Erik Schlenker-Goodrich

The Collapse of Confidence in Carbon Capture | OilPrice.com Carbon Capture and Storage, once seen as a lifeline for the oil and gas industry, is facing mounting doubts as delays, high costs, and poor performance cast serious doubts on its future viability.

Carbon capture is a waste of time, resources, and attention as well as a dodge from the good, hard work of investing in a just community-led energy and economic transition away from fossil fuels.

The Joensuu pedestrian area and cycle parking on the market square on a sunny day. Hundreds of bikes.

The Hiitolanjoki river restoration project seen from the upper rapids in the three series of dam removals.

Maybe my simple country-brain cannot understand 'AI' or massive factories removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in 2050, or 'SAF' fuels for jets.

I'd rather have fewer cars in the regional capital right now and remove unnecessary dams for migratory fish habitat.

#RestoreNature #ClimateAction

Oregon Republican League ... X Bleiler Donna • 7h • G Trump is preparing to go after Antifa, waiting for them to make a move. Antifa is preparing for riots in major cities. Since Portland is their headquarters, it seems essential that the National Guard would be in Oregon. Governor Kotek is in panic mode releasing news every day on her opposition. Portland Police are working with Antifa to criminalize federal agents. "Out in Oregon, the Governor, the mayor and police are all part of Antifa." Shan Davis explains, "Once you understand that Portland police is Antifa, everything else it does and refuses to do suddenly makes sense." If they are part of Antifa, they are part of the insurrection. Antifa has been hired to create a civil war. Kotek has been telling people to stay calm, all the while she is still promoting Antifa to start a civil war. [https://rumble.com/embed/v6xoc3g/? pub=50601&start=2506](https://rumble.com/embed/ v6xoc3g/?pub=50601&start=2506) 2X22 Report Political • Geopolitical rumble.com Ep 3745b - [DS] Pushing A Hybrid War, Trump Is Using The Shutdown To Defund The [DS], Timing,... 115 16 comments 25 shares

In case you’re wondering how grassroots Republican activists in Oregon are metabolizing what’s happening in the state. This person is a coordinator for two long running conservative organizations in the state: The Gathering of the Eagles and the Abigail Adams project.

… and efforts to weaken bedrock environmental laws in service of centrist “abundance” that uses housing/renewables as part of a bait-and-switch for Big Tech fever dreams.

To be clear, if there’s centrist D involvement, the risk is Technofeudalism. If the Trump regime survives to a successor (e.g., Vance), that’s when we see Technofascism.

I don’t think any of this is a likelihood, but it is a risk warranting immediate pushback on the AI data center buildout …

If and when the Trump regime collapses, there’s a risk of a Big Tech-centered regime supported by Rs + centrist Ds.

It’s why the massive buildout of AI data centers + “bipartisan permitting reform” is of such grave concern.

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Also, what gobbledygook:

This involves a “deal” on “core principles” that go in a “compact” that might become a “framework” to serve as a basis for perhaps “negotiating” “legislation.”

WTF does that even mean?

I haven't dived into the underlying report, but this article is jaw-dropping. Data centers are apparently not *one of* PJM's demand-side problems. They are *the* problem.

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for."

In a new report out today our @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @alanzibel.bsky.social
uncovered 100+ people with ties to polluting industries who are occupying high level offices throughout the Trump administration.

Underestimated: Fierce clarity of purpose. Shine on, Greta. Burn fierce, bright, and long. ✊🏼

🔥"Who are we to draw the line? We are citizens who demand to live in a democratic Republic."🔥

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut issued a second broader temporary restraining order late Sunday night.

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

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You head out. Tired. Wet. Angry. You're ready to crack some heads. The protesters across the street are wearing big, inflatable animal costumes. Cute ones. You immediately picture what the TikTok of you beating on one of these people would look like. You miss your wife.

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

This administration is going to result in the kind of map you’d find in the front of a dystopian sci-fi paperback. “Indigenous Nation Tariff-Free Trading Corridor” sounds like something Philip K. Dick would have with come up with in 1972.

Judge temporarily blocks Trump from any sending National Guard troops to Oregon The ruling came after California joined Oregon in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's actions.

JUST IN: Judge temporarily blocks Trump from sending California's or any other state's National Guard troops to Oregon.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Twitter absolutely cooking brains.

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end — you’ll know it when you see it — made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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