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For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable so...

Uplifting @jricole.bsky.social on renewables overtaking coal. And of course Trump is clinging to the filthy past. www.juancole.com/2025/10/rene...

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable sources of energy have now overtaken coal for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The second is that […]

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

To appease Trump, Harvard welcomes Nazis and their followers. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

“Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains why Tony Blair should be on trial for war crimes in Iraq, instead of planning to destroy Gaza further with Trump on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored.’

Read Mehdi’s article on Tony Blair: zeteo.com/p/tony-blair...

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

“That’s so fucking lame. Every person in that arena knows someone affected by the raids.”

For some fans of rodeo, Border Patrol's efforts to "target specific applicants" at fairgrounds are not welcome.

The US crypto reserve is another scheme designed to transfer large sums from the US Treasury into the pockets of the Trump family. It's not even cleverly disguised. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A Climate Scientist’s Call for Hope - Truthdig In a new book, climate scientist Michael Mann calls for not losing hope after the second U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

As fossil fuel interests block U.S. progress, global clean energy still advances, but not fast enough.

Religion in the U.S.

Immigration
Freedom of Religious Expression
Establishment Clause
Right of Free Assembly
Non-Violent Direct Action
Project 2025

IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction Kristalina Georgieva and UK financial stability watchdog say valuations are closing in on dotcom bubble levels

The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated. www.ft.com/content/fe47...

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

It is an inexcusable omission, and editorial malpractice, for Reuters to omit mention that the President doing this kind of thing on a media platform he owns & has not divested is unprecedented, likely illegal and an ethical violation. The message itself is unprecedented and illegal. Why not say so?

When I was in the Army in Alaska, some dude from Texas in the parking lot of our barracks thought it would be amusing to scare a mother moose and her calves by running towards them. He was lucky to make it back alive to the building. She stared at the door a good half hour after. She was pissed.

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

In a moment of racism nostalgia, Mike Johnson goes the George Corley Wallace "outside agitator" route. bsky.app/profile/atru...

In related news, let me know if you or someone you know has any interesting work opportunities!

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Republicans want to double your healthcare costs.

Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 15 million people.

Republicans want to give their billionaire donors handouts at your expense.

And they’re lying about it every chance they get.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6VT...

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

4. Senate’s lead Republican on energy: ‘It’s time for NEPA reform’ As you may recall from two consecutive newsletters last month, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said “permitting reform” was “the biggest remaining thing” in the administration’s agenda. Yet Republican leaders in Congress expressed skepticism about tacking energy policy into the next reconciliation bill. This week, however, Utah Senator Mike Lee, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called for a legislative overhaul of the National Environmental Policy Act. On Monday, the pro-development social media account Yimbyland — short for Yes In My Back Yard — posted on X: “Reminder that we built the Golden Gate Bridge in 4.5 years. Today, we wouldn’t even be able to finish the environmental review in 4.5 years.” In response, Lee said: “It’s time for NEPA reform. And permitting reform more broadly.” Last month, a bipartisan permitting reform bill got a hearing in the House of Representatives. But that was before the government shutdown. And sources familiar with Democrats’ thinking have in recent months suggested to me that the administration’s gutting of so many clean energy policies has left Republicans with little to bargain with ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Lee hasn’t met with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who has been helping lead the push for a permitting overhaul and amending the Endangered Species Act. A lot of Lee’s time has gone to helping craft the Republicans’ party-line budget bill, which is expected to include provisions to promote fossil fuel production and roll back Biden-era regulations. Lee has deemed the idea of expanding renewable energy sources like solar and wind power at the expense of gas and coal “very disturbing.” This weekend Lee made clear he also supports the sale of some public land to build housing. He called Democratic attempts to thwart such efforts “disgraceful.”

The opponents of wind and solar and climate action in general sure do love permitting reform

www.eenews.net/articles/mik...

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Republicans focused on single issue advocacy on issues like ending abortion and they didn't give up even when they lost.

try believing in something and having values. if those lying fuckers can be consistent in opposing rights, the dems can do it in protecting them

German industrial output posts biggest decline in more than three years German industrial output fell much further than expected in August, pushed down by a sharp decrease in car production as frontloaded demand ahead of U.S. tariffs dried up.

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Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions Food group Nestle said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.

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Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads.

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Indonesia says 22 plants in industrial zone near Jakarta contaminated by caesium 137 Indonesia's special task force on radioactive contamination has found traces of Caesium 137 at 22 production facilities in an industrial zone near Jakarta, officials said on Wednesday.

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Lazio ultras arrested after Winter Games corruption attempt Two brothers from a notorious Italian soccer hooligan group, Lazio's "Irriducibili", have been arrested after trying to illegally obtain public works contracts for next year's Winter Olympics, Italian prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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