As global warming worsens, poor communities are going to suffer from mitigation plans like walls that make currents worse in other areas, or by a lack of funding for any projects. It will take activists, lawsuits, and direct action to force politicians to serve all their constituents. #environment

Having failed to revoke protections for our national parks and sell them off to the extraction industries, the Trump administration is now trying to sell logging rights under the guise of 'thinning' operations via sales by the Forest Service that were done without public consultation. #environment

The Trump administration is trying again to cancel renewable power projects, some almost completed, this time under the spurious claim of national security. This means more delays and expense for the communities that were counting on this power, and costs for overturning Trump's order. #environment

Corporations tout the creation of good-paying jobs when they propose datacenters but the reality is after construction is finished a skeleton crew, often of imported laborers, can operate these facilities, leaving communities with larger power bills, water bills, and noise pollution. #environment

"...emissions from power plants in the Indian states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha add to the problem. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, and mercury reach Bangladesh even from 1,200-1,900 miles away in China’s coal-based industrial areas." #environment

After fighting EPA fines for over a decade, MagCorp used the 'Texas Two Step' to create a new corporation that keeps the profits while leaving US Magnesium with the debts, allowing them to avoid paying penalties or cleaning up one of the largest polluted sites in the West. #environment

Where is the restored, 4K Blu Ray edition of "Land Before Time"? Where's "The Secret of NIMH"? Which Disney office do I need to [redacted] to make that happen?

Generally don't recommend Netflix but "Robin Robin" is an absolute gem and deserves a Christmas Day watch every year.

Treat yourself to a charming Christmas movie where the toys come alive when people aren't around and tell stories, a story of toys, a toy story if you will. (The best version is here: archive.org/details/the-...)

I'm not kidding when I say we need to return to paper record-keeping. Electronic data is too easy to scrape and weaponize by bigots, and short of [redacted] these individuals, we need to make the friction of data collection prohibitive.

Congratulations to Biden and Schumer, who got so angry at teens criticizing their support for Israel's genocide that they created a fake crisis, and now TikTok is being sold off to right-wing ghouls who will turn it into another X.

There's something grim and a little sad that in a rush to connect the planet to the internet (which is terrible), we are risking not only interfering with observation of the night sky but essentially polluting the night and stars. #environment

Despite the desperate need to monitor the changes in the ocean as climate change intensifies, the Integrated Ocean Observing System has been starved of funds since its launch, and now, under Trump, even that has been cut back, leaving us blind to the rapidly approaching danger. #environment

The enthusiasm of various government agencies, bureaus, and departments to help ICE and Border Patrol indicates our freedoms will not be safe until they are abolished or their budgets are slashed until all they can afford is a TRS-80 and a folding desk.

The next government needs to establish a generous, firewalled fund for the CPB that allows NPR and PBS to become a powerhouse like the BBC (without the transphobia), and Brendan Carr deserves to have [redacted] with a [redacted] happen to him.

The presidential pardon has to be abolished so that when terrorists storm the Capitol building or election deniers try to lie about election safety that they go to jail, and they stay there for decades regardless of who takes office; otherwise, our democracy is going to be slowly but surely shredded

The right-wing death cult wants to ensure there are no firearm restrictions anywhere in America, that nothing stands between violent men and military-grade weapons. It's the NRA dream; one where school shootings, attacks on places of worship, that every day someone dies.

Farmers go through tons of plastic a year from transporting crops to covering fields. Unfortunately, this plastic, besides being difficult to recycle due to its heavy nature, also contaminates the food supply with microplastics, but alternatives are being developed. #environment

Both America and Europe have, instead of reducing plastic manufacturing, touted the myth of recycling, which in reality has meant the outsourcing of millions of tonnes every year to marginalized communities where it leaks into the ground and water. #environment

Generations of children are growing up in the toxic shadow of superfund sites that now may never be remediated thanks to Trump. That many of these sites are in Red states is more grim proof that voters chose white supremacy over their children's future. #environment

The degradation of the environment by sprawl, pollution, and global warming is starting to affect previously stable species. The results can be catastrophic, not only because of extinction but also because of the knock-on effects on other species that exist in cooperation with them. #environment

Colorado was always going to have a hard time because of the bloodlust of hunters in Wyoming and Montana, along with the usual whining from ranchers. And of course, the Trump administration has deliberately made things worse by banning the import of wolves from Canada because reasons. #environment

Almost monthly, there's some news article that slides by almost unnoticed with a headline that sounds like the start of an apocalyptic movie. And this isn't even a new phenomenon; there are already problems with whales having to change their singing and move because of shipping traffic. #environment

Anyone who has driven past the remnants of the once beautiful Owens Lake knows it as a warning of when aquifers are carelessly drained, and the toxic runoff of pesticides and other pollutants dries, spreads, and sickens. Utah has ignored this warning, and the costs are getting higher. #environment

Ranchers already enjoyed taxpayer-subsidized grazing on public lands, sometimes as low as one cent an acre. Now Trump wants to open more protected areas to agribusiness whose herds, that are no longer monitored, are reducing thousands of fragile square miles of grassland to desert. #environment

Sure is interesting how the MAHA administration packed the EPA with chemical industry lobbyists who want to repeal laws on PFAS and have already approved dangerous new pesticides for crops. Almost as if the whole health thing was a cover for massive deregulation to please big business. #environment

American Indian lands were designated as sacrifice zones in the 1970s, where the land and the people could be exploited and abandoned. Some of them survived the radiation sickness and are still deserving of compensation for the lies the government and its aligned corporations told them. #environment

It's been almost three decades, but establishment Democrats are still torpedoing popular and necessary legislation to please Republicans who never reciprocate and will stick the knife in the second they find an opportunity. #environment

That we've had AI encourage a major arson, several violent attacks, and multiple suicides, and none of the CEOs of these companies are rotting in prison, and their companies burned to the ground, is an indictment of our system.

It's unlikely Trump knew who Juan Hernández is, or even where Honduras is located, but tech ghouls Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen do. Both backed Hernández in return for him creating Próspera, an SEZ where they can park projects and money that would otherwise attract taxation and legal issues.

While the suspicion that the Trump administration wants to invade Venezuela for the oil is understandable, the real motivation is to please a small clique of ex-pat right-wing politicians and businessmen who are exerting a toxic control of American policy in the same manner as ex-Batista Cubans.

America financed and supplied dictators throughout Central and South America, causing horrific violence that economically, politically, and socially destabilized nations for decades. Desperate parents sent children north to escape the violence, and they grew up only knowing America as their home.

Although the prison population is declining, the number of people being held in jails before trial, sometimes for years, is rapidly expanding. This is leading to a boom in construction, often on or adjacent to toxic Superfund sites, meaning innocent people are being poisoned.

All police and security forces enforce the inherent racism of their nation, both as a demand of elite interests and a reflection of the bigotry of their members. ICE is merely acting out the next phase, where citizenship means nothing; only skin color has value.

The Navy isn't some reluctant actor; it aggressively pushed for this campaign because the War on Drugs gives it an easy way to obtain funding, and each strike is another promotion. The Navy has killed hundreds around the Caribbean since the 1980s.

This was after the first Trump administration halted the program, while in the second term, nearly a dozen Afghan nationals who were involved with the American military have been threatened with deportation. This fear would certainly not have helped anyone's mental state.

Between their enthusiasm for banning being trans people (and Link for pointing this out), Palestinians under the guise of fighting spam, and now people trying to help Palestinians, Bluesky is working hard to drive this platform over a cliff.

What's that? You wanted funds to protect and evacuate people in the case of an earthquake, flood, or fire? Sorry, we spent that violently beating and arresting students for daring to criticize Israel's ongoing genocide. #israel

One of my coworkers said I looked like Gavin Newsom and I think I'm going to die of shame.

Might start using TikTok if this gets a full rollout (and that ghoul Ellison doesn't turn the site into a right-wing hellscape)

Besides pointing out, again, the disingenuous tactics of people who shouted the loudest about 'cancel culture,' this shows how even the mildest comment is made into a hysterical culture war moment by the right and needs to face retaliation.

Sure is interesting how QAnon has gone silent now there's an actual cabal of pedophile elites in the top rungs of government (and I don't enjoy that that sentence, which would have sounded insane only a few years ago, is now a rational description of reality)

The man who was screaming about Biden's 'autopen' has perhaps hundreds of pardons, and who knows what else, sporting identical signatures, and I'd bet real money someone is signing them for him as part of the corruption scheme.

The heads of Apple, Nvidia, Dell, General Motors, Paramount, Chevron, Citi, Ford, Bechtel, Blackstone, and others came to cozy up with a regime that murders journalists, protestors and spent years bombing and starving millions in Yemen.

Boosting domestic ginger farming would not only reduce the huge amount of carbon produced by shipping millions of tons to the United States each year, but also open the possibility of new varieties that don't have to be frozen for transport. #environment

"Humans engineer nonhuman animals for utility, then often abandon them when economic situations or cultural practices shift. As cities expand...these urban exiles multiply, forcing us to confront what we owe the nonhuman animals our choices have shaped." #environment

I've tried gently persuading friends and acquaintances to shift to veganism or vegetarianism for ethical and environmental reasons, but now I can tell the more outdoorsy ones it could keep them from dropping dead.

It's like as if the popular artists turned the genre into such a cliche-ridden, hollow pastiche of itself, post-9/11, that it became a cultural wasteland where an AI slop generator was able to effortlessly copy and paste its way to success.

I'll be more blunt and say I'll use this book to beat to death anyone who tries arguing the poor or destitute shouldn't have a companion.