Bob King
@bkingdc.bsky.social
Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. https://www.politico.com
I've also had the experience of learning that someone I used to write about for totally unrelated reasons was arrested on murder charges years later. And for some reason it wasn't a surprise it was *that* guy.
Oh, by the way, merry Christmas.
Oh, by the way, merry Christmas.
Pretty weird for me how the guy I spent two years investigating at my first local newspaper job was just arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, and it’s a national tabloid story…
Appreciate everyone linking to my 2018 investigation, which you can read here: www.desertsun.com/in-depth/tec...
Appreciate everyone linking to my 2018 investigation, which you can read here: www.desertsun.com/in-depth/tec...
December 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I've also had the experience of learning that someone I used to write about for totally unrelated reasons was arrested on murder charges years later. And for some reason it wasn't a surprise it was *that* guy.
Oh, by the way, merry Christmas.
Oh, by the way, merry Christmas.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions.
So far, the answer is a hard “no.”
So far, the answer is a hard “no.”
Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela — but getting no takers
The administration’s outreach to the industry, previously unreported, is the latest sign the White House is dreaming of a post-Maduro future for Venezuela.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions.
So far, the answer is a hard “no.”
So far, the answer is a hard “no.”
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Bedford: FAA lost hundreds of air traffic controller trainees during shutdown
Bedford: FAA lost hundreds of air traffic controller trainees during shutdown
“I think the thought of not being paid was enough to frighten them away,” the agency chief said.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bedford: FAA lost hundreds of air traffic controller trainees during shutdown
My habit of giving each of my devices a unique, elaborate password that I don't write down, and then going years without trying to log into them, might finally be coming back to bite me.
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My habit of giving each of my devices a unique, elaborate password that I don't write down, and then going years without trying to log into them, might finally be coming back to bite me.
Lee Atwater did, in fact, pay a lot for that muffler.
Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
Southern Strategies
This week, I saw someone on social media trot out a notorious quote from Lee Atwater that's wildly misunderstood. I went back to dust off my old Twitter thread about it, but I found that a lot of the ...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lee Atwater did, in fact, pay a lot for that muffler.
"Stardust" ... Hmmm, where have we heard that project code name before?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Stardust" ... Hmmm, where have we heard that project code name before?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
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🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.'
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Brazilian lawmakers seek to decimate green laws one week after hosting climate summit
Changes would damage President Lula’s efforts to cast Brazil as an environmental leader.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.'
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
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Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming.
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming.
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30.
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
How the EU banished its climate demons and salvaged a weak COP30 deal
The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit.
www.politico.eu
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30.
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
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Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
“If we had been involved as a pro-climate United States, it would not look like this at all,” former U.S. climate negotiator Sue Biniaz said of where things stood Friday evening.
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“If we had been involved as a pro-climate United States, it would not look like this at all,” former U.S. climate negotiator Sue Biniaz said of where things stood Friday evening.
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Maybe we should fire our football coach more often? #PennState #WeAre
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Maybe we should fire our football coach more often? #PennState #WeAre
What was the most iconic moment of #COP30?
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
https://politico.com/news/2025/11/2…
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What was the most iconic moment of #COP30?
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Earlier: "Deal or 'meh' deal"? Sara, Karl, Zia and Zack on the #COP30 agreement that didn't call for a faster abandonment fossil fuels or a quicker infusion of climate finance for vulnerable countries. But it did ... uh, say other stuff.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Deal or ‘meh’ deal? Climate summit ends on a deflating note
Nearly two weeks of talks in the Amazon ended with commitments to do more, but no firm movement on the most divisive issues — including turning away from fossil fuels.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Earlier: "Deal or 'meh' deal"? Sara, Karl, Zia and Zack on the #COP30 agreement that didn't call for a faster abandonment fossil fuels or a quicker infusion of climate finance for vulnerable countries. But it did ... uh, say other stuff.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday.
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday.
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"Lizards crawl into your kitchen" is every house in Florida
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"Lizards crawl into your kitchen" is every house in Florida
Flock of Dimes on 11/11 at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social — my first time seeing Jenn Wasner perform since the Wye Oak show in March 2020 in Baltimore that was the last concert I attended before the Covid lockdown descended.
A few things have happened since then.
A few things have happened since then.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Flock of Dimes on 11/11 at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social — my first time seeing Jenn Wasner perform since the Wye Oak show in March 2020 in Baltimore that was the last concert I attended before the Covid lockdown descended.
A few things have happened since then.
A few things have happened since then.
Activists and UN security clashed tonight at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Protesters and UN security clash at climate summit in Brazil
The demonstrators waved yellow flags protesting oil drilling in the Amazon.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Activists and UN security clashed tonight at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY": Trump rails against air traffic controllers who missed any shifts at their unpaid, high-stress, overtime-laden jobs during the shutdown, and threatens to replace them with "true Patriots."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
But he promises $10,000 bonuses to controllers who have shown up without fail during the more-than-monthlong shutdown.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY": Trump rails against air traffic controllers who missed any shifts at their unpaid, high-stress, overtime-laden jobs during the shutdown, and threatens to replace them with "true Patriots."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Can we talk about the self-checkout machines at Giant?
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Can we talk about the self-checkout machines at Giant?
The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.