Ari Phillips

Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure Wonder lies below the surface of this truly fantastic sitcom from the creator of Detectorists. It’s an impossible marvel of TV making

In case anyone needs an excuse to rewatch The Detectorists. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Opinion | EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law.

This is actually ridiculous, @washingtonpost.com. You've become unrecognizable. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Rudy Giuliani wearing a bright yellow suit with a yellow-and-blue striped tie, matching pocket square, and light brown shirt.

The crying emoji. It has a yellow head, light brown facial features, and blue tears running down its face.

outfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭

After economic ‘rupture’ with U.S., Canada looks to Asia for oil exports Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a sweeping agreement with the government of Alberta, home to the country’s vast tar sands oil reserves, laying the groundwork for a new oil pipeline to trans...

My latest for @oilandgaswatch.bsky.social: Canadian PM Mark Carney, a former U.N. envoy on climate change, seeks major new oil sands pipeline to reduce reliance on U.S. as energy trading partner. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/after-e...

After twelve years of work, the world’s most beautiful subway station has been inaugurated in Rome: Colosseo, an underground archaeological museum.⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Next up, Trump renames EPA the Industrial Protection Agency. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

I am currently reading Running Man and Marathon Man at the same time. So far, so good. I look forward to watching the movies at the same time.

Maryland set to nearly double the size of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge After years of discussion, Maryland is moving forward with a plan to put eight lanes of traffic on the long span.

Adding a pedestrian lane to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at a cost of $1 billion as a treat for cycling organizations is a concise illustration of how the groups drive up infrastructure costs

Trump Administration proposes gutting Endangered Species Act to boost energy industry The Trump Administration recently announced its intention to revoke protections under the Endangered Species Act and allow federal agencies to greenlight destructive mining and drilling projects witho...

My latest: the Endangered Species Act is taking a beating under Trump. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-a...

As solar booms and coal fades, Greece’s mining region struggles to… Next year, Greece will complete its coal phaseout, a success for the energy transition. But Western Macedonia residents feel left behind.

In September, I went to Greece to report on its rapid move away from coal.

Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming.

It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...

Trump wants to revoke a drilling ban around a cherished World Heritage Site The Trump Administration recently announced that it plans to abolish a Biden-era federal ban on oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northern New Mexic...

My latest: How “Unleashing American Energy" includes lifting a long sought after drilling ban in historically treasured lands of northern New Mexico to, possibly, drill a few dozen wells. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-w...

Trump Pal Makes Up New FIFA Peace Prize After President‘s Nobel Snub The FIFA boss has unveiled a “Peace Prize” to be handed out at the World Cup draw, weeks after Trump’s Nobel humiliation.

FIFA wins prize for biggest ass kissing

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

The operation of a coal plant in Michigan that the Trump Administration has ordered to remain open is costing taxpayers $615,000 — a day — and harming public health & air quality thru the Midwest.

With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2

EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.

The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."

This is, to put it mildly, not normal.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Updating my LEGO White House

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

I need to devote a week to long reads.

Trump cancels billions in clean energy grants while increasing subsidies for oil and gas On Oct. 2, the Trump Department of Energy announced it was cancelling over $7.5 billion in federal funding for 223 clean energy projects that the administration argues would be a waste of taxpayer dol...

My latest: Trump's free market hypocrisy when it comes to energy. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-c...

With Roles as Civic Hubs, Libraries Turn Over a New Page Cities looking to revive downtowns are increasingly leveraging the ability of public libraries to draw crowds and encourage economic development.

Libraries! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I would like to cancel the standard spelling of 'cancellation' with a double L.

Deep blue California ‘panics’ about refinery closures by allowing more drilling As recently as a few years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was calling on the state to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas by 2024 and to consider phasing out all oil production statewide by 20...

California just opened up more oil drilling in response to pressure related to the fear of rising gas prices and closing refineries. My latest for Oil & Gas Watch. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/deep-bl...

I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard - Literary Heist How Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work stacks up against his greatest hits. I fell under the spell of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard...

One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪
www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard - Literary Heist How Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work stacks up against his greatest hits. I fell under the spell of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard...

My first literary criticism/book review in a long time, published in Literary Heist. It's been nearly a decade since I went through the Knausgaardian looking glass. His newest novel spurred me to write about the experience. www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

Hivemind - is there anywhere to do a pull up on the national mall?

My birth year!

Miss Roscoe the cat - aka The CEO - posing with four paperbacks of my book 1983 and looking kind of pissed off after I told her a cat only appears very briefly in it

My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.

You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining

Conservationists: Ending lesser prairie chicken protections could set a troubling precedent • Source New Mexico Conservationists worry about other species in Permian Basin after the lesser prairie chicken lost Endangered Species protection

Delisted for all the wrong reasons. sourcenm.com/2025/08/21/c...

The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry

It's happened. Rick Perry has become sympathetic. The goal posts keep moving. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump

EPA chief Lee Zeldin says he's not enforcing the laws to help “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”

How's that going?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...