Larchlover

Listening to fine Persian music yesterday (the band Constantinople), I realized that for the unfortunate people of Iran, there are really only three governments that care in a major way about Iran today (their own, Netanyahu, Trump), and none of them really care a damn about the Iranian people.

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

He knows that the crowd would not be deferential if he attended.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Now you've got me remembering a lovely week camped at Big Sandy Lake in 1970....

16 years requiring a big vision and then years of dedicated work by public sector staff, private companies, advocates, and of course a lot of great community members.

A decade and a half of patient, thorough work by the CA Beyond Coal team. Deep gratitude!

One of the best postseasons ever! So much great baseball. Winter begins this evening, 15 weeks until pitchers and catchers report, meaning Spring.

Lovin' the great John Prine on Bluesky!

Totally appreciating the work of Bill Corcoran, Evan, and the LA team over a decade and a half of advocacy!

And by the way, Yasmin Williams is a beyond amazing guitarist.

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

This administration is made up of the pettiest people you can imagine.

Setting aside tickets for a Kennedy Center performance to a MAGA group to heckle an artist who criticized the admin is such weak, pathetic shit.

www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

To no one's surprise, both Jay and Leah are right on!

Leah is exactly right. Every time Trump rips up some environmental protection, he finds
another way to force dirty, expensive energy down our throats, this time keeping obsolete coal plants open nobody wants.

This post from Dave Roberts refers to a podcast of his about some new technology for managing building energy use. I'm not familiar with the particular technology, but his comment about how to make distributed energy really work is right on.

www.volts.wtf/p/the-cooles...

While Senate GOP votes to end Clean Air Act hazardous pollutants safeguards.

Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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And so it finally happened. Zero carbon electricity exceeded coal and natural gas for the first time. This is what a fossil fuel phaseout looks like. #keepgoing

This graph is a beautiful thing!

"You have to throw trans people under the bus to win elections as a Democrat, trans political ads work, the public is reacting to trans people poorly"

Meanwhile in Wisconsin after tens of millions in anti-trans ads against WI-SC candidate who did not flinch:

E&E News: Behind EPA rule rollbacks, Trump plans for a coal comeback The administration is clawing back regulations and mulling executive authorities to prop up the nation's coal-fired power fleet and mining sector.

I’m quoted here on Trump’s efforts to revive coal: “They tried to do this in the first Trump term and it did not work, and now the economics of coal are even worse,” said Mary Anne Hitt…“I don’t think they’ll succeed in this term.” 1/ subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I often debate whether Trump is just trolling the world because he likes the sound of his own voice or is actually deeply delusional. Things like this make me lean toward the "delusional" theory.

A tabular summary of Houston's Climate Action Plan, focusing on transportation, energy transition, building optimization and materials management.

Mayor Taylor was Vice Chair of U.S. Climate
Mayors and led Houston's groundbreaking Climate Action Plan: greenhoustontx.gov/climateactio...

You know how Trump confused asylum for immigrants with asylums as mental institutions? I am beginning to think that he believes his oath to “Faithfully execute the laws of the United States” requires him to kill the laws.

YouTube video by Jesse McFaul We Will Survive

A Canadian friend shared this with me. It will make you smile, which is something these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pei...

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I didn't want them to get too close together lest I risk an annihilation event which would destroy my bookcase and much of my neighborhood. I suppose @astrokatie.com would assign that a low probability but I'm cautious.

Super discussion of the potential for industrial decarbonization in the US and globally! Thanks to David Roberts @volts.wtf and his guests.

Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization On Monday, the Biden administration announced over $6 billion in grants to industrial decarbonization projects in sectors ranging from steel to concrete to chemicals to, uh, macaroni. I talk about the...

Today on Volts: you probably heard that Biden just devoted over $6 billion to industrial decarbonization projects. But what projects? And what is their significance? I talk it over with Rebecca Dell of ClimateWorks & Evan Gillespie of Industrious Labs. This is a fun one!