Basav
@basavsen.bsky.social
Climate and environmental justice. Anticolonial, anti-capitalist, antifascist. Opinions my own.
Every official in the US government, from the President down to the ICE terrorist who pulled the trigger, is guilty of murder, of knowingly covering it up, and of slandering the person they murdered. Shame on this country if they get away with this.
1. The first thing that should be said about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer is that the victim’s name is Renee Nicole Good.
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Every official in the US government, from the President down to the ICE terrorist who pulled the trigger, is guilty of murder, of knowingly covering it up, and of slandering the person they murdered. Shame on this country if they get away with this.
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"This decision is not abstract- it's existential. Trump's draconian retreat from responsibility is one that protects polluters while abandoning all of us, our livelihoods, and Mother Earth. This move undermines treaty obligations, tribal sovereignty, ... [cont.]
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
"This decision is not abstract- it's existential. Trump's draconian retreat from responsibility is one that protects polluters while abandoning all of us, our livelihoods, and Mother Earth. This move undermines treaty obligations, tribal sovereignty, ... [cont.]
The US is proclaiming openly that it's a rogue state. But too many world governments are silent. Silence is appeasement.
Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...
Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN
The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The US is proclaiming openly that it's a rogue state. But too many world governments are silent. Silence is appeasement.
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
Low level ICE operatives need to understand that they won't enjoy impunity forever, because the current regime will fall. When it does, they will face severe consequences for their crimes.
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Low level ICE operatives need to understand that they won't enjoy impunity forever, because the current regime will fall. When it does, they will face severe consequences for their crimes.
This is an egregious attack on civil society. Indian cities are the most polluted in the world, and the "energy security and economic development" the government speaks of is at the expense of Adivasi (Indigenous) peoples.
The Indian government contends that foreign funds were intended to promote the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty, which it claims "could could expose India to legal challenges... and severely compromise the nation’s energy security and economic development".
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Indian Climate Activist Investigated for Receiving Foreign Funds
Indian authorities are investigating a prominent climate activist for allegedly using foreign funds to further an anti-fossil fuel agenda.
www.bloomberg.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This is an egregious attack on civil society. Indian cities are the most polluted in the world, and the "energy security and economic development" the government speaks of is at the expense of Adivasi (Indigenous) peoples.
Small but significant victory in dark times. The only passenger airline that does Gestapo kidnapping flights is ending its contract. Let this be a warning to all corporations who seek to profit from collaboration with the regime.
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Small but significant victory in dark times. The only passenger airline that does Gestapo kidnapping flights is ending its contract. Let this be a warning to all corporations who seek to profit from collaboration with the regime.
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All this analysis arguing that we should support more oil and gas development and just make clean energy cheap, because we don’t have the power to restrict fossil-fuel supply right now!
May I remind the analysts that we don’t have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either?
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May I remind the analysts that we don’t have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either?
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January 6, 2026 at 1:13 PM
All this analysis arguing that we should support more oil and gas development and just make clean energy cheap, because we don’t have the power to restrict fossil-fuel supply right now!
May I remind the analysts that we don’t have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either?
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May I remind the analysts that we don’t have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either?
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NEW: AI data centers are only the newest attempt to sacrifice communities to corporate greed in a state scarred by mining, nuclear testing, and oil extraction.
It's time to say definitiely: New Mexico is not for sale.
Ennedith Lopez and IPS scholar Feleecia Guillen in @abqjournal.bsky.social:
It's time to say definitiely: New Mexico is not for sale.
Ennedith Lopez and IPS scholar Feleecia Guillen in @abqjournal.bsky.social:
New Mexico's battle against corporate tech takeover raises alarm
Big Tech and Wall Street giants eye NM for AI development, but locals warn of water risks and rising utility costs in what they call a 'techno-fascist takeover'
www.abqjournal.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
NEW: AI data centers are only the newest attempt to sacrifice communities to corporate greed in a state scarred by mining, nuclear testing, and oil extraction.
It's time to say definitiely: New Mexico is not for sale.
Ennedith Lopez and IPS scholar Feleecia Guillen in @abqjournal.bsky.social:
It's time to say definitiely: New Mexico is not for sale.
Ennedith Lopez and IPS scholar Feleecia Guillen in @abqjournal.bsky.social:
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I have so many issues with this piece. Not even sure where to start with this one. A quick thread......
In the era of affordability politics, making clean energy cheaper may be a more viable emissions mitigation strategy than making dirty energy more expensive. My latest over at The Climate Brink digs into the debate:
Keep it in the ground?
When the politics of affordability meet the needs of climate mitigation
www.theclimatebrink.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I have so many issues with this piece. Not even sure where to start with this one. A quick thread......
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They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources.
If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.
If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.
Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously)
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources.
If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.
If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.
They will, because they have no moral compass, and treat that as a point of pride ("pragmatism," which translates to supporting the status quo, over pesky questions of ethics).
Are the centre right energy bros still going to inside that tackling fossil fuel supply should be unmentionable
❗️Donald Trump: We are going to make our largest oil companies, the biggest in the world, spend billions of dollars to repair the heavily damaged infrastructure [of Venezuela – ed.], the oil infrastructure, and start bringing profits to the United States.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
They will, because they have no moral compass, and treat that as a point of pride ("pragmatism," which translates to supporting the status quo, over pesky questions of ethics).
Small modular reactors are just like the unicorns at the end of the rainbow. They're always right around the corner, to justify continued fossil fuel use.
Nuclear SMRs were never really meant to work. For the companies it's a pump-and-dump fraud and for the offtakers it's perpetually-around-the-corner greenwashing so they can build filthy fossil gas for data centres today and tomorrow
Oklo the worst of the lot: far-right climate deniers all 'round
Oklo the worst of the lot: far-right climate deniers all 'round
Mini nuclear reactors are already losing their glow
Several studies suggest SMRs will produce higher levels of nuclear waste than traditional plants
www.ft.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Small modular reactors are just like the unicorns at the end of the rainbow. They're always right around the corner, to justify continued fossil fuel use.
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'Climate pragmatism' is logically broken for many reasons but among the worst imo is:
(a) arguing against limiting fossil supply, bc cheap solar + free market will sort it out but
(b) supporting data centre growth so new clean energy DOESN'T cut down on fossil demand, and just meets growth instead
(a) arguing against limiting fossil supply, bc cheap solar + free market will sort it out but
(b) supporting data centre growth so new clean energy DOESN'T cut down on fossil demand, and just meets growth instead
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
'Climate pragmatism' is logically broken for many reasons but among the worst imo is:
(a) arguing against limiting fossil supply, bc cheap solar + free market will sort it out but
(b) supporting data centre growth so new clean energy DOESN'T cut down on fossil demand, and just meets growth instead
(a) arguing against limiting fossil supply, bc cheap solar + free market will sort it out but
(b) supporting data centre growth so new clean energy DOESN'T cut down on fossil demand, and just meets growth instead
Centrists base their disastrous policy proposals on vibes, not evidence. And the vibes they feel are entirely based on their own status quo, pro-establishment leanings.
Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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December 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Centrists base their disastrous policy proposals on vibes, not evidence. And the vibes they feel are entirely based on their own status quo, pro-establishment leanings.
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One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
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It’s a Christmas present that he’s finally made his position as a fossil-fuel / Matt Yglesias supporter unambiguously clear.
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I finally read the op ed. Matt Yglesias is right. (98% right at least, which is an A+ for a NYT op ed). Don't @ me. It's the holidays and I don't have the appetite. But Matty's position is pragmatic, substantively sound, and the only way we have a chance of making progress on climate in this moment.
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s a Christmas present that he’s finally made his position as a fossil-fuel / Matt Yglesias supporter unambiguously clear.
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The US detains people for political speech. If this happened just about anywhere else, other Western countries would be condemning it loudly.
Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who has been detained by ICE for nearly ten months.
Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her ICE check-...
www.democracynow.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The US detains people for political speech. If this happened just about anywhere else, other Western countries would be condemning it loudly.
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Well, at least we finally found that War on Christmas.
Trump, ICE, and MAGA are shutting down Christmas services in NOLA. It was never from the left.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Trump, ICE, and MAGA are shutting down Christmas services in NOLA. It was never from the left.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
New Orleans-area churches cancel Christmas services amid Border Patrol operation
“It’s too dangerous,” said Melquisedec Castillo, a leader of a local coalition of Hispanic pastors.
www.wwltv.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Well, at least we finally found that War on Christmas.
Trump, ICE, and MAGA are shutting down Christmas services in NOLA. It was never from the left.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Trump, ICE, and MAGA are shutting down Christmas services in NOLA. It was never from the left.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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People defending Yglesias’ view that “Liberals should support America’s O&G industry” view policy through the mechanistic lens of finance, economics, & engineering.
They’re oblivious to ecology & community.
Which makes it quite ironic when they tell critics to “touch grass.”
They’re oblivious to ecology & community.
Which makes it quite ironic when they tell critics to “touch grass.”
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
People defending Yglesias’ view that “Liberals should support America’s O&G industry” view policy through the mechanistic lens of finance, economics, & engineering.
They’re oblivious to ecology & community.
Which makes it quite ironic when they tell critics to “touch grass.”
They’re oblivious to ecology & community.
Which makes it quite ironic when they tell critics to “touch grass.”
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“Treachery?”
They spelled “principled” wrong.
They spelled “principled” wrong.
Being Canadian means we are treacherous because we made an incompetent hater look "silly."
In case you missed it, please watch the CBS documentary.
Here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...
Btw... waiting for another Christmas threat from Trump.
He's losing it.
In case you missed it, please watch the CBS documentary.
Here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...
Btw... waiting for another Christmas threat from Trump.
He's losing it.
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Treachery?”
They spelled “principled” wrong.
They spelled “principled” wrong.
This is the difference between a functional democracy (like Brazil), and a failed oligarchic plutocracy descending into fascist hell (like the US).
Hewing to "civility" and (already badly derived) norms like "don't prosecute anyone who's ever been president even if they've done actionably, hideously vile things" is uh… yeah it's the American way. From failing to properly hold accountable the Confederacy, to not prosecuting Nixon, to today.
I will never ever ever understand how the Biden administration had all this nuclear-level dirt on Trump and didn't pull the ripcord. You can try to explain it but it will never make sense.
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is the difference between a functional democracy (like Brazil), and a failed oligarchic plutocracy descending into fascist hell (like the US).
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The US regime brags about warehousing and trafficking humans as if they're goods. Of course, this isn't new. It's a 21st century rebirth of one of the darkest stains on the history of this country.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The US regime brags about warehousing and trafficking humans as if they're goods. Of course, this isn't new. It's a 21st century rebirth of one of the darkest stains on the history of this country.