And it saves Europe tons of money from not buying fossil fuels. Let's make it double again, faster this time!
And it saves Europe tons of money from not buying fossil fuels. Let's make it double again, faster this time!
Solar power is the cheapest electricity in history and in 2024 delivered 2/3rds of new capacity and 40% of new global generation. Yet myths, often politically motivated, are holding back its progress. @carbonbrief.org debunks 16 of of the biggest ☀️ myths👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
It's obviously a cross-dressed Giuliani, can't you tell?
WW2 started on Sept 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Two weeks later, the USSR invaded from the east. Hitler and Stalin launched the war together — both were aggressors.
Oh great so now there's inflation in Presidential Medals too
Thank you Joni! Did you see the reporting today around Trumps infowar on Greenland? He sent Thomas Dans, a "venture capitalist Russia expert" that was literally employed by Kirill Dimitriev. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. US and Russia are allies against the last democracies.
1/7 The Trump admin’s plan to lure russia away from china by gifting Ukraine to russia is not just failing—it’s backfiring spectacularly. Instead of isolating china, it’s fueling a deeper russia-china-india axis. This thread breaks down the strategic disaster 👇
In all fairness, Musk is apartheid South African. Did you say foreign influence?
Also, hearing Russia whine abput international law... Russistan, the place where property has inviolable rights, but not people.
Huh I missed that. It is obviously bullshit. The law is after all only codification of politics. Laws can be changed if there's political will. www.hhs.se/en/about-us/...
And I bet that only fan is Vances upholsterer. That is one well paid (if messy) job.
Brilliant
I'm sure those people that wouldn't vote for Biden for being too soft on Israel are happy about this carte blanche genocide.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
Well sure but what if the shooters bring rocket launchers? Better bring tanks too. As lomg as people can keep their guns.
Can you imagine literally ANYONE but Trump having a picture of himself like this? I would never hear the end of it from my mates if I had a painting like this. Unfettered, festering narcissism.
I completely agree. Not sure what you mean by deals with China? But I agree, Europe should simply put an ultimatum to China. Trade with Russia or trade with us.
No that was the ECB bureaucrats. www.politico.eu/article/ecbs... Belgium is on board. Buying weapons from the US to acutely provide to Ukraine is a necessary evil. But structurally it will shift to domestic production over time.
Do Indians see themselves walking shoulder to shoulder with Russia? In that case they are enemies.
And such deep dependencies cannot be cut overnight. It is a process. But the process has accelerated.
Nonono. Rutte, the head of NATO, did his pathetic Trump appeasement number. Europeans are producing own weapons. Compare the shares of Lockheed vs Rheinmetall for instance. One is crashing one is a rocket. The issue is, Europe is and has been too dependent on US weapons and fossil fuels.
Sure sure. Putin knows the EU isn't a threat, in fact filling it with Orbanista traitors is an opportunity even. But he only understands force, hence the fear of NATO.
Wouldn't it be a huge troll for Ukraine to join?
Putin helped Hamas for Oct 7 (Putins birthday) knowing Israel would react and take the spotlight off Ukraine. The machiavelianism knows no bounds. But the double standards are revealed and I agree that is disgusting. Denounce both. But AIPAC says no.
This video reminds me of my favorite Soundgarden song
Why is Nigel Farage on the TV all the time? Because he is completely in the pockets of the USA and Israel. He sells their favourite message, racism.
US allies have understood one thing very clearly. The US cannot be trusted.
After 9/11 Allies including Ukraine answered America's call for help and fought our 20 year "war on terror" to defend us. For free. 3 1/2 years of russia's 9/11 on Ukraine which destroyed entire cities and the US is now on Terrorists' side Our forever betrayal and shame youtube.com/shorts/1ffwy...
I mean he did say two to three week. And that something might or might not happen. That's a tough deadline for the Russians...
THIS! Is the plain spoken truth telling I was posting about the other day here, the sort that everyone from White House press corps reporters to the person on the street needs to see, here and say. Quite an excellent op-ed. Coudn't have written it better myself! @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
Oh and the operative Trump sent to Greenland (Dans) together with his son is a Russian asset. He used to WORK for Dimitriev. The US and Russia are allies against democracy.
Impotent huff-and-puff club. They are only united in their "anti" but in reality have zero trust amongst them
BRICS still isn’t a thing. It was a Goldman Sachs marketing pitch to drum up investment in developing economies, then some people ran with the label because they like the idea of a broad, powerful, anti-US, anti-West, anti-Global North, whatever you want to call it, alliance. But it isn’t one.
Remigrate all South African oligarchs...
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Unfortunately I am starting to feel the same about the US because they are so close and they are now under a dictatorship that wants to annex Canada. IMO that is why Carney increased our defense budget so much. He knows things that we (including no-clearance-PP) don't.
Jesse Watters: “You weren’t ever on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, were you?” RFK Jr: “I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times.” Release the freaking Epstein Files. Believe the survivors and their families. We want accountability.
#PepsiKills Boycott Pepsi.
PUTIN is the root cause. He must be removed.
Also, Colbert
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Not as much a joke as dark irony. Besides, I think profiting off our desth is a bit harsh. Profiting off disease is much better, if the host dies so does the parasite, essentially.
Here's a great and horrifying read on the subject if you have the time. www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cata...
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Exactly. We will likely overshoot 1.5 degrees and that is a disaster that oil companies must be made liable for. BUT electrification has gone exponential, and I'm very hopeful we can stay below a cataclysmic 3 degrees. Which will still mean a lot of climate damage sadly, but humanity will survive.
Good thing all the lessons from Covid are now being studied and used to prepare for the next pandemic.
I find it funny that market talking heads were almost celebrating the other day on the back of "finally some certainty". So about that...
Ok this is the most genius performance art standup comedy of all time. Ricky Gervais has nothing against Millers stinging irony
That's the thing about Russian goons. Call their bluff and they do nothing.
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk: As Madam Chairwoman and I were heading to this location, we received information and recommendations from security to cancel the conference or move it somewhere else, because Belarusian soldiers with long guns had appeared there.
It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.
Honestly when you guys failed to impeach him for literally trying to overthrow an election I knew you were F:ed. Hope you can still fix this, but the rest of the world is not taking any chances and derisking from the US.
And this is huge considering Gazprom Neft was the one thing saving the gargantuan group from disaster numbers. The tax revenue is in line with that. Also GoldmanSachs are forecasting crude oil at about 55 per barrel in 2026, that is for unsanctioned, uncapped non-Russian oil.
I was looking for Jungle I'm afraid, but that will have to do
Jill Stein is a compromised Russia operative, just as much as Trump or Tulsi Gabbard
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
For the longest time German conservatives held Orban under their wing, thinking he could be controlled. Turns out they bred a monster. www.europeanpressprize.com/article/how-...
The foreign minister of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, is an anti-Ukrainian fanatic and recipient of a Friendship Medal from the russian terrorist state. The failure of the EU to expel or suspend Hungary, a russian client state, brings into doubt its viability and reason for being.
Meh I'm not counting them as in. But it is spectacular blowback to Trumps insensitive, to say the least, treatment of India. I'm sure they could have made an agreement with a mix of carrot and stick negotiated quietly. Instead he went all "bang tariffs upside head"
And they don't even really want it - they have been brainwashed into thinking that so the ultrarich can exploit them with them willingly going along. Like with the "traditional values" bullshit. It is about one thing - the oligarchy on top and the rest of us in our place. Traditional feudalism.
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
Banning clothes is as anti-democratic as forcing people to wear them. People can wear what they want in their free time. Different story with uniforms though.
"No more stupid wars". Of course. All the wars Con Don will start will be jenius wars. Iran, Venezuela. He'll bomb his way to a peace price, or else he will sanction or bomb Oslo too.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Also, Trilions? As in plural? Import tax revenue IS significant, about 150bn is what I've heard. But that it 0.15 of ONE trillion. Paid by US importing companies and/or consumers BTW.
And Tesla sales in Europe down 44% YoY
The Kremlin appears to have launched a coordinated information campaign demonstrating military strength on the battlefield to shape Western thinking and falsely portray a Russian victory as inevitable. This is stated in a report by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Exactly. Texas and middle east petrostates are good examples of why this is unstoppable. I am not too concerned about the mass migrations (yet), I think catastrophe damage and lack of insurance will be hitting people much sooner (already is). From California to Florida, Spain to Tunisia...
Ouff yeah that is telling. But I have some hope even here, again thanks to solar. Solar + heat exchange from cooling could mean tapping into the literal oceans for water. And water recycling a la Singapore could further improve it (not for Ag but for households)
Yeah I suspected, maybe it was a prophetic mistype ;)
I know right. Also, Mubadala, the worlds biggest green investor is Abu Dhabi. Of course the incumbents will try to stall and by time to keep their profits up for as long as possible. But when even petrostates are betting on green, the writing is on the wall. Everybody but the US sees it.
I'll just reference this article for those of you that think I'm too much of a tech-optimist on point B. I believe a lot of the chaos geopolitically is down to oil becoming just another commodity and not a gun to the head of fossil importing countries. evcurvefuturist.com/2025/08/the-...
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
No I agree, and some countries, especially past victims of Russian aggression, are clear eyed. But I am worried that there is still a sentiment in France and Germany that we must compromise. Buy time. Force Ukraine to concessions. To quote Churchill, you cannot reason with a tiger.
I am pretty sure of two things: A. We will, globally, do too little too late to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change. B. The economics and geopolitical momentum away from fossil fuel is now unstoppable. China experiences peak petroleum this year, and peak oil expected in 2027
Big FOSSIL Industrial Complex
Europe let him get away with what he did in Chechnia. Then Georgia. Then Crimea. Now we are letting him get away with Ukraine. Unless we stop this bloodthirsty KGB gangster NOW, our children will be next.
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ↓ europa.eu/!wgH6QK
The politics and media are literally paid by the Big Industrial Complex. They ARE doing what they are paid for. That's the worst part. What makes me optimistic though, is like with Big Tobacco it is futile. History will damn them eventually.
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
We all know the answer to this. Prositutes you pay to leave. Gold diggers you pay to keep around. It's why Melania keeps renegotiating her prenup.
It is an unsustainable loop where the wealthy buys themselves political power to make themselves more wealthy until the majority is literally starving. That is how you get bloody revolutions historically. Not saying it should be flat but wealth MUST be taxed.
Part of that actually makes me hopeful. Russian fossil money keeps Whoreban afloat. US fossil money funds many of his clones like Farage and Le Pen. And fossil money will dry up within the next 5 years...
I am convinced that "Eastern Europe" is a window into the future of the West. That we will face the same challenges in wealth inequality and to our democracies as they have. Consequently, dismissing what happened in a place like Hungary as a "they problem" will be harmful to us in the long term.
The fossil lobby’s last gasp is loud—but futile. Batteries & solar → fastest-growing energy in history. EVs? 3m in 2020 → 21m in 2025. The tide isn’t turning back—math, markets & machines are unstoppable. The future isn’t fire, it’s electrons. Ignore the noise, follow the facts. #EnergyTransition
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
Yes well a LOT of republican donors got a LOT of money for building that, great for the GDP. Who cares if it works?
The quote is 300 words long. Has to be fate.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
I think this is an extremely on point and honest statement of how they view this. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of science. To quote Asimov:
Brain rot. This absolute confidence in the rightness of one's own thinking has led us to this nihilistic, tech bro libertarian dystopia that is going to make our lives less good. Less healthy. Less secure. Less comfortable. Less safe. Shorter.
Russian mercenaries operate in the shadows, exploiting Africa’s resources. They want us to look away, to cower, to forget. But I won’t forget the faces of the survivors I’ve met, the graves I’ve seen, or the courage it takes to stand up to those who believe they are untouchable.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Haha ewww. Well better furniture than little girls.
That may well be the case. Doesn't mean they didn't see (or smell) you 😟 I mean not suggesting you are particularly smelly, but they have a fantastic sense of smell, detecting seals 30km away. UNDER the ice...
Careful what you wish for. JD "couchmaster" Vance...
Fingers crossed for Hungarian freedom from Russian stooges by 2026.