Paddy McCully

as my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon says, "if you don't like Texas' triple digit temperatures, use Celsius"

Still up on the official White House website:

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

Sun Tzu has spoken

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since the Committee to Project Journalists began collecting records in 1992.

The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists, the CPJ found. https://wapo.st/4aJGqBm

Vanguard Settles Case Claiming It Tried to Kill the Coal Industry

An unfortunate step backward by Vanguard. BlackRock and State Street should stand firm against this ideological attack on ESG investing by climate-denialist Republican AGs carrying water for the coal industry.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

#ClimateChange #ClimateRisk #ESG #SRI #ImpInv #SustInv

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

First ever Green Party by-election victory in UK 🎉 🎉

While US grid demand increased 2.1% in 2025, California's declined 3.16%-despite 2.5 mil EVs in CA, lots of heat pumps, and 3rd-most data centers in the US

About 36% of the decline was due to growth in behind-the-meter PV

BTM PV is an easy way to reduce growth of grid demand

The extent of record high temperatures across the West this winter is absurd.

WED Du Bois's description of Pres. Andrew Johnson applies nicely to the tech billionaires: "groping, self-made, unlettered and alone; drunk, not so much with liquor, as with the heady wine of sudden and accidental success." h/t
@adamtooze.bsky.social

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social

www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

"Justice Samuel Alito has not recused himself from the case, despite having reported significant financial investments in the fossil fuel industry.

The conflict of interest is frankly astonishing, and I genuinely do not understand why it isn’t a bigger story." @emorwee.bsky.social

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

We seem to be nearing the heart of the story, and a lot will depend on the nerve of the journalists--NPR, the NYT, etc--to stay on this story relentlessly. Will they give it the same kind of coverage they gave Biden's age--i.e., full bore, around the clock, 50 opeds?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

👀 "Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All. In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon." newrepublic.com/article/2069...

🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

Tesla Europe sales tumble 17% in January as China's BYD soars Tesla's Europe woes are only getting worse, just as Chinese rival BYD's fortunes soar.

Wow:

Tesla EV registrations in Europe fell to 8,075 units in January, a 17% drop from a year ago.

BYD, which sells a mix of pure EVs & hybrids, reported sales in Europe jumped 165% to 18,242 units

So 126% more BYDs sold in Europe last month than Tesla

U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive. In seas that could kill a person within an hour, it took nearly two days for a rescue plane to arrive.

U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.
theintercept.com/2026/02/17/b...

At least 23 dead as heavy rains unleash floods in southeastern Brazil Search and rescue workers are looking for more than 40 people who remain missing as towns reel from torrential rainfall.

Search and rescue workers are looking for more than 40 people who remain missing as towns reel from torrential rainfall.

They're not sending their best.

Imagine that. Liars, all.

theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it. Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

Stunning revelation! Magaheads are hypocritical squits on clean energy and climate! Who could have guessed it! www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

Center for Biological Diversity / @biologicaldiversity.org responds to attempted intimidation from oil-funded Republicans in Congress with the most beautiful "fuck you" letter biologicaldiversity.org/programs/gov...

‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe.

#Climate action, my eye.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family.

What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

Terrific headline: “The giant void of nothingness where US financial regulation used to sit”. And yes this will indeed end badly.