Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Prison contractor in this story: "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." Reminder of who & what we are dealing with here in America. 020
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have been impressed by much of what @kajakallas.bsky.social has done. But not this. The #MAGA war on truth is a fundamental threat to Democracy both here and in the EU. It is not a place to compromise. 021
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump repeatedly claims powers that he simply doesn't have under the Constitution and US law. Claims that he can impose #tariffs and block trade at will are a good example. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...lawfaremedia.orgThe President Doesn’t Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import BansContrary to Trump’s claims, executive power to impose import bans is constrained by most of the same legal restrictions as the power to impose tariffs. 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wondering if anyone out there (besides Republicans in Congress) thinks that threatening an ally with 300% #tariffs if they don't build more US factories is the sign of a mentally and emotionally stable adult who should control US foreign policy. www.chosun.com/english/worl...chosun.comTrump Threatens 300% Tariffs to Secure Foreign InvestmentTrump Threatens 300% Tariffs to Secure Foreign Investment Amid midterm election pressures, Trump leverages tariff threats to push South Korea and others on investments, despite unconfirmed deals 130
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There are 3 days left to comment. I hope that many of you do so. Once these old growth forests are gone, it will take centuries to get them back. /8/end www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...regulations.govRegulations.gov 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026But now the Trump Administration has come along, and as you know their plan is to loot the entire country - including our old growth forests. So we get this crap, despite the overwhelming majority of voters opposing repealing the Roadless Rule, the agency is still pushing ahead. /7 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026BTW, there are already 265,000 miles of roads maintained by the @forestservice.bsky.social. And Forest Service hasn't been given anywhere near the money it needs to maintain them. Which is a reason that in 2001, the federal government decided to stop allowing road building in roadless areas. /6 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Much of our remaining old-growth forest is in Roadless Rule areas, which are not parks & not wilderness areas - just areas the forest service never got around to building roads in, and many of them are adjacent to wilderness areas. Roadless areas are mostly out west. /5 maps.roadless.orgmaps.roadless.orgRoadless Areas ExplorerInteractive map and reference for the 2,331 Inventoried Roadless Areas across America's National Forests — explore boundaries, wildlife, ecosystems, and conservation data. 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 45 million acres or so of old-growth forest was only 4.5% of the original, 2% of US land area, and there's likely less 30 years later. These forests have multi-story canopies, host lots of plant & animal diversity & store a lot of carbon. /4 oldgrowthforestecology.org/ecological-v...oldgrowthforestecology.orgStructure and Composition - Old Growth Forest EcologyOld growth differs significantly from younger growth in structural and compositional attributes that include a multi-aged and multi-layered canopy, horizontal patchiness with canopy gaps, numerous lar... 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Fast for-ward to 1997. 30% of that has been converted, mostly to farmland. There are still 747 million acres of forest, only 6% of that is stands of trees older than 175 years old. Meaning 94% has been logged, much of it multiple times. /3 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026First off, some relevant numbers. When Europeans started to arrive to what is now the USA en masse in 1630, there were 1.045 billion acres of forest, which was dominated by old growth because Native Americans did not conduct large-scale, mechanized logging. /2 mff.forest.mtu.edu/TreeBasics/U...mff.forest.mtu.edu 101
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just put in my comments against the Trump Administration's attempt to repeal the Roadless Rule Area. This is a huge issue for the remaining wild lands and old growth forests in the United States. Let me provide some of the details... /1 roadless.orgroadless.orgDefend the Roadless Rule - Protect America's Last Wild ForestsRoadless areas safeguard clean water for 124M people, vital wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation. Join us in protecting these irreplaceable public lands. 152
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sooner or later, we are going to wipe out the business case for running gas plants during mid-day in spring in New England. Maybe in the next few years. That means inflexible gas plants will need to retire or only run seasonally. Now we need a lot more #batteries! #energytransition 050
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"This was one Widmar of a drought this summer. Killed half the soybean crops." "That Atlantic hurricane is turning out to be a real Moskowitz." 120
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm starting to think that we should name major weather disasters after the people who are choking off #solar supply through malignant trade actions. "Wow. Did you see that wind speed? That was one Hell of a Brightbill." or "Jesus. That heatwave was a real Murphy." @commercialsolarguy.com 140
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've felt for a long time that we need more publicly funded (but not gov't controlled) #media outlets. But if we can't go that far, how about tax credits for local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ? Strikes me as a great idea and I think more states should do this. 071
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The term used so far is "fossilflation." And it needs to be more widely discussed, because this Iran War shit is making everything more $. gwagner.com/nature-fossi...gwagner.comWhy more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisisby Gernot Wagner 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And then there was this murder. Never would have known about it had I not been discussing Seamus Heaney with an Irish kid on a flight back from Europe. Four kids! Freaking monsters. fawbie.info/wintering-ou...fawbie.infoPoem The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney - Essay‘I did ‘The Tollund Man’ in Ballydavid in Kerry at Easter in 1970. Marie and I had gone there for holidays regularly …’ (DOD124); I Heaney makes the pledge he will fulfil in 1973 a year after Winterin... 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I can't support the bombing in England, but I will point out that while IRA atrocities are widely reported, murders by the UVF and other Protestant militias were quite numerous as well and included some horrific crimes against children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...en.wikipedia.orgMurder of the Quinn brothers - Wikipedia 120
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BTW as a descendant of "Prods," my people back in Ireland are deeply on the wrong side of history and I'd be embarrassed to be related to them, but I use this heritage to pledge my support for a united Ireland, disarmament of Protestant paramilitaries, and justice for their victims. 26+6=1! 120
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a former radical you'd think I'd know more. But we Americans are broadly ignorant of both world affairs and our own history, including the history of our ancestors before they arrived here. 220
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Americans have no clue about this stuff. I am a descendant of Protestants from Northern Ireland and I had only the faintest, fuzziest ideas about the place and its politics until I had a Catholic Irish foreman from Derry when I was in my 20's. /1 121
Reposted by Christian RoselundRenu @renure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When will the local media ask RIGOP candidates about their treatment of children? They own this cruelty; www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p... 011
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As Americans, we take care of our own. That means using our vast military might and diplomatic power to protect Americans* overseas. *Unless the Americans are of Palestinian descent, and the aggressor is #Israel. 010
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These are also reasons why Chinese #solar is exported everywhere where there isn't a massive wall of trade barriers to keep it out (i.e., the United States and to a lesser degree India). 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They're high on their own supply. ITC extension is not going to happen with Trump in the White House. 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The insincere apologists for Israel‘s ethnic cleansing will never stop gaslighting the rest of us. In condemning Israel’s war crimes in #Gaza, @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social represents the majority opinion among Democrats & speaks for those of us whose voices are silenced by Dem Party leaders. 041
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yes. In this issue @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social represents those of us who are sick of funding Israeli war crimes & sick of being gaslit by so-called leaders in the Democratic Party. And BTW we represent the majority opinion among Democrats. 040
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This weekend I'll be writing comments as to why the US Forest Service should not gut the #RoadlessRule, which is both a way to both avoid waste of taxpayer dollars and a vital protection for much of the 3% of US old-growth forests that are left. Comments through 10/6. oregonwild.org/forest-servi...oregonwild.orgForest Service to Extend Roadless Rule Comment Period - Oregon Wild"It’s clear why the Trump administration would try to hide its own analysis from the public." 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have some minor quibbles with the developments & timelines described around China's turn to an internal market for #solar, but overall I think this piece is another good explanation of the confluence of factors that led China to become the dominant global manufacturer of EVs/solar/batteries etc. 082
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026But I do think it is an important part of the story for how China got to creating such a strong internal market for solar: it had built massive capacity for export and the Chinese solar industry could see the writing on the wall that those markets would not be freely available forever. /3/end 010
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So while the move to policies to undergird an internal market for solar in China was already beginning, it is fully realized after major exports to Europe & the threat of trade barriers in the EU market, a threat which became reality in 2013. I don't think this changes the overall conclusions. /2 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is quite good. But in the section "the cars and the panels," the authors miss that a huge market for Chinese solar exports was created by the German feed-in tariff, and that this market did not hit its peak until 2009-2012. /1 110
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026But whether in solar or in EVs, it appears to be a similar problem: malignant domestic actors (the big 5 for EVs, certain vertically integrated solar suppliers) are driving trade policy and unless we are able to remove them from the crafting of these trade barriers, they will be fatally flawed./7end 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026& what has happened in solar I consider nowhere near as problematic as our moves to shut Chinese EVs out of the US market. I struggle to find a bigger policy move to delay US decarbonization, and this was Biden! The interests of the big five and the interests of Americans are not the same. At all.6 110
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The net result: while in theory trade barriers are needed to help create an environment where domestic manufacturing can flourish, they are neither the most important facilitator of that manufacturing, nor in practice have they necessarily been a net help for the project. /5 110
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And mostly, these policies have punished one part of the supply chain (module makers w/o domestic cell capacity) to favor a small group of vertically integrated companies who *could not* serve market demand. The use of trade barriers for solar has been deeply problematic for the onshoring project.4 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026While the final outcome of the 2022 anti-circ on solar wasn't too bad (just forced wafer factories to move to SE Asia - not a bad outcome), it froze the market in 2022 due to Commerce's bizarre rules for retroactive application. Everything since then has been a mess. /3 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I agree that some trade barriers are also necessary. But in my 14 years of following US federal trade policy for solar, the 2012/2014 China AD/CVD & 2018 Section 201 tariffs were the only measures that did this fairly and evenly w/o much collateral damage to some US manufacturers & the market. /2 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just got around to reading this. It's very good. "Some trade measures are necessary to avoid overreliance on China for clean energy systems, but it must be done strategically and pragmatically." What worked to rebuild US solar manufacturing capacity wasn't trade barriers but the 45X tax credit. /1 110
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*The record*. My kingdom for an edit button... 020
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Last week I was accused by someone on this site of being against his specific oversized passenger vehicle instead of being against *all* oversized passenger vehicles on US roadways. So I want to clear they record on this one. This is something I wrote in 2023: medium.com/@croselund/s...medium.comSociopathic Design, Part 1: A Car Crash in MassachusettsYesterday, while we were driving on I-95, an enormous SUV slammed into the back of my partner’s car. The impact was sudden and terrifying… 200
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Go ahead, Republicans. Ban diesel exports. Diesel costs will rise globally, and this will accelerate the #energytransition. Or don't. Diesel prices will continue to rise domestically, you will be voted out of office, and we can get back to domestic policies that accelerate the US energy transition. 0111
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On this note: while I still disagree with his stated housing policy, I am glad that @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social as mayor of #Providence will not pander to Israel and its murderers the way that Brett Smiley has. This has been gross & embarrassing. I look forward to civic divestment from Israel./end 000
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I encourage you to join me in making a donation to @unrwausa.bsky.social. Whatever you think of the justification for Israel's slaughter in Gaza, the Palestinian children didn't do any of this. They deserve to have an education; they deserve better. As do all children, anywhere. /4 100
Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I feel like this is the least that I can do to atone for my failure as an American to stop our craven so-called leaders from funding these horrors. The political work must also continue. I am optimistic that this Fall we will take back more of the Democratic Party from Israeli apologists. /3 100