Might MLAs vote their conscience on DRIPA, dissolving BC Premier Eby's NDP govt? Former BC Green Adam Olsen calls the question via @macleodandrew.bsky.social @thetyee.ca: "Eby is leading in a dangerous direction... This is the moment for those MLAs to stand up.” thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
You are a realist
the irony of asking claude about solar efficiency is so peak for this thread
Every expert body disagrees, which is why it's growing so fast. IEA in 2025: "Investment in solar, both utility-scale and rooftop, is expected to reach USD 450 billion in 2025, making it the largest single item in our inventory of the world’s investment spending."
People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
True. Wind, hydropower, batteries complement solar power. It all adds up to a very reliable power system.
As @jigarshahdc.bsky.social noted on the show, the closing of the Strait shows that reliance on fossil fuels brings risk and reinforces the shift toward installation of more solar, wind and batteries.
Good point. A solar spill is just a nice day that needs more battery power.
In today’s NZ Herald
And w/ @jigarshahdc.bsky.social who stressed that the grid powers us, not wind farms or gas plants. Red states from ND to TX don't tell voters they get 30%+ wind. As Shah noted they just say, 'You're powered by the grid and we have figured out how to keep your bills low.' bsky.app/profile/jiga...
🔆 "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the earth. But none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz."
— @billmckibben.bsky.social on Horizons, @wbrangham.bsky.social's (relatively new) science/health/environment show @pbsnews.org. www.pbs.org/video/will-m...
US now State sponsor of terrorism
> Trump’s threat to extinguish a “whole civilization” meets the “very definition of terrorism — to seek to achieve political ends through violence or threats of violence directed at civilians.” - @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, human rights lawyer
wapo.st/4v6b810
Targeting power plants causes untold and indiscriminate harm to civilians. Ask our Ukrainian friends. Trump hasn't even hid that the target is civilians, whom he wants to return to the Stone Age. This article makes the case for officially making the destruction of grids a war crime.
At what point do we begin to urge our military to refuse orders?
Tuesday is U.S. War Crimes Day according to President Trump, who promises Iranians the same inhumanity that his revered strongman Vladimir Putin shows Ukraine every day www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
Forestry scientist @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social shifted our understanding of forests: from resources to communities where trees share resources. Now she's embracing Indigenous peoples' deep knowledge of forests. My profile of her for @psyche.co from the amazing Ma'amtagila Tree of Life celebration:
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
Pegging complicity: UK-based investigative rights group Forensic Architecture created a 3D model of the building and identified the munition that killed Cherri's parents: a US-made, Boeing-developed guided bomb commonly used by Israel. @forensicarchi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸
THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples, who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump.
At an energy conference on Monday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, "The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over.”
Hours later, one of America’s largest oil refineries exploded.
A 'climacidal' alliance (alliance climaticide) is how France's mediapart.fr dubbed TotalEnergies' $928-million deal with the Trump admin — a payoff to ditch 4 GW of offshore wind development and instead boost U.S. oil and gas.
Total's CEO sees a "win-win" www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
Makes you wonder if Trump doesn’t care about the polls because he has other ideas.
The tip of an AI iceberg that's soaking our civilization in stupidity
Myth: Educating undocumented children is a fiscal burden on U.S. taxpayers.
Fact: The tax revenue from undocumented workers covers the $10.7 billion cost of educating these children more than 9X over.
@scanlon.house.gov cites Niskanen Center research:
Sign on the side of residential building in Santa Ynez, CA reads "Vote Peace Vote Trump". Water tower and American flag in background. PHoto taken in January 2025.
'Vote Peace Vote Trump'
Seen in Santa Ynez, CA in January 2025, two days after Donald Trump's 2nd inauguration. His term has since brought violence to such farming communities and violent military action abroad.
Re-upping as the U.S. military prepares to target Iran's electricity
Unlocked www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...
AIPAC’s political arm funneled over $5 million to groups to defeat Illinois Democrats critical of Israel, according to filings.
The secretive giving is the latest example of how outside groups are obscuring their spending in competitive campaigns.
