Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.

Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.

2025 Vibes.
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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

This is bad too.

What's going on with Taiwan's chemical industry? It's really big (almost as big as Japan's). Is it rapidly going out of business, like Japan's and Korea's, or does it have a plan to survive the rise of China's chemical industry?

THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

This is really great.

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis.

It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents.

This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

I'm so excited to be introducing TWO new energy affordability bills today!

Hyundai Steel builds Dangjin pilot plant to fast‑track DRI US mill Hyundai Steel builds Dangjin pilot plant to fast‑track DRI US mill Pilot facility to test hydrogen and gas direct reduction processes ahead of Louisiana mill startup

Hyundai is building a pilot iron production facility that runs on hydrogen in advance of constructing its much larger project in Louisiana. Fascinating. biz.chosun.com/en/en-indust...

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

New Roadmap Shows How to Cut a Surprisingly Big Source of Emissions Electricity can replace natural gas to provide the low- and medium-grade heat needed to make food, paper and chemicals.

We have the technologies we need to cut pollution from the industrial sector. In our new report, we take a deep dive into an immediate, practical opportunity: electrifying low- and medium-temperature process heat in manufacturing food, beverage, paper and chemicals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Critical work on a sector that used to be considered hard to decarbonize. Key takeaway-- electrification with clean energy can replace process heat for many industries cost-effectively. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

This is a really important analysis of the consequences of continuing to ignore climate change. Florida continues to allow and even encourage high-density development on exposed, unstable barrier islands. Some people will die and many will lose their life savings.

Most people do not realize that California got electricity from coal in 2025.

Got.

As of last week, it is past tense. Finally, finally.

We are so far behind but we are moving forward thanks to so many people who never give up.

Battle over industrial boilers gets a new tool that you can use to combat pollution A new climate coalition is calling on air quality regulators to phase out 1,800 of these boilers at places like schools and hospitals.

Cato Hernandez at @LAist.com highlights a new map showing where SoCal’s largest industrial boilers are located — and why advocates want @southcoastqmd to adopt zero-emission rules before we lock in decades more pollution. Read it here: laist.com/news/climate...

Not quite the same, but Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana is a delightful 2017 Bollywood drama about a bride-to-be who runs away to pursue her career in the provincial civil service, only to have her ex-fiancé return years later as an Indian Administrative Service officer. That's taking bureaucracy seriously.

I just moved to NYC and it took me less than 48 hours to realize what a bunch of scofflaws the NYPD are when it comes to parking near their station houses. It's almost like someone needs to enforce the law...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

How I Became a Populist My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

I just finished reading this article and it's very, very good. Corporate power is the problem underneath so many other problems.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

2026 Grawemeyer world order award winner explores the connection between climate change and security | UofL News For his work to understand why climate change leads to negative security consequences in some places and not others, Joshua W. Busby, professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

Some news. My book on climate and security for Cambridge University Press is the winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order. Thrilled to be among the august company of previous winners. www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltod...

Thyssenkrupp agrees steel restructuring with union, paving way for potential sale Indian magnate Naveen Jindal is continuing to conduct due diligence on steel business

May be seeing the end of an iconic European steel company.
www.ft.com/content/2fec...

Thanks. Very helpful.