Ross Macfarlane
@rossmacfarlane.bsky.social
Advocate for climate action, clean energy & democracy. Likes to play outside. Director with Sierra Club Foundation, Way to Rise, and Clean Energy Transition Institute and recently Director and Vice President with Sierra Club.
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Don’t Look Away: The Climate Crisis Demands Our Attention
We live in a time of crisis overload. President Trump and his team are following his advisor Steve Bannon’s strategy to “flood the zone…
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I wrote a piece for Earth Week about the need to keep bringing focus to the need for climate action at this time we are all being overloaded with issues that are appropriately demanding our attention. Appreciate any thoughts and sharing with anyone you think might be interested.
See you in court. The US Dept of Interior skips NEPA review for its 5 year plan to expand offshore drilling, breaking with prior precedent. 1/ www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Interior skips NEPA analysis for offshore drilling expansion
All prior five-year drilling plans — dating back to 1980 — reference National Environmental Policy Act analyses.
www.eenews.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
See you in court. The US Dept of Interior skips NEPA review for its 5 year plan to expand offshore drilling, breaking with prior precedent. 1/ www.eenews.net/articles/int...
This is one comeback that isn't going to happen. @silviomarcacci.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
Coal’s Not Coming Back
19th century technology can’t compete economically with 21st century clean energy
substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is one comeback that isn't going to happen. @silviomarcacci.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
I sponsor your bill, good sir, and amend it to include funding for the new buggy whip factory to be built on my estate. The future is ours!
I'm seeking a legislative sponsor for my bill to allocate $4M for a new three-masted whaling ship. Spermaceti candles burn far brighter and cleaner than tallow, so I expect a great profit. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/27/w...
Wyoming, Basin Electric Take Step Toward First New Coal Plant In Over A Decade
Wyoming and Basin Electric took a step Monday toward building the first new coal-fired power plant in more than a decade. Adding a second unit to the Dry…
cowboystatedaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I sponsor your bill, good sir, and amend it to include funding for the new buggy whip factory to be built on my estate. The future is ours!
Read? What is this thing that you talk about, reading?
Truly hilarious
Truly hilarious
Trump didn’t read before posting:
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Read? What is this thing that you talk about, reading?
Truly hilarious
Truly hilarious
Seems like its a combination of having Hegseth and company wanting to kill people and blow things up; Marco wanting to throw over the commie regime; Trump wanting to change the subject; and nobody having taken time to think it through or prepare the public for what will be another quagmire.
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Seems like its a combination of having Hegseth and company wanting to kill people and blow things up; Marco wanting to throw over the commie regime; Trump wanting to change the subject; and nobody having taken time to think it through or prepare the public for what will be another quagmire.
Reposted by Ross Macfarlane
“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
1/
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
1/
This is exactly what the founding fathers most feared when they were drafting the Constitution
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is exactly what the founding fathers most feared when they were drafting the Constitution
Reposted by Ross Macfarlane
Sunday evening reading: I wrote about the state of the fever swamp.
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning?
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era:
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning?
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era:
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp
steady.page
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sunday evening reading: I wrote about the state of the fever swamp.
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning?
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era:
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning?
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era:
More evidence that Elon's X has become a right-wing bot paradise, dominated by fake foreign accounts. Happy that I left.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More evidence that Elon's X has become a right-wing bot paradise, dominated by fake foreign accounts. Happy that I left.
The "climate realists" in the pundit class are being wildly delusional. Our current trajectory sets the world up for impacts from global warming that will imperil our global economy and civilization. @theatlantic.com @peterbrannen.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The "climate realists" in the pundit class are being wildly delusional. Our current trajectory sets the world up for impacts from global warming that will imperil our global economy and civilization. @theatlantic.com @peterbrannen.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Decimating federal programs and firing public servants; killing hundreds of thousands of children; taking a chainsaw to the government -- all to cost taxpayers MORE money.
Heck of a job, Elon
Heck of a job, Elon
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Decimating federal programs and firing public servants; killing hundreds of thousands of children; taking a chainsaw to the government -- all to cost taxpayers MORE money.
Heck of a job, Elon
Heck of a job, Elon
Beautiful, haunting, and devastating. The best of her family's legacy felled by a horrible disease while the worst conspires with imbeciles to sicken the rest of us. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Beautiful, haunting, and devastating. The best of her family's legacy felled by a horrible disease while the worst conspires with imbeciles to sicken the rest of us. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Ending my online session with some great news.
First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡
First Solar opens a Louisiana factory that’s 11 Superdomes big
First Solar opens a massive $1.1 billion solar factory in Louisiana, adding 3.5 GW of new US capacity and more than 800 well-paid jobs.
electrek.co
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ending my online session with some great news.
Canary, meet coal mine -- Puget Sound will feel severe impacts from ocean impacts from ocean acidification earlier than most regions, new study confirms. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Canary, meet coal mine -- Puget Sound will feel severe impacts from ocean impacts from ocean acidification earlier than most regions, new study confirms. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
Proud to know Gabe Gonzalez, the community organizer featured in this @NPR story on neighborhood efforts to resist ICE and Border Patrol in Chicago. Courage, resilience and hope in the face of brutality. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago
Chicago is no longer the main focus of the federal immigration crackdown. For one neighborhood group, the intense enforcement activity was a test of resistance tactics they developed eight years ago.
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Proud to know Gabe Gonzalez, the community organizer featured in this @NPR story on neighborhood efforts to resist ICE and Border Patrol in Chicago. Courage, resilience and hope in the face of brutality. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
So great to see this simple act of solidarity and community continuing to spread! By having a whistle and being prepared to use it, you can be ready to help your neighbors and bear witness if ICE thugs are raiding where you are. @wawhistles.bsky.social @katemacfarlane.bsky.social
Whistles to warn of ICE agents have become a sound of resistance. “In South Seattle, whistles have been distributed at Skyway Farmers Market. Cherryl Jackson-Williams … said whistles brought people who are ‘concerned for the safety of their neighbors’ together. The kits were all taken w/in an hour.”
From Seattle to L.A., Chicago, and now Charlotte, communities are stepping up as Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda grows more violent and indiscriminate.
"The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied."
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
"The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied."
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So great to see this simple act of solidarity and community continuing to spread! By having a whistle and being prepared to use it, you can be ready to help your neighbors and bear witness if ICE thugs are raiding where you are. @wawhistles.bsky.social @katemacfarlane.bsky.social
MechaHitler says what?
France is investigating Elon Musk’s Grok for Holocaust denial after it claimed Auschwitz gas chambers were for “disinfection.”
It wasn’t a glitch. It was denial of crimes against humanity.
It wasn’t a glitch. It was denial of crimes against humanity.
What Nazi mess did Musk get himself into now?
� France has opened an investigation into billionaire Republican financier Elon Musk’s company after his AI chatbot Grok promoted Holocaust denial.
Officials in the French government told the ...
www.dailykos.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
MechaHitler says what?
Yes, and this is just a part. It's bad enough that the world's richest person is spending his time posting fringe racist and right-wing garbage. But he's also warping the algorithm for his website X to suppress liberal content & training his AI Grok to become a sewer for fascist content. 1/
NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
A month of Elon Musk on X: Conspiracy theories, fringe politics and self-promotion
An NBC News analysis of one month of Musk’s social media posts shows what’s been on his mind, including a broad cross-section of fringe political topics.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Yes, and this is just a part. It's bad enough that the world's richest person is spending his time posting fringe racist and right-wing garbage. But he's also warping the algorithm for his website X to suppress liberal content & training his AI Grok to become a sewer for fascist content. 1/
Really tremendous interview with @drvolt.bsky.social talking to @kingsmillbond.bsky.social about the inevitability of the transition to clean electrification. 1/
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Clean electrification is inevitable
Podcast Episode · Volts · 11/21/2025 · 1h 23m
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November 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Really tremendous interview with @drvolt.bsky.social talking to @kingsmillbond.bsky.social about the inevitability of the transition to clean electrification. 1/
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This is stunning on multiple levels:
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is stunning on multiple levels:
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid the whole Nuzzi/Kennedy yuck fest, but @emorwee.bsky.social points out the ultimate irony of Nuzzi using the climate-fueled disaster of the LA fires as a backdrop to her personal melodrama, while ignoring Kennedy's role as a climate sellout.
Climate disaster is not ambiance
Especially not for an illicit affair with a politician who helped a climate-denying administration come to power.
heated.world
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid the whole Nuzzi/Kennedy yuck fest, but @emorwee.bsky.social points out the ultimate irony of Nuzzi using the climate-fueled disaster of the LA fires as a backdrop to her personal melodrama, while ignoring Kennedy's role as a climate sellout.
New evidence from exit polling in NJ and VA confirms that energy affordability was a top 2 issue for voters who liked Sherill and Stanberger's plans to hold utilities accountable and boost clean affordable power production. @climatepower.bsky.social
climatepower.us/news/new-pol...
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NEW: Polling Confirms Democrats Must Center Energy Affordability in 2026 Messaging | Climate Power
Washington, DC – Post-election data released today by Upswing Research and Strategy shows that Democrats must go on offense against Republicans on energy costs.
climatepower.us
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New evidence from exit polling in NJ and VA confirms that energy affordability was a top 2 issue for voters who liked Sherill and Stanberger's plans to hold utilities accountable and boost clean affordable power production. @climatepower.bsky.social
climatepower.us/news/new-pol...
climatepower.us/news/new-pol...
Well if that was the Right's "Showdown with Socialism", it was pretty darn funny
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Well if that was the Right's "Showdown with Socialism", it was pretty darn funny
Trump's Environmental Pollution Agency is at it again, trying to strip Clean Water Act Protections from wetlands and millions of miles of smaller streams. I just submitted comments (only takes a minute). I hope you do too, and please share with your networks. @sierraclub.org
Submit a comment today!
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump's Environmental Pollution Agency is at it again, trying to strip Clean Water Act Protections from wetlands and millions of miles of smaller streams. I just submitted comments (only takes a minute). I hope you do too, and please share with your networks. @sierraclub.org
Canary in a coal mine -- Puget Sound will feel severe impacts of ocean acidification earlier than most regions, new study confirms. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Ocean acidification to hit Puget Sound harder, study says
As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, they become more corrosive. That's happening faster here.
www.seattletimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Canary in a coal mine -- Puget Sound will feel severe impacts of ocean acidification earlier than most regions, new study confirms. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...