Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it. But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy. Both present major threats to public life.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Fossil companies dropping CCS ambitions aligns with my theory. If the "targets" fend off scrutiny and regulation, why keep them when there's no longer any threat of scrutiny or regulation? Equinor were *never* planning to recapture their toxic waste. We already knew this :) archive.ph/D23Q3

"The fact that the 1.5C limit was surpassed in 2024 despite many #climate projections forecasting a breach later, underscores how rapidly climate change is advancing... warming itself appears to be accelerating: the rate has risen from roughly ~0.05C per decade in the mid-20thCen to ~0.31C per dec"

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

"This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent. Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover."

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

The UK Government confuses means and ends. It tries to ’save money’ when its goal should be to improve citizens’ lives. Spending and taxation just move real resources around. Achieving ends requires investment in real resources. These cuts are mistaken. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Every American needs to watch this:

1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...

The Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

EXTRAORDINARY Dozens of thousands of records are falling in >170 countries with margins never seen before in world climatic history. There had never been anything close to this. Expect records smashed every day of this month in millions sqkm area from Algeria to China. Updates next hours..

Climate economists like the Nobel-winning Nordhaus will be regarded by history as morally equivalent to concentration camp guards - only they won’t have the ‘only following orders’ excuse. It was prestige and money that bought their souls. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think fixing stuff rather than burying human and cow shit is a better climate solution.

We been said this fascism thing for over a decade.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models" #AMOC #FasterThanExpected

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

If the last decade has taught Europe anything, it should be that reliance on fossil fuel imports is a strategic liability which will be exploited. Climate aside, decarbonisation is security. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The use of neoliberal theory to plan UK food security is the stupidest possible application of the financial creed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

17K people canceled their World Cup tickets amid safety concerns, political protests, and human rights concerns. I guess the FIFA’s peace prize was more expensive than they anticipated. Also, fuck tRump. #BoycottWorldCup #FIFAPeacePrize #FucktRump www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/h...

Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

We've had a year of kowtowing to the bully in the White House It hasn't worked Time to move on to plan B: A global coalition of those who will defend the rule of law, equality, democracy, and human rights

Don’t want Trump to invade Greenland? Boycott Estée Lauder brands: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

Really powerful graphic that illustrates how our climate is shifting due to human impacts but with natural variability in the mix too. It's "and" not "either/or"...

2025 was the third hottest year ever. Trend is worrying and faster than expected a few years ago. Only when we stop burning coal, oil and gas, temperature will stop rising. www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Authoritarianism UK style. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Ministers cut green home rules. Why? - lobbying by house builders. Why did Labour sell us out? - they were paid to act against the public’s interest.

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did.

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

This is such a damn good thread and the only thing I think I can add is that it is really whiplash-inducing to see how many formerly centre-left climate-aligned folks have in the past few months leapt to centre-right tech-aligned. Not sure if it's despair, stewing in Musk's X-swamp, or just honesty

“You want to have some bright people work through scenarios of how [AMOC collapse] could interact & cascade across society... we’re only just starting to, with minimal trust foundation kind of financial support, no public money... which is a bit odd.” - Prof. Tim Lenton @gsiexeter.bsky.social

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

Can't keep having activists aquitted by a jury of their peers now can we? If we don't defend our civil liberties they'll be taken away.

The costs of Direct Air Capture will not fall as much as hoped. "Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore* continue at pace, says the research team." *Therefore is problematic here, as it implies that if DACCS was cheap less reductions are needed. No, no, no. ethz.ch/en/news-and-... 1/