So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Wait, *another* one?

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Climate targets achieved on paper while domestic net emissions keep rising ↗️ In our latest blog post we examine how #Article6 is being implemented in 3 key countries and outline risks that could undermine climate ambition – unless safeguards are set. Read the full piece🔗 bit.ly/408xjpd

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, says politicians must stop prioritising “socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits of the world’s richest individuals and corporations.

L’Etat a versé 79 millions d’euros au concessionnaire de l’A69 alors que le chantier de l’autoroute contestée avait été interrompu par la justice pendant trois mois en 2025. « Totalement extravagant », dénoncent les opposants vert.eco/articles/let...

Till Kellerhoff and Ken Webster delve into how carbon pricing needs to be embedded into a broader fiscal architecture that addresses rents, ownership and distribution, for it to be fair and successful ➡️ vist.ly/4ttak

🚮 L'actualité nous déprime ? Objectivement, il y a de quoi. Comment garder le cap et essayer de se concentrer sur ce qui compte ? Comment faire avancer les choses dans le marasme et la guerre ? Voici 5 chouettes idées portées par des invités du 2e Festival des idées Chaleur humaine (1/8)

The United States is now a predatory hegemon—a dominant great power that “views all bilateral relations as inherently zero-sum and seeks to extract the greatest possible benefits from each one,” writes Stephen Walt. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

In the Financial Times, senior trade writer Alan Beattie argues that, in light of the Iran war, a “growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US” via @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/8dc2...

Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout Employees at Alphabet and OpenAI are pushing for stricter limits on the military’s use of AI, through a number of letters that are circulating at tech companies. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/a...

That YouGov poll yesterday: Britain's working age population 18-65: 🟢Green 26% 🟣Reform 21% 🔴Labour 16% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🔵Tories 13% Britain's retired population 65+: 🟣Reform 33% 🔵Tories 26% 🔴Labour 15% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🟢Green 6%

Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S. President Donald Trump over a war against Iran, calling it unjustified, dangerous and illegal: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Spanish PM Sanchez said Spain will not support actions that harm peace or contradict its values, responding to Trump's trade threats over Spain's refusal to grant US military base access. Sanchez said world politics must not be built on bombs and conflicts. #Iran

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opposant·es dénoncent un passage en force du concessionnaire. vert.eco/articles/la-...

Trump's’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats This does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well thehill.com/policy/energ...

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

Anthropic rewrote its AI safety framework and the core message is blunt: no single developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophic AI risk. Full breakdown at Risk Market News ⬇️ www.riskmarketnews.com/anthropic-sa...

"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible. "When Gallup asked Americans during the 2008 recession how many wanted to leave the U.S., the answer was one in 10. Last year: One in five."

To bypass clogged interconnection queues, the tech industry is undertaking a rapid buildout of onsite gas power. But why not build onsite renewables? @michael-thomas.bsky.social explains how Google is doing just that in Texas in a new partnership with AES Clean Energy.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

US’s economic exceptionalism was based on massive cost of capital advantages from 250 year commitment to the idea of the rule of law and the civil liberties underlying that commitment, which Trump is destroying. Investors are re-pricing. www.ft.com/content/cfdc...

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

"The urgent need for research cannot be used as an excuse for irresponsibly ignoring the consequences of today's decisions. Waiting another decade or 2 to begin factoring the CO2 implications into energy policy quite likely amounts to imposing great hardship on a future generation"-E.P. Eckholm 1982

"...the higher the peak temperature, the more difficult it is to reverse temperature below critical levels and the longer it’s likely that we’ll remain in ‘overshoot’.” - @njsteinert.bsky.social, @cicero.oslo.no #ClimateEmergency

"We have more power than we realise. We are not just protesting a technology we dislike. We are standing across multiple political divides, against a financial scam that threatens all our livelihoods" @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/22/t...

"There’s no way around it: we’ll see the pressure on vegetable and fruit prices": A wave of extreme rain across Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco has battered the winter growing regions that feed Europe, disrupting supplies of fruit and vegetables www.ft.com/content/8504...

@theverge.com has 3.3 million (!!!!) followers on X, and 0.2 million here on bsky. X2 RTs on bsky for this They post on each platform with identical text so I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to do a proper systemic analysis of every identical post on both platforms in terms of RTs, likes etc.

The biggest story that is regularly bumped by sexier, more entertaining and more immediate stories, just because we now have the attention span of a gnat and the dysregulated dopamine cycle of a social media addict

There's no money for anything else, but: 'UKRI committed a record £1.6 billion of funding directly targeted at the AI sector over the next four years. This is UKRI’s biggest single investment area for 2026 to 2030.' Growth, growth, growth, nothing about flourishing or a liveable society. Pathetic.

I somehow thought I would never read that question in any newspaper. Thank you, @financialtimes.com. See: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “America is becoming a petrostate”

"what happens to a consumer-credit economy when consumers are being replaced with machines?" THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish? citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Avec @magalireghezza.bsky.social : Planifier démocratiquement l'adaptation. On met tout le monde autour de la table et one ne sort pas de la pièce tant qu'on n'a pas vraiment décidé d'un plan pour l'école, pour l'hôpital, pour le monde du travail, dans un monde qui se réchauffe :

Trump’s executive order aimed at spurring production of glyphosate has infuriated MAHA leaders “They voted for Trump, and they own this. Of course they were betrayed. And they betrayed the rest of us. There were plenty of warning signs” - @ewgofficial.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Après chaque événement climatique exceptionnel, le gouvernement feint la surprise, alors que ces phénomènes sont largement annoncés par les scientifiques. Une posture qui dissimule mal l’abandon des collectivités locales, l’impréparation de l’État et le non-respect de sa trajectoire climatique.

Tariffs ruling just dropped: The court holds that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose the tariffs.

Seth Meyers was right

I remain so intensely mad at the energy guys who finger-wagged me when I pointed out Musk is clearly viciously racist back in the early years of this decade.

UFOs and Aliens are real (but Epstein Files are a hoax)

« Il faut repartir, mais avec le réchauffement climatique on ne va que vers le pire. Ça fait 15 ans que je fais du maraîchage, il n’y a plus une année où il ne nous arrive pas un truc. » Reportage de @raphaellebd.bsky.social sur les crues, à Aiguillon (Lot-et-Garonne) www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Une coalition d'associations poursuit l'administration Trump après l'abrogation d'un texte clé sur le climat : « Nous poursuivons Trump pour l’empêcher de réduire en cendres l’avenir de nos enfants afin d’offrir un gigantesque cadeau aux compagnies pétrolières » www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Climate-related disasters can push up the cost of debt - @ecb.europa.eu -Climate change now an important factor for fiscal policy, debt sustainability and sovereign risk -Cost of assistance and reconstruction can have a direct fiscal impact, while indirect effects may include lower tax revenues

En Europe, l'adaptation au changement climatique est insuffisante, largement incrémentale et souvent trop tardive, dénonce le Conseil consultatif scientifique européen sur le changement climatique. « C'est une tâche intimidante, mais tout à fait réalisable. » www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feb 19 in #ClimateHistory 1971 – Nature editorial on “The Great Greenhouse Scare” 1981 – Nature article “Greenhouse Effect: Act Now, Not Later” 1981 – Ecology Party meeting in Wells warns of carbon dioxide build-up 2003 – “CCS to be studied by IPCC” 2007 – Australian gas lobby hard at work 1/n

Propaganda works.

Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."