I guess the climate didn't get the message that it just isn't a big deal anymore.

Akhil Amar in July 2025: the "flagrantly unconstitutional" position on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment that Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito enthusiastically embrace in Trump v. Barbara is grounds for impeachment and disbarment klhn.co/legomsky-et-...

🚨 📈 NEW: In a preliminary assessment, I calculate that the June 2026 heat wave caused around 20,000 heat-related deaths in Europe. Increases in heat mortality will continue as long as fossil fuel emissions continue. zenodo.org/records/2108...

🌡️ June 2026, Spain: heat killed silently. MACE recorded: 🔴 1209 deaths from extreme heat 🟠 3008 from moderate heat Moderate heat kills more than heatwaves. Chronic, cumulative exposure flies under the radar, but not under the data. 💻 ficlima.shinyapps.io/mace/ #heatwave #health #climatechange

Goes great with:

Failing to limit fossil fuel emissions is in no way supportive of "global stability and unity." It will be the undoing of global stability and unity.

If you read a review of Supergirl that doesn’t mention “misogyny“ or “sexual violence” or a synonym for at least one of these things, then you’re probably reading a reviewer who didn’t get it and doesn’t understand the seriousness of misogyny as galactic villainy

When the Christian Right is emboldened abd an the march, needless death, hatred, and oppression grow, and cultures are plunged into dark ages.

I wrote about it a few months ago. I'm still collecting a lot more data to tell this story but it's remarkable just how much money and effort went into this. All driven from the top by wealthy billionaires and their allies. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

Why Solar Grids, Not American LNG, Should Power Europe Next. A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.

When a country is delivering judicial wins for nazis it's usually not a good sign.

How a neo-nazi campaign targeting Haitians in Ohio led all the way to the Supreme Court. New must read from @svartflagg.bsky.social

NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota 2. what should i do?”

Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.

And this is the best essay I’ve read in a long time. On the double standards of political violence up vs down among other things. Sunday reading so good I‘m way overcaffeinated now

As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.

"And yet, faced with the plainly and painfully disastrous results of America’s addiction to hitherto cheap fracked oil and gas, so-called moderates are wringing their handkerchiefs and suggesting maybe we should build more fossil pipelines." prospect.org/2026/06/22/a...

Believe it we're actually living in a time when we have some of the best magazines & publications available: @wired.com, @propublica.org, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @readlux.bsky.social, @nplusonemag.com, @truthout.org, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @thecityreporter.nyc...

“To any journalists reading this: The public debate over extreme event attribution science is not going away. The science is simply too dangerous to fossil-fuel interests for them to stop fighting it.” Worth having in mind particularly these days.

So, if the heat, the floods, the endless wars, the precarity is awakening something that might feel like panic, the action is less to invent a new solution than it is to soften your gaze, or lengthen it. Shift your image of solution into a way, not a what, and find your way to the way.

Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

To stabilise global warming & avoid facing a multiplication of heat events leading to even more deaths & suffering, we need to decrease the combustion of fossil fuels, i.e. oil, gas & coal, as fast as possible. Solutions exist & renewables have become cheaper. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

Heatwave attribution can even be refined to the contribution of single carbon majors or high-income groups: @yannquilcaille.bsky.social @lukasgudmundsson.bsky.social @sarahschoengart.bsky.social @carlschleussner.bsky.social @wimthiery.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Getting rid of well-respected high ranking members of the military in order to install loyalists is what you do when you are planning to do the wrong thing and want to make sure the military complies with your orders.

A serious and still-escalating wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior West, and has today expanded beyond NV & UT into western CO & AZ/NM. Extreme fire behavior and rapid spread is widespread; adverse conditions expected for 7+ days. #UTwx #COwx #AZwx #NMwx [Thread]

Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...

This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵

SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett has 2 Black Haitian kids who she adopted. Today she ruled to expel 700K Haitians who were here legally. Proximity to white supremacy is not protection from white supremacy. And proximity to Black and brown people is not exemption from being a fascist and racist.

Today, we launch a series @drilledmedia.bsky.social has been working on w/ @propublica.org for almost two years, looking at how Big Oil used universities to turn the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. The first two stories are out now: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

Seems worth noting how no Democratic Congress member (as far as I can tell) has actively spoken out against the political persecution of the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters. It should go without saying that treating antifascism as terrorism is a serious threat to Democracy.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

ABSOLUTELY INSANE DAY IN FRANCE 44.3C ! 14 stations >43C ! nearly 500 monthly records(🧵Meteociel list) 128 ALL TIME RECORDS ! Much worse next days,thousands of records smashed allover Europe 45C France,38/40C UK,Germany,Poland,Checkia and than all Balkans,Baltics & East Europe

New white paper on the overregulation of plug in solar. cleanenergy.org/resource/plu...

The heat will be brutal, and only ~27% of French homes have air conditioning.

Polycrisis only going to intensify. We build mutual aid networks or we die. If your unhoused neighbors aren't also your friends who your kids know by first name and vice versa then you're not doing mutual aid, because we're all gonna be saving each other's lives here

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

This new climate quickie with the Climate Curious team at TEDxLondon is a good overview of how we got into the current mess (and what is really needed to get us out of it). Definitely not for the faint of heart: tedxlondon.com/podcasts/who...

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

First belly laugh of the day.

Epic Cat Slide into dinner 😺

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

Mother Earth has spoken

These algae are woke!

Google is downgrading links & promoting AI. That means users will see a summary generated by an AI bot developed by a corporate behemoth w/ close ties to Trump. Important reporting @neginowl.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @truthout.org @therealnews.com therealnews.com/googles-new-...

Meanwhile, sea surface temperatures across the wider tropical Pacific have set new daily record high levels since April, including a new *all-time* record for this region. 🔥 Graphic from climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...