus of The Breakthrough Institute — here saying that climate change contributes only "very little to present-day disasters."

Perusing the articles @emorwee.bsky.social analyzed for her piece, I saw one by Steve Koonin (of Trump's DOE climate disinformation panel) & one by a Fellow at the right-wing AEI, and then lo! I saw this banger written by a self-proclaimed "climate expert." Guess who it was. No really — guess who?

Look, Exxon isn't stupid. Malevolent, sure, but not stupid. If they could make the type of money they could off of renewables they would jump, but they can't and they know it and we need to be honest about this.

I’ve been studying and practicing economic modeling for climate solutions for more than 3 decades and Genevieve is 100% right on this.

who has the talent to do this? unfortunately I don’t

Imagine, if you will, this headline with the word “Jews” substituted for the word “women”: “Did Jews Ruin the Workplace?” Disgusting, right? Well, it’s just as disgusting that this is an acceptable question to debate about women. The misogyny is staggering — and so normal. Still.

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

First of all, @michaelemann.bsky.social is not an "activist." He's a climate scientist. With a fact, not a smear, to share. Second, many climate scientists, some pragmatists, have criticized the Gates memo for misrepresenting the science. (👇 & link in text tweet ) So I'm not sure what this is.

This is what a New Era looks like.

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

If Mamdani’s relative climate silence in his campaign is a lesson for the Democrats, then surely his Democratic Socialism / support for trans people / anti-Zionism is also a lesson for the Democrats — or nah?

Join us Tues, Nov 11, 7pm PT for a conversation with @doctorvive.bsky.social, author of The Language of Climate Politics. Learn how words shape action—and how to fight fossil-fuel propaganda. @climaterealityproject.org Register: bit.ly/SFVCR 🌎 #ClimateLanguage #EndClimateSilence

"An American-Israeli geoengineering startup seeking US government contracts to [dim the sun] has quietly begun lobbying on Capitol Hill." Yet Holland & Knight, the law firm they hired for that purpose, "didn't disclose its lobbying 'due to a clerical error'." Shady in multiple senses of the word!

Two years ago, the @esabcc.bsky.social published its advice on the EU's 2040 emissions reduction target. We indicated a 90-95% reduction relative 1990 levels. Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% target, with an 66.25-72.5% reduction as part for its new NDC for 2035.

So many good points in this thread but jeez one's a big one: it is remarkable how the left-punchers never wring hands about how much right-wingers talk about climate

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that our opponents (Trump and the GOP) talk about climate change all 👏 the 👏 time👏—always using relentless disinformation to make Democrats look bad. You HAVE to have a plan for that or else you're going to lose. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

A few climate journalists who hate the left are gleeful today that Mamdani won without talking about climate. They're arguing that this shows that all Democrats should stop talking about climate change entirely. But do they mean *after* elections too? Do they want the issue to be tabled? 🤔 1/2

I’ve heard or read the words “Democratic Socialist” in the news dozens of times today. And there’s no coming back from this! We have arrived.

For the first time since the election I feel like there’s a chance we’ll get out of this on the other side. It’s a wonderful feeling!

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

this was posted four months ago. the lesson? Ignore the appeasers. they are bad people. and they don’t know how to win.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Ok, one last race call for the night from a bellwether county... The Democrats have FLIPPED the Erie County, PA (Trump+1) County Executive position by 24 POINTS!

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

This person took this when they called the race

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

"Terminally online hedge fund manager Bill Ackman donated $1.75 million, while failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg donated $8.3 million, all to no avail." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

I ❤️ NY!

everyone watch this: climate scientists assess the now-notorious Gates memo

Somewhere the worst billionaire you know is writing a very long tweet thread about Israel and the mayoral election.

Weird, it's almost like most of the pundits are all hanging out at a white supremacist's social club for angry incels and having their sense of what's "real" wildly distorted.

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

Huge deal! Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system

This was an incredible panel. Each one of these scientists explained clearly, and with such easy expertise, why the Gates memo is so very misguided. I will post the link to the recording when @coveringclimatenow.org releases it. Please share far and wide!

Really can't be exaggerated how poisonous it is that @mattyglesias.bsky.social has taken up the "climate vs material prosperity" framing. It's empirically false. It's straightforwardly right-wing. It's going to make it harder to pass good policies. It's going to set that whole debate back.

Have you ever noticed that the same people who say #ClimateChange is not going to be that dangerous or destructive are often the very same people who advocate for dimming the sun to try to hold down global temperatures? Can they not hear that they're contradicting themselves?

my latest targets for calorie reductions have only slightly revised down weight-loss estimates from 27-28 BMI (obesity) to 25-26 BMI (obesity)

"The Interior Department has removed the federal waters off the Atlantic coast from President Donald Trump's upcoming offshore drilling plan after Republicans in the region pressed to keep oil and natural gas rigs away from their shores." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...