THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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One thing that a lot of trans people have been doing (esp trans women) is silently dropping out of public life. The MSG is obviously extreme but the panopticon of pressure trans ppl experience in a heavily surveilled America is a lot. Safer to just stay home, forfeit public life
"Claims that ivermectin is a cure-all are circulating like herpes at a kissing booth amongst Americans who never made it past high school biology -thanks to miraculous proclamations by celebrities, pundits, and most disturbingly… state legislators."
Miss America has just barred intersex people and trans women from participating... only select intersex people who've had surgery to 'correct their genitals', are chromosomally XX etc can participate—what the fuck is this shit 😭😭 I mean, it doesn't get more contemptible & ludicrous.
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.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Democrats planning to run in November's midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry's priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.
Waiting for “popularist” consultant groups like Searchlight and WelcomePAC to say anything about the issue dominating polling these days, AI
www.ft.com/content/7529...
Russ Vought specifically calls out USAID as something he's proud of (illegally) dismantling. The cut foreign aid has likely already killed hundreds of thousands of people and will eventually kill millions.
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!
Because this kind of lunacy—pure lies to prop up the fossil-fuel system—started over a decade ago and elicited virtually no outrage from any mainstream media outlet (the opposite, in fact) it is clear that climate denial is what introduced disinformation into our political discourse.
This means…
The authors of the HHS report on trans youth health care were chosen by the Manhattan Institute's Leor Sapir.
Now, a rule based on the controversial report could wipe out this care at hospitals.
Parents are begging the administration not to go through with it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The New York Times Editorial Board yet again demands that Democrats run exactly the campaign they ran in 2024
One of the most important climate books ever written.
If you care about the world, you’ve gotta know what it says.
It takes us years to catch on to the Shaun Kings and Data for Progresses, but these ghouls who make their money from child slavery and oil companies and tech perverts have us rules-lawyering whether inbred is a slur.
WTF is wrong with us?
The actual things the left needs to be concerned with are grifters and wreckers who sabotage from within. They are very good at parsing language so they never say anything problematic.
All you end up doing is gatekeeping organic attention and enthusiasm from your movement.
The hasan-is-dirtbag discourse is revealing that The Left is just really fucking bad at solidarity.
Defend your allies, people! Don't hold court on whether your enemies have a point! If behavior correction is needed or can happen internally.
I’m going to block this AI bot doing PR for CDR, but first I will say that the majority of CDR in mitigation pathways is there so models can show us hitting our targets while burning fossil fuels at massive scales.
And this vision is justified only by technooptimism and unicorn farts.
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“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
Under a new leader, the nyt’s standards operations are less interested in serving readers by ensuring stories are factual, fair and ethical.
Incredibly, they’ve evolved into a form of political ops. Press statements are issued regularly these days that disseminate disinformation and attack critics.
It’s getting worse at the nyt, seemingly by the day. At a time when the US government poses grave risk to democracy and global security, the nyt is preoccupied with ever-more reactionary pursuits like the promotion of neo-segregation and misogyny
This failure of standards is very familiar to trans ppl who’ve seen the nyt ignore and misrepresent medical science that doesn’t comport with its predetermined narrative.
Evident right-wing political attacks on trans medical care are given equal weight to years of professional medical consensus.
Masnick’s line-by-line dissection shows how breathing-taking the erosion of standards has been at the nyt.
The headline is unsupported, and inconvenient facts like lawsuits and investigations are ignored in service of a tendentious, predetermined narrative. (Masnick outlines many more problems)
“A standard correction noting a few missing details won’t cut it. The entire premise of the article — that this company represents the exciting realization of AI’s business potential — is nonsense. Every element of the narrative is tainted”🧵
A study in September by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank, warned that without a reversal, the cuts to science could shrink the U.S. economy by nearly $1 trillion over 10 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...
Trump’s unhinged threats of violence and genocide are inexcusable.
He is a warmonger, escalating the conflict for his own profit and consolidation of power.
My Republican colleagues can't keep turning a blind eye. He must be stopped and impeached.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Noah Smith (@Noahpinion). The post reads: "My view on the issue of gender-affirming care has always been that it should be treated as a MEDICAL issue, rather than as a civil rights issue. Activists can conflate the two for a long time, but not forever." Below this text, Noah is quote-posting another user, Timur Kuran (@timurkuran), who posted on Apr 5: "The promoters of “gender-affirming care” tried to quash scientific debate on its effects through name-calling and by designating as “settled science” the claim that it improves the mental health of dysphoric kids. It’s now clear why the..." The text cuts off at the end.
Medical issues are often civil rights issues.
The modern LGBTQ rights movement is built on turning a medical issue, HIV/AIDS, into a civil rights issue. There's even a movie with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington about it.
This shit is still going on. Ben Ryan obsessively tweets about me nearly every single day. He tweets about the people and posts I repost. He does so often within seconds of me posting because his burner has push alerts for my posts. Then he deletes them weeks later to not look as unhinged.
Thank you for the thread. I'd gotten the impression that men simply did not comprehend the stakes & how the Times would never have covered the racial analog of this "movement"--"some white people think they should be able to own and trade Black people...let's explore!"--with the same faux naïvete.
