Nick Gottlieb

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

Obviously agree with mocking him here but I do think it's more pernicious than "American oil companies want it." It's not so much about seizing the oil for X firm, it's about ensuring oil trade remains subject to US control, a crucial component of US dollar hegemony and economic power. Same as Iraq!

What meaningfully distinguishes a self identified liberal Zionist from a Kahanist if the former can not even say that assisting in the settlement of occupied territory is a red line for them? It seems like then the difference between the two is not substance but rhetoric.

One of my favorite takes on this website by the Ball Knowers was that the year plus of cracking down on anti-genocide youth movements in this country, on campuses and otherwise, had no effects whatsoever on turnouts come November nor in general for mobilization etc. Goldfish levels of myopia.

Yes, something that Israel does which is actually quite rare is consider all civilian workers, whether they be in municipal government or in private reconstruction or health sectors, to be combatants *by way of second, third, or even fourth degree association*.

Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing? The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have responded to a level of student activism not seen since the protests against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...

From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.

And if IPCC AR7 is not released until after the GST in 2028, then they will still be using the 2019 number until 2029, when the budget for 1.5°C would have been exceeded...

(unless someone comes up with new bigger budgets)

don't worry, they have big plans for BC labor. They're going to fix everything by sending every skilled worker across the country to remote work camps in northwest BC to build 5 "national-interest" massive industrial projects all at the same time

As I argue in The Language of Climate Politics: we are stuck not because climate politics are polarized, but because they’re UNIFIED (across the right and center-left) on the lie that we can keep using oil and gas but still deal with climate change anyway.

Here’s a good example of that discourse.

This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.

Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

PREGUNTA: ¿Está usted de acuerdo con que se elimine la prohibición de establecer bases militares extranjeras o instalaciones extranjeras con propósitos militares, y de ceder bases militares nacionales a fuerzas armadas o de seguridad extranjeras, reformando parcialmente la Constitución de conformidad con el Anexo de la pregunta? REFERÉNDUM Y CONSULTA POPULAR Fecha Corte: domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2025 21:45:04 Votos SI: 3255228 (39.45 %) REFERÉNDUM - CASILLERO A Votos NO: 4996500 (60.55 %) 25 50 75 100 Pregunta Actas Validadas Actas Novedad Actas Pendientes Total Actas REFERÉNDUM - CASILLERO A 32558 6908 2593 42059

Ecuador voters just rejected allowing foreign military bases by a 20-point margin.

See Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...

They aren't sure whether to believe OPEC or other leading forecasters because they DON'T do their own analysis. They believe what the people selling the products tell them. So if Shell says LNG will grow by 60%, apparently they believe them.

Explains a lot.

The US LNG export market is about to add a huge amount of new supply over the next 5 years. Pretty much everyone agrees there is too much.

A lot of this LNG is under contract to traders who plan to buy it and resell it for profits. Despite not having end users lined up.

100% agree with this. Some editors are very light. Others are not. There isn't always much space to push back on editorial changes, particularly as a freelancer, and the final product is their choice not mine, despite the fact that it's my byline out there taking responsibility for it.

Japan is trying to get the world hooked on LNG and now seems to have bought a private methane satellite for the bankers and tells us that the bankers are going to solve the methane emergency that LNG is driving.

Sure.

Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again

Keeping Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner is an unforced error for reasons concerning her specifically, the NYPD broadly, and the moment that we're in politically. An ICE collaborator cannot be trusted to protect New Yorkers. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should make her a different offer.

🚨 BREAKING: More than ten people have been injured, including a child in critical condition, after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped two small bombs on and around Al-Daraj School in Gaza City, the Gaza Civil Defense said in a statement. Officials said one device was dropped at the school’s main gate and another on a tent inside a shelter area behind the building. The wounded include children, women, and elderly people, all of whom were transferred to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. Authorities stressed the school is located in what is officially defined as a safe area – neither a red zone nor a yellow zone – meaning families were sheltering in a place that was supposed to be protected. 🎥 Ahmad_Afash (Instagram)

🚨 BREAKING: More than ten people have been injured, including a child in critical condition, after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped two small bombs on and around Al-Daraj School in Gaza City, the Gaza Civil Defense said in a statement

Officials said one device was dropped at the school’s main...

US natural gas (methane) price are up 50% in the past month or so as new export facilities start exporting more LNG (methane). Often these US export facilities are owned by foreign entities (Japan, Qatar, etc).Japan is also buying up gas production assets in TX to supply the gas for export. (1/2)

Elbows up?🤔 Why Carney’s fast-track announcement is a disaster course for BC — from US foreign ownership to overseas jobs and climate impacts /1 🧵 #bcpoli

Fun fact: Carney wasn’t even welcome in Prince Rupert for this announcement — local nations including Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla are opposing Ksi Lisims LNG. He had to change the venue last minute, yet the Feds and province are still rushing to fast-track this giveaway to US billionaires. #bcpoli

How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit | The Tyee We used to pledge lower emissions. Now we push for higher oil production.

Failure summarizes the Canadian climate change record since 1990 — failure to meet any #GHG emissions reduction ambition, writes @ianurquhart.bsky.social.

Canada is the only member of the G7 whose #GHG emissions have increased since 1990.

It will not surprise you to learn that many of these same countries are the ones moving to block the just transition mechanism--the thing that would actually help the world move away from fossil fuels--at #COP30

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time.

Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike.

Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

How logging has sent B.C. forests into freefall | The Narwhal A Sierra Club BC report reveals a gap between B.C.’s forestry promises, including old-growth deferrals, and reality

Old growth in recommended deferral zones was four times more likely to be logged than forests outside, according to a new report out today from Sierra Club BC.

My latest for @thenarwhal.ca

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YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada

Great to see @davidebybc.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social in this Honest Government Ad about fracked gas exports. Just in time for the #BCNDP convention! youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?... #bcpoli #cdnpoli @dogwoodbc.bsky.social

PI Briefing | No. 41 | Palestine: Stolen or Decolonised In the West Bank, the colonization of Palestine is rapidly escalating, with Israel advancing legislation to annex 82% of the occupied territory.

"The United Nations has recorded more than 2,000 incidents of settler violence in the West Bank since October 2023."

The 41st PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

Oil companies are suing each other in the Permian basin as their greed driven drilling and water disposal practices are damaging reserves.

Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts.

And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing.

The infighting will get vicious.