Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

#SustainWhat webcaster & 40 years of prize-winning 🌎 journalism, mainly @nytimes Social, books, songs:

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Solutions abound when you switch from yelling #climatecrisis to focusing on cutting climate risk. Full #climlifebergen @UiB_IF talk at: https://t.co/LLXYgyQi9J

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@MainePaulLePage Sorry, but we already voted for @dunlap4congress here in Hancock County. And are you still mixing up social security and welfare? https://t.co/6CbFBQZ6Ay

[Matt Dunlap @dunlap4congress]

Paul LePage couldn't keep his story straight for one sentence.

I called him out for calling Social Security "welfare, pure and simple."

His answer: "What I said was… and I didn't even say it."

You didn't just say it, Paul. You did it in writing.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@alexbward Any updates after Ukraine denying anything’s changed?

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine.

"Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap remains in effect.
https://t.co/bdVBpPAmU1

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

LIVE with a heap of great Substack environment writers!

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Meet a Batch of Environment-Focused Substackers https://t.co/sf5hvnv654

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Meet a Batch of Environment-Focused Substackers https://t.co/sf5hvnv654

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

As a Maine voter, I'm still steamed that Elon $ pumped through the huge GOP @Senate_Fund is creating vile hate ads like the one on the theme about Troy Jackson's family that charming @SenatorCollins floated to @jmart and is now distancing herself from (see @TimBalk @nytimes video)

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

🧵 On the way to physical therapy here in Downeast Maine I was listening to @MatthewGagnon's morning show on @WGANNews when @HowieCarrShow joined to hail the new @Senate_Fund PAC @LeaderJohnThune ads building on @SenSusanCollins's coy effort to draw attention to @TroyJackson207's family (the second cousin angle). You can hear a clip below.

Howie Carr: I'm glad the Super PAC has taken off the gloves, too, about marrying the cousins, you know?

Matt Gagnon: Boy, are they ever, yeah.

Howie Carr: Because, you know, again, anyone, I don't know how many people still read the papers, but they're not going to read that stuff in the daily newspapers.

Matt Gagnon: No. Right? No, they're not. No, but they're certainly seen on TV, man. I mean, you're right. I was watching some football this weekend, and I got the whole married your cousin, had kids with your cousin thing about 50 times when I was trying to watch the Patriots.

Howie Carr (aping news voice): “Collins seizes on incest issues.”

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Exploring American Energy Realities and the Senate’s Permitting-Reform Bill (with @DanielPalken)
https://t.co/aU09GZ9VLZ

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

This is a Trump move on wind power I can endorse. Keep moving forward, @SenWhitehouse et al. See my interview with @DanielPalken for more (below).

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

SCOOP: The Trump admin is easing its blockade on wind projects as it looks to motivate Democrats to support the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill. A White House official told me DOD has advanced 2 projects in Maine & SD with more to come. Text subscribers got it 1st!

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Here in Maine we think the Collins @Senate_Fund slime ads attacking Troy Jackson's family also deserve some @BulwarkOnline time. So despicable particularly because prim/proper @SenatorCollins coyly played this card in her @politico @jmart interview. Local Maine Wire and WGAN can't get enough of it. Details: https://t.co/cGRKIdoSjJ

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

🧵 On the way to physical therapy here in Downeast Maine I was listening to @MatthewGagnon's morning show on @WGANNews when @HowieCarrShow joined to hail the new @Senate_Fund PAC @LeaderJohnThune ads building on @SenSusanCollins's coy effort to draw attention to @TroyJackson207's family (the second cousin angle). You can hear a clip below.

Howie Carr: I'm glad the Super PAC has taken off the gloves, too, about marrying the cousins, you know?

Matt Gagnon: Boy, are they ever, yeah.

Howie Carr: Because, you know, again, anyone, I don't know how many people still read the papers, but they're not going to read that stuff in the daily newspapers.

Matt Gagnon: No. Right? No, they're not. No, but they're certainly seen on TV, man. I mean, you're right. I was watching some football this weekend, and I got the whole married your cousin, had kids with your cousin thing about 50 times when I was trying to watch the Patriots.

Howie Carr (aping news voice): “Collins seizes on incest issues.”

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Susan Collins likes helping young Mainers unless they're the offspring of her opponent.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@SenatorCollins If you like young people so much, why you allowing your @Senate_Fund backers to run attack ads demeaning @TroyJackson207’s children?

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Great reporting on on utterly nightmarish war.

[Valerie Hopkins @VALERIEinNYT]

"Henadii and Mykhailo spent more than six months in this so-called kill zone, holed up in a half-destroyed house. They could hear drones buzzing overhead nonstop, like traffic on a busy highway. To avoid detection, they relieved themselves in bags rather than step outside; slept pressed together in winter rather than light a fire; and dragged the bodies of Russian soldiers they had killed into their house, so drones overhead would not detect signs of fighting."
@ConstantMeheut writes about the widening "Kill Zone," and how it has changed the way armies fight. https://t.co/ZvmcH02XnJ

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Gift link https://t.co/fRtVWjvZ82

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Glad to see this plain-truth headline but appalled to see what this means about the United States.

[Valerie Hopkins @VALERIEinNYT]

Last October, President Trump imposed significant sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, complaining that negotiations with Putin over ending the war in Ukraine “just don’t go anywhere.”
Now, exactly a year after the oil sanctions, Mr. Putin has never been so close to his goal of normalizing relations with Washington without having to make any compromises on Ukraine.
With comments from @HannaNotte, @scharap and @JyShapiro
https://t.co/mRUS0HLl38

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@steinhauserNH1 @FoxNews @Sen_JoeManchin @SenSusanCollins @SenSchumer The “soul of the senate” Collins is allowing @LeaderJohnThune’s @Senate_Fund to run poisonous ads here in Maine like this against @TroyJackson207’s family.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

3. Here's a clip from the ad - built around an AI- generated song. All paid for by @LeaderJohnThune's @Senate_Fund PAC: "Troy Jackson's a creep. He has two kids with his cousin. If he'll f*** his own family he'll f*** yours too." Perfect for this Trump era and this @SenateGOP.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@SenatorCollins If you like young people so much, why you allowing your @Senate_Fund backers to run attack ads demeaning @TroyJackson207’s children?

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

3. Here's a clip from the ad - built around an AI- generated song. All paid for by @LeaderJohnThune's @Senate_Fund PAC: "Troy Jackson's a creep. He has two kids with his cousin. If he'll f*** his own family he'll f*** yours too." Perfect for this Trump era and this @SenateGOP.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Here’s @SEPeaceMissions’s humanitarian at work.

@ZelenskyyUa > Almost immediately after another round of talks, Russia launched a pointed attack. This means there has been no real change in its attitude toward everything that is happening. It is important to keep trying to find the right solutions to end this war. But when Russia responds to negotiations with ballistic missiles, real pressure on Russia is needed to bring about different steps – steps toward ending the killing. Stronger air defenses and the rapid delivery of missiles, the ability to destroy ballistic missile launchers, sanctions over the war – all of this must be in place. I am grateful to everyone who sees the situation for what it is and acknowledges the reality. The aggressor deserves to be treated accordingly. Ukraine deserves support. People's lives deserve protection. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Three waves of ballistic missiles have been launched at Kyiv by Russian “humanitarians” since yesterday evening. They used 21 missiles. Unfortunately, numerous sites across the city have been hit and damaged: ordinary residential buildings, energy facilities, infrastructure at one of the railway stations and the metro, shopping malls, and businesses. Even a monastery is among the damaged sites. Our emergency services are working at all the affected locations. Twelve of our regions came under Russian attack overnight. In Kyiv and across the regions, 34 people were injured, including five children. As of now, two people have been confirmed killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones.

Almost immediately after another round of talks, Russia launched a pointed attack. This means there has been no real change in its attitude toward everything that is happening. It is important to keep trying to find the right solutions to end this war. But when Russia responds to negotiations with ballistic missiles, real pressure on Russia is needed to bring about different steps – steps toward ending the killing. Stronger air defenses and the rapid delivery of missiles, the ability to destroy ballistic missile launchers, sanctions over the war – all of this must be in place. I am grateful to everyone who sees the situation for what it is and acknowledges the reality. The aggressor deserves to be treated accordingly. Ukraine deserves support. People's lives deserve protection. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

🧵McCarthy calls bull on Rubio/Hegseth claims Musk must have unilaterally throttled Starlink/Starshield in Ukraine. Why did the Trump admin declare Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk? “Because, as both Hegseth and Trump inveighed, it would be intolerable for the U.S. armed forces engaged in battlefield operations to be subject to the whims of tech executives providing vital services….So dedicated to this proposition are the president, the secretary, the intelligence services, and the Justice Department that the administration is still fighting Anthropic in federal courts in Northern California and Washington, D.C.
The Starshield controversy presents the same situation. The implication that the administration would cede decision-making about how technology is deployed on the battlefield to Musk, an unelected tech executive, is ridiculous — to say nothing of the fact that it would undermine the government’s defense of the SCR designation in the Anthropic litigation.”

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Susan Collins has called for the kissing cousin slime ads to be pulled by @Senate_Fund but Maine’s right-wing media are loving it.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

5. Matt Gagnon: "Honestly, I don't really love stuff like that.. It's a little dirty... But if you're going to be dirty, if you're going to be negative, if you're going to go into the cousin well with Troy Jackson, I suppose you can do us the favor of being amusing.... It is amusing. I'm not sure I woul have made it a campaign ad. Maybe like release the song on YouTube and let it get out there... I don't know..."

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

@TedNordhaus @fervoenergy @heatmap_news This is going to be a > $1000 compressor replacement (almost all labor; the part has a long warranty). Thanks @SamsungUS…

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Yes and… I think you could exclude the nuclear comparison and still see a marked bias toward cheerleady reporting on green tech, like heat pumps. Great stuff but reliability (at least here in Maine) has been spotty, repairs costly, and with electricity costs high, the financial win for folks can be murky at best.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Thanks again for all the reminders @elonmusk’s $$$$ @america PAC, but we voted early and blue, for @TroyJackson207 and @dunlap4congress too.

[America @america]

🚨 ALERT: The deadline to cast your vote is almost here. People are counting on you. Skip this one and Maine could be stuck with Troy Jackson for six years. Don't be the reason we lose. Make your plan to vote on or before Nov 3 at the link.