With all the smoke and mirrors out there, it's easy to forget that there is still a globe-spanning coalition of nations, representing billions of people, that want to strengthen global climate rules.
... jesus christ we live in such an age of miracles
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."
A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
Yeah. But he's a guy though.
After his insiders have cleared their short positions.
Translation: first stop jail, second stop hell.
very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation
This is such a perfect metaphor for the moment we are in. A grid that is awash in low cost, clean power doesn’t need expensive, dirty coal. And the Trump administration is trying to force them to run the expensive stuff anyway. www.utilitydive.com/news/washing...
Dunno, he was probably thinking this is how Gianforte got to be governor.
(Seriously though he better go to fucking jail.)
www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...
Probably illegal collusion or something, I don't know. Apple News is the closest to that, I think. But there's got to be a better way (fully funded public media is part of that way though)
I understand media is a tough business. All too well. But the problem of paywalls is serious -- good information is often behind the wall and the lies and disinformation are free. (Not counting public media obviously.) So if you want to help inform your fellow human? POST. THE GIFT. LINK. 😘
Sometimes I think an explicit carbon tax might work for climate.
I'm old enough to remember when Trump pretended to care about whales, just long enough to try to kill wind power.
He couldn't hide what really lurked in the howling void of his soul all along: a feverish desire to ravage nature, just because he can. Many such cases, with him.
God dammit. That's a follow.
Some good news!
This seems unnecessarily contrarian. Sure the cost of capital for renewables rises a bit, but the cost of 1-month gas futures just rose *50%*. Of course people will build more renewables, and more batteries.
NONE of this is necessary. These people are coked-up psychopaths. Oh, and Republicans in Congress could stop them *today.*
It was the same with Cuba. Sanctions lifted. Options abounded. People had hope. They had opportunity. Opportunity hates authoritarians. Opportunity and abundance *breed* peace. This administration stamped out that peace twice over and now wants to destroy the remains.
Remember the stories about how economic prosperity was slowly returning to Iran when the US lifted sanctions? The prosperity that eventually reduces anger and spite of scarcity and leads to positive change, ESPECIALLY when paired with increasing gender equality? Peace lifts all boats.
I have another cousin who did six tours in Iraq and struggles with PTSD to this day and no one can, in fact, quite explain why he was there except that some oil guys and military contractors made a bunch of money.
I'm only making it about me because somehow faceless children and soldiers never seem to matter to the news and the public. Because hardly anyone in American elite life knows anyone in the military. But it's real. The apocalypse is not evenly distributed but it comes for someone every day of war.
I have a cousin in the Navy. I was in the hospital when he was born and babysat him all through college. Dinner every Sunday with him and his brother. Fox News host Pete Hegseth just said he'd send my cousin into combat without any rules of engagement because that's just pearl-clutching nonsense.
It used to be that you listened to a legislator's statement and could tell it was written by an oil lobbyist, now you can tell the oil lobbyist used AI to write it. Very cool
This is sadly so, so true.
Despite Trump's frantic efforts to stop it, the renewable energy revolution rolls on:
"93% of new generation capacity expected to be added to the grid this year will come from wind, solar and batteries"
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
