Less than 4% of outlets include mention animal agriculture in their climate news stories despite it being a leading source of carbon emissions. Learn more about Sentient's analysis in @theguardian.com:

The Trump administration is suing California, blaming the strongest animal welfare law in the country for the high cost of eggs.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

Warm sunlight slants across the building walls, and at the end of the lane, a clear sky of gradually deepening blue ~ Scottish-born artist James Proudfoot’s ‘Sun on a House, Dieppe’ (1937)

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

2025 is a record-breaking year for claims filed by fossil fuel and mining firms against democratic policies – marking a grim milestone in a surge of polluting industries seeking compensation for lost profits via a secretive tribunal. For @ftm.eu with contributions by ao @anilyilmaz.bsky.social

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

I'm fresh out of outrage this wk, but I will say this. The American myths the Trump admin is using 2 build its version of nat'lism have been here since the founding. The racist idea that this continent rightfully belonged 2 Europeans (then Americans) is something our country has nvr truly confronted

New from me -- the cheapest way to prevent animal cruelty. Gift link here: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

The Trump administration has cancelled a $417,000 federal grant that would have funded research on the social and economic impacts of biogas production from industrialized swine operations in North Carolina. @lisasorg.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org:

In Immokalee, Florida, volunteers keep an eye out for ICE while others grow and distribute plants like cactus and jute mallow.

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

The ag lobby -- and even govt. regulators! -- argue against farm pollution limits on the basis that the US has "2 million farms" and that it's infeasible to regulate so many farms. But there's a big problem with this talking point: It's just not true. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The Scottish Govt has taken important first steps with its Green Industrial Strategy but talk of ‘missions’ without acting wont address Scotlands challenges. Our report w/ @lmacfarlane.bsky.social outlines how to match words w/ action through a whole-of-govt approach to economic transformation 1/3

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

The beef industry has known since 1989 that their product is one of the most resource intensive and polluting foods on the planet. But rather than address its climate impact, the National Cattlemen Beef Association chose to manufacture doubt.

Say it louder for the people in the back 👏 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I wonder how many cyclists are happy about Shimano sponsoring this horror. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." This is wild. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A lot of people are pointing out that copyright rules are breaking under the weight of generative AI, which exploits creative labour at scale. The solution is not to erect digital walls, but to treat collective knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.

I feel like we haven’t really talked enough about how much of MAHA/masc-coded wellness grift is just boosterism for the cattle industry - collagen - whey protein - colostrum - tallow - organ meats It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale! Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...

Wonderful, thank you Mr. musk, sir 🫡

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Canadians and Americans are working together to stop the construction of two new mega-dairies in North Dakota. At the core of the fight? Clean water. @jesslsr.bsky.social shares how advocates and residents are fighting against factory farms.

"The fossil record reveals that plastic-like biopolymers, and by extension synthetic polymers, might persist for hundreds of millions of years"

Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Why are these big-name conservatives suddenly defending ostriches? Hint: it’s not really about the birds. My latest for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

But actually GM in the 70s (for transmission fluid not energy but still)

The second piece in our AI series explores how the growing energy demand for training and running artificial intelligence models is driving increased investment in fossil fuels - and how accounting techniques distract from the surge in tech company data centre emissions on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

New at DeSmog: @rachelsherrington.bsky.social reveals how the meat industry might have teamed up with prominent environmental groups to convince consumers that beef can be "climate friendly," even as the industry's emissions of planet-heating pollutants increase. #climatechange

Beef is higher in emissions than any other food, but you wouldn't know it based on a new curriculum taught in schools, funded by the beef industry.

RIP US offshore wind. US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management rescinds ALL areas designated for offshore wind energy development in federal waters. gcaptain.com/boem-rescind... 🔌💡

DOGE wasn't just a failure—it was the latest chapter in a 50-year project to dismantle state capacity. The question should have been obvious: efficient at what & for whom? New post on how "efficiency" is used as cover for systematic value extraction ➡️ marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/efficiency...

Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.

1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...

200 employees at a JBS plant in Iowa were informed that their visas had been revoked. Now, their employment is over, and they may have to leave the U.S. immediately. Watch the whole story with our investigative reporter @ninaelkadi.com.

Fox atop building rubble - another comfy spot ? ! Thank you to @shaws-light.bsky.social for this #FoxOfTheDay - top work !

I know there's a risk of amplifying the fascist horror show, but I think we need to be aware of just how far things are going, especially as this man is a Republican candidate for governor of California. All the old safeguards are being deliberately torn down, and the unspeakable normalised.

Every time you ask ChatGPT to proofread your email you quietly borrow from the labour of millions. In this sense, cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Updating its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary: it is time to socialise AI’s inputs. @faustogernone.bsky.social

The extreme & genocidal violence with which the U.S. expanded west is nothing to be proud of--but it has everything to do with our current political moment. You don't have to look far back in American history to realize Trump's actions are not "unprecedented" or "un-American".

In which I get both furious and very worried about google's AI putting incendiary falsehoods about evicting council tenants to house asylum seekers at the top of the search results. This is dangerous stuff (albeit unintended, though that might be worse). nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/07/arti...

The Trump administration and the GOP are doing a lot these days to boost the pork industry's campaign to lock pigs in tiny cages. Here's my round-up on the madness: