Mike Tyka

Trump arranges the exfiltration of Flávio Bolsonaro from Brazil to the US after Brazil's Supreme Court orders him not to leave the country in order to stand trial on money laundering charges. He just lost the presidential elections in Brazil in which he was heavily supported by Team Trump.

Elon Musk uses ties with other tech bro media monopolists and raw cash payments to successfully suppress distribution of Alex Gibney's explosive documentary "Musk." After TikTok Suspended Its Account for Two Days, the Elon Musk Documentary is Almost Gone From Theaters, and Musk

In addition to two fascists losing elections in Serbia and Brazil yesterday, Oxford Street in London was closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone. 🥳

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence. www.theclimatebrink....

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

"Indeed, China’s double whammy—forcing fast EV adoption at home while flooding the global market with affordable EVs at the same time—is probably the biggest climate story of the current moment," writes @gregor.us: www.coldeye.earth/p/election-h... 🔌💡

this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

EXCLUSIVE: GM led a $108M financing round for Peak Energy, a sodium-ion energy storage startup building a California plant. Peak says it already has about $1.1B in customer orders. 🎁 link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1/n Crossover episode! We just released RFD4-Proteina, our latest protein design model - and the result of a year-long collaboration between the Baker Lab and NVIDIA GenAIR (the name says it all…). I hope you’ll agree - the results are astonishing. 🌐 Website: rfd4-proteina.org

"Almost 2 years into his 2nd term, the case to go green increasingly rests on need for cheaper, faster & more secure power and less on climate. Trump may have placed obstacles in the way of green transition, but he's also, inadvertently, made case for it harder to ignore" www.ft.com/content/b263...

New preprint from my work at UTAS! Our virtual absorbers make global coastal #mCDR efficiency assessments feasible: ~150,000 sites, 4 seasons, 4–12 km resolution, at a fraction of conventional modelling costs. Link: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

Electric vehicle adoption is accelerating worldwide – but not in the United States:

This area in front of Gare du Nord in Paris used to be full of cars and totally chaotic, but they recently limited the street to pedestrians and cyclists and it has made a huge difference. This is what cities that care about people do.

Brexit effect • Reduction of UK economy by 6%-8% in real GDP terms • Total cost of £180bn to £240bn as of late 2025/2026 • A £3,700 average decrease in GDP per person • £90bn lost in potential tax revenues per year • £29bn drop in business investment #politicslive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On October 10, I posted the diesel price at Chevron at $7.18 a gallon. Look at it now, 2 days later. Up 41 cents! Two Days!!

"By helping drivers use less petrol, and bringing down the cost of new and used cars, EV uptake is blunting the impact of high oil prices across the economy."

In Lord Keynes' 1930 essay on the economic problems of our grandchildren, he makes clear that a billionaires tax will eventually (as in right now) become essential to maintaining and safeguarding democracy because without it the descent into plutocracy will be stark and steep.

Ukraine took out 2 huge data centers, and just like that--POOF! Pro-Trump/MAGA posts on US social media plummeted. Same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. The primary function of those Bots is to boost groups Putin believes will destabilize the west. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

So the way to save democracy is to blow up Russia data centers?

Harry Webb was cycling home when he was killed by a driver using nitrous oxide. His tragic death shows the devastating consequences of people taking drugs & driving. I hope that the seriousness of this judgement will deter other offenders in the future. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

Good morning with good news: France's September Full-EV sales reach 42% of auto sales. Full-EV sales skyrocket 108% in September! Full-EV and Plug-In Hybrid were 48% of auto sales! Petrol-only cars were just 13% and diesel collapsed to 2.4%! www.aaa-data.fr/actualites/i... #energysky

US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban so EU fossil fuel dependence means Trump can tell them what to do to help his midterm prospects, and they have to do what he says www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Confused by all the debate about the new permitting reform bill? Here is a quick cheat-sheet of the most important provisions, and their likely impact on emissions:

The biggest barrier to emissions reductions is increasingly our inability to quickly build clean energy: solar, geothermal, wind, nuclear, transmission, battery storage, etc. Projects are held back by a thicket of regulations and reviews.

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

EV charging in China was 17.2 TWh in August, up 51.2% year-on-year. That's equivalent to ~1.3 million barrels of oil a day, in a global oil market that shifts about 100m bpd. Just the change from last year cuts global oil demand by 0.5m bpd. english.cec.org.cn#/newsdetails...

Germany has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045, aiming for 80% renewable energy by 2030 and a potential earlier coal exit date of 2035.

Another stunner from JWST—this time part of a *much* larger scene I'll post later. This portion is made up of stars and protostars in a cluster about 1,000 lightyears from Earth. The bright, multi-point features are nearby stars. The smaller features in the background are other galaxies.

A company presold $200k worth of carbon removal credits for an unproven tech, then tried to bully New Zealand into gutting environmental laws to bypass safety checks. Officials found zero evidence their "ocean fertilization" method works or is safe. 🌊