Andres Chang

Denali Sai, Mariah-Rose Marie @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social, Matteo Farinella @matteofarinella.bsky.social !! 🎨

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

[5/5] There's a strong tension between the theory of voluntary corporate mobilization & the pace of decarbonization we need. Hybrid initiatives like #sbti continue to have a role but their impact depends on how they're leveraged (and influenced) by different political actors w competing goals.

[4/5] The SBTi helps shape norms that are broadly adopted across the private sector. They face immense pressure to compromise on science in the name of "feasibility." But, with the exodus of most large banks from programs like the NZBA, is SBTi catering to an increasingly hollowed out middle?

[3/5] So it's notable that @sciencebasedtargets.org's new #netzero standard requires FIs to cease both project AND corporate-level finance/insurance activities linked to FF expansion. However, while project finance must be immediately addressed, corporate-level finance must only be ceased by 2030.

[2/5] Most ESG commitments from the financial sector address "project finance" (such as loans) to new fossil fuel projects. But over 90% of banks' financing to the FF industry is channeled through "corporate-level" activities, multiple analyses show. bit.ly/4l5L6op bit.ly/45dNXWn

[1/5] There's a loophole in most banks' fossil fuel policies. It's like "saying they would never directly invest in cigarettes, but are happy to provide billions to tobacco companies” (h/t @makemymoneymatter.bsky.social for the quote)

This strongly challenges the gas industry's greenwashing and raises the possibility that future U.S. administrations could rescind LNG export authorizations in defense of the public interest. Check out full details at the report link above (2/2)

Failing the climate test: LNG projects awaiting final investment decision do not stand up to U.S. Government analysis - Greenpeace - Greenpeace Read the report: Download "Failing the “Climate Test.” The multi-volume analysis, termed the 2024 LNG Export Study, represents the most comprehensive government assessment to-date of the energy, econo...

NEW: We use the US gov's own analytical tools to show that LNG expansion is set to drive up global GHG emissions by displacing renewable energy and increasing fossil fuel consumption in importing markets (1/2)
@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social

Let’s get this 💪💪💪

Anti-ICE organizing in New York City:

People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”

Us at the protest:

At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.

Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited).

It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.

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ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.

dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

YouTube video by Suicide Squeeze Records Holy Wave - Father's Prayer (OFFICIAL AUDIO)

☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz9b...

A direct strike on her home.

Migrant Justice = Climate Justice
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JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand:
✊ ICE Out of NYC
✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC
✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil
✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.

Baffling! @nytimes.com story about the energy security risks of global gas dependence has zero mentions of renewable energy... in sunny Mexico, no less 🥴

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Not seeing much coverage of this, and it seems like it might deliberately introduce the most damage and chaos yet. At the very least, it targets a significant power of Congress as well as Judicial resolve:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

All signs point to Trump tanking the U.S. economy, and that will cause hundreds of millions of people to suffer (adding to the toll from gutting the EPA, USAID, NIH...)

But I can't claim to understand what this means for the rest of the world, especially for climate in the long-term.

This has been bouncing around the back of my head for a while. Seems highly dependent on whether global economic fortunes stay coupled to the US, and whether the "China effect" Akshat and Amy describe can offset the chaos initiated by Trump 🤔 Better hope so

Challenge accepted, Amy. So here's one bull case for the energy transition.

Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵