But of course I'm still super disappointed and angry by this COP. Again. Speeding things up would save at least tens of millions of people: e.g. climate refugees and those dying from fossil fuel exhaust. And it would save trillions in wealth and slow the 6th mass extinction.

Basically electricity from solar plus batteries is already cheaper than fossil fuels in most of the world and the momentum is still increasing. Same for electric cars. We are also learning how to make bottom-up energy cheap and super robust. This is unstoppable.

Breaking Points covers Chi Ossé’s planned primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries — and why both AOC and Zohran Mamdani are urging him not to run. Guest Van Lathan argues that retreat rarely pays off and says Mamdani is now a “proof of concept” for a different politics, which raises the stakes...

🎥 “Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire”: @ryangrim.bsky.social discusses Drop Site’s latest entry on Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship w/ Israel’s intelligence apparatus. The story by Ryan and & Murtaza (@mazmhussain.bsky.social) focuses on Epstein's...

A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading. This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?

As Trump ramps up his ICE raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, more than 30,000 students across the county reportedly did not attend school on Monday. This isn't about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about cruelty.

Israel's Knesset passes law to cut water and electricity to UN agency helping Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-knesset-passes-law-cut-water-and-electricity-un-agency-helping

Cameron Kasky, a Parkland shooting survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives, has announced a run for Congress in New York’s 12th District. He was previously a national figure in youth gun-violence activism, and is now centering a progressive platform: Medicare for All, abolishing ICE...

Video: Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian via X (@manniefabian)

Israeli soldiers attack Palestinians in home town of teenager they killed earlier - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israelis-attack-palestinians-town-teenager-they-murdered-earlier-day

In appeasing fascists does not work news, ABC’s $16 million bribe to the president is apparently no longer cutting it, and he’s back to threatening to silence them, this time because a reporter asked a pertinent question. Maybe try standing tall with the First Amendment at your back instead.

This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.

BREAKING: "Ecuadoran voters roundly rejected the return of US military bases to the country in a referendum on Sunday... in a major political blow to Trump-friendly President Daniel Noboa." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

The @theguardian.com runs with "tensions rise", to describe what is in fact unilateral US aggression against a country that poses zero threat to the US or to anyone else.

There’s a word for this and it is colonialism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

⭕️ Israel’s “Iron coffin” Torture Palestine Prisoners Media has documented the testimony of a Palestinian man released from inside the Israeli prison system where he describes being forced to sleep 10-12 nights inside what’s known as the "coffin", a narrow iron cage, where he was "connected to a...

When you crank in the damage done by Trump and his Trumpsters in Washington, DC, members of the contented classes are largely unaffected, writes @nader.org.

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

In the onslaught of analysis of the political ramifications of these files, I fear too many have lost focus on the survivors. Please watch (if you can bear it) and please share. Always center survivors.

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

These 'devoid' spaces are a place where this non-meaning is visible, as is LLM-derived writing. (There's another thing going on with LLM-derived "art", which is explicitly fascist in its aesthetic. Tangent, but still.) I see it also in a lot of current marketing in speculative lit.

Last week, Oman's FM stated: "We have long known that Israel - not Iran - is the primary source of instability in the region" This week, Oxford students overwhelmingly voted in favor of a motion declaring Israel a greater threat to the region than Iran. www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/11/16/u...

Trump's entire gambit is to bully and harass and intimidate people into silence. But the elections last Tuesday, the huge No Kings turnout, and the packed rooms I saw in New Hampshire this week are proof that his plan is not working.

Israel accused of 282 ceasefire breaches in Gaza over one month - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-accused-282-ceasefire-breaches-gaza-over-one-month

Here is Israel firing directly at UN peacekeeping forces. And there is surprise in the West that regional states increasingly view Israel as the primary source of instability in the region?

Did you know that over *half* of the GHG emissions from Southeast Asia come from deforestation & agriculture? We can't solve climate change without taking these seriously. drawdown.org/insights/why...

Here we go. First use of the "vertical energy axis" in the Aegean. The Greek gvt mediates so that Texan LNG reaches Ukraine. Everything to prevent Peace from breaking out in the Ukraine, in case an extremely profitable war comes to an end. www.ft.com/content/995c...

This is the original video I’m responding to. This nurse has since been fired, which is appropriate. But what else will happen at this hospital to ensure this doesn’t happen again? Or at any other hospital?

The more I thought about what happened to that woman at Dallas Regional Medical Center, the more I thought about Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie dying at home during childbirth. And Brittney Watts. And Serena Williams. And all the other Black women who have fought to get the care they deserve.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

This is where we are right now. It’s NOT okay.

NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory” WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”

It’s official. The New York Times is now worse than Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Breaking: Clashes erupted between local residents and Israeli settlers during an attack on the Arab Bedouin community of Al-Rashaida, east of Bethlehem.

📸 First moments of families reuniting with the four Palestinians just released by the occupation after being seized from Gaza during the war. The images show relatives crying, embracing, and pulling the freed men into their arms. (Image shared by Gaza photojournalist Osama Al-Kahlout)

Katie Wilson wins Seattle mayoral race, incumbent Bruce Harrell appears to be preparing to concede The exciting race for Mayor of Seattle can now be called. With almost no ballots left to count, challenger Katie Wilson has an advantage that incumbent Bruce Harrell cannot overcome.

They operate in terror of stating facts directly—I’m referring to incontrovertible facts, not analysis or opinion—at least if those facts might make Trump and Republicans look bad. Whether afraid of bad faith lawsuits or something else, those facts can be stated only if attributed to someone else.

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

Having secured 100 co-sponsors, Reps. Nadler, Smith, and Himes sent a letter today to Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast urging him to bring the West Bank Violence Prevention Act up for a markup. The bill would restore and codify Executive Order 14115, allowing the U.S. to punish anyone...

⭕ Hamas noted that Israel is violating the ceasefire agreement by blocking the entry of tents & shelter materials into Gaza. The movement said the enclave urgently needs 300,000 tents, yet less than 5% have been allowed in, leaving hundreds of thousands of... Their full statement yesterday ⬇️:

🕵️‍♂️ “Not Mossad — But Serving Its Interests” Asked whether Epstein’s Israeli work was ideological or business, Murtaza Hussain says: “Probably both.” He wasn’t a formal Mossad agent but clearly an asset advancing Israeli security goals. On the power dynamic, Hussain notes: “It's not Epstein...

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

🟢 Israeli President Isaac Herzog, visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the world should focus on “major humanitarian crises in Africa,” rather than “obsessively on Israel.” After meeting President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, Herzog announced plans to upgrade bilateral relations...

Far-right Israeli activists attacked Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh during a town hall-style meeting at a private home in Pardes Hanna, a town in northern Israel. Video shows the mob banging on his car & throwing stones as he left the event. Police were present but made no arrests. Odeh said the attack...

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...