Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
@riogranderift.bsky.social
At work in the ruins. Executive Director: @westernlaw.org
Thoughts my own.
Thoughts my own.
Pinned
TO THE WESTERN HORIZONS!
The Western Environmental Law Center’s Strategic Approach to the Confluence of Political, Ecological, and Economic Crises Faced by the…
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My thoughts on @westernlaw.bsky.social's strategic approach to the Trump 2.0 era.
✅ Hold the line at the federal level
✅ Move in space at the state level
✅ Build power for change
How? With an ecology of kinship.
✅ Hold the line at the federal level
✅ Move in space at the state level
✅ Build power for change
How? With an ecology of kinship.
AI is replacing the warmth created by animal cognition, lived experience in relationship with the Earth, and the transfer of human culture from generation to generation with a cold simulation created by those who disdain wisdom in service of hoarding ever more wealth and power.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
AI is replacing the warmth created by animal cognition, lived experience in relationship with the Earth, and the transfer of human culture from generation to generation with a cold simulation created by those who disdain wisdom in service of hoarding ever more wealth and power.
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The NFL Europe stuff is so emblematic of what’s wrong with the NFL. In its quest for omnipresence, the NFL has made Commanders/Dolphins, an ass football game that should be flying under the radar at 1 PM, something that people can focus on. You’re spreading it too thin!
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The NFL Europe stuff is so emblematic of what’s wrong with the NFL. In its quest for omnipresence, the NFL has made Commanders/Dolphins, an ass football game that should be flying under the radar at 1 PM, something that people can focus on. You’re spreading it too thin!
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Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
Moderates:
(1) Seek to turn the U.S. into an AI-centered petrostate; by
(2) Exploiting the "affordability" zeitgeist; as
(3) A pretext to embrace the fossil fuel industry's "all of the above" energy rhetoric & "technology neutral permitting reform."
(1) Seek to turn the U.S. into an AI-centered petrostate; by
(2) Exploiting the "affordability" zeitgeist; as
(3) A pretext to embrace the fossil fuel industry's "all of the above" energy rhetoric & "technology neutral permitting reform."
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Moderates:
(1) Seek to turn the U.S. into an AI-centered petrostate; by
(2) Exploiting the "affordability" zeitgeist; as
(3) A pretext to embrace the fossil fuel industry's "all of the above" energy rhetoric & "technology neutral permitting reform."
(1) Seek to turn the U.S. into an AI-centered petrostate; by
(2) Exploiting the "affordability" zeitgeist; as
(3) A pretext to embrace the fossil fuel industry's "all of the above" energy rhetoric & "technology neutral permitting reform."
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thinking about this interview from 2024 of incredibly smug Labour strategists telling Democrats to abandon immigrants and move to the center
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
thinking about this interview from 2024 of incredibly smug Labour strategists telling Democrats to abandon immigrants and move to the center
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3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
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“Fossil-fuel firms are looking to diversify their revenue streams. Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of growth in oil demand by 2030.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“Fossil-fuel firms are looking to diversify their revenue streams. Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of growth in oil demand by 2030.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
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Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.”
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.”
Three thoughts from this (kinda dry but illuminating) conversation between Jason Bordoff & John Arnold, a major backer of the Abundance movement & "permitting reform."
Building Energy Policy on Evidence
Podcast Episode · Columbia Energy Exchange · 11/11/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Three thoughts from this (kinda dry but illuminating) conversation between Jason Bordoff & John Arnold, a major backer of the Abundance movement & "permitting reform."
Sustained people-powered organizing > Punditry + Polling + Consultants + Ads
The left does not have enough no civic-engagement infrastructure. We connects the dots between the No Kings marches and the nuts-and-bolts local engagement that must happen every other day in order to sustain a win.
The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure
We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it'll take to win the next 10 elections.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sustained people-powered organizing > Punditry + Polling + Consultants + Ads
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Make some time for this. It's critical to how you'll understand the next decade of energy politics, here in the U.S. and everywhere.
Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
www.thedigradio.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Make some time for this. It's critical to how you'll understand the next decade of energy politics, here in the U.S. and everywhere.
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The man needs help.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The man needs help.
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When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
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She *could* be dousing her political career. But my bet is more that the lame duck hunting season has begun apace.
*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
She *could* be dousing her political career. But my bet is more that the lame duck hunting season has begun apace.
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“The #NMPol WQCC did the right thing today by wiping the slate clean & avoiding any appearance of impropriety,” said Tannis Fox at WELC. “We hope the WQCC applies this same precautionary approach to any petitions regarding oil & gas wastewater discharge in the future. Today’s vote restores trust.”
A persistent effort to change New Mexico’s water regulations to allow for the reuse and discharge of treated fracking wastewater was dealt a blow Thursday. sfnm.co/43ugDui
New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission backpedals on fracking water case
The commission voted to undo a previous vote advancing an effort to allow some reuse and discharge of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.
sfnm.co
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“The #NMPol WQCC did the right thing today by wiping the slate clean & avoiding any appearance of impropriety,” said Tannis Fox at WELC. “We hope the WQCC applies this same precautionary approach to any petitions regarding oil & gas wastewater discharge in the future. Today’s vote restores trust.”
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Assessments of government action on climate change—and public desire for climate action—should always explicitly consider how much cajoling and lobbying and pressure from oil and gas there is to do nothing.
This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Assessments of government action on climate change—and public desire for climate action—should always explicitly consider how much cajoling and lobbying and pressure from oil and gas there is to do nothing.
This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
All the folks who contend we do not need to directly challenge the entrenched power of the fossil fuel industry—and that we can accommodate their policy priorities (e.g., federal “permitting reform”)—are either lying or deluding themselves that this is an effective climate strategy. Root. Them. Out.
The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
All the folks who contend we do not need to directly challenge the entrenched power of the fossil fuel industry—and that we can accommodate their policy priorities (e.g., federal “permitting reform”)—are either lying or deluding themselves that this is an effective climate strategy. Root. Them. Out.
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Bad headline aside, this is a pretty damning portrait of an institution decisively abandoning any real pretense to be a quasi-scholarly outfit in favor of manufacturing whatever slop power demands this week, like a ChatGPT made of meat.
Calling this a "gaffe" is the #BrokenTimes' way to dismiss and forgive the right-wing defense of a white supremacist. Credulity in the excuse of racism is racism.
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Bad headline aside, this is a pretty damning portrait of an institution decisively abandoning any real pretense to be a quasi-scholarly outfit in favor of manufacturing whatever slop power demands this week, like a ChatGPT made of meat.
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Seb's analysis is behind a paywall but the title really says it all.
"Meanwhile in America, after years of shale abundance and low prices, the domestic gas market is tightening on LNG plants’ insatiable thirst for feedgas. Henry Hub has spiked more than 50% since mid-October"
"Meanwhile in America, after years of shale abundance and low prices, the domestic gas market is tightening on LNG plants’ insatiable thirst for feedgas. Henry Hub has spiked more than 50% since mid-October"
US LNG eats itself
The American gas export boom risks becoming a victim of its own success. Can the waning shale sector pull off a production miracle?
www.energyflux.news
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Seb's analysis is behind a paywall but the title really says it all.
"Meanwhile in America, after years of shale abundance and low prices, the domestic gas market is tightening on LNG plants’ insatiable thirst for feedgas. Henry Hub has spiked more than 50% since mid-October"
"Meanwhile in America, after years of shale abundance and low prices, the domestic gas market is tightening on LNG plants’ insatiable thirst for feedgas. Henry Hub has spiked more than 50% since mid-October"
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The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
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"Before November ends, Russia will probably suffer its millionth casualty since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, based on current trends of about 1,000-1,200 soldiers killed or injured every day."
Vladimir Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine
His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Before November ends, Russia will probably suffer its millionth casualty since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, based on current trends of about 1,000-1,200 soldiers killed or injured every day."
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Once again, Trump prepares to swoop in to (partially) solve a problem that he created, then declare victory. Ugh.
Trump Readies Tariff Cuts, Trade Deals in Affordability Push
US President Donald Trump is readying substantial tariff cuts designed to address high food prices and a series of new trade deals — including framework agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvad...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Once again, Trump prepares to swoop in to (partially) solve a problem that he created, then declare victory. Ugh.
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I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion
Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.