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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.

by Barron Trump

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 1d

not sure how anyone who voted for this man can live with themselves

the brutal treatment of federal civil servants is unforgivable

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‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

www.cnn.com

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 2d

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:

“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 3d

thanks to @commondreams.org for covering our @publiccitizen.bsky.social report!

Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 4d

More than 100 top Trump administration officials in charge of energy and environmental policy have ties to the fossil fuel industry. One of them described her job as as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies.

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ 'Fossil Fuel Insiders' to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles

One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.

www.commondreams.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles
One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.
Stephen Prager
Oct 08, 2025

A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.

The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 4d

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal & other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🔌💡

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

I was wondering whether they could get through this without a token "to be sure, Dems suck" and... nope.

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 4d

Donald Trump has placed dozens of people with ties to the fossil fuel sector in his administration, according to a new analysis.

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 3d

Appreciate this @commondreams.org take covering research by @publiccitizen.bsky.social @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social and a great comment by @sierraclub.org

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ 'Fossil Fuel Insiders' to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles | Common Dreams

One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.

www.commondreams.org

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 3d

Activists & advocates who directly confront the harms caused by fossil fuel production – as well as fossil fuel executives, per below – have long understood an obvious & otherwise unremarkable proposition: Fossil fuel supply creates fossil fuel demand.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 5d

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 6d

yeah it might be good to have produced a television news story before

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 6d

In a new report out today our @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @alanzibel.bsky.social
uncovered 100+ people with ties to polluting industries who are occupying high level offices throughout the Trump administration.

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 6d

My latest... with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 10d

matt finally gets it !

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario

The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.

www.thebulwark.com

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Perry Grossman @realperrygrossman.bsky.social · 13d

fossil fuel fools

Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 13d

in today's Orwellian news, over at BP, which at one point pushed "Beyond Petroleum" branding, there's a SVP in charge of the "Gulf of America."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 13d

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source via @darkush.bsky.social www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source - Public Citizen

Other forms of energy are simply far less expensive than coal—as well as cleaner, cheaper, and safer for a climate habitable for humans.

www.citizen.org

Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 13d

in today's Orwellian news, over at BP, which at one point pushed "Beyond Petroleum" branding, there's a SVP in charge of the "Gulf of America."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14d

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.

As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.

newrepublic.com

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 17d

Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year.

This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.

Photo of Oracle owner Larry Ellison smiling under a headline from Business Insider that reads "Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure that 'citizens will be on their best behavior'. Dated Sept 15, 2024.

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