At this rate the only growth industries in America will be disaster recovery, ballroom construction, and measles

We all could. The question really is: - does being in power always mean you cling to it by all means, and does that explain the all-in of conservatives for saying out loud what they think majorities think & want? - and do they?

Sunday thought stimulation from @himself.bsky.social: "small shifts on the margin towards collective good provision can have outsized consequences" www.programmablemutter.com/p/in-praise-... and www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-aaron-...

Thorough reporting on the scale of the loss of Switzerland’s glaciers

If you don't yet, do follow @amywestervelt.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social @maxboykoff.bsky.social @drkatemarvel.bsky.social on why people seem so deaf to our climate predicaments. Spoiler: they don't get told how the solutions would benefit them while delay costs them and benefits the few.

"My biggest concern is that we are starting to see changes cascading through different parts of the Antarctic environment" - Dr. @edoddridge.bsky.social #ClimateEmergency youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Watcha want... baby we got it 🎶 Out with the polluting stuff and its cost dumped on our health and our communities, and in with clean renewable energy and the independence it grants us.

[1/3] Le 9e rapport #Copernicus mené par #MercatorOceanInternational révèle qu’à l’échelle planétaire, toutes les zones océaniques sont désormais affectées par la triple crise du climat, de la biodiversité et de la pollution, menaçant les équilibres écologiques et humains. #geography

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An Autocracy of Dunces open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

👇 pushing, pushing, pushing... for a tiny minority that has its tentacles everywhere. How that ends depends on how long it takes for incumbents to either realize what bad a deal they get, or retire and get replaced by cronies presenting their bellies, or by smart people presenting their spine.

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From the Sports section "Next time the Cup crosses the Atlantic, at Hazeltine in 2029, whether during Trump’s third term or not, the hosts will have a choice to make about what kind of event they want to run – and what kind of country they want it to reflect." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Abnormally hot days may hit Australia’s south-east after rare sudden warming over Antarctica

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds. The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

"I feel like the conversations that our political leaders have now are not as substantive or as nuanced or as complex as they used to be."

"Despite a lot of media accepting Putin propaganda, Ukraine is making advances in the war." @chadbourn.bsky.social news service 👍

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement. An investigation finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding. Funders include Shell (lead partner in LNG Canada consortium). heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Cette évasion fiscale internationale a joué un rôle considérable dans l’augmentation des inégalités, dans la montée des dettes publiques et plus encore dans le triomphe d’un sentiment d’impuissance, terreau sur lequel ont prospéré les mouvements réactionnaires contemporains.

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

2. I was cycling into town, downhill, when I hit a pothole, one of many that the local authority cannot afford to fix. A common enough story! The front wheel folded up like an infinity sign. I went over the handblebars and landed on my face (luckily I was wearing my helmet).

"Who is willing to join forces to drag the Overton Window out of the grip of the self-destructive cult of fossil-fuelled lunatics and into the centre of a compassionate, fairer, more reasoned world?" My latest at Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/roaming-deat...

The stupidest substack.com/@billmckibbe... and The dumbest substack.com/@heated/note...

On The Climate Brink, Kevin Trenberth writes about the undeniable science of extreme weather

Why one should restrict media and internet use to certain times of the day: 💪 freedom from addiction to destructive urges, keeping us far below our potentials 🧌freedom from 💩loads of "information" without merit whatsoever 🍀 bandwidth for survival, which depends on real social interaction

"Other regions have followed other paths." If we have learned anything from the last months, it should be that we don't look at what is happening but at what we expect to happen. May be how our brains work but we have the means to un-bubble and open our eyes and minds, and keep them open.

"designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Oh yes. And right. It's really skewed to demand we make allowances for such behavior on the grounds that "we have to live with each other".

On efforts to combat climate change, the US has joined the ranks of countries like Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia in being critically insufficient, thanks to the Trump Admin’s rollback of virtually all climate policy.

Oh yes to that. Normalized: huge parking lots along coastlines and on (former) market places. Churches in town surrounded by metal. Children spilling from school by squeezing through parked cars into the street. Constant noise. Particulates. All cost borne by communities, none by polluters.

"When did we decide everything, even scientific consensus, must be culture warred for clicks, even if that war puts women in harm’s way?" Very true. But if we cancel journalism like we cancelled disneyplus, we won't win.

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Someone should make a short film about all the deaths, preventable sickness and economic destitution he has directly caused. Title: WHY TRUMP WILL NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS GET THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

It is telling that on this "SUN Day" where we celebrate the promise of renewable solar energy (www.sunday.earth), the NY Times runs fossil fuel-friendly op-ed promoting a "technofix" that would actually DISRUPT solar energy (www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...). (h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)

@chadbourn.bsky.social 🙏

Unreal: The US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia has now resigned after Trump threatened to fire him for failing to find sufficient evidence to prosecute NY AG Letitia James. Reupping this piece/thread on how appallingly corrupt this all is:

We can still achieve big things in hard times The creation of the Global Ocean Treaty has weathered election cycles—and will now become international law We can use it to put vast areas of the ocean off-limits to destruction, to start healing our life support system www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With the help of wonderful people on this platform (thank you!), I've included a list in this article of some of the new outlets which are building a media that belongs to us and speaks for us. Something pretty exciting is happening, which could be transformative.

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cyberattacks are currently hitting airports across Europe including London Heathrow, Reuters reports. Undoubtedly Russia. How long does NATO tolerate these?

Amidst all the misery, some really great news.

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Still testing. Three Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace without permission and stayed there for 12 minutes, Estonia says.

drilled.media/podcasts/dri... big listening recommendation, and then on to the book

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Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

Happening now! Natl Academy of Sciences' fast track report on EPA Endangerment finding is out, webinar going on now to discuss findings that #climatechange has significant impacts on health and welfare across multiple pathways: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...