Tim Fisher

@EECouncil. Also @surfers4climate, @psychologysafe. Ex @RadioNational, @SurfingLife, @emergingwriters. waving a walking stick, shouting at passing traffic.

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@mrbenjaminlaw I have small kids, and what helps me make my peace with the decision is knowing I can't opt out. Kids mean you've committed yourself to being part of the solution. The alternative isn't worth contemplating.

[Zeynab Day @ZeynabDay]

Voters didn't have a choice in most of the down ballot GOP races to even vote for a Dem candidate. The Dem party left 65% of down-ballot races uncontested. That's part of what happened. They focused on POTUS. Have been doing this since the early 2000s when they ousted Howard Dean and gave up on the 50-state strategy. They left more than 20,000 seats down ballot in the hands fo the GOP with no contest and abandoned poorer states, defunding state parties.
It's not that voters voted for a lot of these people in state legislators, etc. It's that they had no one on the ballot to vote for. GOP down the ticket. No challenge. I am SURE that also impacted Harris' turnout.
It has been a bad calculation I've been blowing the whistle on for months and no body was listening.

These states didn't "go red." They were abandoned, and their state parties defunded, by the Dem National. Also, the Dems raised $14 BILLION, only gave states $2.5 million to divey among 25 states, and bragged like that was a "50-state-strategy. 1/

[Possum Comitatus @Pollytics]

@GrogsGamut If you don't choose your fights, everyone who hates you will choose them for you. How modern parties on the left still don't understand this is astonishing.

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Is it time yet to revisit all the early heralding of the internet's pure democracy, of the idea
of "citizen journalists," of each and every voice being able to be heard being a good thing for our ability to find truth and govern ourselves? Because having spent a previous career in newsrooms, as part of the cold, organized monolith that was our gatekeeping mainstream media, I know that we were often too herd-like and centrist, sometimes misled and sometimes capable of publishing horseshit on incomplete or contradictory data. Sometimes we got it dead wrong. But every day, I remember that the editors read the copy and tried to verify what they could and avoid what they could not. And no one could pay us a fucking dime to say what we didn't think was the story we thought we had. Fact is, I once tried to sneak a piece of celery through some ranch dip at some politician's fundraiser because the guy was late showing up to make a speech and I was starving. Another reporter smacked it out of my hand: "That's Harry McGuirk's celery."
We had an ethic. We believed in our role, however flawed and vulnerable to error our work product might at times be. So fuck the influencers, fuck the pimps who bought them, fuck their rancid whoredom, and fuck a media culture that has bypassed the gatekeepers at least trying to hold to a core ethos. The marginalization and eventual death of old-fashioned journalism and what has ensued is going to be what ends our republic. And everyone who championed some purist vision of a post-mainstream media future is now and forever, officially, a rube.

[Sean Kelly @mrseankelly]

Donations are a problem in politics full stop, for all the major parties. That said, this is a very interesting story from @MarkDiStef

https://t.co/idPXsknutn

[Cam_Walker @Cam_Walker]

In news that will surprise no one, ex PM Scott Morrison has signed on with a deep-sea mining fund which has invested millions in experimental deep-sea mining projects.

Deep sea mining will be the new asbestos - dangerous, damaging & expensive.

https://t.co/oH4371m9C6

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@TennantReed Absolutely.

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@binnsie9779 What a great question.

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@FeathersMcGee I appreciate that Antony Green has taken the time to engage in outright nonsense being propagated by someone who calls themselves Jet Ski Bandit.

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

https://t.co/kiGjJ98O7g

[Sana Nakata @DrSanaNakata]

“We asked for change. We asked to be heard. We asked the Australian people to walk with us.

And so now we are where we have always been, left to build our better futures on our own.”

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

"Fossil fuel power plants kill 35 times more birds per GWh of electricity produced than wind turbines. But even this figure understates the true harm caused by fossil fuels."
How about that.
Great reporting from @curious_founder https://t.co/9QI2HNET6y

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

People sometimes ask me how I can remain optimistic that we can address the climate crisis.

This is why: 👇

[Ben Domensino @Ben_Domensino]

Absurd early-spring heat is about to hit #Sydney. The city is forecast to see 5 consecutive days >28°C. This has never been recorded in September before, with records dating back to 1859!

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@mrcjohnston Chris did you see David Byrne here in 2018?

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

"The IMF calculated just over $7 trillion in subsidies to fossil fuels last year. Since the IMF’s report expresses all figures in 2021 dollars, inflation cannot explain away the increase. The world has never spent this much to subsidize fossil fuels." https://t.co/tfh5AcYFsp

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

A very good piece from @emorwee on exactly how vested the fossil fuel industry's interests are in (US) politics (e.g. nothing at all like here in Australia).

[Emily Atkin @emorwee]

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy, who claimed he could speak truthfully on climate change b/c he's not "bought and paid for," has a $50M+ stake in an investment firm dedicating to drilling as much fossil fuels as possible.

The main fund is literally called DRLL.

https://t.co/T73OphOG3q

[Tim Fisher @timmyfish]

@JoeyLightbulb Ha, this is great. Like hearing stories from nurse friends talking about how Boxing Day emergency departments are full of middle-aged men who gave their kids skateboards for Christmas, then had a go, forgetting they are no longer 16.