Boy, sometimes The New York Times is really really bad

Paltering towards oblivion

PRESENTED BY NICHE DOULAS

Greetings, fine readers. The New York Times has scored a hat trick of stupid:

1) Last week, Michael ‘Caliphate’ Barbaro’s The Daily podcast ran blatant ExxonMobil propaganda during the COP26 negotiations. Read Emily Atkin’s simply brutal takedown, if only to learn what “paltering” is.¹

2) On Tuesday, Thomas ‘Suck. On. This’ Friedman’s hot take on COP26 was a mash letter to edgelord quarter-trillionaire Elon Musk as the world’s greatest climate hero. Meanwhile, His Muskness (as The Times reports) is considering an offer to raze Indonesian rainforest for his new spaceport.

3) Yesterday, the openly racist Jonathan ‘Lapses’ Weisman, demoted but unbowed, trashed the Build Back Better Act’s funding for electric bikes, planting trees in poor neighborhoods, and doulas.

Kudos to A.G., Dean, and Kathleen for ensuring the efforts of the team of earnest reporters they sent to Glasgow received several rounds of defecation from their colleagues.

Resist Line 3 @ResistLine3

A water protector just scaled part of a skyscraper by the JPMorgan Chase World HQ in Times Square. Since 2016, Chase has spent over $317 billion to finance fossil fuel projects, including Line 3. The people are now rising to resist them.

GOOD PEOPLE DO GOOD THINGS: The University of Toronto is divesting. David Sirota and some other folks have a new movie coming out.² Grannies scare a gas company. And a mere three hours after the publication of yesterday’s Hill Heat—which pointed out that the oil and gas industry is profiteering from the rising gas prices driving DC’s inflation panic—White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain called for an investigation into the oil industry’s profiteering from the rising gas prices driving DC’s inflation panic.

Ronald Klain @WHCOS

"Prices at the pump have continued to rise, even as refined fuel costs go down and industry profits go up."

FAIRER SKIES AHEAD: Climate hawks are spreading their wings for the 2022 elections — television weatherman Eric Sorenson is running to replace the retiring Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos in the redrawn Illinois’ 17th swing district.

Climate champion Jamie McLeod-Skinner is running in the redrawn Oregon 5th—incumbent Problem Causer Kurt Schrader has yet to choose whether to stick it out there or make a go in Oregon’s new 6th district.

And progressive insurgents Matt Brown and Cynthia Mendes are looking to take the Rhode Island governor’s mansion³ with an anti-corruption campaign built around the Green New Deal.

Matt Brown @mattbrownRI

Why would our own government take $1.5 million from RI taxpayers and give it to Amazon? We need good schools, Medicare for All & a Green New Deal, not a handout to one of the richest corporations in the world. Not a dime for fucking Amazon. Time for a whole new government.

Patrick Anderson @PatrickAnderso_

Amazon expected to break ground on its new Johnston, RI warehouse "in the next couple months," state commerce secretary tells board. Will be largest building by square footage in the state. @CommerceRI ok'd $1.5M to Johnston to pay for tax break to Amazon

Today in Hill Hearings:

• House Climate Crisis at 10, tribal testimony on climate strategies

• Senate Aging at 10, inclusive disaster management

• Senate Energy & Natural Resources at 10, various conservation and national parks bills

  Blockade Australia @BlockadeAus

  Two people shut down world's largest coal port #blockadeaustralia

  

  Shut it down.

  — @climatebrad

1. Yes, I am pretending everyone seeing this isn’t already a subscriber to Emily’s absurdly good newsletter.

2. “Some other folks” is my clever way of referring to Adam McKay, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, &etc… Obligatory link to Sirota’s absurdly good newsletter.

3. Metaphorically only: Rhode Island is one of five states with no official residence for its governor.