Matt Hoffmann

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast

On the one hand, Nova Scotia could pick up a lot of wind turbine equipment very cheap. On the other hand, this is a disaster for wind investment and investment certainty in general in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025 Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

Some of these wins are too early to call. There are good trends in deforestation (e.g.) but the policies highlighted won't further that cause.

But the renewables section. China's emissions decreasing. This is where real, tangible hope lies.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Our authors develop stories that illustrate potential pathways, obstacles, and opportunities to net zero in an engaging way and imagine the net zero future.

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The zine explores a 2050 world where Canada has achieved its Net Zero goal--how it got there, what the net zero world looks like, and what work still needs to be done once net zero is achieved.

We are very excited to announce the launch of Volume 2 of the Environmental Governance Lab's climate fiction zine We Did It!?

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Steven Bernstein and @matthoffmann.bsky.social round us off with an attempt to think through stability and decarbonisation in general terms before we conclude. 12/

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

Who’s Running American Defense Policy? Trump’s national-security institutions are still in disorder.

“Who’s running America’s foreign and defense policies? It’s not the president, at least not on most issues," Tom Nichols writes in the Atlantic Daily. "Decisions are being made at lower levels without much guidance from above.”

1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think. This bill is a real piece of shit and it would be excellent if that's all anyone talked about for the next few days. Super interested in your think piece about the NYC mayor's race but let's get to that after we try to stop the biggest wealth transfer in American history.

Senator @schatz.bsky.social post this over at the bad place and it’s important. This Big Bad Brutal Bill is worse than you can imagine.

“This bill is a real piece of shit and it would be excellent if that's all anyone talked about for the next few days.”

Even cooler the reinforcing loop can turn the exact opposite way. The more the people take action, the more the people take action - read it through and see for yourself :)

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one.

That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

Toronto showing up for #NoTyrants protest

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

@uoft.bsky.social pay attention

Between fascism and climate change, the latter is definitely a greater threat to humanity. Fascists are liars, and they will always lose (but it might take a while). The problem with the fascist regime in the US is that it's actively undermining climate action, thereby exacerbating climate damage.

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias You can kind of talk in circles all day about "populism" or "abundance" or "kitchen table issues" or whatever else, but the practical dividing line is between material prosperity (call it whatever you want) vs reasoning backwards from climate targets.

Happy Tuesday! How about an anti-Matt-Yglesias climate economics thread?

I'll start by saying "material prosperity" is not opposed to "reasoning backwards" from temperature targets — doing what we must NOW to halt global heating at a safe level will INCREASE Americans' material prosperity.

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"I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec. #vote #never51

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Opinion | Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Literally a conversation today about whether there are ICE facilities at Ottawa airport, who has jurisdiction on the post-clearance airside area, and whether the Canadian govt would get you back if you disappeared inside the US part of a Canadian airport. So it's going great here

The opposite of fascism Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

Courageous and powerful piece by @cathmckenna.bsky.social “I thought we had an alliance [with oil sands companies]. It turned out to be a sham.”