Stunning to see such massive turnouts in Chicago, for an anti-ICE protest announced only yesterday and in such terrible weather. Lots of different ways this can all play out, many of which are not in the administration’s favour.

New govt report on the national security implications for biodiversity and ecosystem collapse, quietly popped out amidst all the ‘Orange Badman’ noise elsewhere. Profoundly concerning stuff.

📣📣📣 A major warning has finally surfaced... The UK government quietly published a shortened intelligence report revealing that global ecosystem collapse is now a direct threat to our national security. Read more, by Rupert Read.

For no reason at all, sharing Gene Sharp’s classic (and rigorous) list of ‘198 Methods of Nonviolent Action’. If these are to be times of stark choices, may at least those choices be informed ones.

Fascinating and thoughtful perspective on what both Labour and, by extension, Britain, can do in response to what Carney has identified as a ‘rupture’. The shifting of geopolitical tectonic plates doesn’t have to mean societal collapse, but it does require seeing the moment of what it is.

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As political ads go, this is a pretty remarkable one.

Bett done for another year… I like how the Elizabeth Line doesn’t judge me for wanting to take a train, it just lets me go ahead and take one.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

#LongRead that is equal parts fascinating (in terms of the bigger picture of what’s going on, globally) and horrifying (in terms of what that actually means). The post-war era’s relative peace is now over. We’re living through the opening skirmishes of an epochal shift in our collective history.

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

👇🏼 Exactly the point about the #ClimateCrisis (and one that the likes of @zackpolanski.bsky.social are increasingly making to good effect over in the UK). As an individual, you don’t work to *escape* the system. You work to *change* the system, which can only be done in collaboration with others.

Even if part of this happens rather than all of it, it will still suggest an epochal shift in the world order. What comes to mind is that Greenland could be America’s Suez. Britain never came back from that in the form in had previously held onto so tightly.

Very good!

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“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”

Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell? We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night. Try it for yourself here oilwell.app

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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Living through the *weirdest* of times!

JD Vance sending a telegram to Ben Franklin: lol they couldn't keep it

The African Diner continues. Tonight, my fellow Nighthawk and I will be taking our listeners on a trip to Senegal for a deep dive into their rich musical traditions. Tune in to TTNS.uk at 23:00 (UK time) and join us in the chatroom.

Helpful listing of things academics can do now. www.abiperrin.com/p/scientists...

"... I’m going to make the observation that it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine. What I’m trying to say is, if you’re for peace and democracy, then a solar panel is a valuable tool (and a valuable symbol, a peace sign for our age)."

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A real privilege to get the final question in at last night’s fascinating conversation between @michaelemann.bsky.social and @edufuturist.bsky.social, and delighted that Michael’s parting advice aligned exactly with the work we are doing on climate & sustainability education at City St George’s.

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

Probably the most important factor about the risks to an American takeover of Greenland but the one thing that barely anyone seems to be talking about - keeping that big old ice sheet right where it is for as long as possible.

Suspect that data centres will come to be seen as the ‘dark satanic mills’ (yet mostly in people’s) of our age - updating the industrial era for the digital one.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

Tomorrow, back to work after two weeks off that were both restful and productive. And I go into the new working year with probably (as far as my records can tell) my first #InboxZero in about five years! Won’t last long, but nothing like a blank state to start back up from.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Watching ‘Bowie: The Final Act’ on C4. Mike Garson just stated that Bowie was the Miles Davis of the rock world - always thought that too.

So, if you’re just waking up to a late breakfast on the US West Coast…

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Where would the American equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials be held, were they to happen at all, once this regime falls?

Assuming that an invasion of Greenland, which has to be more than 50% possible after today, would be in violation of the NATO charter. By extension, if that doesn’t trigger an Article 5 response from other members, NATO would effectively be redundant? Wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Quite the position

Yup, there is that.

Anyone getting ‘1936 Berlin Olympics’ vibes about this year’s FIFA World Cup, or is it just me?

Very interesting piece. It strikes me that Mamdani may well prove to be a political fork in the road. After all, FDR was once deemed necessary to get behind to avoid total societal collapse. Sometimes, ya just gotta know which way the wind is blowing. And ya don’t need a weatherman to know that.

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

The majorities FDR commanded (& which the Dems held into the 80s) scared the bejeezus out of the American right. The tragedy of that New Deal coalition is that it required caucusing and compromising with Southern segregationists. An FDR-ish politics that's truly inclusive would be a thing to behold.

Can’t believe I’m damned weeping here, alone with a social media feed… #MamdaniInauguration

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