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Jun
23
The Fossil Fuel Industry Hasn't Come Up With a New Story in 100 Years, Why Do Climate Folks Find It So Hard to Keep Up?

The Fossil Fuel Industry Hasn't Come Up With a New Story in 100 Years, Why Do Climate Folks Find It So Hard to Keep Up?

With geopolitics in turmoil, war and genocide raging, the United States running as fast as it can away from climate
12 min read
May
26
Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?

Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?

Something can be repeated over and over, a story told ten different ways, and then one particular frame or graphic
16 min read
Mar
17
What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology

What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology

A few years ago Critical Frequency, the podcast production company that makes Drilled, partnered with Stitcher on a podcast that,
9 min read
Mar
09
It's Time to Fight for Actual Free Speech

It's Time to Fight for Actual Free Speech

If you are obsessed with corporate PR and its power, as I am, eventually you butt up against the question
8 min read
Jan
20
Newsletter: On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up

Newsletter: On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up

For more than a year now we have been tracking the global trend towards the increasing criminalization of climate protest.
7 min read
Dec
17
The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies

The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies

I was talking to some climate folks recently and wondered aloud about something I didn't think was particularly
6 min read
Dec
03
What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation

What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation

I haven't sent out a newsletter for a couple of weeks, partly because I'm working on
5 min read
Nov
08

On the Benefits of Changing One's Mind in Public

I've been thinking a lot lately about how zero-sum people tend to get about various messages in the
8 min read
Oct
14
De-fund the Tone Police

De-fund the Tone Police

When the stakes are high—a U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the specter of World War III,
7 min read
Oct
08
Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis

Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis

Last month during Climate Week in New York, Jennie King, the head of climate research and policy for the Institute
6 min read