Erica Ackerman

Burning 1 gallon of gas produces 20lbs of carbon dioxide.

[Erica Ackerman @EricaAckerman]

"probably stronger than anything in the last 50 million years."

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

It’s very weird that people are just pretending drought and famine aren’t a thing??? Like that is probably going to happen and nobody is even talking about it

[Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK]

This is now reality.

El Niño is now likely to be stronger than anything we’ve seen in recorded history, and probably stronger than anything in the last 50 million years.

Global temperatures are very likely to reach new, unprecedented levels in the next 1-2 years with far reaching impacts.

[Poppy @Poppy_Teryy]

Highest CO2 emissions.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Batteries can now meet 75 percent of average grid demand and 44 percent of peak demand for 4 hours every day in the world's 4th-largest economy at a cost less than 1 percent the price of electricity

California’s main grid now has over 17 GW of batteries, along with over 23 GW of solar and 12 GW of wind.  Average demand is less than 23 GW. The growth of solar, wind, and batteries has helped eliminate 62 percent of all fossil gas use on the grid in 2026 versus 2023. Strikingly, those batteries can now meet three-quarters of average demand and 44 percent of peak demand for four hours every day.

What is more, wind-water-solar renewables have met more than 100 percent of grid demand for 100 of the last 101 days and for 87 percent of all days in 2026, for an average of 5.4 hours per day.

Given the low cost of batteries, solar, and wind relative to the price of electricity, it is abundantly clear that no major barrier remains to eliminating fossil gas for electricity entirely in California, but also ultimately throughout the world.

Nameplate capacities of batteries and renewables in California
https://t.co/TFC0fqrdfS

Renewable trend in California
https://t.co/JY7Tdcm1bt

Video
https://t.co/a9VgdV2wbw

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump’s DOJ sent letters to all 50 states and D.C. this week, warning that election officials could face criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting.

The letters are not about election integrity, Nevada’s top election official says — they are about intimidation. https://t.co/qPGGkLCYaU

[Faktencheck_jetzt @Faktencheck2030]

Wer den Klimawandel leugnet, dem empfehle ich einmal zum Morteratschgletscher zu pilgern. 🏔️Entlang des 3 Kilometer langen Weges von der Bergstation zur Gletscherzunge befinden sich Tafeln mit Jahreszahlen wie 1985, 1995, 2005 usw.
Man läuft praktisch betroffen durch die Geschichte des Gletscherrückgangs. Das bekehrt die härtesten Klimawandelleugner🙏

Morteratschgletscher (Schweiz

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee urges Senators to vote against Todd Blanche's nomination.

"He is unfit to be Attorney General."

She confirmed his office has refused to meet with survivors.

[badger @badger69420]

Trump attempting to open the Strait of Hormuz

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A company that didn't exist three weeks ago is selling gas fifty cents under market rate at twenty five Pennsylvania and New Jersey stations, and nobody involved will say who's paying for it.

Freedom Fuel Network incorporated in Delaware on June 23. Trump promoted it on Truth Social a week later, calling it the work of a mystery "VERY smart Retailer" who "loves the U.S.A." Fuel industry veterans, the people who'd actually know, say they've never heard of it and can't figure out how it survives selling below wholesale. At least seven of the participating stations are owned by Blue Owl affiliates. Trump disclosed last month that he holds more than five million dollars in Blue Owl stock.

Nobody has to prove a direct kickback here for this to matter. What we know for certain is a Delaware shell company sprang up days before a presidential promotion, slapped patriotic branding on gas stations partly owned by a company the president has a financial stake in, and is selling fuel at a loss nobody can explain, timed precisely to blunt cost of living anxiety before the midterms. The White House says there's no subsidy and no connection to Blue Owl. Maybe that's true. The appropriate response to "trust us" from this administration, on a financial question this specific, is to ask for the paperwork.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Heat Domes Dominate the Planet! Sound up!
Typically El Niño waits until fall to impact the jet stream, but this one is supercharged. That means the heat in the Tropical Pacific is already helping to reorganize atmospheric waves, leading to persistent and intense heat domes in North America with downstream impacts in Europe. Those heat waves are of course significantly boosted by the long term warming trend. #elnino #heatwave #heatdome #extremeweather

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Water levels: Up to 83 percent below the long-term monthly average. Farmers are still dreaming of irrigating their fields... but where will the water come from? The Danube gets over 60% of its water from glaciers that will be gone in just a few years... another dramatic worsening of the water supply situation... via Wolfgang Löser

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Not enough people are talking about this.

The Trump Administration is impeding the only active criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The EPA just clawed back $7 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars already promised to solar power for a million American families... not to fix it. Not to redirect it. To kill it.

This money was already awarded. Already signed into binding legal contracts with 60 states, tribes, and nonprofits, covering every state in the country.

In Michigan alone, $156 million was already funding real projects on the ground.

A senior housing building was mid-install on rooftop solar for 60 units. Across town, a Detroit neighborhood coalition was building a shared solar system so residents could co-own panels together, a project already scaling from 10 homes toward 100.

In West Virginia, $106 million was set to help households and renters get onto rooftop or shared solar. West Virginia's power bills are already among the fastest-rising in the country, largely because the state still leans on coal instead of cheaper options like solar. And this same administration just funded upgrades to keep West Virginia's own coal plants running longer, the exact thing driving those bills up, while killing the program built to bring them down.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin pulled 90% of the money back in a single week and called it "$7 billion in savings" on X.

At the same time, this administration has been forcing old, expensive coal plants to stay open past their planned retirement dates in Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, and Washington state, over the objections of the utilities that own them. In June, it funded $425 million in coal upgrades across 10 states, West Virginia included.

Consumer advocates say keeping that coal running raises power bills. It doesn't lower them.

So the same government killing the program built to bring bills down is also paying to keep the most expensive power source running longer, coast to coast.

23 states sued to hold the EPA to its own contracts. This month, a federal judge let the EPA walk away anyway, ruling it belongs in a different court, one that can't even force the money back.

Since when does the government get to sign a contract and then argue in court that the signature doesn't count?

#DemsUnited

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

What country has better healthcare again?

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83.42
🇬🇧: 82.21
🇺🇸: 79.54

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
🇬🇧: 3.08
🇨🇦: 3.64
🇺🇸: 5.07

Yearly deaths due to lack of insurance
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Bankruptcies from medical debt
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 530,000 a year

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

The U.S. government just spent $2.5 billion in taxpayer money—not to build American energy, but to shut down offshore wind projects.

TotalEnergies agreed to abandon two major wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina after receiving $795 million from the Department of the Interior. The deal also prevents the company from pursuing offshore wind in the U.S. again—and requires the funds to be invested in oil, gas, and LNG projects instead.

The pattern didn't end there. Invenergy accepted $765 million to give up four more offshore wind leases under similar terms. Other major projects, including Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind, were also shelved despite years of planning and public investment.

In California alone, more than $100 million has already been spent preparing ports and infrastructure for offshore wind projects that may never move forward.

Supporters of wind energy point to projects like Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts, which is projected to save consumers $1.4 billion on electricity costs over the next two decades.

Now, multiple states have filed lawsuits challenging these agreements, arguing that taxpayer dollars should not be used to encourage a shift from renewable energy to fossil fuels.

How did paying companies to abandon wind projects become government policy?

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election.

The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies. https://t.co/iVFlFroRue

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Jack Smith on Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021: “He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s evidence for criminal intent in our case.” @Acyn (2025)

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year.

That's 1/3 of the $1.58B in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010.

Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling.