Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)

Thank you, ladies.

I met up with Lula in the Amazon in 1989 while writing The Burning Season and it was clear he had stamina and resilience. But, frankly, I didn't see him pulling off this election. Bravo.

Cheap gas is just around the bend, along with those $5.000 checks! Thus spoke The White House so it must be true!!

Great @grueskin @columjournreview.bsky.social Laurel for, yes, a truth-teller at Newsmax.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The GOP Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC paid for this ad going all in on @troyjackson207.bsky.social's family history. My thread on how this is playing on Maine conservative talk radio is here: x.com/Revkin/statu...

agreed

This isn’t one of those “oh maybe we’re taking him out of context when he talked about bombing LA” quotes. It’s a five-alarm fire quote — and it ought to be placed high on every serious news site’s homepage tonight and tomorrow morning.

The question of regulatory misbehavior against clean energy does need to be resolved before Democrats will vote for this bill. This misbehavior sends all the wrong signals.

Agrivoltaics requires thoughtful design tailored to the crop and the landscape. This is a promising case study for cranberries that you should think about the next time you enjoy a Cape Codder.

Maine wind project got its start during Trump 1.0.

Humiliating, and deadly.

Democracy dies in darkness, someone said.

This is lawsuit five by agents. They’re mostly stalled over motions to dismiss, but if they get past that to discovery, Patel is going to have a lot more trouble than from lying to Congress with Republicans who won't call out lies. apnews.com/article/fire...

Arthur C Clarke 1968 essay on “superintelligent” machines and society. In Playboy.

No politics at this 80th birthday pig roast party in Franklin Maine for Millard Billings, farmer / tax assessor and more. Fun to join with my bouzouki.

My Maine musical compadre Carl Karush has a newly updated song that's perfect for this moment: "I Want to Live in a Country Where Money Ain't God." Here's a snippet and link to the rest. revkin.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

From @maddow.bsky.social, a review of evidence and incidents illustrating Trump's Putin love affair as Russia continues its atrocities against Ukraine.

Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, he is a lunatic, and they should report and write accordingly.

Of course, birds of a feather

Another rotten idea to help the war criminal. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

You can take away their polling site but not their voting rights. #gotv

I just backed the superb Maine trad trio Springtide: Spin Us Around on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...

Building trust between journalists and sources takes time. It was three years between when career staffer Rick Piltz said he had some important documents and when he was able to send them, revealing Bush's White House oil lobbyist Phil Cooney's hand-written markup of govt climate reports.

Classic Collins. I'm sure she was so very concerned at the time. Glad I voted on October 5 for @troyjackson207.bsky.social.

Unconscionable what the Trump admin is doing here

A new song of mine with a social media angle. The relevant verse: Those pundits on our phones try to divide us. But on basic rights and wrongs we can agree. When our voices join as one, the sound can carry When it’s time to make things right, come sing with me. YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lugg...

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Here's why those like @rephuffman.bsky.social are making a mistake by talking about waiting and renegotiating aspects of the BAAJA permitting reform bill.

Join us in studio now to ask a permitting reform bill question.

And of course I am sure they’re using AI to chart out the possibilities

Amomg other things, I asked Gemini if it is “creative.”