I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

A little history for you from 1977. Rolling Stone Magazine Says Israelis Stole Uranium for Nuclear Arms www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/a...

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through May 2025... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... + Data from: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

A Covid infection can be extremely serious for an infant. A Covid infection can be extremely serious for an infant. So it just makes sense for masking to be the standard in all health care settings for newborns and their caregivers. Data Source: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... #HealthCareNotCareless

Anyone want to remind me that Cøvid is all good for kids? ... No biggy? Let's re-open schools and get back to the office? This ☠️☠️ 👇🏻👇🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great summary of @carlzimmer.com book Airborne. Good article to share with therapists, given source! Denial of Airborne Infection: A Review | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Some casual Easter reading www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid...

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

One thing I’ve been wondering about: why is H5N1 so quiet? It’s everywhere & exposure risk remains high. No news on new cases. Is this because there are no new cases or just less testing? So I took a look at some numbers. Spoiler: it’s bad policy & sabotaged response capacity.

For the first time on record, Boston will go the entire month of March without recording even a "trace" of snow (dating to at least 1891) Very quiet stretch we're in. 6 years yielding only 3" of snow. By far the least snowy such stretch (next lowest is 14.1" over 6-years)

Make America Great Again, but by "Great" we mean "Rain Acid."

UN report warns of a ‘frightening’ future: ‘Your five-year-old now faces a future with 7 times more heatwaves’ www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Elon Musk has purchased the Presidency of the United States of America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

All the more reason for states to follow Vermont and New York and pass legislation to #makepolluterspay through the nose for the damage they knowingly inflicted on us, while straight up lying about it.

Global sea ice area has been at a record daily low since the start of February 2025. The associated albedo loss constitutes an important self-reinforcing feedback mechanism accelerating the temperature rise. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/arct...

This NPR story shows that not only is a massive amount of content about people who are Black, women, have disabilities, are LGBTQ+ and others being erased, but also that articles and statements by individual authors and speakers are being altered. In journalism, a crime. www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

Green Card Holders Warned Against Leaving the United States www.newsweek.com/green-cards-...

Britain Issues Travel Warning for US www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

So the data on abducted children has been erased because "Musk hatchet man Pete Marocco singled out this program tracking abducted Ukrainian kids as "waste"

U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

One hour into the energy ceasefire

Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled that the Defendants’ unilateral decision to shut down USAID likely violated the US Constitution. Indefinitely blocked the agency’s dismantling and barred Musk’s staffers from accessing sensitive personal data maintained by USAID.

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

More from Greenland 🇬🇱

“Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak? Scientists weigh in on the spread of H5N1 and highlight clues that portend what might come next” hms.harvard.edu/news/are-we-...

President Donald Trump may soon attempt to absorb the USPS, an independent agency, into his administration. The order could allow the Trump administration to make mail voting — which was used by tens of millions of voters last year — more difficult.

Airborne Infection Prevention Using Germicidal UV-C: Training and Certification Program August 2025 in College Park, Maryland Developed by Dr. Rolf Bergman, Dr. Paul Jensen, Dr. David Sliney Funded by Balvi Filantropic Fund (@vitalik.ca) Sign up at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⬇️ They fired the critical team that predicts Pacific tsunami risk ⬇️ …because that’s - not in the public interest?

Looks like a Republican can currently commit any crime in D.C. they want, secure in the knowledge Ed Martin will never indict them.

🚨 Breaking: Los Angeles will discontinue their COVlD dashboard in 8 days due to "significantly reduced risks to the general public." How can we ~assess our risks~ without data? LA is leaving us to repeat infections, to disability and death in the dark. publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Corona...

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes: “There is an ongoing coup against the Constitution of the United States.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pm69PV/

Upper ocean heat content is also soaring off the chart with the latest data update from the Japan Meteorological Agency... 0-700 meter graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🌊

Trump's Attack on Our Election Defense Please read and more importantly please call your federal and local reps 🙏

So much damage in just the first month! Scientists must fight back!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

The Federal Advisory Committee on Long COVID has been ordered terminated on 2/19/25 within 14 days. “the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... #LongCOVI

Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.* www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

SCOOP: The Trump administration has fired federal officials who screen people, animals and plants at our borders for dangerous pathogens www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h...

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Some answers to my question about what would trigger use of #H5N1 vaccine being purchased by Canada. #NACI, the advisory group that recommends vaccine policy in Canada, has issued preliminary guidance on how/when to use H5 vaccine in a non-pandemic context. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

“GITMO has the potential to become the stage for some of the worst war crimes in modern history, like with all prior iterations of GITMO and the Japanese Americans mass incarceration," said Mike, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Tsuru for Solidarity in a NEW opinion piece for @newsweek.com.