Aarón Cantú

Here’s video of the incident

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.

Climate change.
Expanding oil and gas production.
Costly homeowners insurance.

This perfect storm of inextricably linked factors is devastating residents of coastal Louisiana. The trend has only accelerated. Story by @marcusbaram.bsky.social

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The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The article also includes a map I made of all data centers and natural gas power plants in California, including emissions from those plants.

Some gas power companies that see profit in the AI boom say they can capture their carbon emissions, and deserve clean electricity credits from the state.

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California Resources Corporation, which operates thousands of oil wells in addition to the 550 megawatt Elk Hills gas plant in Kern County, described gas plants such as those affixed with amine tanks as an “ideal” renewable energy resource, even better than wind or solar. The company said it could also reduce pollutants like nitrogen oxides; the plant released 88.5 tons of them in 2023 as well as volatile organic compounds, atmosphere-heating methane and other pollutants. In a call with investors in May, CEO Francisco Leon said his company was “pursuing multiple new opportunities with AI data center companies.” Its subsidiary Carbon TerraVault received federal permits in 2024 to construct four carbon injection wells in which it plans to bury 1.5 million metric tons of carbon annually through 2050.

The largest oil well owner in California has ambitious carbon capture plans—for a natural gas plant it owns.

It’s telling investors that AI data centers are providing its carbon capture plans with “multiple new opportunities.”

“I thought we got nuked or something,” one person playing soccer nearby the Chevron refinery told the LA Times. Good notes from @jklyou.bsky.social about air quality below. ⬇️ www.latimes.com/california/s...

The latest from @aaroncantu.bsky.social

The article also includes a map I made of all data centers and natural gas power plants in California, including emissions from those plants.

Some gas power companies that see profit in the AI boom say they can capture their carbon emissions, and deserve clean electricity credits from the state.

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

California has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT.

But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid.

Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social

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22,500 homes lost. Over five years later, only 38% rebuilt: What California fire survivors face Just 38% of the 22,500 homes burned down in California's five most destructive wildfires from 2017 to 2020 have been rebuilt, The Times found.

More California homes have been lost to wildfire in the last eight years than in any other period in the state’s history. Here’s what fire survivors face

➡ https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2025-09-30/rebuilding-california-after-major-wildfires?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

Back in 2020 I reported on federal charging for protesting and rioting, working hard to find smoking gun evidence of top-down political directives. Now it’s all out in the open. theintercept.com/2020/10/30/f...

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Passage from Chip War describing Mao’s war on scientific expertise

Passage describing Mao thinking electronics were reactionary and that only steel and iron were Good

It’s a bit of a tortured analogy but hard not to think of the ideological war on science and renewables

Climate chaos is already making us poorer. We're just pretending it's not. Playing make-believe is not a plan. It's time for real-world strategies.

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NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration The Trump administration has proposed cancelling more than 40 NASA missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions.

Earlier this year the president proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 24 percent, the clearest indication of his priorities going into a possible shutdown. Funding for Earth science programs specifically would be cut by MORE THAN HALF.

These are some of the satellite & space instrument missions at risk

California Supreme Court Clears Path For Wyoming Coal Exports Through Oakland Port The California Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively ended a decade-long legal battle over shipping coal out of the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal.…

Wyoming coal could be shipped to Asia via Oakland by 2028. h/t @jfern.bsky.social cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/18/c...

It was time, Clinton said, to make “a new pitch for globalization,” one that could overcome a rising tide of nationalism. “You got two choices. You can pretend there’s going to be no change. If you do, we’ll lose more jobs than we gain. Or you can make change your friend,” he said. “But if you want to have a free enterprise system, there’s going to be some losers when investment patterns change. The obligation of the government is to minimize loss and find people something else to do so we can keep growing.”
That’s sensible enough, as far as it goes. But that “new pitch” is precisely the argument that Clinton made, and other politicians echoed, 30 years ago. And it didn’t work.

Utterly delusional www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future? Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored.

Trump's EPA has abruptly frozen or removed billions of dollars that the Biden administration awarded states for solar projects in 2024.

That includes funds for solar projects meant to benefit Pennsylvania's low-income residents exposed to pollution.

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From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right

My convo with @jasonaw.bsky.social for @theunpopulist.net is excellent and you should read it/listen to it.

Bones and femurs in the catacombs

Skulls in a heart shape amid femurs

A man and a woman in front of a pile of femurs and skulls

Femurs and skulls surrounding a Virgil quote: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitum que acherontis avari!

Visited the empire of the dead

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise.

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Sounds good

It’s only at 36 I realized the perfect pizza toppings combo: pineapple, jalapeños and mushrooms.

Good story but also people who said stuff about him are also innocent. It's not a crime

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Decades-Old Barrels of Industrial Waste Still Impacting Ocean Floor Off LA In 2020, haunting images of corroded metal barrels in the deep ocean off Los Angeles leapt into the public consciousness. Initially linked to the toxic pesticide DDT, some barrels were encircled by gh...

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I asked one of the most progressive city councilors in #LA to weigh in on whether the city should require A/C for renters.

In 2023 #LosAngeles said A/C for all wasn't practical. But heat waves are getting longer, hotter, more dangerous for more than a million households. bsky.app/profile/aaro...