If you impose tariffs on everyone, everywhere, all at once, don't whine if they do trade deals amongst themselves instead

Great thread here on climate communication and academics reproducing media narratives. More scientists need to engage with climate obstruction research. Helpfully there's a free download for a recent book on this (with a media chapter) academic.oup.com/book/61469

Neither of these caveats are strong enough to limit the growing wedge being created by Brexit for UK defence industry, the more the EU develops financial instruments for defence spending. And my bet is there is more to come.

X is a right-wing child abuse friendly silo / bubble, and there's a contingent of lefties who've been corralled into a dark corner and fenced in so they can be abused and screamed at like animals. If there are communities there you don't want to lose, it's your responsibility to help them move too

I'm with this gent.

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death. They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵

I will reiterate that I've never had cause to regret abandoning the former Twitter more than two years ago now, and have suffered neither personally nor professionally for doing so. Since I left it's become more toxic and, yes, evil. The people who are still there should really consider moving on.

No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority. It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.

🔹 Hubble and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse: go.nasa.gov/3L1CVxG 🧵 (2/4)

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

The right to life comprises a right not to be unlawfully killed and a right to have any killing properly investigated.

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

How grotesque the mixture of ambivalence and retreat into useful lies has been to see from news shows , bigots , bots and right wing politicians talking about Renee Nicole Good

No sleep last night… Can’t get that video out of my head Can believe the lies being told to betray her even in death Can’t believe the mindless lemmings that swallow them up America is lost.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

“‘They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,’ the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. ‘We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,’ the woman cries.” www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Now that ICE is murdering people in the street can we agree that people were not over-reacting when they called the Trump regime fascists?

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

Sweet lord, yet another example of a fossil fuel supplier admitting that demand for their fossil fuel product rises when it's cheap and freely available thanks to their increased extraction!!!! Starting to suspect supply impacts demand, folks!!!!!!! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

There is nothing inherently wrong with the Earth 400k years ago. The problem is that humans evolved to live in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. The same goes for the animals and plants that we love and love to eat. Climate change is pain for everyone.

The FP question European leaders should be asking when they make decisions is not "how do we avoid upsetting Trump here", but "what do we do here to hasten the downfall of Trumpofascism?" Because there is no ok future where Trumpofascism succeeds and consolidates. That much should be clear

This is EXACTLY why you must never give in to narcissists and abusers like mad, psychotic, Trump. They simply take it as an invitation to do more.

It’s not only Sir K. The whole society feels more comfortable in decline than in fighting for its own future. 1

Climate attribution science has moved a long way forward. Now we get to hear in real time of how much major climate disasters are driven by unnatural (ie fossil fuel) factors.

It's maddening that so many are still indirectly supporting the enemy by not leaving X.

Read the whole thing, but especially this recognition of how anti-alarmists in the press ignore the firsthand experiences of critics who have lived in the midst of rightwing fanaticism

would you consider saying “phase out fossil fuels” instead of “reduce emissions”? 🙂🙏 [argument for why here 👇] mailchi.mp/d83249557288...

The critical thing is that "gross emissions" go down rapidly, to near zero in 2050 or so, for ~1.5°C. This is how you solve the climate problem. That green slither of carbon dioxide removal is a nice to have, not a do-or-die requirement. Focus on reducing emissions. 6/

That brings up a real risk: what if UKG isn't in a position politically to make the push necessary to keep things on track? What if it doesn't care? Some of this reset looks like a façade to be seen to be doing something, to keep pro-Europeans happy, while not upsetting the Brexit status quo. 2

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025. Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Read that from Musk closely: "Civilisations" with seperate and distinct characters are locked in a Darwinian fight for survival, and hearts must be sufficiently hardened to do what is necessary in order to prevail. Can you name a historical precedent for this worldview?

I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad. A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

To follow up, most foreign govts (even and perhaps especially US allies) have an interest in weakening Trump. Netanyahu has demonstrated it can be done wrt Dem presidents. And Trump (as well as Vance and Musk) have demonstrated their willingness to do it to them. Time to put the screws on.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

#UkrainianView One more post, the similar topic. People on the occupied areas are forced to go to the frontlines. Post for the adepts of "these people are russian-speaking and they wanted their oblast to be part of russia(c)". Their home is occupied and they are used as cannon fodder.🔽

War crime btw

“And for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”

"... the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. 'Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.'” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is just an amazing result. Sorry BBC and everyone else but you can take your unstoppable fash populism narrative and stick it up your arse.

Depending on CCS or other future-tech in your climate solutions framework is “like clinging to a balloon as it rises higher. The hope seems real but the distance from the ground only widens and you can only hold on for so long.”

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

Big loser of the night is the perpetual "Europe doomed" narrative. Great win for Center/center left parties, while far-right got dinged but remains part of the political landscape. The notion of the far-right always rising and it being 1933 in Europe has just grown really stale.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Everything is a distraction from this.