Want to giggle with abandon? @chadbourn.bsky.social has you covered with this:

"Woche für Woche wird von irgendjemand, meist einem CDUler, eine neue Sau aus der angeblich verweichlichten Arbeitswelt und dem überbordenden Sozialstaat über die Agora getrieben. Das Gerede von der Faulheit ist Politpropaganda." Udo Knapp für @tazfuturzwei.bsky.social über "Lifestyle-Teilzeit"

Governments resisting. En garde! Encore! More!

Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein! youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?...

Tehran Wages War on Iran’s Youth and Women As More Victims of Regime Brutality Identified #Iran @chadbourn.bsky.social

Können bitte alle vernünftigen Menschen aufhören, Russland als „Großmacht“ oder „Great Power“ zu bezeichnen? Russland ist ein technologisch, gesellschaftlich und infrastrukturell rückständiger Petrostaat mit einem Bruttoinlandsprodukt wie Italien. Aber mit Atomwaffen.

A common theme in these days. Unfortunately massed in those who have gained positions of wealth and power that all but guarantee that the consequences of their hubris fill fall on all our heads in form of a devastation of the natural world we depend on, and social cohesion and sense. 🧌🧌🧌🧌

Davos is looking a bit of a disaster for Trump and the MAGA crowd. After Trump was forced to TACO on Greenland, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was tonight heckled during a speech at a dinner. Christine Lagard, European Central Bank President, walked out mid-speech.

#Iran Massacre of Protesters in Iran: A Crime Against Humanity with Organized Impunity @chadbourn.bsky.social @fulelo.bsky.social @nhabouzite.bsky.social

@chadbourn.bsky.social this may be of interest: podtail.com/podcast/econ... a conversation with historian Adam Hanieh

Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

I have a morning opinion writing workshop next Tuesday for all of the Europeans who have told me that they (understandably) do not want to do a zoom at midnight their time. You can register here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

You know what? I don't care for goals. Half of people dealing in goals forget them as soon as they sign on to them. The other half seems to feel triggered to criticize them or to do their best to undermine them. I suggest you skip the goal-ing and go straight to the doing. It makes you keep going.

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & @rory-stewart.bsky.social unfortunately couldn’t make the National Emergency Briefing. Would they consider having @mikebernerslee.bsky.social on #Leading?🙏 Mike chaired the NEB and sets out the threats - and the choices ahead - with exceptional clarity. #NEB2025

Decarbonising building heat is essential to the energy transition, yet progress remains too slow. Heating is still a major source of emissions. Stronger policy, sustained investment and political commitment are needed to scale solutions and meet net-zero goals. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

4/ In fact, as @kristiansn89.bsky.social, @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social & colleagues show, 'high-socioeconomic-status' people collectively work to prevent serious action on climate in a range of ways both conscious and unconscious www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Iranians opposing the regime are protesting all over the world today - big turnouts in Tokyo, Perth, Auckland and Budapest…

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... @dpcarrington.bsky.social shows how efficiency measures already in implemented in parts of the world can slash CO2 emissions

I think @philiploring.com is on to something essential: demoralizing and painful and driven by nothing but ugly feelings and thoughts corrodes those who lack the light, love and warmth, the curiosity and instinct to do good that makes our lives worth living, and that we find in the great majority.

Who rules the world?

This Trump speech is much bigger than Venezuela. He talked about the Monroe Doctrine - about America’s sphere of influence. He’s warning that any country close to the US must bow to the needs of America or power will be exerted.

Naked grab for oil.

“What we are seeing is a war between the dying fossil fuel industry and the clean energy industry that is about to replace it with cheaper and cleaner energy,” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday.“and they’re fighting back dirty because they’re desperate.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...

Great quote from Tony (Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication) I completely agree.

Großartiger Text von @luisaneubauer.bsky.social - auch über ihre Arbeit als Skilehrerin: "Wovon ich den verzagten Erwachsenen erzähle, ist nicht die körperliche Technik der Kinder, sondern ihre Haltung. Oftmals lachen sie nämlich beim Hinfallen." Lesen! www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimawandel-...

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Want to learn what we know about #AMOC risk in under 15 minutes? Here's a video of my latest talk, in Helsinki in October. 6/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJX...

Positive developments: the danger is increasingly recognised and taken seriously by governments. Iceland has officially declared an #AMOC instability a national security threat: www.dagens.com/news/iceland... Watch Icelands climate minister: youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?... 3/6

"Time will show the Trump era to be less turning point, more freakish aberration – a sort of Prohibition for populists. In history’s bigger picture, Trump is a blotch, an unsightly smear on the canvas." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2025 is the year when blithering idiocy peaked. We can make it disappear in 2026 by - laughing it out of its infernal posing - choking it by refusing to give its worst perpetrators oxygen and by keeping a hand out to those who hoped it would bring them real change - bringing real change, humanely

25 years already - 25 years only?!! I "miss" the Paris agreement and the wildfires and the coral bleaching and the loss of glaciers. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Jailbreak from the enshittification champions sounds enticing!

What does it take to turn the tide on fossil fuel addiction? Spread the benefits of renewable energy and a food system that serves people and environment equally: energy and nourishment minus the pollution and the power imbalances that keep bad outcomes locked in. open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...

A list of organizations and efforts to support 💪👇

Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chris Piecuch shows how the rate of sea-level rise along the US coast has doubled since 1900, from 2 cm to 4 cm per decade. It has risen by 40 cm by now. Here he briefly explains this (and how the DOE claimed the opposite) at the AGU25 meeting last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0K...

And a happy solstice to all. 8,500 at Stonehenge to see the light return.

You know what hasn't been tried in any of the countries cited here? A full on push to a globally-leading clean energy economy and a better future. Does no one think that's worth trying at least once? After all, "you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.

#DontLookUp #Agriculture Effects of an #AMOC tipping point on growing staple crops (Wheat and Maize) 👀👇 Tipping Points - Professor Tim Lenton OBE | National Emergency Briefing 27 Nov 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmd6...

@chadbourn.bsky.social Good morning (a greeting for services rendered, so to speak)

Das @tazfuturzwei.bsky.social-Projekt „Wohnzimmer der Gesellschaft“ steht gegen die Großerzählung, unser Land sei gespalten und zerstritten. Es will die große Mehrheit sichtbar machen, die Grundgesetz und liberale Demokratie stützen. Der Livestream der Auftaktverstaltung in der @taz.de-Kantine.

In praise of Seattle, which set up a huge Pride programming connected to the World Cup match it’s hosting - before anyone knew which teams would be taking the field. Turns out it was Iran v Egypt, two countries where homosexuality is illegal. Egypt wants Pride banned. Seattle isn’t backing down.

Gute KI statt böse KI: Audrey Tang @audreyt.org war die erste Digital­ministerin von Taiwan und ist eine einfluss­reiche Kämpferin für digitale Freiheit. In Zürich wurde sie dafür ausgezeichnet. Ihre Rede zum Nachlesen.

As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone. The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.