straight up misinformation from Politico Power Switch today: "The Clean Air Act was never designed to regulate planet-warming pollution."
the definition of air pollution in the 1970 Clean Air Act deliberately mentions weather and climate, in part because carbon dioxide was known to be dangerous.
What "it's not about the oil" takes missed is that it *is* about the oil _companies_
The role the New York Times is to report the news — and to normalize the horrors of the Trump administration.
2 days ago: the Trump regime vaporizes a poisonous cloud of oil over Tehran.
Today: the Times 👇
One fossil fuel crisis costs the UK more than shifting to net zero by 2050. And how many more such crises can we expect in the next 24 years?
A great example of how the proper temporal frame clarifies costs and benefits #longproblems www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?
What’s that? Permitting reform is a climate policy, you say?
There's plenty of evidence climate messages COULD work. We wrote a really clear, positive/contrast climate ad last cycle. It was one of our top performing ads. Details in this thread. It didn't catch on with Dems more broadly obviously but
I suspect Trump is very good to his friends.
As someone once put it to me the ‘climate takers’ who have to deal with climate impacts far outnumber the ‘climate makers’ who are driving climate impacts. They should recognise the power they have.
This is so true. It’s also beyond enraging that a bloc with *more power* than fossil fuels does exist and could be mobilised. The companies that have to deal with climate impacts and volatile fossil fuel prices far outnumber the fossil fuel majors, they have just never lobbied as effectively.
Yes, AI prose fails soon after three or four sentences.
And here's an explanation from a computer scientist about why: LLMs smooth out all the concrete texture—the surprising metaphors, the narrative examples—in favor of "semantic ablation," or a bland reversion to the linguistic mean.
I don't think anyone serious believes that the main obstacle to solving climate change is bad language, but insofar as it takes politics to overthrow or disempower fossil fuel incumbents, I don't see how we do politics w/out campagning, which means at least some attention to language.
because the public discourse on climate has been so warped by fossil-fuel propaganda, you arguably always need to be dealing with that effect of their power as you're building your own — especially when that propaganda so influences Democratic thinking about climate change. So, I don't know.
...the very kind of democratic power that would force ambivalent interests to build coalitions with the goal of phase out and decarbonization, and that kind of public movement does need messaging guidance, 3) elected officials need messaging guidance, and 4)...
It is also the case that 1) the voices speaking about climate change could be doing a much better job in the infrastructure that already exists (at the very least, not normalizing continued ff production), 2) there will maybe one day be a massive deep canvassing operation, or some such, to build...
Totally agree that any attempt to persuade fossil fuel interests to give up their business by "reframing" decarbonization as an opportunity is beyond stupid. Also agree that what you say doesn't matter if you don't have any infrastructure, money, or power to get your message out everywhere. But...
High oil prices aren't going to bring down the Trump administration. They're just going to wring more money from the American people and give it to the oil companies.
Just as the war is going to give more money to the weapons manufacturers.
Check whose stock prices are going up.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
You need to stop believing what Trump says.
You do realize that we are collaborating w Israel in this war?
wow
it’s the market that doesn’t exist yet
oh there’s a product
It might be a screenshot of this post on Instagram?
www.instagram.com/reel/DVnxsbS...
Alas I cannot. I just took a screenshot of a post on X.
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
But it WILL happen and you don’t need to “teach them to sleep.” Hang in there!!
Well, they are lying because sometimes the kid is a toddler when it happens 🫠
This article is filled with juicy anecdotes but I want the data about which party receives the most money from billionaires and by how much.
My hunch that it’s the GOP — by a lot.
