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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Alps have lost half their ice during my lifetime so far, and could lose the rest before my children retire. Wow. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/c...

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Natural gas is about 80 percent of the cost of producing fertilizer, and you can see how fuel price fluctuations show up in in grocery prices:

A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in food prices, fertilizer prices, and natural gas prices since 2010.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Electricity rates are increasingly influenced by global natural gas prices, too:

A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in electricity prices and natural gas since 2010.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Check out the graphs showing the correlation between fuel prices internationally and domestically (thanks especially to increasing export infrastructure built in the last ten year). Here's the impact on gasoline prices since 2010:

A line chart from the Center for American Progress illustrates the correlation in gasoline and crude oil since 2010.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This reckless war on Iran has raised energy prices like no other. It's outpacing even Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A line chart from the Center for American Progress shows that crude oil futures have increased 41 percent in the nine days since Operation Epic Fury began, which outpaces similar price increases following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and other recent conflicts.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Suzie Wiles needs some help thinking of ideas to lower gas prices. Any suggestions? How about: • Don't bomb Iran. • Restore fuel economy standards. • Offer rebates to people who want an EV but can't yet afford one.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I can hardly believe that the Trump team's plans for fuel economy standards are so bad that — not only will car buyers have to pick from a market full of gas guzzlers — but so many more people will be buying so much more gas that prices will rise by more than $0.25 a gallon.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America. See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Senate Finance has released its proposed repeals, and I sure hope none of you were hoping to afford a better future for your family, or anything.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Wow, the House Republican tax bill would increase gas prices. By a lot. Up to 37¢ per gallon! New numbers published by CAP show how ending clean energy investment props up demand for fossil fuels, raises prices, and makes households pay an extra $400b over the next decade to Big Oil and Gas.

Excerpt from the Center for American Progress piece published at https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-house-republican-plan-to-increase-gas-and-electricity-prices/

The House Republican bill would:

Raise gasoline prices by 25 cents to 37 cents per gallon by 2035 as demand for oil increases due to the termination of federal electric vehicle affordability programs, fuel economy standards, and tailpipe emission standards.

Repeal the financial support for buying new, used, or leased electric vehicles, which would keep between 22 million and 40 million more gasoline-powered cars and trucks on the road through 2035, as roughly one-third of families who would have tried to switch to an electric vehicle can no longer afford one.

Increase electricity prices for households and industry as roughly two-thirds of the wind and solar that was previously expected to be deployed this decade is not built. This would cause annual home electric bills to jump $70 by 2031. This corroborates other analysts who found, in some cases even higher electricity price increases. The Clean Energy Buyers Association forecasts an increase of $110 in household electricity spending by 2026.

Force Americans to pay the oil and gas industry an additional $339 billion for gasoline and $75 billion for electricity by 2035.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Kiggans and 12 House Republicans ask leadership to consider changes to salvage the clean energy tax credits.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Great illustration of what's on the line, based on Rhodium's modeling

Estimated new low-carbon technology added each year, in two scenarios

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is all in Section 41007 of the House Republicans’ proposal for the energy title of their reconciliation bill, which Energy and Commerce released last night and is to markup tomorrow. 10/10

Image of the text of SEC. 41007. DE-RISKING COMPENSATION PROGRAM

Available at https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=118261

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Even critics of NRC's safety mission think this is dumb.

The order would also call on the NRC to undergo a restructuring to speed licensing of new reactors. Along with that reorganization, the NRC would "undertake reductions in force."

It would also "undertake a wholesale revision of its regulations," working with DOGE and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Both Lyman and Nordhaus say shrinking the NRC would be counterproductive. "If you go and lay off half the staff, you're going to lay off a bunch of the people you need to license new reactors in an expeditious fashion," Nordhaus says.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Political interference will create safety risks.

"It's the end of the independence of the agency," says Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia in Canada who was nominated by President Obama to serve as Chair of the NRC from 2012 to 2014. Macfarlane believes the changes will make Americans less safe.

"If you aren't independent of political and industry influence, then you are at risk of an accident, frankly," Macfarlane says.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Why did the Senate agree to schedule its vote on repudiating Trump's tariffs at a time it would fail due to absences, even though a majority opposes the tariffs? @andrewdesiderio.bsky.social reports it's because it was seen as "still a messaging win" and "symbolic anyway." But...

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Check out this photo the WH used to show off their connection to Earth Day on Tuesday, but look what they cropped out... the president is standing on a square of astroturf to make sure he doesn't actually have any contact with the Earth itself! 😂

Trump standing in the gardens of the White House looking like a gravedigger.

The full photo shows the president is actually standing on a four square-foot pad of astroturf while he holds a shovel full of dirt in this act of "not virtue signaling", "not ineffective", definitely not a "scam", and totally "rooted" stewardship of nature. His connection to the Earth seems profound.

The White House used this photo to argue that "Unlike the previous administration, which wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on virtue signaling and ineffective grifts, the Trump Administration’s policies are rooted in the belief that Americans are the best stewards of our vast natural resources — no “Green New Scam” required."

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Ahem, the planet 124 light years away whose lovely sulphides caught the attention of astronomers this month is named K2-18b, plainly belying the claim that "there is no planet b" (except in every way that matters).

The planet whose sulphides caught the attention of astronomers this month is named K2-18b, plainly belying the claim that "there is no planet b" (except in every way that matters).

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Here again we are reminded that in nature nothing exists alone." —Rachel Carson

Illustration of a mountain lion, deer, and tree.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

3—She doesn't apologize for the absurdity of it all. She doesn't attend to bad faith counterarguments. She doesn't wait for all solutions. She just sweeps you up in her confidence that we can do better.

I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts.
It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

2—Silent Spring was published as a book in September 1962, a few months after it was serialized for popular audiences in the New Yorker in June. Seems enough people had a chance to read it themselves that public understanding could bear up under the dishonest PR response of the pesticide industry.

Website edition of the first of the silent spring stoties in the New Yorker in June 1962.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

1—Carson offers a clear understanding of a very complex topic by mixing anecdote and explanation. You're left feeling confident about how everything fits together, as if ecology and chemistry were intuitive all along.

OVER INCREASiNGLY large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. This sudden silencing of the song of birds, this obliteration of the color and beauty and interest they lend to our world have come about swiftly, insidiously, and unnoticed by those whose communities are as yet unaffected.
From the town of Hinsdale, Illinois, a housewife wrote in despair to one of the world's leading ornithologists, Robert Cushman Murphy, Curator Emeritus of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History. "Here in our village the elm trees have been sprayed for several years [she wrote in 1958]. When we moved here six years ago, there was a wealth of bird life; I put up a feeder and had a steady stream of cardinals, chickadees, downies and nuthatches all winter, and the cardinals and chickadees brought their young ones in the summer. After several years of DDT spray, the town is almost devoid..."

But why? At first he suspected some disease of the nervous system, but soon it became evident that "in spite of the assurances of the insecticide people that their sprays were 'harm-less to birds' the robins were really dying of insecticidal poison-ing; they exhibited the well-known symptoms of loss of balance, followed by tremors, convulsions, and death."
Several facts suggested that the robins were being poisoned, not so much by direct contact with the insecticides as indirectly, by eating earthworms. Campus earthworms had been fed inadvertently to crayfish in a research project and all the crayfish had promptly died. A snake kept in a laboratory cage had gone into violent tremors after being fed such worms. And earthworms are the principal food of robins in the spring.
A key piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the doomed robins was soon to be supplied by Dr. Roy Barker of the Illinois Natural History Survey at Urbana. Dr. Barker's work, published in 1958, traced the intricate cycle of events by which the robins' fate is linked to the elm trees by way of the earthworms. The trees are sprayed in the spring (usually at the rate of 2 to 5 pounds of DDT per 50-foot tree, which may be the equivalent of as much as 23 pounds per acre where elms are numerous) and often again in July, at about half this concentration. Powerful sprayers direct a stream of poison to all parts of the tallest trees, killing directly not only the target organism, the bark beetle, but other insects, including pollinating species and predatory spiders and beetles. The poison forms a tenacious film over the leaves and bark. Rains do not wash it away. In the autumn the leaves fall to the ground, accumulate in sodden layers, and begin the slow process of becoming one with the soil.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm reading Silent Spring, and I don't know what I was expecting, but it is surprisingly well written! I should have known, given that it launched a movement. But what makes it so compelling? Three things, I think...

Title page from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. 50th anniversary edition, published 2002 in paperback.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope Francis to the Bishops of the U.S. earlier this year, his last message to them: no good comes from the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa.

4. I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality. At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival. That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.

This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for the rights of all — as I have affirmed on numerous occasions — welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable. This does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration. However, this development cannot come about through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others. What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The thing about lawlessness is that it's contagious. It breeds contempt for the rule of law and for the idea of responsibility to society. Here's a company defying the law in order to restart offshore oil drilling in California. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Excerpt from ENERGYWIRE | The California Coastal Commission voted Thursday to fine a Texas-based oil company up to $18 million for what the agency said were unpermitted repairs to oil pipelines along the Santa Barbara coast.

The Coastal Commission also voted to issue its third cease-and-desist order to the company, Sable Offshore Corp., which started repairs last fall to a dormant onshore pipeline with the intent of restarting offshore oil production.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

EPA claims the ghg reporting program is not required by law, but that is false. It was ordered by Congress in a law that Bush signed. Check the receipts.

Screenshot of New York Times quoting an EPA spokesperson's false assertion that "the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program was unlike other mandatory data collection at the E.P.A. because it is not required by law or a regulation."

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Little known fact: Congress ordered EPA to create the greenhouse gas reporting program in an appropriations bill that was signed by President Bush after Senator Feinstein inserted the instruction into a must-pass omnibus. EPA has no discretion to eliminate this program.

Screenshot of PUBLIC LAW 110–161 from DEC. 26, 2007 directing EPA to issue a final rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New from CBO: investments in clean electricity (which is virtually all new electricity investment!) could be cut by 23 to 46 percent if Congress interferes with the clean energy tax credits. Let's not do that. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

CBO chart showing that annual investment in wind, solar, and other alternative electric power structures has generally increased over the last decade and is projected under current law to continue growing. However, without the clean energy tax credits, CBO shows a major decline in investment.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Roberts and the Republican justices continue to degrade the constitutional order, trying to legitimize Trump's violation of the rule of law. But legitimacy is a measure of public acceptance, not an utterance of legal excuses. We must insist in our right to self govern under the rule of law.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

At least we can count on Vance to stay focused on what matters here, folks: not messing up that sweet Saudi crude.

Signal chat from the Vice President lamely asking if the Secretary of Defense can think of anything to do to "minimize risk to Saudi oil facilities" as part of his plan of attack in the Suez.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"The singular aim of these tactics is to construct a prerogative state where cruel caprice, not law, rules." 2/4

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all the families of the Emerald Isle's many emigrants and immigrants.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

One of the few copies of the first printed draft of the Constitution that still survives today was Alexander Hamilton's. He drew a little hand pointing at one of the most important provisions. Want to guess what it was?

Alexander Hamilton's copy of the first printed draft of the Constitution from the Constitutional Convention in August 1787.

A small drawing of a hand is pointing at an important provision...

...the appropriations clause of the constitution.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Reasons that Senators should vote against Trump's cuts: • People are suffering real consequences from the cuts • Article I of the Constitution • Senators represent the people, who hate these Trump cuts by a 20-30 point margin! New polling from CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

CNN reports on new polling that "Americans expect negative repercussions specifically due to Trump’s cuts to federal programs. Most (55%) say they think those cuts will hurt the US economy, and nearly as many say the cuts will have a direct negative impact on their family (51%) or on the area where they live (52%). Only about a third of Americans say they expect those cuts to help the economy (34%), and fewer expect that they will have a positive impact on their family or community (22% each)."

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Zeldin announced he is violating contracts for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, complaining that Biden rushed the money out. But here's the thing: Congress made it law to put those funds under contract by September 2024. EPA followed the law and obligated the funds by August 16, 2024.

Text of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund appropriations made available under the Inflation Reduction Act until September 30, 2024.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Can I pop in with another recommendation? I loved The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. It is a fascinating window into the breadth of human social forms in the Mesolithic.

Cover of the book, The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

But political leadership also requires vision. It is not good that all three examples of their "disruption" are performative and entrench the status quo: blaming a poor economic record on enviros, embracing oil interests, and producing anti-immigrant videos.

Out of almost nowhere, a third runway at Heathrow has become policy for a party that before polling day sold itself as the champion of a green industrial revolution. Nothing, but nothing, must now get in the way of economic growth.

Even pumping oil out of a massive area of the North Sea and selling it on to be burned seems to be ruled (unofficially) in, not out. Dark warnings are these days issued daily, in the background, about big cuts to benefits for the “workshy”.

And chilling videos from the party are expected this week to show the terrible journey illegal immigrants to the UK face by buses and planes as they are deported by a government showing zero tolerance towards those whose asylum claims are rejected.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Party leaders have figured out that effective political leadership requires vigor and disruption of the status quo. You have to show that you are fighting for people. Good.

In the space of a couple of weeks, the Labour high-command has morphed from being a risk-averse, technocratic operation which said and did very little that was interesting in order to win power – and did little more in the first six months after taking it – into something else entirely. Suddenly, in the dark of mid-February, Keir Starmer’s Labour government is self-styling its people as “disruptors” and “insurgents”.

“Labour can’t go into the next election defending an increasingly expansive status quo which fails to deliver on what citizens now rightly expect. An insurgent, disrupting mindset from ministers means hacking away at pettifogging bureaucracy..."

"The start of Trump’s second term was a blitz. Starmer’s people took note. “Say what you like about Trump, but compare the energy of all the executive orders – delivering on a detailed plan made in opposition and rolled out from day one – with the lost seven months of this Labour government,” said a senior party figure."

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The energy emergency EO is self-contradictory in its own way, saying insufficient domestic energy supplies constitute a national emergency, and so we must do everything possible to facilitate new energy sources – except not *those* energy sources. It's farcical.

The United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy. In light of these findings, I hereby declare a national emergency.
Sec. 2. Emergency Approvals. (a) The heads of executive departments and agencies (“agencies”) shall identify and exercise any lawful emergency authorities available to them, as well as all other lawful authorities they may possess, to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on Federal lands.

The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals...

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The order to impose tariffs on Canadian energy is, unsurprisingly, confused. The new EO (pictured in black) imposes a 10% tariff on "energy and energy resources", which is defined by last week's EO (pictured in white).

With respect to energy or energy resources, as defined in section 8 of Executive Order 14156 of January 20, 2025 (Declaring a National Energy Emergency), and as otherwise included in the Federal Register notice, such articles that are products of Canada as defined by the Federal Register notice shall be, consistent with law, subject to an additional 10 percent ad valorem rate of duty.

Sec. 8. Definitions. For purposes of this order, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3).

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The political center makes a mistake by “going tough” on the far right's scapegoat issues, desperate to win back votes. "Voters simply ask why, if immigration was so important, they did nothing about it.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

When that happens, “mainstream parties move right on immigration. It’s strategic, to win back votes. So you have this accommodation. Except it doesn’t work – it doesn’t bring the votes back. But two things do happen that reinforce the trend.”

So first, Abou-Chadi said, norms change. Accommodation normalises and legitimises far-right parties: voting for them is no longer a transgression. Second, opinion shifts: if mainstream parties say something is really important, people tend to believe it. “And then mainstream parties see that shift in public opinion and think: ‘We have to keep moving further to the right.’ And you end up broadening the coalition of people saying ‘we have to do something’ about immigration.”

However, political scientists say electoral and polling evidence from many countries strongly suggests that, for mainstream centre-right parties, the process of accommodation merely results in their being “cannibalised” by the far right.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Constitution: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct" DOGE: So, we can get rid of this website, then?

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A window onto the experiences of a Jan 6 insurrectionist who now refuses Trump's pardon. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Some Americans, including President Donald Trump, believe that Riddle and others who rioted at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, were unjustly persecuted and thus deserving of clemency—if not celebration. Riddle, a 36-year-old New Hampshire resident, rejects this framing. “I’m not a patriot or a hero just because the guy who started the riot says it’s okay,” he told me.

On Thursday, after consulting with his public defender, Riddle sent a pithy email to the Department of Justice:

To whom it may concern,

I’d like to reject my pardon please.

Sincerely,
Jason Riddle

Sent from my iPhone

Declining the pardon falls within Riddle’s legal rights. Many other January 6ers are holding out their hands for the president’s gift. “I can’t look myself in the mirror and do that,” Riddle said.

Sobriety has changed his political perspective, too. Whereas he once viewed Trump as a bold truth teller, raw and unvarnished, he now sees the president as self-serving. When Trump called for public protests around the time of his indictments, Riddle felt especially played. “And I remember thinking, like, why would he do that? People died at the Capitol riot,” Riddle said. “That was the ‘duh’ moment I had with myself: Well, obviously because he doesn’t care about anybody other than himself, and you’re an idiot for thinking otherwise.”

Last fall, he donated to the Kamala Harris campaign, and voted for her in the election.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As climate change hits, insurers pull back. This means new buyers won't be able to get mortgages, and property values will fall. It's a spiral that could happen quickly, and these data show how it's starting to be evident already.

Areas facing greater fire and hurricane risk have had a large spike in insurance non-renewals in the years since 2020.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Cement and concrete production is also concentrated:

Several states are high emitters across building material-related industries
Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from metal and mineral industrial facilities by state, 2022

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