Patrick Bigger
@pmbigger.bsky.social
Interim ED @cplusc.bsky.social // co-director @transitionsec.bsky.social Political economy in the climate+ecological crisis. Terrible taste in music. climateandcommunity.org // transitionsecurity.org // https://bit.ly/pb_pubs
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The era of starter packs on bluesky is over, but here's a handy list of the staff, fellows, and co-directors of @cplusc.bsky.social , where we're not going to stop pushing for transformative climate policies that benefit the working class, no matter what the radical centrist consultants say.
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The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
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Reminder that the majority of Americans and Venezuelans oppose a US war in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Reminder that the majority of Americans and Venezuelans oppose a US war in Venezuela.
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1. Look, there are basically just two ways to run the global oil market: petro-imperialism and petro-consumerism. Historically USA has embraced both, varying over time. The attack on #Venezuela is a return to naked petro-imperialism. Thread.
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
1. Look, there are basically just two ways to run the global oil market: petro-imperialism and petro-consumerism. Historically USA has embraced both, varying over time. The attack on #Venezuela is a return to naked petro-imperialism. Thread.
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You guys, I know you all love electricity policy, but I am begging you to notice one little thing:
"We're in the oil business" - Trump
January 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
You guys, I know you all love electricity policy, but I am begging you to notice one little thing:
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Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
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This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine.
defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...
defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine.
defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...
defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...
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"We're leveling Gaza to build hotels"
"We're bombing Nigeria to please our base"
"We're invading Venezuela for oil"
Of course, these have long been unspoken factors in US wars. But Trump's honesty is no more comforting than his predecessors' lies. Waking up in this empire still sickens the stomach.
"We're bombing Nigeria to please our base"
"We're invading Venezuela for oil"
Of course, these have long been unspoken factors in US wars. But Trump's honesty is no more comforting than his predecessors' lies. Waking up in this empire still sickens the stomach.
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"We're leveling Gaza to build hotels"
"We're bombing Nigeria to please our base"
"We're invading Venezuela for oil"
Of course, these have long been unspoken factors in US wars. But Trump's honesty is no more comforting than his predecessors' lies. Waking up in this empire still sickens the stomach.
"We're bombing Nigeria to please our base"
"We're invading Venezuela for oil"
Of course, these have long been unspoken factors in US wars. But Trump's honesty is no more comforting than his predecessors' lies. Waking up in this empire still sickens the stomach.
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I truly hate social media—especially in a time like this—but popping up to ask if anyone knows where Maduro & wife will/are being held? Like civilian detention facility or military one?
Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.
Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.
January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I truly hate social media—especially in a time like this—but popping up to ask if anyone knows where Maduro & wife will/are being held? Like civilian detention facility or military one?
Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.
Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.
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The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders.
Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders.
Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
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Congress could, and should, impeach, remove, and convict by the end of the day.
January 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Congress could, and should, impeach, remove, and convict by the end of the day.
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you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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The BBC keeps calling the imperialist actions of the US 'unprecedented'; I wonder if they know anything about the history of Latin America in the last 200 years or so.
January 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The BBC keeps calling the imperialist actions of the US 'unprecedented'; I wonder if they know anything about the history of Latin America in the last 200 years or so.
The 'financialize everything' company is helping ghouls, demons, and scumbags cash in on this stupid, unlawful invasion
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
The 'financialize everything' company is helping ghouls, demons, and scumbags cash in on this stupid, unlawful invasion
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off
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It’s been said, but I am legitimately shocked at how the anti-DEI shit has just morphed straight into,”Why are there Black people in [insert institution]?”
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
It’s been said, but I am legitimately shocked at how the anti-DEI shit has just morphed straight into,”Why are there Black people in [insert institution]?”
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In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine
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"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."
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The era of starter packs on bluesky is over, but here's a handy list of the staff, fellows, and co-directors of @cplusc.bsky.social , where we're not going to stop pushing for transformative climate policies that benefit the working class, no matter what the radical centrist consultants say.
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The era of starter packs on bluesky is over, but here's a handy list of the staff, fellows, and co-directors of @cplusc.bsky.social , where we're not going to stop pushing for transformative climate policies that benefit the working class, no matter what the radical centrist consultants say.
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Needless to say it's pretty crazymaking to see people argue that the mountains of tech money flowing into the *b*nd*nc* ecosystem have nothing to do with their pushing for policies that'd roll out the red carpet for data center construction
December 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Needless to say it's pretty crazymaking to see people argue that the mountains of tech money flowing into the *b*nd*nc* ecosystem have nothing to do with their pushing for policies that'd roll out the red carpet for data center construction
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This is wild. At no point at the peak of structural adjustment would you have heard the IMF or WB say:
‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’
www.ft.com/content/2d9e...
‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’
www.ft.com/content/2d9e...
China’s cash-strapped local governments drive record sales of asset-backed securities
ABS issues bring in badly needed money but some assets are of uncertain quality
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is wild. At no point at the peak of structural adjustment would you have heard the IMF or WB say:
‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’
www.ft.com/content/2d9e...
‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’
www.ft.com/content/2d9e...
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data, folks.
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
data, folks.
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Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action.
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action.
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...