Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.
Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.
2025 Vibes.
🎨 Amos Paul Kennedy, Citizen Printer
📍San Francisco Letterform Archive
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
This is bad too.
What's going on with Taiwan's chemical industry? It's really big (almost as big as Japan's). Is it rapidly going out of business, like Japan's and Korea's, or does it have a plan to survive the rise of China's chemical industry?
THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
This is really great.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis.
It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents.
This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
I'm so excited to be introducing TWO new energy affordability bills today!
Hyundai is building a pilot iron production facility that runs on hydrogen in advance of constructing its much larger project in Louisiana. Fascinating. biz.chosun.com/en/en-indust...
I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
We have the technologies we need to cut pollution from the industrial sector. In our new report, we take a deep dive into an immediate, practical opportunity: electrifying low- and medium-temperature process heat in manufacturing food, beverage, paper and chemicals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Critical work on a sector that used to be considered hard to decarbonize. Key takeaway-- electrification with clean energy can replace process heat for many industries cost-effectively. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This is a really important analysis of the consequences of continuing to ignore climate change. Florida continues to allow and even encourage high-density development on exposed, unstable barrier islands. Some people will die and many will lose their life savings.
Most people do not realize that California got electricity from coal in 2025.
Got.
As of last week, it is past tense. Finally, finally.
We are so far behind but we are moving forward thanks to so many people who never give up.
Cato Hernandez at @LAist.com highlights a new map showing where SoCal’s largest industrial boilers are located — and why advocates want @southcoastqmd to adopt zero-emission rules before we lock in decades more pollution. Read it here: laist.com/news/climate...
Not quite the same, but Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana is a delightful 2017 Bollywood drama about a bride-to-be who runs away to pursue her career in the provincial civil service, only to have her ex-fiancé return years later as an Indian Administrative Service officer. That's taking bureaucracy seriously.
I just moved to NYC and it took me less than 48 hours to realize what a bunch of scofflaws the NYPD are when it comes to parking near their station houses. It's almost like someone needs to enforce the law...
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I just finished reading this article and it's very, very good. Corporate power is the problem underneath so many other problems.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Some news. My book on climate and security for Cambridge University Press is the winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order. Thrilled to be among the august company of previous winners. www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltod...
May be seeing the end of an iconic European steel company.
www.ft.com/content/2fec...
Thanks. Very helpful.
