Molly Wood
@mollywood.co
Tech journalist turned climate tech journalist. Telling stories about solutions to the climate crisis on the Everybody in the Pool podcast. Climate tech investor. mollywood.co
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In year one, Trump’s policies have SLOWED - closed, delayed, etc. - 70 clean energy manufacturing projects worth $74B and 68,958 jobs.
109 projects have still ADVANCED - moving toward construction or operation - worth $61B and 61,107 jobs.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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109 projects have still ADVANCED - moving toward construction or operation - worth $61B and 61,107 jobs.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:59 PM
In year one, Trump’s policies have SLOWED - closed, delayed, etc. - 70 clean energy manufacturing projects worth $74B and 68,958 jobs.
109 projects have still ADVANCED - moving toward construction or operation - worth $61B and 61,107 jobs.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
🔌💡
109 projects have still ADVANCED - moving toward construction or operation - worth $61B and 61,107 jobs.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
🔌💡
So we basically got kicked out of NATO and handed the future over to China and possibly also Russia, but at least the stock market is back up.
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
So we basically got kicked out of NATO and handed the future over to China and possibly also Russia, but at least the stock market is back up.
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said it before but I'll say it again, 40 PERCENT of global bulk shipping is fossil fuels. wind & solar + batteries is maybe the most disruptive tech in history
The most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI:
Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
Check this one fact out:
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
said it before but I'll say it again, 40 PERCENT of global bulk shipping is fossil fuels. wind & solar + batteries is maybe the most disruptive tech in history
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Reminder: Insured losses are only a fraction of total losses
Insured damages from extreme weather events in Canada were the 10th highest on record last year.
Between 2016 and 2025, insured losses from catastrophic weather events and wildfires totaled $37 billion—nearly triple the previous decade. www.newswire.ca/news-release...
Between 2016 and 2025, insured losses from catastrophic weather events and wildfires totaled $37 billion—nearly triple the previous decade. www.newswire.ca/news-release...
Severe weather-related insured losses in Canada exceed $2.4 billion in 2025
/CNW/ - Insured damage caused by severe weather events exceeded $2.4 billion in 2025, according to Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ). This...
www.newswire.ca
January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Reminder: Insured losses are only a fraction of total losses
See. Peter Thiel planted the Greenland seed with Trump in 2019. The whole thing is a Thiel and friends long con to set up a sovereign crypto-state. Controlling critical minerals for tech and data centers is just AI gravy. Good times, right? beincrypto.com/tech-billion...
The Tech Billionaires Behind Trump’s Greenland Obsession
Beneath Trump’s Greenland rhetoric, private tech money and experimental governance projects drive growing US interest.
beincrypto.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 AM
See. Peter Thiel planted the Greenland seed with Trump in 2019. The whole thing is a Thiel and friends long con to set up a sovereign crypto-state. Controlling critical minerals for tech and data centers is just AI gravy. Good times, right? beincrypto.com/tech-billion...
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Dr. West was a student of Dr. Louise Stokes Hunter, UVA’s first Black woman graduate, and I got to know Dr. West in my time researching Dr. Hunter. If you ever use GPS, thank this amazing woman!
Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician whose groundbreaking work made GPS possible, has died at the age of 95.
Gladys West, mathematician whose work made GPS possible, dies at 95
Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician whose groundbreaking work made GPS possible, has died at the age of 95.
www.wtvr.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Dr. West was a student of Dr. Louise Stokes Hunter, UVA’s first Black woman graduate, and I got to know Dr. West in my time researching Dr. Hunter. If you ever use GPS, thank this amazing woman!
Sigh.
"Chinese technology companies are paving the way for a world that will be powered by electric motors rather than gas-guzzling engines," Dan Wang writes in an NYT op-ed
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | Trump is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Sigh.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Quick reminder that every Republican Senator is currently fine with all of this. www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...
Trump says he will '100%' follow through on threat to impose tariffs over Greenland demand
The US president says
www.bbc.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Quick reminder that every Republican Senator is currently fine with all of this. www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...
Climate change is the problem that every other problem reports to.
Underestimated climate risks could undermine global financial system, warn actuaries and scientists
- "in the US alone, billion-dollar climate disasters now take place every 19 days"
#climatecrisis
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
- "in the US alone, billion-dollar climate disasters now take place every 19 days"
#climatecrisis
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
Underestimated climate risks could undermine global financial system, warn actuaries and scientists | Green Futures Solutions
greenfuturessolutions.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Climate change is the problem that every other problem reports to.
1. This is giving so much Epstein.
2. Can we move past making headlines out of the fact that dudes stand around at parties making gross comments about chicks? We know.
2. Can we move past making headlines out of the fact that dudes stand around at parties making gross comments about chicks? We know.
January 17, 2026 at 5:38 PM
1. This is giving so much Epstein.
2. Can we move past making headlines out of the fact that dudes stand around at parties making gross comments about chicks? We know.
2. Can we move past making headlines out of the fact that dudes stand around at parties making gross comments about chicks? We know.
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Hell's only half full.
Bovino on the officer who killed Renee Good: "Hats off to that ICE agent"
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Hell's only half full.
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This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency.
Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.
Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.
YouGov poll - In the future, would you support or oppose...
Eliminating ICE as a federal agency?
Support 42%
Oppose 45%
Reducing ICE’s size and funding
Support 48%
Oppose 37%
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Eliminating ICE as a federal agency?
Support 42%
Oppose 45%
Reducing ICE’s size and funding
Support 48%
Oppose 37%
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency.
Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.
Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.
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Where is the business community and corporate leaders of Minnesota based companies in speaking up? Why aren't the big law firms sending lawyers to represent the people being attacked?
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
January 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Where is the business community and corporate leaders of Minnesota based companies in speaking up? Why aren't the big law firms sending lawyers to represent the people being attacked?
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
I tried to entertain myself watching Fallout but it was a little on the nose.
January 13, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I tried to entertain myself watching Fallout but it was a little on the nose.
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And yet he still wasn't distracted from the fact that 99% of the Epstein files were still being illegally withheld.
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
And yet he still wasn't distracted from the fact that 99% of the Epstein files were still being illegally withheld.
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What amount of money would make you like this? If the answer is anything less than infinity, that's bad
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 AM
What amount of money would make you like this? If the answer is anything less than infinity, that's bad
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When we talk about intersectionality, this is a very literal representation of those compounded harms - both gendered violence and religious/ethnic violence. Ban Grok now.
New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:16 AM
When we talk about intersectionality, this is a very literal representation of those compounded harms - both gendered violence and religious/ethnic violence. Ban Grok now.
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One thing Big Oil's show of foot-dragging on Venezuelan oil could accomplish is to convince Trump to promise them massive subsidies (on top of their already massive subsidies) to sweeten the deal. As @publiccitizen.bsky.social points out, we CANNOT let that happen
www.citizen.org/article/cong...
www.citizen.org/article/cong...
January 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
One thing Big Oil's show of foot-dragging on Venezuelan oil could accomplish is to convince Trump to promise them massive subsidies (on top of their already massive subsidies) to sweeten the deal. As @publiccitizen.bsky.social points out, we CANNOT let that happen
www.citizen.org/article/cong...
www.citizen.org/article/cong...
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What a joke.
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
What a joke.
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These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.
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CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
2 shot by federal immigration agents in Portland
Mayor Keith Wilson decried the shooting, saying "Portland is not a 'training ground' for militarized agents."
www.oregonlive.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...