21 July 1923 | A Czech Jew, Jiří Popper, was born. He was photographed wearing a Real Sociedad club badge. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

The state of the UK's right-wing media, in one simple chart...

More people can fit on to the top deck of a London bus than will be directly employed on the new #Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, industry documents show #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Gaza… aje.news/e2t6db

Ukraine… aje.news/dhz3hu

21 July 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Salomon de Bruin, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber together with his mother Rosa and brothers Emanuel & Meijer.

We are pleased to invite researchers, students, policymakers and everyone interested in sustainable food systems to join the FABLE Mini-Scenathon, organised as part of the GBA-ASEAN Conference 2026. 📅 28 July 2026 - 14:00–17:00 (Malaysia time) Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"His subsequent books, Studies in a Dying Colonialism (1959) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), would give a voice to the Third World liberation struggles of that time."

"A year later, he was assigned to head the psychiatric division of a hospital in Algeria. He joined the Algerian liberation movement when the insurrection against French rule began in 1954."

On this day in 1925, psychiatrist and anti-colonial theorist, Frantz Fanon is born in Martinique. anticolonialhistory.com/event/180/

Sea level will rise fast even if we limit global warming to 1.5°C Satellite data shows the ice sheets are melting faster than expected and slowing sea level rise to a manageable rate would require lowering the global temperature www.newscientist.com/article/2480... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Warming of +1.5°C is too high for polar ice sheets nature.com/articles/s43... drive.google.com/file/d/1SUou... Data from 1992–2020 are taken from the latest Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise18, updated with satellite gravimetry data148 from GRACE for 2021–2024 Credit: Chris Stokes

"Inzwischen geht es beim Klimaschutz auch um Versorgungssicherheit, um Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und um geopolitische Unabhängigkeit." PIK-Forscher @alevermann.bsky.social spricht über Klimakipppunkte, Wetterextreme & notwendigen Strukturwandel. Interview: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The OMB Grant Proposal will put all grant decisions into the hands of the President. It is effectively a trillion dollar slush fund for the President. We are fighting back and need you to join us. Contact your reps and donate to fuel our legal fight against the proposal at the link: zurl.co/ruBsL

Den offentliga konsten har återigen blivit en het potatis i Örebro, där konstutställningen Open art pågår. Nu har lokala sverigedemokrater och moderater anslutit till kritiken mot enskilda konstverk.

Worth sharing perhaps @davidho.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co @drtomharris.bsky.social @leonsimons.com

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”Det finns inga exempel på ekonomier som ökat BNP samtidigt som utsläpp, resursförbrukning och naturpåverkan minskat i den omfattning som krävs”. Forskare vid Stockholm Resilience Centre uppmanar kommande regering att utreda en ekonomi inom planetens gränser www.gp.se/debatt/gron-...

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

This top Trump Treasury nominee can't say whether the Trump administration is going to take away Social Security benefits from our seniors.

I'll be on @wbai.org Radio NYC TODAY around noon (~12:10pm ET) talking about climate change, Canadian wildfires and east coast wildfire smoke: wbai.org

#OtD 20 Jul 1979 Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escaped from Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution in California. Peltier was a leader in the American Indian Movement and was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9281...

Finlands statsminister Petteri Orpo och Samlingspartiet är i kris. Vad som ligger bakom är bygget av en hockeyarena i Helsingfors – och korruptionsanklagelser i politikens toppskikt.

True progress shouldn't cost the Earth. When GDP treats environmental disasters as economic wins,the metric itself is the crisis. We need a shift toward Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) that factor in climate costs. We must stop signing our own death certificates with clever accounting. 🏛️🌱

20 July 1900 | A Czech, Josef Cermak, was born in Heraltice. A bank clerk. In #Auschwitz from 31 January 1942. No. 26226 He perished in the camp on 18 February 1942.

A little good news to start your week off! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new once-daily pill that dramatically lowers LDL – or “bad” - cholesterol, reaching levels that statins alone often cannot. Article: zurl.co/AeTrM

The Amazon & Congo Basin are Earth's vital lungs. Together, they hold immense biodiversity & act as massive carbon sinks. The Congo Basin alone is now the world's largest tropical carbon sink, absorbing MORE CO₂ than the Amazon & helping regulate global climate.

I discussed climate change & Canadian wildfires/east coast smoke, climate denial and the path forward, with Rebecca Miles on @wbai.org #FrontlineVoices. Listen here: wbai.org/archive/prog...

#OtD 20 Jul 1953 a mass strike movement began in the Soviet gulags system following the death of Stalin. At its height, it involved 1000s of prisoners in gulag strike committees before it was repressed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9279...

BREAKING: A judge just granted a temporary restraining order against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. This means that the merger is officially PAUSED. That's a WIN thanks to the state attorneys general who stood up and pushed back. Let's keep up the fight.

2°C around 2030 and then this system goes off like a bottle of Champaign in a marina on new year! Just one more large temperature jump to go It's all visible now, especially if you understand the spatial patterns and feedback's that produce these graphs as they are all discussed in the literature

"Precipitation Reconstruction in the Asian Monsoon Region During the 4.2 ka Event With Paleoclimate Data Assimilation" | I'm co-author on this new study led by Fangmiao Xing & my former student Liang Ning in @agu.org's #JGRAtmospheres: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Preventing pollution saves lives and boosts economies. Cleaner air, safer water, and circular systems can save trillions for the global economy, create millions of jobs, and reduce inequality worldwide. That’s why it pays to #BeatPollution at its source. Read more: https://ow.ly/c3uG50ZqaSN

Yes, similar situation to 2024 (see our article below) but since 3 years later & given current warming trend of ~0.3C/decade, I would predict that 2027 will be at least 0.1C warmer than 2024. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"In a study published last summer, researchers found melting sea ice in the #Arctic had slowed down" "only a temporary reprieve & melting was highly likely to start again at about double the long-term rate" "Just two years later, the new study has found the slowdown in sea ice decline is now over"

Detta är inte en gräddbakelse- det är en lilja på väg att slå ut.

AIPAC and other outside groups have spent nearly $50 million in support of Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate primary. They're among the biggest dark money spenders this year. Watch.

Canada’s area burned has risen roughly 80% for each 1C increase in fire-season temperature. Only about 1/5 of the burned area over the past 40 years was ever actively managed. #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo...

By pushing to weaken EU protections against pesticides, the self-described "voice of Europe's farmers" sells out the majority of its members to shield a small group of highly industrialised operators who are responsible for a disproportionate share of pollution www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

20 July 1890 | Czech Jew Viktor Hönigstein was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 October 1944. He did not survive.

It’s been a year since Donald Trump slashed SNAP funding in his “Big Beautiful Bill.” Here’s how many people have lost food assistance so far.

Ryssland försökte påverka Brexitomröstningen i syfte att destabilisera Storbritannien Sen dess har UK haft 7 premiärministrar på 10 år och en ekonomi i spillror Högerpopulister är Putins trojanska hästar. Ibland fullt medvetet, ibland som nyttiga idioter