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This is so great -- gave me a lot to think about. Would love to pick your brain at some point.
New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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You should read this piece. Adam is right: the core theory behind the anti-ICE mobilization here in Minneapolis isn’t really a political ideology, but that neighbors are neighbors and must be protected.
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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abolish ice!!!!!!!!!
ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing.
Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion.
Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow.
www.patreon.com/posts/148814...
holy sh*t part one million
However, voters are skeptical that either party has a solution to the cost of living.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Seventy percent of voters say that lowering costs would help them more than raising their wages.
Grocery costs are the top expense voters would like to see lowered (40%), followed by housing (23%) and utilities (16%).
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
NEW: After one year of Trump's second term, voters are still pessimistic about inflation and the state of the economy.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
good morning, it's a great day to work at @dataforprogress.org -- where we stand firm in our progressive values and use public opinion to lead and persuade, rather than bowing to popularism at the expense of morality.
I have a lengthy video of a long chase yesterday, including one maniacal e-bike rider who was absolutely giving the ICE Wagoneers hell. They’d try to lose us in traffic but the bike didn’t care about traffic
Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
h/t @petertwinklage.bsky.social & @zeteo.com
more important journalism from @zeteo.com, which you should follow if you don't already
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
people are not buying MAGA propaganda
"Most people are correct"
so much love for the people of minneapolis
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
I really want to see CDR tech mature. But the ways we make CDR bankable (carbon credits, VCMs, etc) are almost universally scams. IMO better to simply just pay for CDR out of the public balance sheet, as a kind of insurance against an uncertain FF phaseout timeline.
"Rationalist-optimists lack humility in the face of a planetary system."
Really loved this piece from @cathfraser.bsky.social & @noahjgordon.bsky.social taking aim at naive techno-optimist faith in negative-emissions technologies and laying bare our inevitable stranded asset problems.
Must-read.
In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis.
But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
The Long Heat is one of the most important climate books of the decade.
Andreas Malm & Wim Carton savage the "rationalist-optimists" who believe that carbon removal and SRM will solve the crisis.
@cathfraser.bsky.social and I review it for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social!
@versobooks.bsky.social
A fun collab with @noahjgordon.bsky.social reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words!
check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!
