That is way beyond merely embarrassing...

Because fossil fuels were not aggressively phased out after the Paris Agreement, global heating has now reached ~1.5°C UNEP (2025): “To date, no NDCs have set targets to reduce oil and gas production or phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies” This is a highway to hell

J'apprends que @salomesaque.bsky.social a choisi de faire une pause médiatique. Et je comprends qu'elle a ressenti une forme de saturation, sans doute entre autres du fait de beaucoup de messages de harcèlement. Alors je veux simplement prendre le temps de dire combien j'admire son travail 1/

Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

If that is all this person did, it is not a crime—and what we are witnessing is an illegal attack on an American citizen by a lawless band of armed Trump agents

It seems worth noting that the things Summers admitted to doing in an email dialogue with a famous sex criminal is considerably worse than anything Gay was accused of when it was the single top priority of both Summers and the New York Times to get her fired

Racism is of course a big part of it, but I think Larry Summers spells out the other big part: Play ball with the rich and powerful or get pushed out. bsky.app/profile/skat...

Speaking of Larry Summers. Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown. What a di*k! 🤡 Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...

this has really gotten buried, but the president called a reporter "piggy" for asking a question about Epstein files people.com/donald-trump...

In the same speech, you claimed that prices were way down...

Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Billionaires are the result of a failed system.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time. Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike. Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

If my 7-year-old engaged in this sort of bigotry and name calling I would expect to find myself in a parent-teacher conference by tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary is out here on national television, living her best life

Le 13 novembre 2015, à l’entrée du Stade de France, Salim Toorabally barre la route à un terroriste, qui tente d’entrer pour frapper, pour tuer. Quelques minutes plus tard, l’assaillant déclenche sa charge aux abords de l’enceinte de Saint-Denis, troisième explosion de la soirée

Just heard at that bus stop: a student explaining he has the habit of asking ChatGPT what grade he will get at his tests...

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

It is, alas, that simple. And I'll add that we are doing a very poor job of it...

To be fair, they've only had 15 years to come up with an alternative to what they claim is the worst possible system. And now they might still have a whole month to get everything passed and set up, so it should be a breeze...

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip. The DG didn’t resign though

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Hallucinant. Chaque question pose un élément de propagande mensonger comme un fait qu'il faudrait justifier. Et on me ressort régulièrement que C News n'est pas un problème car en face il y a Radio France qui est un média totalement de gauche ...

"Blue states voted blue, that's all" Yeah, right...

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

I can see that one thing has not changed in two years: South Africa cheat at absolutely every contest, and yet the referee almost never call the penalties against them, and indeed often FOR them...

The DNA pioneer is Rosalind Franklin.

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

We created a system where those most lacking in basic human decency and empathy attain the most wealth, influence, and power. What could possibly go wrong? #Trillionaires #ElonMusk

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵

“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian” According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:

Reporter: SNAP is so stimulative to our economy. There are lots of rural stores where 60% of their sales are SNAP sales. So that rural store might have to shutter its doors. This is our collective struggle. All of us do better when people experiencing hunger do better. All of us lose when they don't

He must be held in contempt. Should have been since January...

He seems nice...

Her adoptive dad had sexually assaulted her for years. But when Taylor Cadle told police, she was treated like a “monster.” She was charged with lying to the police and had to write an apology letter to her abuser. Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.

Some places are already hitting adaptation hard limits at ~1.5ºC of heating. We are currently 97% certain to cross 2ºC. If we continue to heat at 0.3ºC per decade we will reach this in ~17 years. Mass global climate migration looms very large on the horizon. We are not ready.

@jksteinberger.bsky.social is one of the major voices of our time, with her importance only matched by her uncanny modesty. Wherever she writes, you should read. I know I will. Daring in Dangerous Times (DaDa) daringindanger.substack.com?r=4j2yrh&utm...

That is... disturbing...

"Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate. The Trump Administration has worked with congressional Republicans who are currently in power to defund climate and vaccine science while staffing various agencies with climate and vaccine deniers." @michaelemann.bsky.social

note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

So - of course it's absurd lies upon absurd lies but... if that were the case, wasn't the election a year ago? It's not like the House has been burning midnight oil on legislating. If everything that is wrong was done in the Biden admin, you could simply reverse it. Somehow, you just blame...

That is some sudden fall for the US! I'd expect a similar, if not steeper one from Trump 2.0