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All about climate change and decarbonization. Executive editor, Heatmap. @robinsonmeyer on Twitter.

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.

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David A. Graham's avatar David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social
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No interview could reverse the damage that Joe Biden did to his campaign in the first presidential debate, but his conversation with George Stephanopoulos tonight showed that the president doesn’t even understand how profound the damage is. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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not particularly but i think the president is making a lot of verbal slip-ups that can’t be explained by a stutter

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David A. Graham's avatar David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social
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What is Biden's theory of victory now that the old one—win the debate, shift the race—has failed? Because even if things stabilize as his allies predict, that's not enough. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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“‘The country saw [at the debate] what those of us who have had personal interactions with him have all known for the last 2½ years,’ a senator said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s fitness.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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yoda arrogantly oversaw the collapse of the republic and died in exile

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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new zach bryan album tomorrow. gonna be huge.

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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guess it’s time to write the full-fledged take

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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this is why i think the age-related cross tabs are real, or at least plausible. if you're 18, trump has been a major political figure since you were in third grade. if you're 22, he’s been in your life since middle school

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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let me go full-bore pundit for a second and say my read is: the electorate is trying to heal itself. people are tired of hating their neighbors. and the desire for ‘normalcy,’ driven by socialized hatred of biden over age & gaza & inflation, is — catastrophically — crystallizing around donald trump

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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democracy in the 24/7 online news cycle era has a real 'twitch plays pokemon' feel

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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i thought josh barro made a good point in the footnote of his newest newsletter — “bedwetting” was initially used by HRC supporters in 2016, and especially the pod save hosts (!!!), to refer to dems who thought hillary wouldn't win www.joshbarro.com/p/the-same-f...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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NEW SHIFT KEY

How should Europe and the US craft climate policy in an age of geopolitical tension and a rising far-right?

This week, I chat in London with Ann Mettler & Aliya Haq, who lead US and EU policy at Bill Gates-founded climate mega-group Breakthrough Energy.

heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

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eric's avatar eric @ericcarlschwartz.bsky.social
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Fell out of a coconut tree, you think you just did? No. In the context of all in which you live and what came before you, you exist.

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Breaking News: President Biden told a key ally his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job. The conversation is the first public indication that Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover after the debate. nyti.ms/4cHJgGu

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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“it’s really interesting, for political economic reasons, that the hawk tuah girl is a 21-year-old white woman who works the overnight shift at a spring factory,” i mutter, to nobody in particular

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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It hasn’t received as much attention, but a Supreme Court ruling last week basically break the process by which the federal government responds to public comments in *any* process — which means it will take *longer* to permit new clean energy or new infrastructure. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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New from me: The Supreme Court — in addition to granting Trump broad immunity — is slowly breaking the EPA, eroding its ability to write new climate rules, respond to public comments, and punish companies that pollute the air and drinking water.

heatmap.news/climate/supr...

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock

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Daniel Drezner's avatar Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social
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One fallout from Thursday’s debate is that it creates a permission structure for Biden aides and staffers to now voice their qualms to the press. See, for example: www.axios.com/2024/06/30/t...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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it’s not just the paper of record, though. it’s pod save america. it’s yglesias. it’s half of the (very, very anti-trump) atlantic, and eric levitz at vox. there’s a rush to the exits because even partisan journalists feel they cannot support this candidate and preserve their personal credibility

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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we’re not talking about a scotus decision or a tax policy change where the media sets the tone of public discussion / really does have expansive framing power. biden is one of the most famous people in the world and he failed in a widely recognizable way that confirmed his main pre-existing weakness

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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guys he is the president of the united states and he was not consistently capable of stringing complete sentences together, i don’t think this one comes down to media framing

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Emily Pontecorvo's avatar Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social
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The question is especially pertinent as "offsets" fall out of fashion and everyone is searching for affordable carbon removal credits.

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Emily Pontecorvo's avatar Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social
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I wrote about the ethanol industry's entry into carbon removal, and how it highlights key disagreements in the field about how we should define "carbon removal" in the first place. 1/2 heatmap.news/climate/what...

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Excuse the punditry but I am standing in line waiting for a flight (which is neither to nor from DC) and I’m overhearing people talk about the debate and I just don’t think this one can be chalked up to media framing, guys

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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never, ever been happier to be on london time.

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Charlie Loyd's avatar Charlie Loyd @vruba.bsky.social
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Guy Salieri. Frosted tips, bowling shirt, hates Mozart. Sorry.

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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seems like at least VW sees a path to R2 scale?

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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the elizabeth line is so good. every time i take it i am in awe

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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i kinda think burgum is interesting in gorsuch-y ways. he actually seems to have policy opinions? (i am not confident these will influence his governing)

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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never mind whether it was a good move, or effective, or correct in this instance — i’m saying that people have seen it enough that it doesn’t really move anyone any more. you have to make the argument if you want to persuade along those lines now; the move isn’t enough

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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one of the reasons we’re in such a discursive break right now is because a big rhetorical move of the 2010s — “if you don’t talk about [bad thing] in the exact way i just specified, you’re complicit if not responsible for [bad thing]” — has lost its ability to persuade.

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Oh man yes. And any edition of a daily metro newspaper from the 20th century makes you weep for how much they knew about each other

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Nothing makes me feel like I live in the ruins of a lost civilization than encountering the sheer volume of edited, commercial prose that the American economy used to produce

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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This piece is probably the wisest analysis I’ve seen of the whole cross Atlantic journalism mess.

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Is that on that roadside overlook north of Tilamook? So beautiful

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Lisa Song's avatar Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social
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1/ Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. The cup was made via pyrolysis — a kind of chemical recycling I'd heard a lot about. The plastics industry made pyrolysis sound magical. It was a way to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into new plastic. So I tried to buy the cup…

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