The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless. It’s literally everything that makes life worth living. And, of course, it’s life itself. Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.

And yet, they live with a sense of impending doom. Because their doom, at the hands of increasingly strenuously-denied climate collapse, is impending, in visible ways they can’t keep out of the back of their minds, however hard they try. But they can blame the wrong people for that feeling, and do.

I really feel that the people involved in Yorp aren't motivated by anything but the desire to be Seen To Be Important

This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.

This is simply untrue. I've maintained since day one of his leadership, Keir Starmer looks like a ginsters pasty

I’ve been saying it for ages, what we’re seeing is a repackaging of the “ain’t no Black in the Union Jack” nationalism of the 60s, 70s and 80s History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again

I can't believe I just sat through the whole thing!

A joint study by European Space Agency & NOAA concludes we have gravely underestimated ocean acidification. We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat. Stopping emissions cannot reverse this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have such an idiotic civilization

Notice how quickly we've moved from deporting "illegals" to the idea of deporting any migrant whose face doesn't fit, irrespective of legal status. Next stop: some form of ostracisation for any person whose face doesn't fit, whether they were born here or not? We're deep in National Front territory

So the left just keeps oscillating between horizontalism and electoralism — trashing the last phase and repeating what failed before it? Forever? Cool.

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

Great piece by Andreas Reckwitz capturing the kind of politics taking shape as, for the first time, the West sees the future as loss and regression. It’s an excellent summary of possible avenues for action:

Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions. hotorcool.org/publications...

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

I'm sure dressing in black shirts isn't referencing any particular historical phenomena

None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. I urge you.

If you have a firm grip on what's going on I'm really worried about you

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

This hasn't been unthinkable for at least 15 years

Excited to discover that Bence Nanay is about to release a book on Robert Musil, Philosophy Without Qualities

I really want to quit reading Wittgenstein now, but I promised myself I wouldn't.

I've quoted Milton Mayer's book on the early Nazi period, but I could have quoted others. This attitude was common in the early years of Nazi Germany, especially in the period from 1933 to 1936, when the regime was consolidating power

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the National Front

This is catabolic collapse: society is consuming its own infrastructure and complexity to sustain itself, rather than collapsing suddenly

And when those new coercive powers are introduced, then what follows will prompt another round of more coercive powers for the state, and then another, and then another. The UK is trapped in an illiberal spiral.

The government is granting powers to ban protests, has outlawed a protest group; Badenoch wants to replicate Trump's paramilitaries; Jenrick openly signals his agreement with neo-Nazis; Farage, anointed as the future PM, now declares his desire to pursue remigration. We're speeding into fascism

This is *genuinely insane*. This would have outlawed the Civil Rights movement. The Suffragettes. The anti-apartheid movement. A Labour government trying to crush the right to protest is awful beyond belief. It's full on Trumpism.

Starmer's nihilism had us drifting into fascism by increments, not ideology.

They can now ban protests. Oppose fascism or genocide and you’re a terrorist. Call for violence or mass deportations and you’re merely exercising “reasonable concern.” The moral vacuum at the heart of this government is a howling fascism.

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are 🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally 🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face 🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose #r4today

We're in a spiral of competitive fascisms www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gaza is the planned response. It is, as the Colombian President Gustavo Petro put it, "the rehearsal of the future".

Between having a job, being ill, and my bloody minded refusal to stop my close reading of Wittgenstein, I am beginning to doubt I'll ever get properly into being obsessed with Robert Musil

I'm tempted by the idea that part of the reason refusal has so often displaced reformist or revolutionary stances, is that it is expressing an intuition, or a vibe—a negative and ambiguous utopianism

Everyone is a 12 year old theory of American fascism vindicated once again as President declares "That's what I wanted to do anyway, that was my plan the whole time, so..."

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

It is 4am and I can neither breath through my nose or sleep

Now I've read that post about how they're all 12 year ols I can't not read this in a very young kids voice. But you ger than 12. More like 6 or 7.

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

I've been stuck between two stations in Glasgow for nearly an hour

Jesus Fucking Christ

The nostalgia and the desire for regression to childhood evinces a need for care, protection, and an admission of insecurity about ones competence in coping with the world. This generates an anxiety about seeming weak and a subsequent overcorrection that insists on individual strength

Today I am full of sadness, in a manner intimately and immanently bound to my politics, something that only becomes more constant (which I cannot stand), but I am tired of having my belief in the sanctity of all human life exploited at whim by a politics which violently refuses that same sanctity.

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying, "It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza" "These are separate things and we should condemn them both"