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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Currently reporting a piece on commercial fusion companies and, while the $$ flowing there is not quite at the same scale as with these fission cos, there is a lot of money going into a highly speculative space.

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 1d

"More than half the world's economies are already past the peak of fossil fuels," an @ember-energy.org researcher said. "There is no turning back now."
www.newsweek.com/world-nearin...

World nearing 'crucial turning point' as clean energy outpaces power demand

Energy research group Ember said the global surge in clean energy more than met demand for electricity and led to the first fall in fossil fuel use this year.

www.newsweek.com

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 4d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 5d

If you listen closely during the next CBS news broadcast you can actually hear Ed Murrow turning in his grave.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 5d

My latest on The Climate Brink:

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

The DOE CWG authors confuse detection and attribution with emergence.

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

mistaking detection for emergence

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Look, I live in KY and I like Andy--who doesn't? But a few things to know about his "red state success."

Both his opponents were very weak candidates.

KY has off-off year elex for gov., so he didn't face Trump voter turnout.

Reps control leg. so he has few policy wins.

State is trending redder.

NPR @npr.org · 6d

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

In Trump country, a Democrat critiques Trump — and talks of succeeding him

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 6d

All these years later, that baby's still chasin' the bucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/a...

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 6d

What an amazing, inspiring life. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 7d

Judge William Young put this threatening note he received atop his opinion, in which he catalogs Trump administration actions meant to "terrorize Americans into quiescence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 7d

youtu.be/jZ9qaewjw2U

Black Sabbath War Pigs

YouTube video by Darwin Smith Vásquez Mendoza

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 8d

On #climate action, "it's not the U.S. against the world, there are also three other countries: Yemen, Libya and Iran," Sir Andrew Steer told me.
"So, it's the company that you keep, isn't it?" www.newsweek.com/what-we-lear...

What we learned from a Climate Week full of conflicting messages

At the U.N. and Climate Week events it was often the U.S. versus the world on climate action. The evolving economics of clean energy might get the final word.

www.newsweek.com

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Potential Energy Coalition @pe-coalition.bsky.social · 13d

Our CEO, John Marshall, spoke with @jefftheyoung.bsky.social at @newsweek.com on how the data shows greenhushing could be bad for business: www.newsweek.com/why-corporat...

Why the corporate greenhushing trend on climate could be bad for business

Many corporations are shying away from public communication about climate plans. But some marketing and sustainability experts say they're making a mistake.

www.newsweek.com

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 17d

En route to Stuyvesant Park for a Sun Day event with @billmckibben.bsky.social. In this interview he said the rapid rise of #solar is "the most interesting new fact of this decade, maybe of this century so far, but it hasn't sunk in yet."
www.newsweek.com/bill-mckibbe...

Bill McKibben's latest book argues for seizing solar powe...

Author and activist Bill McKibben says solar power's rapid growth and dramatic price drop is the biggest untold story of our times. He wants to change that.

www.newsweek.com

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 18d

Climate Week?

Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 18d

Climate Week NYC will demonstrate the gulf between Trump and much of the rest of the world when it comes to #climate action.
"We're not going to abide by a federal government that doesn't want to listen to the science," Gina McCarthy of @americaisallin.com said.
www.newsweek.com/climate-week...

Climate Week NYC powers on Despite unfriendly political headwinds in US

Climate Week NYC's 2025 theme is "Power One," reflecting a determination to pursue climate action despite the Trump administration's opposition.

www.newsweek.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 19d

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ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man and asking him what .

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · 20d

Microsoft says it is near completion of "the world's most powerful" AI data center.
Brad Smith says in a blog post it will cut water and energy use with advanced closed-loop cooling and will match every kw hr of fossil fuel energy used with carbon-free energy.

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...