Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Unintended consequences don’t always have to be bad. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From The American Prospect — Organized Money: How AIPAC Tries to Dominate the Business of Politics prospect.org/2026/04/15/o...

Compassionate collaboration may be the only way to heal an overheated, fractured and zero-sum world that’s lurching from one crisis to the next to feed its fossil fuel addiction.

In this issue: 🇪🇺 The European Commission announced its “AccelerateEU” energy plan. ☀️ Renewables overtook coal in 2025 to be the world’s largest source of electricity. 💼 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies.

In light of recent conversations, if anyone wants to checkout my case for the importance of critical approaches in climate communication and climate social science research, the intro essay to the special issue I edited is open access! #climatechange #greensky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

NEW – Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit ‘fossil-fuel price shocks’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/oZWCX4c

While many of the 2 per day falling to Earth burn up on re-entry, leaving heavy metals and plastics in the atmosphere, sometimes they leave debris on the ground. Starlink aims to launch a million more, raising risks of low orbit collisions. 🧪 thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f...

The conservative Fifth Circuit court has ridiculously ruled that a specific Protestant version of the Ten Commandments mandated to be posted in Texas public schools doesn‘t violate the First Amendment’s bar against establishment of religion. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Voter ID? How about Donor ID? Nobody can spend a dime influencing our politics, be it elections or governing unless they are human beings & American citizens.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... Our Outlaw Prez said he was going to let RFK Jr. to “go wild” as HHS Secretary, and unlike his confirmation promises, the Kennedy scion has taken Trump’s imprimatur seriously.

“The end of fossil fuels is no longer a distant goal; it is an unfolding reality. The task now is to govern it,”

Wind farms and solar looking at the world right now and saying “we told you so”.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be the ones to decide if Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be prosecuted.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... Our Outlaw Prez said he was going to let RFK Jr. to “go wild” as HHS Secretary, and unlike his confirmation promises, the Kennedy scion has taken Trump’s imprimatur seriously.

The conservative Fifth Circuit court has ridiculously ruled that a specific Protestant version of the Ten Commandments mandated to be posted in Texas public schools doesn‘t violate the First Amendment’s bar against establishment of religion. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution. This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians. The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate. From our friends at @theguardian.com:

How many imma-gonna-destroy-civilization spews from our Outlaw Prez will it take before cowardly Republicans act like the patriots they so often brag about being and join Democrats and Independents to boot this madman out of the White House? Around the 23rd of Never?

The AI boom comes at a cost 😮‍💨⁣⁣ ⁣Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.⁣ Can it still be called progress if it deepens environmental harm, surveillance, and the grip of Big Tech and autocrats on power?⁣ empli.fi/greenpeace/?...

America’s wealthiest men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust. By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

How many imma-gonna-destroy-civilization spews from our Outlaw Prez will it take before cowardly Republicans act like the patriots they so often brag about being and join Democrats and Independents to boot this madman out of the White House? Around the 23rd of Never?

This is a horrific story of abuse of animals that are beloved, gentle, and incapable if defending themselves. Shipment after shipment of wild sloths delivered to an unheated warehouse in Florida, without even running water, where they all died. And people were charged $19 to watch them suffer.

Nuclear power is so washed at this point lol. It's only marginal if you could turn new reactors on tomorrow, but absolutely washed when considering realistic timelines. Solar and storage has totally undermined its niche

West Bank settler-terrorists working on behalf of the Netanyahu version of “from the river to the sea.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The day before the US & Israel wd carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of 150 accounts on the online betting market Polymarket wagered nearly $1mn the strike wd happen the next day, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each. The grift thrives. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

In what is probably his greatest heist ever, Trump is negotiating with Trump on an IRS settlement to give himself $10bn over his leaked tax returns. Why not just let this guy back up a truck to the Fort Knox vault & load up a few thousand gold bars the way he loaded up classified documents in 2021?

West Bank settler-terrorists working on behalf of the Netanyahu version of “from the river to the sea.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.

In fact I'm not really sure what Trump could possibly have done to accelerate the clean energy transition more, in more places.

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

In what is probably his greatest heist ever, Trump is negotiating with Trump on an IRS settlement to give himself $10bn over his leaked tax returns. Why not just let this guy back up a truck to the Fort Knox vault & load up a few thousand gold bars the way he loaded up classified documents in 2021?

Our Outlaw Prez apparently plans to pay Iran $20 billion in U.S. tax money for turning over its stash of 60% U-235 that would NOT exist if Trump hadn’t smashed the 2015 nuclear agreement, goading Iran into accumulating half a ton of this stuff, called in the Trumpictionary “nuclear dust.“

We should be learning from other countries...

H.R. 1’s unprecedented cost shift to states is already driving far deeper SNAP cuts than anticipated as states scramble to reduce costs. Congress must delay this unfunded mandate for all states before even more struggling families lose food assistance.

While banks regularly consider climate risks in their future projections, J.P. Morgan is one of the first to include assessments of climate tipping points in its financial planning. By @justinworland.com for TIME magazine buff.ly/krlQjIC

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

This greatly improved my mood: bsky.app/profile/theg...

‪Prof. Eliot Jacobson‬ ‪@climatecasino.net‬ Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind "... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."

This greatly improved my mood: bsky.app/profile/theg...

To use Trumpian language: impeach this creepy, radical lunatic whose policies are killing people, including children, and will kill a lot more, all the while he denies racist and other crap he’s on the record as saying. Arguably the worst of the Donvict’s team. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rumor has it our Outlaw Prez, again pondering his mortality, is reconsidering the Arch of Trump and will soon order immediate construction of a mausoleum for himself along the lines of the 4th century BCE one at Halicarnassus. But that mausoleum was a piddly 150 feet tall. So rumor probably wrong.

To use Trumpian language: impeach this creepy, radical lunatic whose policies are killing people, including children, and will kill a lot more, all the while he denies racist and other crap he’s on the record as saying. Arguably the worst of the Donvict’s team. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Could we get somebody to sponsor a debate (& fistfight) where JD Vance & Pete Hegseth could display their deep understanding of Christian theology? Even for those of us who long ago switched from biblical fantasy to comic-book fantasy, the ignorance vs. ignorance contest of these two men wd delight.

If House Speaker Johnson thinks he understands "just war" doctrine invented 16 centuries ago by Augustine, the patron saint of Leo's Order of St. Augustine, he's dumber than JD Vance. Many of us who went to prison rather than fight in the Vietnam War chose to base our opposition on that doctrine.