Tim Donaghy

SCOOP: Former Biden senior climate advisor John Podesta said senators should renegotiate the bipartisan permitting deal & he believes the bill’s permit certainty language hands Trump a “loaded Howitzer” to go after public lands. For @heatmap.news

Michigan utilities will be on the ballot next week as voters consider a ballot measure that would ban utility money from elections in the state. grist.org/elections/hi...

Today's methane announcement from Trump shows why the Senate permitting bill is so terribly written. It would lock in every single environmental rollback Trump can cram into the next two years. 🧵: 1/

Trump continues to fulfill his campaign promise to give oil and gas oligarchs everything that they want. His EPA proposes to relax methane capture requirements for "marginal wells" that account for only 7% of production but 50% of methane emissions. @bradplumer.bsky.social @nytimes.com 1/

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....

Strong @ucs.org analysis of the permitting reform bill "BAAJA *might* accelerate transmission deployment and benefit some renewable energy projects down the road, but it *will* lock in fossil fuel projects now and well into the future." blog.ucs.org/david-watkin...

Renewables like wind and solar help protect you from the worst of climate disasters like heatwaves and floods. They can also help shield you from higher bills when oil and gas prices go through the roof.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The typical gasoline car driver has paid $440 more since the crisis began. US drivers that have managed to make the switch to EVs are now reaping the benefits, experiencing only an increase of $17 in charging costs since the beginning of March.

PRESS RELEASE: People shouldn’t keep paying the price for fossil fuel dependence. New Greenpeace research finds energy prices drove the rise in eurozone inflation between January and August 2026. Governments must help everyone access renewables and cut exposure to price shocks. #fossilflation

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

I have added a couple of lists of some of my favorite books (all science fiction) -- I highly recommend everything listed! bookshop.org/shop/astroka...

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Peak application of dendrochronology. 10/10, no notes.

A writ of fuck off is prescribed by the constitution www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

It’s not just “hidden funding”; it’s hidden funding from a sanctioned Russian company. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Chinese High Speed Rail Built Since 2008, Overlayed on the USA & Canada Also see The Insane Growth of China’s High-Speed Rail Network Between 2008 & 2024: brilliantmaps.com/high-spee...

🔌💡 Spending more on #energy hurts more than your wallet. New modeling shows federal policy decisions will increase energy costs, slow economic growth & increase air pollution and healthcare costs 👉 energyinnovation.org/report/econo...

recalling that the actual quote from Max Weber about "slow boring" is 180 degrees away from limp dishrag centrism. he explicitly says you have to be a hero who reaches for the impossible

The #BAAJA is a climate disaster. Their own models show it would leave us 2.3 billion tons short in 2040. It hands the fossil fuel industry wins they could only have dreamed of. It must be stopped.

Last week we warned that, if history is any guide, monopoly utilities would try to gut the transmission reforms in BAAJA.

Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

More than 800 former EPA staff have come out against BAAJA. They are worried that, as written, the bill could "significantly limit EPA’s ability to issue regulations necessary to protect the public from air pollution."

DOGE ended up costing the federal government money rather than saving it, but it turned into a cash cow for Musk’s teeny-bopper squad. newrepublic.com/article/2165...

In September, the AI company Anthropic claimed its models were approaching “superhuman capabilities for geolocating outdoor photos”. Bellingcat put that claim to the test by benchmarking the performance of Anthropic and other LLMs. Here’s what we found: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report released today underscores the huge gulf between current country commitments to cut heat-trapping emissions and what’s needed to limit overshoot of global warming above 1.5°C. 🌏 Download here: bit.ly/4jzJpTk

The rush to expand AI is driving a wave of gas-powered plants just to keep data centers running. Those new plants could make you sick.​

Here's what it looks like when you pull it all together. Since Trump took power in Jan 2025, Medicare enrollment is up (for obvious reasons), but this is canceled out by population growth...and enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, BHPs & ACA exchange coverage has PLUMMETED.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

1. The ratepayer protection provisions re: data centers in BAAJA are good but they are not an "aggressive accountability" measure. 2. BAAJA contains an array of concessions to radically accelerate the buildout of natural gas infrastructure that will power data centers.

“Methane emissions are not slowing down,” said @txsharon.bsky.social, an activist in Texas who has documented pollution from oil and gas for more than 20 years. “Nobody ever knows because it’s invisible.”

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

@nrdc.org's initial policy assessment of #BAAJA: while the transmission reforms are desirable, everything else is bad. And: "NRDC has not quantified the bill’s effects on oil-and-gas development."

NEW: Chevron just gave $50,000 to support LA Mayor Karen Bass — and defeat Nithya Raman. "They view Karen Bass as someone who they can work with, someone who will protect their interests in L.A. And they view Nithya Raman as a threat to fossil fuels." www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/chevron-ka...

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

Bruh

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.

ABC/Ipsos poll finds Americans trust Democrats on "transgender issues" by nine points

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x