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Alan Zibel
@alanzibel.bsky.social
2.8K followers 2.4K following 400 posts
Personal account. Trying to do the right thing and make the occasional joke. Former WSJ, AP & more. Now at @publiccitizen.bsky.social. (No, I don't actually have a mohawk).
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 13h
White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 1d
yeah it might be good to have produced a television news story before
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it
Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 1d
In a new report out today our @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @alanzibel.bsky.social
uncovered 100+ people with ties to polluting industries who are occupying high level offices throughout the Trump administration.
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 2d
My latest... with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 5d
matt finally gets it !
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 8d
My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...
We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario
The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.
www.thebulwark.com
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Perry Grossman @realperrygrossman.bsky.social · 8d
fossil fuel fools
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 8d
in today's Orwellian news, over at BP, which at one point pushed "Beyond Petroleum" branding, there's a SVP in charge of the "Gulf of America."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d
there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 8d
Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source via @darkush.bsky.social www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...
Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source - Public Citizen
Other forms of energy are simply far less expensive than coal—as well as cleaner, cheaper, and safer for a climate habitable for humans.
www.citizen.org
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 8d
in today's Orwellian news, over at BP, which at one point pushed "Beyond Petroleum" branding, there's a SVP in charge of the "Gulf of America."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d
Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.
As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.
newrepublic.com
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 12d
Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year.

This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.
Photo of Oracle owner Larry Ellison smiling under a headline from Business Insider that reads "Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure that 'citizens will be on their best behavior'. Dated Sept 15, 2024.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 9d
Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
www.cnn.com
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11d
Even Mariah Carey spares us ten months of the year.
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 11d
make it stop, please
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 11d
make it stop, please
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Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯 @jonatomic.bsky.social · 12d
Trump should personally be liable for all defense costs if this fails.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 14d
THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found.

Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...
The U.A.E. Got A.I. Chips. Trump’s Inner Circle Got Crypto Riches.
www.nytimes.com
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 13d
how anyone thought that chris wright is a serious person is just beyond me

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Trump administration picks a fight with the sun
President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.
www.washingtonpost.com
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David Doniger @daviddoniger.bsky.social · 13d
“I’ve never been an all-of-the-above energy person,” Mr. Wright, a former gas executive, said. He’s right; he’s a gas man through and through. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
U.S. energy secretary says other countries should pull out of the Paris Agreement.
www.nytimes.com
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 13d
The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election.

Largely because of crypto.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13d
"... Zeldin intends to sign off next week on the final policy and legal justifications for repealing the so-called endangerment finding and Biden-era climate rules for cars and trucks... before agency staff have time to sift through all public comments...." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Internal docs: Zeldin races ahead without analysis in endangerment rollback
The EPA administrator plans to sign off on the repeal's policy and legal justifications before his staff finishes the regulatory impact analysis.
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 14d
this piece did not age well….the central idea that republicans would keep the IRA in place and Trump was just kinda kidding about windmills was not especially smart.
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · Dec 8
If your climate strategy doesn't have a way to offset market penetration of ultra-cheap gas (which is substantially responsible for undermining the US nuclear fleet & will continue crowding out clean firm), it's not very serious. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
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Chris Bing @chrisbing.bsky.social · 14d
Seen on the DC metro:
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16d
Only lunatics watch a memorial service and argue, "This is what every day should be like."
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 16d
how is this man a law professor at all?
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