The silencing of activists continues. India govt is in effect saying opposing fossil fuels going against Indian interests. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

If you think Trump's comments about capturing oil in V aren't sincere because the country has bad, old and inefficient fossil infrastructure, I regret to inform you that all fossil fuel infrastructure is bad, old and inefficient and none of these people actually care about the process or product

So much that is happening in the world means that I am looking forward to reading Amy’s book more than ever, I know it will definitely help connect a lot of the dots that have been hidden from us (on purpose)

Takeaway from this Aug 2025 article: - big oil wants in to Venezuela - Chevron has stayed while Exxon was kicked out - Exxon-backed NGOs have pushed for action while Chevron-backed have not.. Guess who won that one?

“We play a long game… We are committed to the people of the country and would like to be there as part of rebuilding Venezuela’s economy in time when circumstances change.” -Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, November 2025 www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Explosions heard over Venezuelan capital Caracas amid US tensions https://aje.io/fbwc6j

The US has ~15,000 troops assembled in the Caribbean. It is not enough to invade and take Venezuela. But the assembled force is enough to bomb Venezuela heavily like the US did to Yemen last year.

Explosions have been heard and plumes of smoke are rising in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent there, amid spiralling tensions with the United States. aje.io/pv5l3e

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers? https://aje.io/u20ygz

UN persons of the year: our readers' survey results, reflecting continuing focus on Gaza passblue.com/2025/12/28/u...

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

A federal appeals court is blocking Hawaii from enforcing a climate change tourist tax on cruise ship passengers.

Palestinian, Jewish and Indigenous groups say they will launch constitutional challenge to laws described as 'rushed' https://aje.io/965lyf

New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)

So… big news. (Keep reading.)

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

Brilliant summary of the recent #ICC paper www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Vigil in London for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel https://aje.io/krimvr

#politas #tasmania #antarctic

Julian Assange Files Suit Against Nobel Peace Prize Committee Over Award to War-Promoting Machado

Report finds warmest temperatures, loss of snow cover in the Arctic as US, Russia among Arctic countries pushing ahead with oil drilling despite climate crisis www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

It matters so much and so directly to Bondi that the Christchurch attack, in which an Australian white supremacist massacred 51 people in a mosque, was first botched by Aus media outlets republishing his manifesto and then 100% deleted from public consciousness: memory-holed

Pauline Hanson believes the Port Arthur massacre was a false flag operation. This is not mentioned in any of the reports - either from frothing right-wing media or pretending-to-be-normal right-wing media (that's 95% of all media in Aus)

Best story I've seen on the claim against Shell, filed by survivors of the devastating 2021 #Odette “The poor are getting even more poor because we are recovering fr the typhoon & then there is another typhoon all over again, & then recovering again” @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social

After mass violence, trauma spreads socially. Here are 3 ways you can help reduce it theconversation.com/after-mass-v...

The sets, props, costumes, lighting, cinematography in The Princess Bride are all so perfect to the Hollywood era and genre it's a love letter to.

It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead. There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

So I read both this and Parable of the Talents this year and I just wanted to brag a bit because it's been a long time since I read two whole books in one year. I know it's a bit pathetic but I have a brain that struggles with attention like reading words on a page so it's a big thing for me

Gov said social media ban would only affect 16 yr olds. But most Aussies are being asked to perform age verification and some platforms have also restricted the comms of 16-18 year olds. The social media ban has a chilling censorious affect beyond the ban and imposes a blanket of mass surveillance

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Hello I’m in Australia so temporarily can’t dm on here, unless I decide to do a face scan. For now, my contact info is on my website as always.

I spent five years writing my book while raising two kids, and then the AI companies stole it — and they still owe me and half a million other authors our settlement checks.

The ruling comes months after Tufts doctoral student was freed from ICE detention over a pro-Palestinian article.

'Offshore wind reduced UK spending on imported fuels by £30bn.` eciu.net/media/press-...

President Donald Trump halted permits for onshore and offshore wind projects on his first day in office. Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Trump's ban is "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law." www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/t...

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill. It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

Isn't it odd how there's basically no coverage of this in Canadian media, and not just of the moral and legal obligations, but also of the 1200+ deaths?

Australia has recorded a full year with no new cases of cervical cancer in under-25s, the group most at risk of aggressive types of the cancer-causing human papillomavirus infection. And the reason is ... [drum roll] ... HPV #vaccination! #vaccineswork www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Two tropical cyclones and a typhoon caused heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides in South and Southeast Asia last week. More than 1,250 people have died in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand alone, with many still missing. By @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social

When will the moderately cossetted countries outside the Tropics wake up?

Don't look away from this tragedy - this is a sign of things to come as we head to 2ºC I sound like a broken record - we are *utterly* unprepared. We need to *urgently* have a clear view of the risks and do something about robust early warning systems that reach people on the ground timeously!

Hundreds more people are still missing as intensive rains pose new dangers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The death toll from climate-fuelled floods in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand is now more than 1,750 with heavy rains continuing My latest for @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over. The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Despite Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, the skilled Attallah family of artisan potters continue working in their damaged workshop, preserving a craft and heritage that has survived for generations.