NEW: We obtained a trove of emails detailing Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black. The messages show Epstein demanding tens of millions of dollars from Black, insulting his children and advising on a settlement with a woman. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

hey this is fun

A tale of two energy systems: “For coal, oil and gas, it’s white glove service. For renewables and storage, it’s freezes, delays and cancellations.”

Socialism with a Trumpian twist isn't the way to secure access to critical minerals in the US

We will come to regret turning the government into a "white-glove" concierge service for oil, gas and coal

Trump has turned the US government into a host body for a cordyceps-like parasite: the fossil fuel industry. It will backfire horribly Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone. by Barron Trump

not sure how anyone who voted for this man can live with themselves the brutal treatment of federal civil servants is unforgivable www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/h...

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology: “Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

thanks to @commondreams.org for covering our @publiccitizen.bsky.social report!

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government. Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal & other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🔌💡

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

I was wondering whether they could get through this without a token "to be sure, Dems suck" and... nope.

Donald Trump has placed dozens of people with ties to the fossil fuel sector in his administration, according to a new analysis.

Appreciate this @commondreams.org take covering research by @publiccitizen.bsky.social @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social and a great comment by @sierraclub.org www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Activists & advocates who directly confront the harms caused by fossil fuel production – as well as fossil fuel executives, per below – have long understood an obvious & otherwise unremarkable proposition: Fossil fuel supply creates fossil fuel demand.

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies. Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6. Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

yeah it might be good to have produced a television news story before

In a new report out today our @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @alanzibel.bsky.social uncovered 100+ people with ties to polluting industries who are occupying high level offices throughout the Trump administration.

My latest... with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

fossil fuel fools

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source via @darkush.bsky.social www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

in today's Orwellian news, over at BP, which at one point pushed "Beyond Petroleum" branding, there's a SVP in charge of the "Gulf of America."

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year. This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Even Mariah Carey spares us ten months of the year.

make it stop, please

Trump should personally be liable for all defense costs if this fails. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found. Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...

how anyone thought that chris wright is a serious person is just beyond me www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“I’ve never been an all-of-the-above energy person,” Mr. Wright, a former gas executive, said. He’s right; he’s a gas man through and through. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. Largely because of crypto.

"... Zeldin intends to sign off next week on the final policy and legal justifications for repealing the so-called endangerment finding and Biden-era climate rules for cars and trucks... before agency staff have time to sift through all public comments...." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

this piece did not age well….the central idea that republicans would keep the IRA in place and Trump was just kinda kidding about windmills was not especially smart.

Seen on the DC metro:

Only lunatics watch a memorial service and argue, "This is what every day should be like."

Christian Sharia law.

how is this man a law professor at all?

More thug government: “If you don’t falsely prosecute my political opponents, I will fire you.” Talk about weaponizing law enforcement.

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg: “Does authoritarianism breed dictators? Is 'dictator' a special category? Where are we on that progress? Because I think we’re inexorably headed in that direction.” Watch more from The Atlantic Festival: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p