Weak US coverage of #COP30 is troubling: -Scant criticism of the Trump administration’s decision to skip -No acknowledgement of fossil fuel lobby corruption of the UNFCCC -Little coverage of the Indigenous & Youth protests pushing their way into the negotiation hall apnews.com/video/demons...

It is getting increasingly interesting... Protesters break into #COP30 Conference venue in Belém. They demand an involvement of indigenous and youth groups in the negotiations. They are not at the negotiation desks and they don't have the lobby power that the fossil fuel industry has 🫤

Cancer rates (for many cancers) are higher on the Navajo Nation. We should be listening to people’s concerns and applying the precautionary principle. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.

No health care, no deal.

Congratulations to Dr. Mario Orospe Hernandez, who yesterday successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mattering Technologies. Secular/Religious Borders in Bolivian Lithium Mining” at Arizona State University

Kinda weird that after a solid year of daily front page coverage of President Biden’s infirmities, that the @nytimes.com is now barely giving any attention to Trump’s on camera sundowning, his obvious confusion and digressive mumbling.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Emoluments clause when

If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was. They are trying to come for her job. This is the time for solidarity. forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...

One way I’ve heard the Renaissance described is as a mass realization that people could build things and make art as good or better than the Romans had.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Fitting on the day Cheney died that seizing control of Venezuela's oil fields is in the lede graph from NYT Another neocon war for oil based on lies

Everyone talking about what a slick, flawless campaign Mamdani has run, but fewer people talking about how it's so much easier to run a slick, flawless campaign when you have just policies and are not a total piece of shit.

In the United States, policing has been a deeply broken, corrupt system for decades, and it’s getting worse by the day.

“We do hard things” absolutely kicks ass as a political slogan

Another reason to sue the federal government on establishment clause grounds @atheists.org @ffrf.org @aclu.org

Baseball is, famously, a game of inches

I can't think of anything to say

The petrodollars <-> weapons industry nexus should be of great concern to us all

Just stop clicking on this shit, I'm serious. People re-heat these "one weird trick so Trump can run again" stories bc people will skip over actual news to read them.

Attending #AARSBL25? Join us in Boston for the Religion, Nature, and Ecology Reception! Friday, 21 November | 5:00 - 8:00pm Co-hosted with @religion-ecology.bsky.social

The State Press gets the scoop: “ASU President Michael Crow said ‘there's no reason to contemplate’ signing the White House's higher education proposal.” www.statepress.com/article/2025...

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

My gosh. This should be leading every news outlet in America today — a top official gives first-hand proof that the US took Israel's side after its soldiers killed our Palestinian-American press colleague, Shireen Abu-Akleh:

It’s disappointing to watch the media ignore Islamophobia and weaponize antisemitism for clicks. Rather than playing litmus test politics about foreign policy (not in a mayor’s purview), the media should be focusing on Cuomo’s disqualifying “cheering for another 9/11” comment.

To add, and this can't be emphasized enough, Platner and Fetterman are not working-class. Platner = son of a lawyer and a restaurant owner, grandson of an architect. Went to the Hotchkiss school & GWU Fetterman = son of an insurance executive, MPP from Harvard But have a "working-class" look-->

Sinema doing the classic, “nice city you got there, would be a shame if something happened to it.”

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60M to develop the “technological building blocks” of solar geoengineering by 2030. The for-profit firm, which hopes to patent its proprietary particle, says it won’t deploy until governments authorize it. My exclusive: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

This is a confession of murder.

The elites yearn for Idiocracy

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas. There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings. There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency. There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

"'The higher-education sector remains disorganized,' Thorp said, and 'the Trump administration will continue to use that to their advantage.'” This is why we need to organize! Join a union and/or get involved with a higher ed advocacy org! www.chronicle.com/article/many...

I don't have much to add to the nazi tattoo discourse, but it's worth noting that this is for a Senate race that is a year from now. No need for democratic party elites to circle the wagons 8 months before the primary. There's plenty of time to identify, vet, and fund other candidates.

The article makes an important point: anglophone media necessarily frames all news about the Middle East in terms of geopolitical conflict. Biases about Islam / Muslims get in the way of acknowledging the impact of climate crisis in this region.

Trump has profoundly tacky taste (in clothes, food, architecture, everything). The White House remodel will be awful and probably corrupt, too. But the buildings that house the People’s government are not sacred. I don’t take the (conservative) view that they should be left as is on principle.

This chart describes the difference between winning a baseball game and losing a baseball game. What just happened is that the Mariners lost the game.

I signed this petition telling University of Tennessee Chancellor Donde Plowman to Reinstate Dr. Tamar Shirinian. Join me in defending free speech! actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

When we are. This should probably be painted on the side of every executive mansion and parliamentary hall in the world.

Does anyone need further evidence that this is a Christian Nationalist attempt to overturn our constitutional system?

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

The person in charge of our nuclear weapons is up late fantasizing about shitting on Americans. It’s no wonder we think he should be removed from office.

Went to #NoKings PHX with fellow members of @ucwarizona.bsky.social Good turnout, lots of righteous anger.

this is truly invaluable reporting

What's with all this "climate religion" talk? I break it down in my latest post. What MAGA gets right, and wrong, about the climate movement. open.substack.com/pub/suzannec...

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

This is a very big deal 🧵