Alex Turnbull
@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social
Climate / energy / materials / climate dad / Sneaky Sasquatch / in 🇸🇬. Posts are on rolling delete.
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The last few days have really been an apocalypse in the original greek meaning: a great uncovering or revealing. I cannot think of anything quite like it since Edward Snowden. #epstein
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Exclusive: I have learned that any energy permitting deal struck this Congress will have to address Trump’s solar and wind energy bottleneck or else it will never become law.
This comes as the main solar industry group is staying silent on a GOP-led deal moving through the House.
This comes as the main solar industry group is staying silent on a GOP-led deal moving through the House.
Trump Is the Biggest Wild Card in Permitting Reform
Congress is motivated to pass a bipartisan deal, but Democrats are demanding limits on executive power.
heatmap.news
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Exclusive: I have learned that any energy permitting deal struck this Congress will have to address Trump’s solar and wind energy bottleneck or else it will never become law.
This comes as the main solar industry group is staying silent on a GOP-led deal moving through the House.
This comes as the main solar industry group is staying silent on a GOP-led deal moving through the House.
People mock the style conformity / restrictions of Switzerland and Germany but it solves an aesthetic coordination problem and results in more housing. You have to please the RETVRN types to get stuff built. You may not like it but that’s politics.
NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
People mock the style conformity / restrictions of Switzerland and Germany but it solves an aesthetic coordination problem and results in more housing. You have to please the RETVRN types to get stuff built. You may not like it but that’s politics.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Dim Philby
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Dim Philby
Wow this sounds like a sector I spent some of my late 20s restructuring / shorting / recapping: solar.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wow this sounds like a sector I spent some of my late 20s restructuring / shorting / recapping: solar.
That bad huh at the Elon funding mine
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
That bad huh at the Elon funding mine
If Toyota put half the effort into electrification they did into lobbying they might not be having their milkshake drunk in Southeast Asia by Chinese EVs
🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If Toyota put half the effort into electrification they did into lobbying they might not be having their milkshake drunk in Southeast Asia by Chinese EVs
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Wonder what Saudi would look like during a prolonged period of $40 oil prices
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Wonder what Saudi would look like during a prolonged period of $40 oil prices
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He went to Jared*
*who doesn’t currently hold any position in the govt??
*who doesn’t currently hold any position in the govt??
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
He went to Jared*
*who doesn’t currently hold any position in the govt??
*who doesn’t currently hold any position in the govt??
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yes good alright
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
yes good alright
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Court politics are inherently incoherent.
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Court politics are inherently incoherent.
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The general response to the Lizza thing is like a geiger counter going off. I don’t need to lick Cobalt-60 to know it’s bad and I will not read whatever he wrote.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The general response to the Lizza thing is like a geiger counter going off. I don’t need to lick Cobalt-60 to know it’s bad and I will not read whatever he wrote.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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lawyers posting about trump news every day
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
lawyers posting about trump news every day
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Like, everyone outside of the US wants to see America get wrecked for its general assholery since January. Still seems pretty clear letting it shoot itself in the dick was the right play.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Like, everyone outside of the US wants to see America get wrecked for its general assholery since January. Still seems pretty clear letting it shoot itself in the dick was the right play.
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Tariffs “don’t raise prices.”
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Tariffs “don’t raise prices.”
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
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Remember when Republicans and corporate media lost their minds over Charlie Kirk's murder, which was allegedly done by Tyler Robinson, and somehow blamed "the left" for their rhetoric?
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Remember when Republicans and corporate media lost their minds over Charlie Kirk's murder, which was allegedly done by Tyler Robinson, and somehow blamed "the left" for their rhetoric?
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
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People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Of course an alternative or flanking policy is equipping Europes sizeable EV and corporate car subsidies with European preferences.
A symmetric response to Chinas policies.
For more on that see our recent paper: www.cer.eu/publications...
A symmetric response to Chinas policies.
For more on that see our recent paper: www.cer.eu/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Of course an alternative or flanking policy is equipping Europes sizeable EV and corporate car subsidies with European preferences.
A symmetric response to Chinas policies.
For more on that see our recent paper: www.cer.eu/publications...
A symmetric response to Chinas policies.
For more on that see our recent paper: www.cer.eu/publications...
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The let-it-die camp also still has to explain to me why politicians aren’t going to intervene anyway when the pressure mounts further.
The realistic choice in my view is do smart policy or wait for a hot mess of bailouts and crappy policy.
The realistic choice in my view is do smart policy or wait for a hot mess of bailouts and crappy policy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The let-it-die camp also still has to explain to me why politicians aren’t going to intervene anyway when the pressure mounts further.
The realistic choice in my view is do smart policy or wait for a hot mess of bailouts and crappy policy.
The realistic choice in my view is do smart policy or wait for a hot mess of bailouts and crappy policy.
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I mean Matt's personal "Russia Gate" was the time he wrote in explicit detail about raping teenagers in Russia so it's actually pretty spot on for him
Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I mean Matt's personal "Russia Gate" was the time he wrote in explicit detail about raping teenagers in Russia so it's actually pretty spot on for him