Minerals, metals, energy and climate @EurasiaGroup Formerly @washingtonpost @WSJ @TribLIVE “He seems well-meaning and is not terribly annoying." Views my own

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Joined May 2013
US trade rep Jamieson Greer is trying to convince the world’s big consumers to pay more for minerals. He’s not wrong but it’s a hard hard sell And just as much at home as abroad. Trying to compete w China could be a bottomless money pit Thinking a lot rn of Rick Perry, c2017…
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Sure but the primary alternative to burning US gas is to burn other people’s coal. Not a win for climate let alone for US trade or security
Record US oil and gas production is fueled by record exports, which will increase under the permitting bill. 5 US LNG export terminals use more gas than all 74 million residential gas utility consumers
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The best London museum exhibits always come from/through Pittsburgh.
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Tim Puko retweeted
Permitting reform? “I'm just not going to devote whatever few brain cells I have left to something that's not going to happen,” Kennedy says after GOP lunch
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A real opening here for Rachel Maddow to give us the most Howard Bealeian 25 minutes of her life
Schmitt (not Schmidt) then went on a podcast and agreed that he'd totally nailed Smith on this NBA game story xitter.cf/atrupar/status/2104975…
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Hmmm…is it actually Republican staffs that aren’t hiring enough straight guys who know ball?
The reason Senators have staff is to save them from moments like this one. Someone in the Russell Building is probably updating a resume right about now.
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All of these things are true! When the oline and wrs underperform, in the ways they certainly have, it accentuates late-stage Rodgers’ obvious flaws. The way this team was built it can succeed only if every other component excels so the limited qb can be his best 42-yo self
Replying to @MarkMaddenX
You think he’s been the problem more than the offensive line or receiving core so far this season? I can’t possibly think you believe that.
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The next Democrat who comes into this office is almost certainly going to have a much better sense of their executive authority. Their voters are demanding it.
interesting quote from a fossil fuel executive reflecting on his meetings with trump (regime change)
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I’m not going to say Republicans ARE finally going to lose in Texas, but if Republicans were to ever lose Texas, this is how they would do it.
I know Austin is not a normal barometer of Texas statewide political sentiment but I have seen zero signs and bumper stickers for Paxton. Usually, I’ll see a few for the GOP’s top of the ticket.
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Can’t ever quit this app
BREAKING: Man City have been found guilty on all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. As a result, Everton have been deducted 10 points.
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“We’ll stand a chance if only our chronically negative and bad-faith members and stakeholders treat this challenging compromise with optimism and good faith…in the slim chance it makes it out of committee this week” is not exactly a promising forecast for permitting overhauls!
We could see permitting bill language as soon as this week, says @SenJohnCurtis at #ClimateWeekNYC. “There will be problems,” he said. But if stakeholders approach it with an open mind, instead of going for the kill, permitting reform might actually get done this year.
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Well that didn’t take long!
New in Semafor DC PM: Permitting reform talks are stalled and hopes for a bipartisan deal in the Senate before the election are fading ... semafor.com/newsletter/09/21…
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You can see Dems here walking themselves into the same mistakes of health experts in Covid early days. Too much social engineering/expectation management craters public trust later when a vaguely articulated climate agenda cant fully deliver on whats framed as an economic agenda
Most climate-focused policymakers believe the way to encourage action is to make the energy transition sound as easy as possible. Another approach would be to frankly acknowledge the difficulties, and convince people that you are equipped to help people to navigate the tradeoffs
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When your football team front office is so laughably, predictably incompetent you can program whole AI agents to troll about it (Very effectively!)
BROTHER this whole JPJ situation is becoming the most predictable Steelers story imaginable. The front office drags its feet all offseason, takes care of multiple depth players first, lets the cornerback market get more expensive, then finally makes one of its best young players a priority at the eleventh hour. And what happens next? Steelers fans blame the player. Not the organization that waited. Not the front office that created the leverage problem. Not the timing. The player. JPJ knows what he’s worth. He plays a premium position at an elite level and wants to be paid accordingly. Wanting market value isn’t greed. Brother, blaming the player after the team created the mess is so unbelievably on brand for Steelers Nation.
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The bots in Cleveland must be 🔥
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I had never heard this name before and I don't even know what to say.
Rick Rescorla. Every American should know his name. He single-handedly saved almost 10,000 lives that day, while sacrificing his own trying to save even one more.
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Waiver wire prices going through the roof somewhere between weeks four and six when the Iran war keeps going and Hormuz is closed
Everyone comes into the season talking a big game. But by week 3, they’re going to switch Solar to RB1 and pick up batteries for D/ST on waivers.
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This administration is almost always reluctant to give up its optionality. And with copper supplies surging in US warehouses and voters upset with prices ahead of a key election, there is no incentive for them to make a tariff decision now, or for weeks or months to come.
NEWS: Trump tariffs on refined copper are not a foregone conclusion, sources tell me and @ErnestScheyder, as the White House weighs the impact on affordability ahead of November’s midterm elections. Copper prices have hit record highs and traders and industrial buyers are rushing to build U.S. inventories ahead of possible duties. WH official: “The administration continues to evaluate all options to reshore copper and other critical manufacturing back to the United States.” reuters.com/world/us/white-h…
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A story in @TheAthletic deeply deeply about about climate change (combined with earlier kickoffs and the influence of TV media rights deals) with zero mention of the concept of climate change! nytimes.com/athletic/7570746…
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