Jeff Young

Food rec: Find one of the Casa del Abuelo places and have gambas and sweet wine.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

Trump didn't get his Nobel, but he did get this thinly veiled message:

"Democracy is in retreat...more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence...rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Howdy! Enjoy your stay.

Bad night to be a Philly sports phan. First the Phillies blow the Div series with an error in extra innings. Now the Eagles are losing to ... the lowly Giants.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

When we moved here, a topiary shrub spelled out LUAVUL. Alas, it became weedy and overgrown and was cut down. (A metaphor for the condition of the city, perhaps.)

Reposting this only to draw attention to the absolute roasting in the comments. The ratio...is not good.

Louisville.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

China embraces cleaner energy, while US is stuck in the 20th century As China advances renewables and the U.S. returns to fossil fuels, the power of energy technology leadership is shifting.

To that point:
"Trump talks about 'U.S. energy dominance' while advancing markets for coal, oil and gas—the leading energy sources of the 20th century. But Chinese President Xi Jinping is showing what it looks like to dominate the energy of the 21st century."
www.newsweek.com/2025/09/26/c...

Currently reporting a piece on commercial fusion companies and, while the $$ flowing there is not quite at the same scale as with these fission cos, there is a lot of money going into a highly speculative space.

World nearing 'crucial turning point' as clean energy outpaces power demand Energy research group Ember said the global surge in clean energy more than met demand for electricity and led to the first fall in fossil fuel use this year.

"More than half the world's economies are already past the peak of fossil fuels," an @ember-energy.org researcher said. "There is no turning back now."
www.newsweek.com/world-nearin...

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

If you listen closely during the next CBS news broadcast you can actually hear Ed Murrow turning in his grave.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report? mistaking detection for emergence

My latest on The Climate Brink:

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

The DOE CWG authors confuse detection and attribution with emergence.

Look, I live in KY and I like Andy--who doesn't? But a few things to know about his "red state success."

Both his opponents were very weak candidates.

KY has off-off year elex for gov., so he didn't face Trump voter turnout.

Reps control leg. so he has few policy wins.

State is trending redder.

All these years later, that baby's still chasin' the bucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/a...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

What an amazing, inspiring life. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Judge William Young put this threatening note he received atop his opinion, in which he catalogs Trump administration actions meant to "terrorize Americans into quiescence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

YouTube video by Darwin Smith Vásquez Mendoza Black Sabbath War Pigs

youtu.be/jZ9qaewjw2U

What we learned from a Climate Week full of conflicting messages At the U.N. and Climate Week events it was often the U.S. versus the world on climate action. The evolving economics of clean energy might get the final word.

On #climate action, "it's not the U.S. against the world, there are also three other countries: Yemen, Libya and Iran," Sir Andrew Steer told me.
"So, it's the company that you keep, isn't it?" www.newsweek.com/what-we-lear...

Why the corporate greenhushing trend on climate could be bad for business Many corporations are shying away from public communication about climate plans. But some marketing and sustainability experts say they're making a mistake.

Our CEO, John Marshall, spoke with @jefftheyoung.bsky.social at @newsweek.com on how the data shows greenhushing could be bad for business: www.newsweek.com/why-corporat...

Bill McKibben's latest book argues for seizing solar powe... Author and activist Bill McKibben says solar power's rapid growth and dramatic price drop is the biggest untold story of our times. He wants to change that.

En route to Stuyvesant Park for a Sun Day event with @billmckibben.bsky.social. In this interview he said the rapid rise of #solar is "the most interesting new fact of this decade, maybe of this century so far, but it hasn't sunk in yet."
www.newsweek.com/bill-mckibbe...

Climate Week?

Climate Week NYC powers on Despite unfriendly political headwinds in US Climate Week NYC's 2025 theme is "Power One," reflecting a determination to pursue climate action despite the Trump administration's opposition.

Climate Week NYC will demonstrate the gulf between Trump and much of the rest of the world when it comes to #climate action.
"We're not going to abide by a federal government that doesn't want to listen to the science," Gina McCarthy of @americaisallin.com said.
www.newsweek.com/climate-week...

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.