Very sad.
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The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among the world’s richest nations and the Trump regime is determined to make it still worse. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
From Dan McCarthy: About 27 gigawatts’ worth of coal is slated to retire in the US between now & the end of 2028, says Energy Information Administration, equal to about 15% of the country’s current coal fleet. But Trump is set on stopping these retirements. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
A twisted postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump regime would turn it into a trusteeship run by the US for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub. With zero Palestinians. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Many vital federal climate websites and data are increasingly difficult to access. A new nonproft organization called @climate.us seeks to fill the gap. My Labor Day thoughts in Forbes on their emergence. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
From Dan McCarthy: About 27 gigawatts’ worth of coal is slated to retire in the US between now & the end of 2028, says Energy Information Administration, equal to about 15% of the country’s current coal fleet. But Trump is set on stopping these retirements. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
New analysis of Census data by Pew shows that 1.2 million immigrants have vanished from the US labor force since January 2025. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Conservation groups are among activists campaigning to show voters how the Trump regime and elected Republicans in general are jacking up Americans’ utility bills with backward policies attacking solar and wind. heatmap.news/politics/ele...
The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among the world’s richest nations and the Trump regime is determined to make it still worse. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
From Mark Sumner: www.unchartedblue.com/d-c-citizens...
It’s been 29 months since ProPublica exposed Justice Clarence Thomas’s undeclared gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow & yet he remains on the SupCt, unpunished, unrepentant & still writing & helping write rulings harming Americans & democracy based on tortured interpretations of the Constitution.
Definitely an improvement (partially a difference, I suspect, in when and where we went to school). What’s still missing today is focus on how that treaty breaking affects the lives of modern Indigenous people.
If Democrats ever gain power again, they could begin improving the situation by repealing the 78-year-old union-busting Taft-Hartley Act, superseding it with a worker-friendly law. bsky.app/profile/rbre...
Donald Trump’s only pining for getting into Heaven because he’s been told the streets are paved with gold.
Read Jin.
I had no idea! When I suggested that subject in high school American History class, the teacher took me aside and said it was an inappropriate topic.
Donald Trump’s only pining for getting into Heaven because he’s been told the streets are paved with gold.
Believe me, in this matter today’s journalism is the same as 60 years ago. Neither Walter Cronkite nor print journalists ever dare call government officials liars about Vietnam, though they definitely were.
Trump looks and sounds awful, keeps showing up with new IV bruises, and mutters about wanting to go to heaven. I imagine that at least a handful of journalists know what's really going on (and don't intend to tell us until the eventual book tour.)
A record number of deaths from rabies. In part because vaccination rates for dogs have plunged. Because stupidity. “… nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.”
Do suppose sex predator Ghislaine Maxwell is enjoying a special barbecue this weekend at her cushy new prison digs.
Hey, hey, Jr. RFK, How many kids did you kill today?
Plus, you get tons of exercise.
The problem is that we cannot unite against one thing at a time when LNG infrastructure with 50-year+ lifespans is expanding rapidly. For more than a decade we’ve seen how industry fails to adequately measure methane leaks at natural gas wellheads. That makes me suspicious of those lifecycle claims.
I agree Chinese workers don’t have protections and options like independent unions as in, say, Europe. In the US, thanks to Taft-Hartley & other union-busting action, just 7% of the pvt sector is unionized. For nuance, I recommend Keyu Jin’s “The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.”
20 years ago 90% of American adults lived in a house with a landline. Now only 25% do, and only 1% are totally dependent on a landline.
Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Remember Trump’s promise to lower prices? Serious warnings now coming about a 50% to 100 rise in produce prices by next year. fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
A twisted postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump regime would turn it into a trusteeship run by the US for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub. With zero Palestinians. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It’s been 29 months since ProPublica exposed Justice Clarence Thomas’s undeclared gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow & yet he remains on the SupCt, unpunished, unrepentant & still writing & helping write rulings harming Americans & democracy based on tortured interpretations of the Constitution.
Climate crisis deniers don’t just have a big presence in the Trump regime: UK Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says her party will remove all net zero rules on North Sea oil & gas drilling if elected. She says she wants to get "all our oil and gas out of the North Sea.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Yeah. Check out this Ohio gerrymander: bulletin.represent.us/wp-content/u...
Independent commissions are the fairest way to redistrict states, and EVERY state shd do it. But the messaging from the GOP foes of Calif. temporarily returning to partisan districting is like calling out Ukraine for fighting Russia. CA Democrats didn’t start this fight; TX Republicans did.
How much of the economy will be wrecked before the appeals court’s decision nixing most of Trump’s executive-ordered tariffs gets a ruling from SupCt? For now the tariffs stay. Even if the Supremes uphold the appeal ruling, a slow-walk of their decision means damage aplenty. And they may not agree.
Their 25,000 miles of high speed rail and rolling stock isn’t tofu. Yes, tofu exists in a lot of construction, which has a lot to do with corruption. China is no paradise for many reasons, but it has a handle on a future that the Trump regime and fossil fuel oligarchs dumbly think they can prevent.
If certain forces had had their way, the only places in the world where even modesy big cedar trees would still exist would be museums.
How much of the economy will be wrecked before the appeals court’s decision nixing most of Trump’s executive-ordered tariffs gets a ruling from SupCt? For now the tariffs stay. Even if the Supremes uphold the appeal ruling, a slow-walk of their decision means damage aplenty. And they may not agree.
They won solar and batteries. EVs and wind turbines are next. electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
So many people KNOW the truth first-hand. But for those of us who don’t, it’s not hard to extrapolate from what has been in plain sight for decades. bsky.app/profile/liza...
Think tanks like Ember and the International Energy Agency can check China's Nat'l Energy Agency numbers by measuring the nation's solar manufacturing output, grid connection reports, satellite imagery, and curtailment data. The reported build-out seems consistent with these other sources of data.
Hey, Mr. I Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Tsar Vlad is still killing Ukrainians two weeks after your groveling in Anchorage. Where are the "consequences" you vowed if Putin didn't OK a ceasefire? No new sanctions. No loosening of restrictions on US weapons Ukraine uses. Not even any harsh language.
Tina Casey blasts the “malevolent incompetence” of Trump’s smashing of the U.S. offshore wind industry, noting the 1000s of lost jobs, many of people who voted for Trump. But the offshore wind industry will nevertheless flourish — for European & Chinese workers. cleantechnica.com/2025/08/30/t...
Seasonal demand. In summer, those plants are running at full tilt, less so in other seasons, and that's when many plants are down for scheduled maintenance.
China plans to ADD 358 gigawatts of solar this year. In the first half of year it installed 212 GW, while the US installed 12 GW (that's not a typo). US solar cumulatively is now at 251 GW while China is at 800 GW, which is more than half of US electricity generation capacity from ALL sources.
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Think about the clowns, grifters, & apparatchiks that have gathered around Trump. Now think about them managing a transition of power -- calming other nations, maintaining a clear chain of command & cohesion across the federal gov't, & ensuring there are no spiraling miscommunications or blunders.
The “American model” didn’t include private ownership of nukes in France.
Make your own vaccines …
Tina Casey blasts the “malevolent incompetence” of Trump’s smashing of the U.S. offshore wind industry, noting the 1000s of lost jobs, many of people who voted for Trump. But the offshore wind industry will nevertheless flourish — for European & Chinese workers. cleantechnica.com/2025/08/30/t...
Independent commissions are the fairest way to redistrict states, and EVERY state shd do it. But the messaging from the GOP foes of Calif. temporarily returning to partisan districting is like calling out Ukraine for fighting Russia. CA Democrats didn’t start this fight; TX Republicans did.
If the ICE arrest of firefighters in the midst of a wildfire infuriated you, add to it the fact, as reported by The Guardian, that one of them is a 19-year US resident who was on a legal path to citizenship. This, of course, makes no never-mind to Trump regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Financial Times: Nearly 200 people have left the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since Trump lied the oath office in January. This serious brain drain comes in face of the MAGA regime’s ludicrous goal of quadrupling nuclear power output within 25 years while, ignoring the risks by reducing oversight.
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before now: The far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer drones as a weapon in their own future war against the US govt, which has authorities on edge. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So many people KNOW the truth first-hand. But for those of us who don’t, it’s not hard to extrapolate from what has been in plain sight for decades. bsky.app/profile/liza...
Sen. Bill Cassidy, who chairs the oversight committee that backed RFK Jr. for confirmation as HHS chief & committee member Sen. Susan Collins are suddenly “concerned” about the wreckage he’s making of the CDC. These veteran senators are who we’re supposed to trust as guardians of our well-being?
Chris Hayes discussing ICE raid on and arrest of firefighters actively fighting the largest wildfire in Washington state: “Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and JD Vance would burn the whole country down so they can rule over the ashes.”
Lawyer whose industry clients fought new EPA requiring them to clean up “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and low birth rates is now a top EPA official himself who has proposed reversing the rule and shifting costs from polluters to taxpayers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
Lying under oath by presidential cabinet nominees during Senate confirmation hearings has generated perjury accusations aplenty but zero charges. Sadly you can be sure the Republican majority won’t charge RFK Jr. for his lies on what he’d do on vaccines even tho what he’s doing is literally lethal.
Don’t worry. Trump is only going after the “worst of the worst” like firefighters on the front line of the worst fire in the state, parents dropping their kids off at school, and a professional violinist celebrating his wife’s birthday. thehill.com/homenews/sta... www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
We all spent years laughing at the QAnon weirdos and now "a cabal of wealthy freaks secretly control our society for the purpose of harvesting your children's blood" feels like as good a theory as any.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Sen. Bill Cassidy, who chairs the oversight committee that backed RFK Jr. for confirmation as HHS chief & committee member Sen. Susan Collins are suddenly “concerned” about the wreckage he’s making of the CDC. These veteran senators are who we’re supposed to trust as guardians of our well-being?
They always helpful people at Carbon Brief have produced this: interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
This is incredibly useful. While I would still like to see more agrivoltaics in the UK (effectively dual use: farming and solar farming), this does reassure quite a bit on the small impact in reality. Excellent work as always from Carbon Brief interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
Chris Hayes discussing ICE raid on and arrest of firefighters actively fighting the largest wildfire in Washington state: “Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and JD Vance would burn the whole country down so they can rule over the ashes.”
Slight disagreement: the goal is to cripple agencies because then he can pretend they are still doing their job without fighting the battle that abolition would rouse.
To be clear, the process is that Congress initiates and the Department of Justice decides on specific charges. Good luck with that under Pam Bondi.
Lying under oath by presidential cabinet nominees during Senate confirmation hearings has generated perjury accusations aplenty but zero charges. Sadly you can be sure the Republican majority won’t charge RFK Jr. for his lies on what he’d do on vaccines even tho what he’s doing is literally lethal.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s billionaire envoy, says war on Gaza will be over by year’s end. By then all Gazans will be pinned into the southeast corner of the strip. Tacitus wd recognize this: “They make a wasteland and call it peace.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/27/trump-gaza-israel/
When Trump nominates a replacement for the CDC chief he says he personally fired, will Dr. Bill Cassidy — chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee — support the nominee as he did HHS Sec. RFK Jr., who fake-promised the doctor he would not muck with vaccine protocols?
It’d be nice if the WaPo & other outlets stopped normalizing the Trump regime’s actions by using its talking points. Besides being a cruel joke, the name “Alligator Alcatraz” is an element of that propaganda. Bad enough it gets used at all, but w/o quote marks, it’s just another Trumpian bullhorn.
Recommending Keyu Jin’s book “The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism” to get a better sense of how state involvement works in practice as opposed to CCP assessments of the impacts of Xi Jinping Thought.
... in Deal 1, you profit by $10, but X profits by $20. In Deal 2, you lose $10, but X loses $20. Which deal would you take?
When Trump nominates a replacement for the CDC chief he says he personally fired, will Dr. Bill Cassidy — chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee — support the nominee as he did HHS Sec. RFK Jr., who fake-promised the doctor he would not muck with vaccine protocols?
From DeSmog: MSN, among other major voices, are publishing AI climate science denial lies which, among other things, cite non-existent studies. This while the Department of Energy. publishes climate science denial as official doctrine. www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
The Guardian on our study published today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Have you seen Saddam’s bedroom? It looks like a bordello. As for what happens when Trump is “gone,” I’d recommend more caution with making predictions. Not so long ago people were predicting that Trump would never win a second term.
Cuts and new policies at FEMA, CDC, and Medicaid will kill many Americans. Legacy media should stop being mealy-mouths about this, but that’s unlikely.
From DeSmog: MSN, among other major voices, are publishing AI climate science denial lies which, among other things, cite non-existent studies. This while the Department of Energy. publishes climate science denial as official doctrine. www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
The time was many yesterdays ago, but belated action is better than none at all. Soon, however, that will no longer be true.
I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
It’d be nice if the WaPo & other outlets stopped normalizing the Trump regime’s actions by using its talking points. Besides being a cruel joke, the name “Alligator Alcatraz” is an element of that propaganda. Bad enough it gets used at all, but w/o quote marks, it’s just another Trumpian bullhorn.
Republicans are sure noisy about plan to temporarily abandon redistricting of Calif. by indy commissions. I’ve already gotten 3 flyers bemoaning the plan, which must be OKed by voters. But Republicans were quiet when they weren’t cackling over TX move to redistrict for GOP advantage w/o voter OK.
We're "destroying ourselves" with wind energy in 2025 echoes Trump's 2015 claim that "political correctness" was destroying America. Trump's fixation on destruction & habit of fantastical blame-flinging are typical of deeply disturbed individuals, psychopaths & malignant narcissists.
Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
How many dead Americans will be enough for the Trump regime’s scheming health czar, RFK Jr? And when will we get a on the knees apology from Senator and Dr. Bill Cassidy for supporting Kennedy’s confirmation? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s billionaire envoy, says war on Gaza will be over by year’s end. By then all Gazans will be pinned into the southeast corner of the strip. Tacitus wd recognize this: “They make a wasteland and call it peace.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/27/trump-gaza-israel/
This from Carbon Brief a couple of weeks ago didn’t get nearly enough attention. The report CB scrutinized was written by 5 of the most notorious climate science rejectors who previously didn’t have the govt’s imprimatur for their debunked propaganda. interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Almost every African country is now importing Chinese solar panels - and a LOT of them. 100MW may not sound a lot, but in context of the low levels of electricity supply in some countries, 100MW is pretty mahoosive..
Lawyer whose industry clients fought new EPA requiring them to clean up “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and low birth rates is now a top EPA official himself who has proposed reversing the rule and shifting costs from polluters to taxpayers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
It’s quite the creepy scene watching Trump’s cabinet toadies — including the billionaires — servilely groveling at the feet of their chtonic boss with syrupy praise, as if they were ancient diplomats delivering tribute to a conquering ruler instead of sycophants stroking a demented charlatan.
Laugh through your tears reading Hunter Lazzaro’s www.unchartedblue.com/mr-president...
Note to online headline writers: Using “bombshell” all the time reduces every story to a dud.
One advantage to running errands on the cargo bike is that you might ride through the park and see a great egret on your way home.
My great grandkids will probably make appearances in the next five or so years. By the time they can vote, climate impacts will be plenty painful.
Laugh through your tears reading Hunter Lazzaro’s www.unchartedblue.com/mr-president...
This needs to be on billboards. Everywhere.
We have a planet. We have an atmosphere around it. We are fucking it up. We need to stop it. Thanks.
Hahaha.