Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

If you’re in Australia and want to do free CPR training this Saturday (tomorrow) the Australian Islamic Medical Association (AIMA) is hosting its annual National Lifesavers Program www.aima.org.au/lifesavers

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When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent second autopsy for Trey Reed, the Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide.

You couldn't plan for this type of action during Climate Week, just incredible timing gothamist.com/news/oil-spi...

End of times cultists - on past experience, they won’t doubt themselves even when prediction after prediction falls flat

brilliant writers like @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social are the reason i subscribe to orgs like @aljazeera.com — here's a great breakdown of what all the "rapture" stuff is about...

People are sharing videos about what to do when the end-times prophecy called the ‘rapture’ happens.

I wrote about the rapture predictions and how they are connected to other things like climate change and Palestine for @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

BREAKING: At least 17 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7a81gb

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Google gets the green light from the state to turn wetlands into a data center in Fort Wayne. The company will aim to offset the environmental impact by purchasing credits from a wetland mitigation bank. www.21alivenews.com/2025/09/19/g...

"About 486,000 people live full-time in an RV, which appears to be more than twice as many as in 2021," industry figures show — U.S. Census Bureau data also show a smaller, but substantial surge in this type of housing. @spettypi.bsky.social for @NBCNews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Goodreads page of a romance novel with recommendations for more books to read. "On Tyranny" has 93,000 ratings and 12,000 reviews!

Trump on the TikTok deal: "A man named Lachlan is involved...Lachlan Murdoch...Rupert is probably gonna be in the group."

Curious about the legal implications - to me it seems the recognition is something another country has the ability to do, choosing who should lead said state seems somewhat more complicated (especially for a supposedly democratic state to call for)

Welp, updated my "biggest wind turbine in the world" slide again. Last time I taught thermo, it was a 19 MW turbine with 128 m blades. This year, it's 26 MW with 150 m blades. Always offshore, always in China. Context: A Boeing 747 is 71 m long. 150 m is about the height of a 50-story skyscraper.

According to TikTok, the Rapture will be on September 23.

“No final decision has been made, but several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air.”

The LNP were Ok with signing us up for $368B for Submarines on the never never, but wanting to spend $8B on climate mitigation is a bridge too far, but were OK to spend $8B on one nuclear plant. #AusPol

UN commission just found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For those quick to dismiss the UN, note that Americans view the UN more favorably than POTUS or Congress: The latest Pew poll shows 57% of Americans have favorable views of the UN, an increase from 52% last year.

i know there’s a lot in the news right now but i’m shocked that i haven’t seen anyone talking about how australia finally developed a vaccine for koalamydia

Kathy Hochul’s nod comes after Trump described Mamdani’s 22-point lead in polls as a ‘rebellion against bad candidates’.

In May 2025, China installed 3 GW per day.

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, has endorsed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a staunch pro-Palestinian advocate who has campaigned for a more equitable allocation of the city’s resources, for mayor ahead of a closely watched November election www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Empty nets. Southwest Louisiana was once the “shrimp capital of the US,” but fishermen say that the growing number of LNG terminals, chemical plants, and refineries have decimated their harvests. By @mckennapr.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org…

1 in 8 Australian households (1.3 million people) don’t have enough money to buy food

Age verification? Gonna take pollution down to zero

Indonesia, Nepal, France, the Global Sumud flotilla going to Gaza with dozens of ships supported by Italian dockworkers. Definitely a good time to be reading news about more than one country as many of these protest movements have connections across borders.

Right after the Pacific Island forum leaders meeting and Albanese’s visit to Vanuatu where a planned pact was not signed - Vanuatu literally got the ICJ to rule rich countries have legal responsible to reduce their climate impacts two months ago www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. By @juliaradio.bsky.social

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world - Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say #climatecrisis #airpollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Arabella Douglas, Minjungbal Bundjalung woman, legal scholar & climate justice advocate: “Every minute we spend defending ourselves against fascist intimidation is a minute stolen from the urgent work of protecting our rivers, our oceans, our forests & the health of our people."

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

"Although we are well aware that we know much that earlier generations did not, we are much less conscious of what they knew that we do not." Peter Burke (2024) #doubt

Australia, meanwhile, is *considering* legislation to begin its own CDC on January 1, 2026 www.cdc.gov.au/newsroom/new...

rebranding public transit as infrastructure bittorrent

Let it be remembered that when Palestinian legal and rights organizations @alhaq.bsky.social, PCHR, and @almezan.bsky.social organized non-violently and turned to the International Criminal Court in the search for accountability, they were punished. There is no "acceptable" way to be Palestinian.

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

Isn’t department of war more accurate though?

Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan targeted for engaging with ICC, state department says.

After a false start on Sunday, the flotilla left Spain’s Barcelona port again on Monday evening.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Definitely recommend reading, listening to, @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social for anyone interested in what’s going on in Australia (now and generally)