Erik Schlenker-Goodrich

it doesn’t take a whole lot to recognize that this is a vote that’s going to be hung around your neck for the rest of your careers

you can just not do it, it’s pretty easy actually

What a disgrace to the Senate and the people of Pennsylvania.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No segments on Evening News broadcasts. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

"A death count on par with the Oklahoma City bombing is relegated to the back page."

The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition" I talk with Emily Grubert about the hidden dangers of letting the free market manage the decline of our legacy energy infrastructure.

thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.

A Just Transition for All To meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, a transition away from fossil fuels must occur, as q...

And go read this excellent book by @jmijin.bsky.social providing a complementary framework for a just transition from fossil fuels!

Fossil energy minimum viable scale Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out

Make sure to check out @gruberte.bsky.social & @jlappen1.bsky.social’s paper that inspired this excellent conversation.

The fate of fossil fuel systems in the Podcast Episode · Volts · March 4 · 1h 15m

Amen to this much-needed conversation between @gruberte.bsky.social & @volts.wtf.

As I think about it: we can have a managed transition from fossil fuels or a chaos transition. This conversation brings wisdom to that choice—and what comes next.

Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.

Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.

Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.

Put some goddamn respect on their names.

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Historic funding for wildlife passes Oregon Legislature, heads to Gov. Kotek for signature - Western Environmental Law Center Moments ago, the Oregon Senate passed HB 4134, also known as “1.25% for Wildlife,” marking its bipartisan passage in both chambers of the Oregon Legislature. This landmark bill now heads to Gov. Kotek...

BREAKING: 1.25% for #Wildlife in #ORLeg #ORPol has PASSED THE #OREGON LEGISLATURE through ENORMOUS EFFORT by AMAZING ADVOCATES! On to Gov. Kotek!

Press release here:

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

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“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

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Thank you, Senator Heinrich, for voting NO on #SellOffSteve and standing strong for #PublicLands 🙏

The Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee voted 11-9 for Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management. His nomination will soon head to a full Senate vote.

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The work happening in cities across the country to fight ICE and reject politicians with a hollow view of leadership is part of our collective dialogue right now, imo. It matters every day that climate 'professionals' get vocal about stopping genocide and ending concentration camps in this country.

It must change because the real-world is ripe for fossil fuel industries to exploit a very real fear Americans have - based on our past history! - about societal abandonment. They talked about many good cases of this. Fossil fuel companies exploit this fear, and have limitless resources to do so.

Most of the direction for climate has come from modelers who, on average, are not dealing in the real world where forecasts of prices and flows of physical goods meet the actual physical systems carrying them meet the real world and real people who live around those systems. This should change.

Efforts to commodify O&G “produced water” (really, toxic production wastewater) are a good example of how the O&G industry attempts to entrench itself in society—esp. given fact that these efforts are sold as a solution to aridification (rather than to industry problem).

Whole new meaning of this cartoon just dropped

So if I understand things correctly, we're going to level Iran, leave it in ruins, and then expect the populace emerging from those ruins to not only take down the Iranian government but also do so without direct US support and with the intent to form a government favorable to our interests?

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.

Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.

Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

I left the classified briefing on Iran even more concerned about what comes next as Trump drags us into what's so clearly a war. 
 
This Administration has no plan. American lives are on the line.

Wait, I thought our betters told us we weren't supposed to talk about climate change so we could depolarize the issue, elect milquetoast Third Way centrists, and sneak through the investor class' super savvy, all-of-the-above energy policy proposed by the American Petroleum Institute.

We're all in this together. We will not get through this unless we're all in this together.

Folks might scoff at this. "It's not pragmatic!" Whatever. No amount of technical engineering married to finance savvy will get us through this.

People will. Wisdom will. Belonging will.

The mucky middle centrist crowd wants to make this all a finance/engineering/tech issue. But it's not. And I suspect they know it. It's really a question of values that shape the goals you set for policy design. With climate action, I think it's an imperative to create a sense of belonging.

What's indisputable at this point is that the Trump 2.0-era path is insufferably stupid. And that there's no return to the pre-Trump 2.0 world. That's why the brawls over permitting reform are so hotly contested. Because we all know we're at that proverbial (& multi-tined) fork in the road.

It could also prove a fork in the road, a choice by U.S.: 1) cede climate action over to an alliance of energy & tech corps, backed by investors; 2) put people, communities, & ecology at the center of climate action.

IMO, the 1st path is doomed to fail. The 2nd path hard but wonderful.

Big Oil Is Urging Trump to Stop Battle on Offshore Wind The president’s assault on wind farms is stalling a legislative push to speed permitting for energy projects.

I hope folks give serious consideration to what the effects of "permitting reform" in the 119th Congress would be.

I'm skeptical it'd have any GHG redux benefits. Might even boost GHGs, esp. considering data center buildout & legal structure that'd facilitate fossil fuel entrenchment.

When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

What Trump’s War With Iran Has Already Cost Taxpayers The military operation had already cost more than approximately $600 million before the first strikes were even carried out.

👀 Trump’s illegal war vs Iran “could trigger an economic loss for the U.S. of between $50 billion and $210 billion, based on anticipated disruption to economic factors like trade and the energy markets.”