Trump Q&A vibes #Davos

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Nature is not some 'nice to have' for societies, it's not the cherry on top It's the baker

32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for 50% of global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024. A fractional amount of people - shareholders, company CEOs & higher ups, are plunging the world straight into socio-ecological collapse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Aramco have acquired a majority stake in chemicals + plastics firm SABIC, + bought into huge Chinese plastics + chemicals projects from Korea to Texas, with the aim that production of plastics 'would drive nearly half of oil-demand growth by mid-century': www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Satire died a long time ago. This seems to be the day when they flush it's ashes down the toilet.

Important perspective from Greenland.

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

At least 100 #nuclear power stations have been built just a few meters above sea-level and will be increasingly threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating #climate driven sea-level rise and more frequent storm surge. nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-do...

Interesting developments in water white paper: we know from NI, sewage treatment plants who meet targets during announced inspections, often fail when inspections are unannounced, so a promising move. As @petedevery.bsky.social says "the proof will be in the rivers". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵

As Bill Gates recommends a “strategic pivot” away from climate change, the Gates Foundation made record investments in fossil fuel companies in 2024, despite its 2019 pledge to divest. No one should ever listen to Gates about climate change again.

Gavin Newsom is hugely problematic, but at least his tone is appropriate when referring to Trump. Why are the press asking the governor of California what to do? We know what to do, and it starts with changing from cowering and snivelling to standing tall and speaking plainly with righteous anger.

I can’t take anyone seriously anymore unless they give Donald Trump exactly the level of disrespect he deserves. Not civility. Not deference. Not the hushed tones reserved for power. Disrespect. History won’t remember who stayed courteous. It will remember who refused to bow.

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

Trump's "Board of Peace" isn't an international organisation; it's a personal fiefdom. Its Charter names him personally as chair,subject only to resignation or unanimous vote of incapacity; lets him pick his successor; allows him to hire & fire the executive... www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Everything that is happening right now is because Congress, the Senate, and SCOTUS all decided that there should be no limits applied to their Very Special Boy. (And folks like Bessent sold their soul to serve said felon).

Only a water company boss could call this “accountability.” The laws already exist to impose real consequences: strip licences and bring companies into public hands. This long-awaited ‘overhaul’ is pure smoke and mirrors.

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

ICE is freely kidnapping, beating up and killing people. This is no accident. It is deliberate public policy, writes dag

If Congress doesn’t impeach him, I think we’re going to look back on 2025 fondly.

We’re not even 5% through 2026.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If I believed everything I’ve read since about 2001, then I would be convinced every country we have ever bombed the shit out of is populated by people with few greater concerns than roaring with rage at the reluctance of the left in America and Britain to approve of them getting bombed

"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee" Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

New from @hmnorthey.bsky.social: the DOE is planning to transfer money set aside for carbon capture tech to revive coal plants from the dead. When I said carbon capture was being used to keep the fossil fuel industry alive I hadn't quite imagined this lol subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

"paid protestors" is one of the oldest propaganda tricks in the book (literally -- it was used around Civil War discourse, and to combat labor strikes in the early 1900s too). Journalists and TV anchors should push back on it whenever they hear it. drilled.media/news/ivy-lee

Isn’t capitalism fucking fantastic… If you’re rich. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The blackbirds make a hole in the skin then do this with all the fallen apples.

If your MP responds declining to back the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing, we'd be grateful if you could forward their response to [email protected]. It's helpful for us to understand the reasons with a view to providing advice on how to respond. Thank you.

It's incredible how many oil & gas licenses in the UK overlap with Marine 'Protected' Areas - you can explore this on our Watershed Pollution Map: share.google/bRNs7Y6kD3Kx...

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say - Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We spoke with seven outdoor guides in B.C. and Alberta about how they are navigating taking people to the places they love as the climate changes. "It’s hard not to get depressed," one guide told us. thenarwhal.ca/outdoor-guid...

BREAKING: Explosive new poll for ITV Cymru Wales puts Plaid Cymru surging ahead of Reform UK in May’s Welsh elections. Plaid 37% Reform 23% Greens 13% Labour 10% Tories 10% Lib Dems 5% Plaid could form majority with Greens on this basis, with Labour out of govt for first time since devolution.

Being “disrespectful of law enforcement” is not a crime, and is not something that American citizens should be summarily executed for by masked men in unmarked cars.

NEW – Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/WqnAVhP

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

i would compare these people to comic book villains but that's unfair, thanos only wanted to kill half of us

It is important to recognise that this shit is no different than saying Somalis run riot in America doing crime, or that London is a hellzone of ethnic violence: the point of all of it is to create fear of a minority enemy as justification for cracking down hard upon the whole group.

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

The U.S. takeover of Venezuela's oil industry violates various aspects of international law, including those related to climate change, leaving the U.S. government open to litigation for environmental harms, @ninalakhani.bsky.social writes @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/Venezue...

Who is the most trusted source of information on climate change? Great news - for your family and friends, it's pretty much YOU! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

bet you didnt have BlackRock presiding over Trump's destruction of Fed independence on your bingo cards

For those unable to access the Boston Globe article... www.technosphere.earth/we-cant-just...

Most people think climate change will impact others more than themselves — until it doesn't phys.org/news/2026-01...