Some added context and questions from @caseynewton.bsky.social: www.platformer.news/tiktok-deal-...

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

This is fucking insane and I am astonished at how irresponsible Global News upper management is being with this. They’re risking the credibility of all their journalists and for…what? Canada’s worst nepo baby?

“Laws are powerless against these fits of rage,” Voltaire famously observed of religious fanatics: “These people are convinced that the holy spirit that penetrates them is above the law, that their enthusiasm is the only law they must heed.” The only choice, he said, was to utterly crush them.

Don't call it a come back... The globe has awakened from it's hurricane slumber with 3 major hurricanes / super typhoons in 3 days! All three have been cat 4 and 5's with #Ragasa topping the list at 175 mph. #Gabrielle is peaking now so 140 may soon be upgraded.

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

✨Photos from #DrawtheLine in Niagara today! #SeniorsForClimate #LaterIsTooLate

Thousands rally in Toronto and other cities to 'draw the line' against PM Carney agenda www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... This is a great piece. Would love to run into some of these people in NYC this week.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

Red rebels sharing space with the local orcas and old growth #drawtheline @ ecocide @350canada.bsky.social

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Colombia has just announced the world's first International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels! Supported by the 16 other countries in the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. A major step addressing not just demand but also supply of fossil fuels fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

The Climate Risk Assessment report predicts 1.5 million Australians will be affected by sea level rise within 25 years. The length of the average mortgage? 30 years. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

Yet another reason to back solar and not dirty, planet-polluting fossil fuels.

This is a great story about the good and bad (but mostly good) stuff wasps do. Nice to see some of our Ottawa-based Canadian entomologists get some media time!

By the time commentators were warning that Kirk’s murder heralded a new wave of violence, extremist activism on the ground was at a multiyear low, according to ACLED. interc.pt/47L3q3e

While the costs associated with these troops are being kept secret, they are expected to skyrocket.

As far as I can tell no one else has yet reported (tell me if I missed something!) on the DOJ dictating what meetings NIH employees can attend, which, well, seems odd to me.

@nickbreeze.genn.cc @hpacoalition.bsky.social @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @stephenleahy.bsky.social

This is a great example of local actions that both reduce carbon pollution (climate mitigation by enabling carbon free active transportation) and also increase the resilience to climate impacts (climate adaptation by designing systems to handle increased amounts of rainfall due to climate change).

They aren’t just flower beds!!! Fascinating peak beneath the surface of one of London’s new Cycleways - you can see the complex drainage system that ensures bike lanes help protect the capital from heavy rain & the effects of climate change. And don’t they look great when they’re finished? 💚🚲👍

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

Why don't economists and asset managers want to know anything about production? Its machines, processes and knowhow. Why are they satifsied with pinging sonar off the substance of the world? Tooze on our Hopkins report on overseas Chinese green factories... adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Public-health guidance over the past few decades has tended to emphasise avoiding the sun. But perhaps that advice has gone a bit too far econ.st/4guDds1 Photo: Getty Images

Would be cool if news media treated this with the same level of scandal as Joe Biden occasionally forgetting some peoples names

Automakers from Ford to startup Slate are working on cheaper electric pickups as US tax credits are set to expire. But who'll buy these barebones trucks without features like a stereo and power windows?

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

“Fossil fuels are not just an environmental crisis—they are a public health emergency” climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...

This is not OK www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

"Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of the State of Palestine" www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. Have a GREAT Sunday! www.podcastics.com/episode/3835... #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #yycbike #ClimatePolicy #Urbanism #15MinuteCities #cdnpoli #abpoli #BikeLanes #ClimateSolutions #ClimateSky

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

The biggest news story of our time is the end of democracy in the United States, but if you look to major newspapers, the end of democracy is rarely if ever the focus of a news story. Our institutions, many of which have stood for nearly 250 years, are much more fragile than we thought they were.

Our tax dollars at work, costing children's lives worldwide. Secretary Rubio, do you want this to be your legacy? My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Did this segment make it into that Sinclair tribute to Charlie Kirk or nah

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More than 60% of energy generated by fossil fuels is lost as waste heat and can’t be USED leahy.substack.com/p/yes-one-th...

Affordable power for decades, neighborhood resiliency in catastrophes, & then the small fact that this DOES NOT DESTROY THE ONLY LIVABLE PLANT THAT WE KNOW OF— a truly spectacular one at that. Resist fascism. Solar on every school, community center, and a whole lot more. #SunDay

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of flooding in the Philippines. I'd argue what we're seeing in the country now is a good example of a climate security risk -- government corruption preventing investment in adaptation (flood control) leading to massive street protests.

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Half my fantasy football league has canceled their Disney+ accounts. Feels like this one has gone mainstream pretty noticeably