Chip Giller
@chipgiller.bsky.social
Cofounder and executive director of @weareagog.bsky.social, helping people imagine a better world. Founder of @gristnews.bsky.social, the climate news org.
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The scenarios aren't predictions, so they're not "right" or "wrong". They are possible futures depending on our actions. The good news is that emissions are now tracking below older "business-as-usual" pathways because of climate policy in spite of Trump: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
May 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The scenarios aren't predictions, so they're not "right" or "wrong". They are possible futures depending on our actions. The good news is that emissions are now tracking below older "business-as-usual" pathways because of climate policy in spite of Trump: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
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"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
If you dig deep enough into the corruption of our democracy, down there at the bottom of the hole you find...a lot of oil
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Big Oil Breaks Everything
The planet, our democracy, our courts...
open.substack.com
April 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
This is what @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social has been fighting for over the last several months—more moderate Dems and the moderating effect they’d have on the party. I hope he’s happy with this taste of success! @joshtpm.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is what @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social has been fighting for over the last several months—more moderate Dems and the moderating effect they’d have on the party. I hope he’s happy with this taste of success! @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Wow. just wow. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
🇨🇳 Every second, China bolts down ~100 solar panels. H1 2025: 67% of global solar already. And before decade’s end, China’s solar capacity ALONE will eclipse the whole US grid. The first true electrostate is here—rising at hyperscale, rewriting energy history in real time. ⚡☀️ #Solar #EV #Energy #BESS
September 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Wow. just wow. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Immersive media, used with care, can help us feel what we can’t fully understand—and move us to act.
Agog’s @chipgiller.bsky.social shares on @mashable.com why XR storytelling deserves a seat at the table for social change.
mashable.com/article/imme...
#XRforGood #Storytelling #ImmersiveMedia
Agog’s @chipgiller.bsky.social shares on @mashable.com why XR storytelling deserves a seat at the table for social change.
mashable.com/article/imme...
#XRforGood #Storytelling #ImmersiveMedia
By confronting racial harm, immersive media is helping build empathy
The co-founder of Agog: The Immersive Media Institute argues that immersive tech has the capability to change hearts and minds.
mashable.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Immersive media, used with care, can help us feel what we can’t fully understand—and move us to act.
Agog’s @chipgiller.bsky.social shares on @mashable.com why XR storytelling deserves a seat at the table for social change.
mashable.com/article/imme...
#XRforGood #Storytelling #ImmersiveMedia
Agog’s @chipgiller.bsky.social shares on @mashable.com why XR storytelling deserves a seat at the table for social change.
mashable.com/article/imme...
#XRforGood #Storytelling #ImmersiveMedia
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Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles.
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles.
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Why is @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov breaking his word to help save Bay Area transit? It is just appalling and politically idiotic.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Why is @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov breaking his word to help save Bay Area transit? It is just appalling and politically idiotic.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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It's the time piece I want to focus on. The key thing about the benefits of a clean energy system is that, once we've transitioned, *we will enjoy those benefits for the rest of our time on earth*. Every subsequent generation of humans will enjoy the benefits. They will accumulate & accumulate.
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's the time piece I want to focus on. The key thing about the benefits of a clean energy system is that, once we've transitioned, *we will enjoy those benefits for the rest of our time on earth*. Every subsequent generation of humans will enjoy the benefits. They will accumulate & accumulate.
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It was a pleasure chatting with @weareagog.bsky.social's @chipgiller.bsky.social and James Pollard of @apnews.com about how philanthropy can support science, ethical and inclusive AI and the power of immersive reality....
apnews.com/article/wend...
apnews.com/article/wend...
July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It was a pleasure chatting with @weareagog.bsky.social's @chipgiller.bsky.social and James Pollard of @apnews.com about how philanthropy can support science, ethical and inclusive AI and the power of immersive reality....
apnews.com/article/wend...
apnews.com/article/wend...
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Awful to hear of these deaths. It’s horrendous to me that one needs to worry not only about actual antisemitism but how governments could use this as a license for wrongdoing.
May 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Awful to hear of these deaths. It’s horrendous to me that one needs to worry not only about actual antisemitism but how governments could use this as a license for wrongdoing.
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The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism
May 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism
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Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!
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pope having a totally never trump twitter account is just way outside any of my expectations
May 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
pope having a totally never trump twitter account is just way outside any of my expectations
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We won’t bow to pressure to move away from our climate commitments.
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
April 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We won’t bow to pressure to move away from our climate commitments.
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
Today we're demanding the retirement systems’ managers strengthen their #NetZero plans consistent with their fiduciary duty—or we will find new managers who will.
Watch the full press conference👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQt...
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California now has 50% more EV charging stations than gas pumps 🤯
Postcard from the future
www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-03...
Postcard from the future
www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-03...
California Exceeds 178,000 Electric Vehicle Chargers
SACRAMENTO — Today, the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced the state has reached 178,549 public and shared private electric vehicle (EV) chargers installed statewide. Compared to a CEC-estim...
www.energy.ca.gov
March 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
California now has 50% more EV charging stations than gas pumps 🤯
Postcard from the future
www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-03...
Postcard from the future
www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-03...
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this appears to be the new regime oped page at wapo. WOW.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign
Zelensky's stubbornness has badly hurt Ukraine.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
this appears to be the new regime oped page at wapo. WOW.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
This piece by my mentor and friend @billmckibben.bsky.social, powerful and true, is such an accurate summary of the state of things.
The new administrator of the E.P.A. is likely to reverse the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public—a “truly and deeply disgraceful” form of basic science denial, Bill McKibben writes.
Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.
www.newyorker.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This piece by my mentor and friend @billmckibben.bsky.social, powerful and true, is such an accurate summary of the state of things.
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Make Sepsis Great Again
Maternal health experts who reviewed ProPublica’s findings say Texas' abortion ban is the only explanation they could see for the sudden jump in sepsis cases. ⤵️
✍️ Lizzie Presser, Kavitha Surana,
@andreasuozzo.com, Sophie Chou
📈 @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
✍️ Lizzie Presser, Kavitha Surana,
@andreasuozzo.com, Sophie Chou
📈 @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Make Sepsis Great Again