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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Sad that @washingtonpost.com is shedding real journos while apparently instituting a new rule for the opinion pages: all authors must appear in the #EpsteinFiles

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The Simpsons: FOX turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually I didn't even notice

Obligatory Simpsons Did It:

What's FoxNews dot com covering, instead of the Epstein files being full of all their faves? Hmmmmmmm.....

Actually, I do know how to do this In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.

lots of key points worth remembering in this @emorwee.bsky.social piece, which lays out how the fossil fuel industry helped create the conditions for today's authoritarian crackdown on protestors

of fucking *course* "we should stop worrying so much about climate change" is part of the groupthink of the Epstein-affiliate bubble. just like with racist pseudoscience, all these guys want to hear is "current power arrangements are good & natural and the problem is the people concerned about them"

DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Robots will never feel anything but the communities those data centers pollute sure will

I love that things it is actually reasonable to be concerned about (climate change, genocide, the rise of global fascism) simply do not get discussed whilst things it is unreasonable to be concerned about (trans people, immigration, benefits) suck all the air out of the room.

Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

This is known to be a deliberate strategy. The links are right there, but people STILL don't actually like... do anything with that information.

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OUR PANEL INCLUDED… Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Ken Caldeira, senior scientist emeritus at the Carnegie Institution for Science and visiting scholar at Stanford University | Kate Marvel, research physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Holly Jean Buck, associate professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo | Kim Cobb, climate scientist and director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | Jennifer Wilcox, chemical engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Michael Greenstone, economist and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago | Solomon Hsiang, professor of global environmental policy at Stanford University | Chris Bataille, global fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy | Danny Cullenward, senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania | J. Mijin Cha, environmental studies professor at UC Santa Cruz and fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute | Lynne Kiesling, director of the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics at Northwestern University | Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources | Emily Grubert, sustainable energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame | Jon Norman, president of Hydrostor | Chris Creed, managing

Chris Creed, managing partner at Galvanize Climate Solutions | Amy Heart, senior vice president of public policy at Sunrun | Kate Brandt, chief sustainability officer at Google | Sophie Purdom, managing partner at Planeteer Capital and co-founder of CTVC | Lara Pierpoint, managing director at Trellis Climate | Andrew Beebe, managing director at Obvious Ventures | Gabriel Kra, managing director and co-founder of Prelude Ventures | Joe Goodman, managing partner and co-founder of VoLo Earth Ventures | Erika Reinhardt, executive director and co-founder of Spark Climate Solutions | Dawn Lippert, founder and CEO of Elemental Impact and general partner at Earthshot Ventures | Rajesh Swaminathan, partner at Khosla Ventures | Rob Davies, CEO of Sublime Systems | John Arnold, philanthropist and co-founder of Arnold Ventures | Gabe Kleinman, operating partner at Emerson Collective | Amy Duffuor, co-founder and general partner at Azolla Ventures | Amy Francetic, managing general partner and founder of Buoyant Ventures | Tom Chi, founding partner at At One Ventures | Francis O’Sullivan, managing director at S2G Investments | Cooper Rinzler, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Neil Chatterjee, former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Representative Scott Peters, member of the U.S. House of

Representative Scott Peters, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Todd Stern, former U.S. special envoy for climate change | Representative Sean Casten, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Representative Mike Levin, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Zeke Hausfather, climate research lead at Stripe and research scientist at Berkeley Earth | Shuchi Talati, founder and executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering | Nat Bullard, co-founder of Halcyon | Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org | Ilaria Mazzocco, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies | Leah Stokes, professor of environmental politics at UC Santa Barbara | Noah Kaufman, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy | Arvind Ravikumar, energy systems professor at the University of Texas at Austin | Jessica Green, political scientist at the University of Toronto | Jonas Nahm, energy policy professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS | Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force | Costa Samaras, director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University | John Larsen, partner at Rhodium Group | Alex Trembath, executive director of the Breakthrough Institute | Alex Flint, executive director of the Alliance for Market Solutions

Oh, and biofuels boosters, blatant fossil fuel shills, and covert fossil fuel shills! What an unbiased survey of climate communications!

“‘Climate.’ Literally the word climate, I would just get rid of it completely,” one venture capitalist told us. “I would love to see people not use 'climate change' as a predominant way to talk to people about a global challenge like this,” seconded a former Washington official. “And who knows what a ‘greenhouse gas emission’ is in the real world?” A lobbyist agreed: “Climate change, unfortunately, has become too politicized … I’d rather talk about decarbonization than climate change.”

literally basing a story off what a venture capitalist, lobbyist, and cashed-out-former-policymaker said.

local apologist recognizing the consequences of his advocacy

Screenshot of RealClearEnergy editorial: " Why the U.S. Senate Must Soon Pass the SPEED Act and the MRCA of 2025 By The Editors January 07, 2026"

Screenshot of RealClearEnergy editorial: Fossil Fuels Are Not Going Away: Why the Boulder Climate Case Is So Dangerous and SCOTUS Must Step In By The Editors January 04, 2026 Why Fossil Fuels Are So Important

Everyone cites RealClear's polling like it's legit when on the energy side they're openly lobbying for their oily funders legislation and defending them from legal accountability.

But I'm sure their polling averages are unbiased and reliable...

People around the world still believe the British wwii propaganda about carrots improving night vision!

Meanwhile, Stancil: Help people? No, more posts!

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yep!! The gas for ai stuff is happening regularly eg

www.realclearenergy.org/video/2025/1...

www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...

Hey is there a word for using violence for political purposes?

The man who broke offshore wind How David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector.

Here’s the link 🔗

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(You can put the link in the 1st post here...)

The man behind the fall of offshore wind David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

🔎 A powerful new piece from @fieseler.bsky.social profiles David Stevenson — the man at the center of a well-funded campaign that helped stall US offshore wind.

It’s a case study in how organised opposition, disinfo and weaponised “local concerns” can derail clean energy at scale.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

Third Way has taken ExxonMobil funding so of course their pres is telling Dems to be nice to polluters.

(Also willing to bet any pro pollution campaign coffers are plenty oily, regardless of Dem or Rep...)

Yes but have you considered that he'll sic his NYT attack dogs on you? Much to think about.

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this is why you'll hear these types of arguments often explicitly from guys who will say they don't focus on clean energy for climate but Because The Economy. they imagine themselves outside of racialized and other marginalized life in this country.