Tim Puko

Minerals, metals, energy and climate @EurasiaGroup
Formerly @washingtonpost @WSJ @TribLIVE
“He seems well-meaning and is not terribly annoying."
Views my own

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

US trade rep Jamieson Greer is trying to convince the world’s big consumers to pay more for minerals. He’s not wrong but it’s a hard hard sell

And just as much at home as abroad. Trying to compete w China could be a bottomless money pit

Thinking a lot rn of Rick Perry, c2017…

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Permitting reform?

“I'm just not going to devote whatever few brain cells I have left to something that's not going to happen,” Kennedy says after GOP lunch

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

A real opening here for Rachel Maddow to give us the most Howard Bealeian 25 minutes of her life

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Schmitt (not Schmidt) then went on a podcast and agreed that he'd totally nailed Smith on this NBA game story https://t.co/WwNehKKBcD

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

Hmmm…is it actually Republican staffs that aren’t hiring enough straight guys who know ball?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The reason Senators have staff is to save them from moments like this one. Someone in the Russell Building is probably updating a resume right about now.

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@Timothy_Cama Don’t sleep on Bag Park, dawg. Great pub trivia at BIG PAPER TAVERN

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@rodger Mr. Gray, what am I supposed to do if I’m more interested in erasing joy from the game, weakening the connections with my brand’s great moments in history, and undermining my television product? Can you help me then?

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

All of these things are true! When the oline and wrs underperform, in the ways they certainly have, it accentuates late-stage Rodgers’ obvious flaws. The way this team was built it can succeed only if every other component excels so the limited qb can be his best 42-yo self

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

@MarkMaddenX You think he’s been the problem more than the offensive line or receiving core so far this season? I can’t possibly think you believe that.

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

The next Democrat who comes into this office is almost certainly going to have a much better sense of their executive authority. Their voters are demanding it.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

interesting quote from a fossil fuel executive reflecting on his meetings with trump (regime change)

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

I’m not going to say Republicans ARE finally going to lose in Texas, but if Republicans were to ever lose Texas, this is how they would do it.

[Michael E. Webber @MichaelEWebber]

I know Austin is not a normal barometer of Texas statewide political sentiment but I have seen zero signs and bumper stickers for Paxton. Usually, I’ll see a few for the GOP’s top of the ticket.

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

Can’t ever quit this app

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

BREAKING: Man City have been found guilty on all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. As a result, Everton have been deducted 10 points.

[Ernest Scheyder @ErnestScheyder]

World's largest copper mine halts operations after worker death https://t.co/T5hW75ieMC

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

Well that didn’t take long!

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

New in Semafor DC PM: Permitting reform talks are stalled and hopes for a bipartisan deal in the Senate before the election are fading ...

https://t.co/d5Viwmdb7Z

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

“We’ll stand a chance if only our chronically negative and bad-faith members and stakeholders treat this challenging compromise with optimism and good faith…in the slim chance it makes it out of committee this week” is not exactly a promising forecast for permitting overhauls!

[Julia Pyper @JMPyper]

We could see permitting bill language as soon as this week, says @SenJohnCurtis at #ClimateWeekNYC.

“There will be problems,” he said. But if stakeholders approach it with an open mind, instead of going for the kill, permitting reform might actually get done this year.

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@jabbotthabit @robbieorvis Let us know if you get to first. The committee will take this into consideration.

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@jsfreed @Capitals “Even the flyers” 💛

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

You can see Dems here walking themselves into the same mistakes of health experts in Covid early days. Too much social engineering/expectation management craters public trust later when a vaguely articulated climate agenda cant fully deliver on whats framed as an economic agenda

[Noah Kaufman @noahqk]

Most climate-focused policymakers believe the way to encourage action is to make the energy transition sound as easy as possible.
Another approach would be to frankly acknowledge the difficulties, and convince people that you are equipped to help people to navigate the tradeoffs

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@MsLizBowman @WSJ And thank you for appreciating what I know is a very…ahem, acquired taste

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

@MsLizBowman @WSJ Well, we all learn to live with our mistakes

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

The bots in Cleveland must be 🔥

[Tim Puko @TimPuko]

When your football team front office is so laughably, predictably incompetent you can program whole AI agents to troll about it

(Very effectively!)

[Vanilla Thunder @VThunder6969]

BROTHER this whole JPJ situation is becoming the most predictable Steelers story imaginable.

The front office drags its feet all offseason, takes care of multiple depth players first, lets the cornerback market get more expensive, then finally makes one of its best young players a priority at the eleventh hour.

And what happens next?

Steelers fans blame the player.

Not the organization that waited.
Not the front office that created the leverage problem.
Not the timing.

The player.

JPJ knows what he’s worth. He plays a premium position at an elite level and wants to be paid accordingly.

Wanting market value isn’t greed.

Brother, blaming the player after the team created the mess is so unbelievably on brand for Steelers Nation.