This is honestly the best case scenario for the FBI under Trump. Better an incompetent drunk than someone competent turning it into Trump's personal gestapo.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan.

It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition.

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How Big Oil is Making an Extra $30 Million an Hour Out of the Iran War Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

Taking a look at how Big Oil is making an extra $30 million an hour in profits from the war on Iran. Featuring @basavsen.bsky.social, Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Trumpo Tax™ — File Your Big Oil Return. Do You Qualify? A satirical tax wizard exposing the $37 billion the fossil fuel industry collects in annual U.S. subsidies. File your Big Oil return. A project by UTEPH.

This Tax Day, check out how much money you, a normal person, save thanks to Trump's tax giveaways to the oil and gas industry.

Spoiler alert: It's almost definitely a drop in the bucket compared to the ~$35B fossil fuel companies get every year.

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If you own oil wells or pipelines, yes you do!

The mass murder suspect tells the court, you have no right to put me on trial. Only I have the right to judge my own actions.

Contrary to US government propaganda, reliance on fossil energy raises costs and exposes economies to risk. Many countries are waking up to this fact.

If we are ever going to recreate American democracy as a system that ostracizes rather than rewards liars, journalists will need to root out climate denial by covering it as unacceptable public discourse — *even when* it’s articulated by the powerful.

Talking to you, @nytimes.com!

Chalk lines drawn on sidewalk in protest of ICE detention center Demonstrators drew chalk lines on the sidewalk in Hagerstown in protest of a planned immigration detention center ahead of a court hearing. The federal government bought a $100 million warehouse in Wi...

“We want the county commissioners to see — and have to step over — what they’re bringing and rolling out the red carpet for here in Hagerstown,” said @dattil.io, founder of Hagerstown Rapid Response. Via @98rock.bsky.social

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🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth

⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal

w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

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For all the whining fascists do about being marginalized in state-funded institutions like universities, the alternative ecosystem of thinktanks, conferences and other entities is incredibly well-funded and state-backed and attracts a steady stream of opportunistic grifters as much as true believers

They criminalized opium by claiming Chinese men were seducing white women. They criminalized heroin claiming Black men were raping white women. They criminalized marijuana claiming high Mexicans were raping white women. See the pattern here?

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

This is heartbreaking. These are the foothills of the Himalayas, an incredibly beautiful place.

There's this weird thing in major media where not understanding things or, worse, finding middle ground between terrible things and good things is considered serious leadership.

No one likes data centers except Big Tech, politicians in their pocket (of whom there are way too many), and journalists, commentators, and academics who are either gullible or bought.

This is going to be a colonial geno- and ecocide and it makes me sick to think about it.

Another "success" of the "amazing new technology" invented by Silicon Valley bros.

Neither of our mainstream political parties have the courage and vision needed for the urgent task of dismantling the fossil fuel industry.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

And the easiest people to fool with this authoritative tone are mediocre white journalists at large media outlets.

Good for EU regulators that they value the lives of children and air quality more than the profits of those who make these monstrosities. I

Nearly 20,000 people have been detained in just over a year, in the DC area. READ THAT NUMBER AGAIN.

The impact? Communities living in fear, avoiding public life (going to work, dropping their kids at school), and constantly questioning the occupation of our city.

ICE OUT NOW 🗣️

This is an insidious myth exploited by "centrist" politicians to argue that we need to win over right-wing voters, by pandering to them if needed. It drives the entire political system to the right.

Exactly how I feel about BJP supporters. The evidence has been there for decades now that what it stands for is Hindu upper caste supremacy. And for good measure, for all the Jagdish Bhagwatis out there, the economy is a shitshow and our international standing is shredded. Bigotry is killing India.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability

The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

The Entire State of Maine Is Poised to Ban New Data Centers Maine is expected to become the first state in the US to ban the construction of new data centers — until at least November 2027.

"I think Maine is the canary in the coal mine."

This is a disturbing political direction for a nominally progressive institution.

The article is worth reading (as is Empire of AI). But the thing is...we don't even need there to be existential AI risks, per se (though they're likely real)—these fools wreak social & economic havoc the old-fashioned way: vast pollution, lies, & self-dealing.

They're an old story with new toys.