Another area with record early melt-out for #Arctic sea ice is across Baffin Bay this summer, which has been at historic lows since effectively early May. Map of region (located between Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago): zacklabe.com/arctic-clima.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Around 10,000 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, including 3,500 people imprisoned without charge or trial and at least 340 children. Plus thousands more disappeared in Gaza.

🧵So I mentioned Quillette as a New Eugenics rag last week. Funded incidentally by two sons of Rio Tinto* (Peter Thiel & Mark Carnegie) 😬 They call it Human BioDiversity or HBD because they can be coercive about more than race. 🙄 Look what’s popped up this week. They like “race science/IQ” 🙄

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Nick McKim completely unloads on Pauline Hanson’s fake patriotism & ‘Israel First’ agenda, “One Nation is Israel first, US & Donald Trump second, Pauline Hanson herself third & the rest of us dead last.” A party made up of “white collar criminals”, “sex offenders” & “Nazis”🔥🎯

Senior adviser to a NSW politician, Lee Hanson lives in Tasmania and is trying to be elected here. We have enough problems with the state government without adding further useless politicians.

Time to wake the f*** up to the billionaire funded disinformation campaign from One Nation

Communities first‼️ Climate-impacted communities already face formidable challenges (heatwaves, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods etc) & these are accelerating & compounding Stop letting tech bros/broligarchy call the shots on developments that impact all of us #DataCentreMoratoriumNOW

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

The Colorado river water system is collapsing, and a data center operator is suing to consume even more water. Unreal. www.kpbs.org/news/environ...

Larry Ellison's Oracle just sued Wisconsin for trying to protect utility ratepayers from data center-driven price hikes. Don't forget that Ellison is a huge Trump suck-up — and one of the architects of his deregulatory AI policy. Trump is selling out his own voters to Big Tech.

“If we already know heatwaves and pollution will come every year, why aren’t we planning ahead instead of shutting schools at the last moment?” - Urvashi Prasad, a former director at government thinktank Niti Aayog

“Instructions not to plan for climate change came from elected officials and political appointees. 'They actually re-wrote [a water plan] because the staff had put too much in about climate change.'” As the saying goes: Elect Climate Deniers and Find Out.

“In France, almost 70,000 customers … were left without power after a heat-related transformer failure, while … EDF also cut nuclear power generation as the heatwave increased river temperatures. In the UK, five major gas-fired power plants were forced to reduce output as they struggled to cool.”

Every time we talk about the gender pay gap some bloke says ‘but we work in more dangerous jobs like construction and mining’. This is stupid and wrong. But also, you know what’s a dangerous job? Being a woman on remote mine sites and why? Because, men. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

If I've been slow to get back to you or, uh, kind of a bitch lately it's because this thing happened that comes around every few years where some projects slipped and others got pulled up such that they all piled into one six-month period. Today is my birthday, and this week a bunch of them are out🧵

It ought to be trade unionists speaking out for the million+ workers in the green economy & pushing for unionisation & expansion of these sectors. We shouldn't need economists to point out "the workers driving the green transition need union representation, good wages and champions in government."

🦀See a crab, post a crab 🦀 (Hermit crab, Freycinet, Tasmania)

Just got the book on the left, which is the most recent edition of the book on the right, which I’m sure very many of you recognise and maybe even own. And I know the past is a foreign country etc but I can’t even fathom an Australia that launches a wildlife book live on TV, how far we’ve fallen

This footage shows the sheer force of the South American earthquake. Fishermen off the coast of La Guaira captured massive dust clouds rising from the shoreline as buildings COLLAPSED following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Venezuela.🇻🇪😲😲😲

Thank goodness for Australia's leaders in public health ✊

Wilson Asset Management—investing by racists, for racists?

Greta Thunberg arrived at Copenhagen's court on Wednesday for a trial over trespassing at Copenhagen University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in September 2024. She has pleaded not guilty. Speaking outside court, Thunberg said: "A genocide is still taking place in Gaza… those who cause

Say hello to Australia's newest mammal species: Planigale petrophila. Known only from the rocky plateaus of the Arnhem Escarpment from specimens hidden in museum collections since the 1970s. Photographed here by the inimitable Pat Woolley doi.org/10.1093/zool...

📣 PSA #AI #DataCentres #auspol * www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Grateful to have Overland Journal's that's given us powerful writing like this one that I keep sharing “The labour of constantly translating grief into acceptable language, of remaining calm, generous, and persuasive, is carried by those least able to set it down.” Please chip in if you can!

We are almost halfway to our goal! With only five days remaining, can you help us get there? overland.org.au/donate

Relatedly👇 Two academics at Macquarie Uni "made forcibly redundant" despite (non-binding) Redundancy Review Committee finding in their favour "Under the enterprise agreement, the university is legally entitled to proceed with the redundancies." Solidarity with Dr Jo Faulkner & Dr Jumana Bayeh✊

The shining "competence" of One Nation MPs 🤣 (or he could've been following his instincts?) "David Farley has blamed his political inexperience for mistakenly voting in support of winding back fuel tax credits, which drew condemnation from miners and the Coalition."

Ahh, the money finally talks. www.theage.com.au/business/com...

Interesting that @news.abc.net.au report👆 couldn't be bothered to link the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory report or name the Commission chair👇 & gives a ton of space & the final word to the Israeli govt 🤬

Aus media is complicit.

Two powerful earthquakes, magnitude 7.1 and 7.5, struck west of the Venezuela capital Caracas, causing widespread devastation. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez declared a state of emergency. Experts warn the death toll could be in the thousands.

Buster Keaton didn’t perform the most dangerous stunt in movie history so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Australian media ignores UN report on deliberate killing of children Stephanie Tran reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/australian-media-ignores-un-report-on-deliberate-killing-of-children/

The shining "competence" of One Nation MPs 🤣 (or he could've been following his instincts?) "David Farley has blamed his political inexperience for mistakenly voting in support of winding back fuel tax credits, which drew condemnation from miners and the Coalition."

New @equalshope.bsky.social's episode is out! In Australia, First Nations communities continue to experience poverty, exclusion & political marginalisation. Larissa Baldwin-Roberts joins us to discuss Indigenous rights, climate justice & structural racism. 🎧 Tune in: oxf.am/3SqUMRQ

"Did neoliberals create the conditions for right-wing populist parties to thrive in recent years?" @garethhutchens.bsky.social on the structural and ideological factors behind One Nation's rise. A pity that most of his colleagues are stuck on the political odds, not the stakes. #auspol

Wonder who financed the health- & life-threatening heatwaves occurring across the world❓ Start with the Dirty Dozen👇

Wilson Asset Management—investing by racists, for racists?

Reality SLAP‼️

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles, when will Australia stop militarily & politically supporting the genocidal Israeli regime❓ "Israeli soldiers have themselves, put on the public domain, so much incriminating evidence of what they've been doing"

“What we’ve shown is that unapologetic support for Palestinian freedom is not just the moral position, it is the path to victory for progressive candidates.” For US Democrats, the truth about Israel no longer needs to be hidden. While taking AIPAC bribes is increasingly the kiss of political death.

Renewables have been growing strongly in India, and at the end of May the total installed capacity of variable renewables (excludes large hydro) reached 230.8 GW, surpassing for the first time ever the installed capacity of coal (230.1 GW). This is a significant milestone. With caveats... 🧵

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

The core point is that if you just debate things (even if all labels are used well actually) and never act (which can just be to test ideas in the world), you are basically just trolling because there's a pragmatic meaning in complaining about capitalism which is that you want to also take actions.

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Wonder who financed the health- & life-threatening heatwaves occurring across the world❓ Start with the Dirty Dozen👇

If you'd like to what scientists working in institutions, grappling with norms of the profession, think about the enormity of what they know & the lack of commensurate action, listen to this by @thierryaaron.bsky.social What does the scientific community owe the public? What does it owes itself?

It's a Heat Strike this week - UK temps up to 40C! The Heat Strike campaign was set up in 2022 to help workers understand their rights, to raise awareness of the impacts of extreme heat and the need for a maximum working temperature - and to call for climate action. Find out how to take action: