🧵 This stunning image features JWST's NIRCam (near-infrared) newest observation of the planetary nebula NGC 6072. Planetary nebulae, which generally present themselves with circular, elliptical or bipolar shapes,... ➡️ science.nasa.gov/centers-and-... Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 🧪

Two major Israeli human rights organizations, B’Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights, officially declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, citing bombs targeting civilians, displacement, and deliberate starvation. The first time the Gaza genocide is called out from within Israeli society. #3E🧵

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ... A former US veteran who was employed at a food distribution site in Gaza has accused members of the Israel Defence Forces and American colleagues of deliberately targeting and killing unarmed Palestinian civilians.

The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change.

Good morning with good news: 91% of global new RE projects in 2024 cost less than any fossil fuel! Solar globally averaged 0.043$/kWh, making it 41% cheaper than fossil fuels. China's solar was 0.033$/kWh! Solar's installed cost fell 87% since 2010! See: www.irena.org/-/media/File... #energysky

Nuclear☢️ has been consistently the EU's biggest source of electricity for around a decade.. That changed in June, as solar became the #1 source of EU electricity. Sure, it's summer, but this is a big milestone for just how far solar has come, pushing coal to an all-time low💪

Cause of the 🇪🇸+🇵🇹 blackout? Conventional generation failed to ramp up in time to dampen inter-area oscillations leading to over-voltages that in turn led to cascading generation disconnections. Batteries with grid forming inverters would have been able to react fast and dampen the oscillations.

Will global sea-surface temperatures return to pre-2023 levels this year? Will Arctic sea ice set a new record low extent? Will Canadian fires burn a record area? Will COP-30 sell out to big oil? Will fascism crush all hope? The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.

Is this convincing enough? www.rechargenews.com/energy-trans... H2 is ~33 times worse than CO2 in the short term and ~11 times worse over a 100 year period and H2 infrastructure leaks. 👎 H2 for cars is a bad idea. Thankfully more BEVs cars are sold per day than total FCEV sales ever. #hydrogen

Battery-electric cargo ships already exist. 70% of US steel making uses electric-arc furnaces. As batteries get cheaper and denser, their deployment in shipping and aviation and even seasonal storage will take over. H2 increases climate change. It is worse than CO2. techxplore.com/news/2021-11...

Solar devices worldwide vulnerable to cyber attacks The rapid expansion of solar energy technology has brought significant benefits, but it also raises serious cybersecurity concerns. As the number... #News Origin | Interest | Match

A message from Barcelona

The importance of ther tear gas defuser

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Trump’s sanctions on four ICC judges for approving Israeli arrest warrants and investigating US torture invite charges against him and Marco Rubio for obstructing justice under Article 70 of the Rome Statute. #3E #EndImpunity

Israel detained BBC reporters in … Syria. “On9 May … in Southern Syria, BBC News Arabic correspondent Feras Kilani, along with three other BBC staff members and three freelance colleagues, were detained for seven hours and held at gunpoint” www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Another wild view of yesterday’s Mount Etna eruption that sent tourists and guides running

Good morning with good news: After adding ~19 GW of small solar in 2024, Pakistan's distributed solar surge continues in 2025. Pakistan now adds 1-3 GW/month of solar! With 2025 battery prices falling ~33%, batteries are often paired with small solar. Great! www.ft.com/content/2b4c... #energysky

“This massive system is the result of millions of little incentives and choices and it's not that any one person fully intends everything that it's doing or is responsible for it.” — @equalityalec.bsky.social speaks with @premthakker.bsky.social.

Namens zeven partijen @ministerBZ gevraagd naar NLse inspanningen om humanitaire hulp te leveren aan bevolking in Gaza. De internationale gemeenschap kan niet zwijgend en verlamd toekijken terwijl honger als wapen wordt ingezet tegen 2,2 miljoen Palestijnen.

Israëls plan voor Gaza: verovering, kolonisatie en etnische zuivering

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

#ProudBlue #MomSky This former DOJ Employee testified today & discusses witness intimidation by the DOJ. They were sending armed guards to her house on Friday night to intimidate her. They were trying to stop her from testifying.

Scotland: ‘1.8GW/40GWh…pumped hydro…awarded planning consent…22 hours of storage at full power…construction is expected to take around six to seven years, no start date yet’

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

Oh my fucking god. It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff. They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave. www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...

20 Lessons On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Part 1 🧵

A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misappropriating EU funds, in a trial that could potentially see her barred from the 2027 presidential race reut.rs/4iIOs0h

Marine Le Pen barred from running for public office with immediate effect www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

More than ever, people appreciate what they get from Europe! Over 7 in 10 EU citizens believe that their country has benefitted from being a member of the EU. This is the highest result ever recorded in a Eurobarometer survey for this question since it was first asked in 1983. 🔗 europa.eu/!Hdtf79

Europeans should take over Radio Free Europe if Trump cuts it - because Europe will need more than just weapons to defend itself, writes @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on.ft.com/42hSOEO

So, which is it? If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained. And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.

EU said its sanctions regime will stay in place until the "unconditional withdrawal"of Moscow's troops from Ukraine,FT report "The end of the Russian unprovoked& unjustified aggression in Ukraine&unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine⤵️

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Most of her speech (minus about 1 minute that the Oxford Union censored) is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCW...

If you were outraged by the crimes against civilians on Oct 7th but not by the many more crimes against civilians *since* Oct 7th - just this week: kids being burned from head to toe; having their limbs amputated without anesthetic - then you don’t actually care about crimes against civilians.

A coalition of hostage families and protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's moves against the judiciary and parts of the security establishment is coming together again after war returned to Gaza this week reut.rs/4c57dZd

Ook Duitsland, Zweden, Finland en Denemarken zeggen: we moeten meer investeren in onze veiligheid. In plaats van ruzie met elkaar te maken had het kabinet met onze partners plannen moeten maken, zodat we ons kunnen verdedigen tegen Poetin. #WNL

A great conversation between @racheldonald.bsky.social and @graceblakeley.bsky.social Essential listening for anyone that wants to understand why politics and economics are so broken these days and why it is so easy for vacuous populists like Trump to gain power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaV0...

Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show: They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.” Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag… Made in Nicaragua. They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee. Legendary.

If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.