Sign in

Brad Johnson

@climatebrad.hillheat.com
29K followers 3.4K following 23K posts

Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Registered Parliamentarian. FSP. Subscribe to my newsletter: Hillheat.news/subscribe

PostsRepliesMedia
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 17m
even Ken Paxton admits Trump sucks Paxton: “So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”
031
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1h
bring our government back!
060
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1h
The DOGEing is ongoing.
054
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
7324140
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1h
Seeing the continued dominance of the fossil fuel industry and now the rise of the genocidal hyperscalers and deciding that gutting environmental protections is going to help our prospects takes a kind of mental gymnastics that I simply lack the flexibility for. Never gonna be a Democratic senator.
190
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1h
more lawlessness
052
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2h
new USCSB drop, the first with a new narrator after Sheldon Smith's passing
youtube.com
Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky
YouTube video by USCSB
020
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2h
Absolutely wild how you can see it in their body language - Mike Lee's smug smirk, Capito's relaxed cheer, Heinrich's pursed lips, Whitehouse's slump, both Democrats looking down and away...
Mike Lee, Shelley Capito, Martin Heinrich, and Sheldon Whitehouse promote an environmentally catastrophic "permitting reform" deal
42613
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2h
EPA union AFGE Council 238 is suing EPA & Zeldin for unlawfully terminating the 2024 collective bargaining agreement cc @peer.org
wgbh.org
Union sues EPA and its administrator over termination of contract
The EPA announced last August that it would terminate its agreement with unions representing the agency's workers. Those unions are now suing the agency, and its administrator, Lee Zeldin.
185
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 4h
Here's the view from the American West, far from the ruins of Washington, D.C. politics.
westernlaw.org
Five-alarm fire: Radical Senate ‘permitting reform’ bill threatens to eviscerate environmental, wildlife, water, climate laws - Western Environmental Law Center
The Republican-controlled Senate will soon formally announce a legislative “permitting reform” deal to speed the development of AI data centers and energy infrastructure. We expect the Senate will the...
075
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2h
the lame duck is going to be grim, just zombie politicians pushing corporatist giveaways by the boatload before they magically appear in sinecures at the lobbying arms of the same corporations
0102
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 4h
We're about to hear a load of B.S. about bipartisanship, affordability, and energy. All in service of AI tech, energy, & finance. Not people. We will hear little to nothing about the harms this bill will cause to the West's public lands, waters and wildlife, and communities. Presser at 12:30 ET.
youtube.com
Heinrich, Lee, Capito and Whitehouse Press Conference to Discuss Bipartisan Permitting Reform Deal
YouTube video by Senate Energy Dems
5209
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 3h
An amazingly deeply researched piece on SCOTUS corruption, Big Oil, and killing climate action by @mlavelle.bsky.social. Must read. Exxon manipulating the outcome in plain sight.
insideclimatenews.org
Alito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late? - Inside Climate News
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership o...
065
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5h
this is the equivalent of tattooing I'M AN IDIOT to your forehead does help me know I don't need to waste my time on Markus Brunnermeier. @nytopinion.nytimes.com really doesn't know what their own standards are, do they?
nytimes.com
Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.
Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
230
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 6h
what oceans need is more nitrogen and phosphate pollution, that'll solve global warming
471
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 6h
Update: The committee did *not* mark up the "Save Our Sequoias" Act.
010
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 6h
The markup of the Slaughter Our Sequoias Act (S. 4103/H.R. 2709, "Save Our Sequoias"), the Dim Bulbs Act (S. 1568, "Liberating Incandescent Technology"), and the Expedited Appeals Review Act (H.R. 677), among others, has begun
hillheat.com
Markup of the Slaughter Our Sequoias Act, Permit Reform Bills, Light Bulb Inefficiency, and Other Legislation
Full committee markup of the following 54 pieces of legislation. Many of the bills were previously scheduled to be considered at the July 29 markup. Controversi...
295
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 6h
the idea that the wildfire ecologists who are criticizing California's multi-billion-dollar forest-thinning industry (a coalition of loggers, developers, biomass plants, utilities, etc.) are doing it for money and clout, in contrast to the wildfire ecologists who are working *for* that industry...
151
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 7h
Useful for @dcdemocrats.bsky.social to think about
010
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 8h
Reading the Hollow Parties is really helping me understand which people left X for Bluesky and which didn't Thx @daschloz.bsky.social
100
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 9h
Doesn't he know U.S. Senators are supposed to represent corporations?
033
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 29/09/2026
"Exxon and Suncor can point to no language in the Clean Air Act that preempts Boulder’s claims. Why? Because there is none." Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and former EPA general counsel Avi Garbow on why Big Oil's arguments to escape accountability "have no credibility whatsoever."
thehill.com
Big Oil can’t hide behind the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…
02917
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 17h
Did you hear, they're making a live-action version of The Lorax right now @padilla.senate.gov stars as one of the Once-ler clan
hillheat.news
The Week in Climate Hearings: Padilla's Slaughter Our Sequoias Act
There's only one markup of note, but it's a killer.
2256
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19h
"Logging, regardless of the deceptive euphemisms used to spin it (“thinning”, “forest health”, “restoration”, “fuel reduction”), is a climate change nightmare. This is the true face of logging in the 21st century: treating trees like giant sticks of coal for dirty, climate-polluting energy."
johnmuirproject.substack.com
“Boiling Point”: How a Prominent Climate Podcast is Being Used as a Forum for Climate Greenwashing and Methodological Manipulations
Chad Hanson, Ph.D., Research Ecologist
2145
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 20h
Tomorrow is Slaughter Our Sequoias Day! @energydems.senate.gov
031
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 22h
Note that this is the truly generic ballot - many pollsters use the specific candidate names in their national ballot question. Specific Ds v Rs are mostly outpolling the "Democratic Party". So I expect this D+12 to be real
poll.qu.edu
Generic Ballot For Control Of U.S. House: Dems 51%, GOP 39%, Dem Party Ahead On Key Issues, Boosted By Independents, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 71% Prefer Candidates Who Support St...
"A warning light flashing red for the GOP scrambling to stay in power. From the economy to international conflicts to AI, independent voters are siding with Democrats, even though a vast majority of t...
1141
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 22h
Lol published same day
Washington Post
How Ted Cruz, once a Republican gadfly, became a bipartisan dealmakerPOLITICO
Cruz blocks Senate Democrats’ bid to pass AI safety bill
The proposal from a trio of Democrats would have established a new safety board within the Commerce Department to vet models before they are deployed.
0150
Reposted by Brad Johnson
The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"If a $1/word rate matched today’s inflation, the average writer should be making about $2/word. But — according to our data — they aren’t." @fspnwu.bsky.social members jen byers and Elena Novak analyze data from the project's Rate Sharing Database. buff.ly/g7wyXFU
buff.ly
Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000
New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.
01820
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 23h
The National Guard is in DC neighborhoods now, gooning with other members of Trump's posse. Trinidad, Park View, Columbia Heights, and more
1155
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Leticia Gutierrez is an environmental-justice organizer running in Houston's #TX09 against Alex Mealer, an oil & gas financier. Leticia is running the kind of campaign it's worth chipping into just to make an oil executive have a bad day. And it'll help @jamestalarico.bsky.social
secure.actblue.com
Donate to Leticia Gutierrez
Show your support with a contribution.
010
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
hurry up and deport and wait
120
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
The primary existential threat of AI is cooking the climate for compute.
1103
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Much informative reporting in this @wsj.com piece but the critics do not "argue" the ads "may" violate federal law, they straight-out say the ads violate the law.
Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law
2175
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.
hellgatenyc.com
How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?
City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...
511166528
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
11585245
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
the AI CEOs are all going around saying publicly that they are extinction-level genocidal criminals and nearly every Beltway pundit and elected official other than @sanders.senate.gov and @repcasar.bsky.social is talking about "guardrails" and "guidelines"
283
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
There has been no Act of Congress authorizing DC-JTF MASB or the deputization of DC-JTF into the DC SBTF.
021
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
ummm not the best @jaredb-econ.bsky.social work here "The industry wants compute. The people want fairness, safety, jobs, and freedom from negative spillovers. Presto: the making of a deal."
econjared.substack.com
The Data Center Pause We Need
And the deal we should cut while we take it.
231
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump Has A Posse
charlie45.substack.com
National Guard Deployment in DC and the Posse Comitatus Act
It’s not only illegal, it also conveys the wrong image of the capital of a democracy
196
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Tuberville is safe from being outed by Strava because he never exercises
193
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
"curveballs" and "frustrations" are the new euphemisms for "blatant high crimes and misdemeanors"
POLITICO

TRUMP CONTROVERSIES PILE ON GOP: It’s 35 days until the midterms, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune is still fending off some final curveballs from President Donald Trump. White House decisions to air campaign-style ads with taxpayer funds while separately rescinding about a billion dollars in congressionally approved spending are the latest pre-midterm frustrations for GOP senators — who spent much of Monday fielding off-message questions about the president’s latest actions.

Owen Dahlkamp, Mia McCarthy and Jordain Carney contributed to this report.
1239
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Ethnic cleansing.
0145
Reposted by Brad Johnson
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it looks like Carney will announce approval of LNG Canada, Phase 2, tomorrow at 11am in Vancouver. It will no doubt come with massive taxpayer funded gifts of money for Big Oil, called subsidies. The locals in Kitimat call the flare stack the "eye of Sauron."
theenergymix.com
BREAKING: New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’
The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...
33118
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
it's pretty clear (to me) that a big advantage of the primary system is that it allows a party a period of public internal debate and then a period of public unity in pursuit of a strong majority as opposed to the endless interparty competition of a top-two system
prospect.org
The House Districts Where Democrats Are Still Fighting Each Other - The American Prospect
California’s Democrat-on-Democrat races mirror left-vs.-center primary battles we’ve seen across the country.
131
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
cool seeing what the 1000s of military forces stationed in the nation's capital are getting up to #freedc #nationalguardgohome #possecomitatus
dvidshub.net
JTF-DC Alaska National Guard Conduct Close Quarters Clearing Training
U.S. National Guardsmen with the Alaska National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC) in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission, practice close-quarters room clearin...
56431
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
"He didn't start one"
theatlantic.com
How Biden Averted a War With Iran
In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.
0176
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Yes, global climate catastrophe is a global market failure. The question posed by #climateweeknyc - Did the market fail you, or did you fail the market?
hillheat.news
Did the Market Fail You, Or Did You Fail The Market?
Lessons from Climate Week NYC on the global market failure and the fight for humanity
061
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
#climateweeknyc
A properly decorated Compucar.
1153
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Smart ad from @samforstag.bsky.social #MT01
AARON FLINT SUPPORTS THE WAR 
WE PAY FOR IT
UNLEADED 4.59
DIESEL 6.19
2304
Reposted by Brad Johnson
The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy @cffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Will Lawrence has spent his entire career organizing his community to make life more affordable and help Michigan families get ahead. In Congress, he’ll continue that work by championing paid leave and affordable care. We are excited to endorse @wewill2026.bsky.social for #MI07.
familyfriendlyeconomy.org
Citing Commitment to Lower Cost of Caregiving, Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC Endorses Will Lawrence for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District | CFFE & CFFE PAC Website
031