Happens to the best of us

I get these, too… I suspect the problem is rampant

No, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself

I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with

Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth

All this while global clean energy investment ran 50% higher than fossil fuels last year (and renewables hit 40% of worldwide generation). Coal power fell in China + India for the first time in two generations. America cedes climate leadership; everyone else moves on

grist.org/politics/the... (9/9)

Trump's tariffs hit commodity farmers hard. China stopped buying U.S. soybeans entirely from May to October, turning instead to Brazil and Argentina and driving Amazon deforestation. @fridagarza.bsky.social shows export volumes all plummeted relative to 2024. (8/n)

About $1.25 billion in tribal climate and clean energy programs were terminated or frozen: a significant inequity, given tribal households face 6.5x more outages than the national average and 28% higher energy burdens. @miacelselk.bsky.social details what's at stake for Indigenous communities. (7/n)

The administration targeted 88 million acres for potential development: land previously set aside for conservation. BLM held 22 lease sales and approved 6,027 oil/gas permits, the highest since 2010. @juanpab.bsky.social illustrates which landscapes are now at risk. (6/n)

Environmental enforcement dropped sharply. DOJ civil cases against polluters fell from ~40 in the first 9 months of previous administrations to just 11 last year. Consent decrees dropped from ~50 to 24. @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social documents the retreat amid 11,500+ agency layoffs. (5/n)

FEMA's hazard mitigation spending collapsed under new approval requirements: Quarterly disbursements fell from ~$500M under Biden to below zero as the agency clawed back funds. Jake Bittle tracked how climate resilience projects stalled even as extreme weather intensified. (4/n)

Yet despite attempts to slow renewables, solar generation jumped 27% last year and met nearly 2/3 of new U.S. electricity demand. California added 70% more storage capacity than the year before. @mrmattsimon.bsky.social's data shows market forces outweighing political headwinds in many states. (3/n)

While Trump rolled back EV incentives and fuel standards, Chinese firm BYD overtook Tesla globally (2.26M vs 1.64M vehicles sold). U.S. EV market share briefly hit 10% as buyers rushed to claim expiring credits, then fell back to single digits. (2/n)

common dynamic with import quotas!