Ryan Bartlett

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique Over the past year, a dredger operated by Dutch company Van Oord cut through a coral reef off the coast of northern Mozambique, part of the construction of French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’…

A Dutch company dredged through a highly sensitive coral area for TotalEnergies’ liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique.

Environmental groups warn that the environmental impact assessments for TotalEnergies’ project and three others in the same waters are inadequate.

It's like means-tested centrism is the most fertile ground for misinformation to flourish. Dem leadership stubbornly refuses to learn this basic lesson that genuine, courage of conviction candidates are a helluva lot more effective in using the bully pulpit to swat this kind of smear down

The no look side arm to Adams was 😚👌🏻

It seems like a law of failing upward that after long and far enough, you inevitably lose self-awareness and start to believe that indeed you deserve all the power and accolades (see JD Vance). How else to explain the absolute cringe of her introductory all-staff email "let's do the fucking news"

Can’t believe how quickly we blew past it. Even as much as it was never remotely a realistic policy goal.

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

Reading all of the anti-trans EOs this week, I am reminded of how much harder it is to litigate against incompetent opposing counsel (as opposed to competent lawyers). You have to start by essentially constructing their argument for them in order to know what to counter. I suspect that is the point.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

Massive over-learning from a 1.5 point popular vote loss going on here.

Surprised she isnt Trump's top pick for press secretary given the way things are going.

Seems like the stigma over "ETs" for decades is still preventing an actually effective interagency coordinated response/communications to the public.

Not a landslide
Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000:

New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%:

Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%)
Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%)

www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...

Nancy Mace is so outraged by concepts of biological sex foreign to her she’s demanding transparency on secret military alien autopsies. Frankly that’s the kind of ideological consistency we could use more of.

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

the rage click farming appears to be doing gangbusters

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.

The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.

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This is even more contemptible in light of his actual experience with the court.

Especially because users were given absolutely no choice in the matter. Overnight, it's integrated in every piece of tech we use in our daily lives and the workplace, to no discernible benefit, while vaporizing entire emissions goals from the largest tech companies

Apt from the guy who solely writes about the lifetime appointment tribunal that regularly rules against the will of the people

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

The goal of preventing temperatures from exceeding 1.5C is “deader than a doornail” as I told the Guardian (quoting James Hansen). We’ve simply waited too long to reduce global emissions, and now will firmly pass 1.5C in the next decade www.theguardian.com/...

incompetent loyalists who will behave in lawless ways as they try to fulfill the bosses' demands

Would have thought there’s at least a small chance he doesn’t get confirmed based on the pretty explicit animosity within his own party…? Or is that just more wishful thinking

If you learn anything today, it should be this:

We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.

To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲

Here’s hoping a viable bluesky doesn’t make the tendency to read comments and only comments over actual substance worse

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

"I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how."

By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social

Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news."

Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...