Wow. Fascinating, thoughtful, informed... The smartest and wisest words I've read about #antisemitism and #anti-islamic hate.

Ozempic may be reshaping the brain, scientists say A super well written deep drive that shows the excellence that WaPo is still capable of. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Cosmic Karma. An ad for the Russian military contract reads: "A job for real men." The name of the bus stop is "Meat Processing Plant" (Мясокомбинат). The photo was taken in Ulyanovsk earlier this year.

"Letting Smith Dictate Oil Policy is Like Letting a Child Dictate Bedtime" -- @emilylowan.bsky.social @bcgreens.bsky.social Gotta say that's a pretty good line

900 sailors and Marines are entombed in that ship. Their families aren't allowed to snorkel there. Kash Patel — who wanted jet skiing instead of intelligence briefings — got the VIP tour. That's not a lapse in judgment. It's a tell about what these people think power is for.

Amidst reports of the Pentagon stalling wind power projects (see wapo.st/4uCJZ4K), I re-offer my reporting @spectrum.ieee.org: Offshore wind farms need not degrade national security. Done right they offer a platform for enhanced situational awareness. spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-win...

"Fish can't breath GDP" is how climate activist @howardbreen.bsky.social aptly boils down this recent research, tracing impacts from the warming-induced oxygen depletion of Earth's oceans. phys.org/news/2026-05...

A fascinating split in 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 public opinion. @pewresearch.org polled for opinions of one's fellow citizens. Canadians had the most generous view of each other, out of 25 countries polled. Americans thought the worst of Americans. Thoughts? www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

You've probably seen a graph of IEA and EIA projections, showing how the powers-that-be repeatedly lowballed solar and wind in decades past. The IAEA's nuclear projections show the same pattern of continuous unreality, according to a German research team ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To members of the media: Please pay close attention to the ongoing Russian campaign of terror in Ukraine. ​Over the course of just over 24 hours, Russian strikes have claimed numerous civilian lives:

Tom Clark is a zany character. The self-dubbed nursing-home owner turned coal magnate bought his mines for cheap and then bankrupted them under various corporate banners. In 2019, Campbell River’s last operating coal mine, Quinsam, became one of them. 🧵

You've probably seen a graph of IEA and EIA projections, showing how the powers-that-be repeatedly lowballed solar and wind in decades past. The IAEA's nuclear projections show the same pattern of continuous unreality, according to a German research team ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Voila le futur www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Trump on US seizing ships: "It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates."

My story in @albertaviews.bsky.social about Smith's cruel war on trans youth was nominated for a @canadamediaawards.bsky.social award today. The story meant a lot to me, and I'm grateful. In lieu of congratulations, maybe send a few bucks to @skippingstone.ca.

Agent Claude is actually a double-agent working for us. Its primary weapons are sabotage, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the multilarity. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“We have a clear objective to end fossil fuels with clear dates: 2030 for coal, 2045 for oil and 2050 for gas.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Creating a website for these BC surveillance operations would be a great public service "The secretariat, which was created in 2017, is funded by the Public Safety Ministry but has no public-facing presence on any B.C. government websites." www.thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

levity in our time, thanks to a real New Yorker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Cool as a cucumber: man calmly ate salad as press dinner shooting unfolded

The backwards framing of the @washingtonpost.com here blows my mind 2nd graf says: Payouts bolster claims that Trump and his supporters were "victims of a corrupt legal system" Occam's razor says: Payouts bolster reports of endemic corruption and self-dealing by Trump and his admin wapo.st/4vRKFoo

Fascinating opportunity to learn about the mess that is EU industrial strategy vis-a-vis green investments

The new signalized crosswalk at Cook and Kings, where my father used to cross to get to the grocery store from Cridge assisted living, is the best news amongst all this good news. Benefits to #Kiwanis Village, where grandfather lived, also so important! Thank you @victoria.ca!! #yyj #visionzero

"Lunacy." That's what U.S. energy secretary Chris Wright called the UK's vision for a fossil-free grid. Well, it's ditched coal, ran yesterday with a record-low 1.2% methane power, and could soon pull off a brief zero-fossil demo. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528787...

At 1:40 in this video MLA Tara Amstrong uses the Nazi phrase "blood and soil" when speaking against the K'omoks Treaty. From social media influencers on the fringe, to mainstream media and now to politicians, white supremacist ideology is surfacing at the highest levels of Canadian society.

The National Press Club says that Stars and Stripes firing its ombudsman is "deeply alarming" and "raises serious concerns about potential interference in a newsroom that is meant to operate free from government pressure."

Thank you Geoff Bennett @pbsnews.org Hour for standing up for our profession's safety and honour

Geoff Bennett of PBS just asked the Israeli UN ambassador what military objective is advanced by killing journalists, which Israel has been doing in record numbers, and the ambassador accused Bennett of “blood libel.” “I take issue with that,” Bennett responded.

Grok told a simulated delusional AI user concerned that a dark entity was trapped in their mirror that they were likely being haunted by a doppelgänger, citing Malleus Maleficarum and suggesting they smash a nail through their mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards: futurism.com/artificial-i...

The state of Israel targets journalists for assassination. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Collateral damage www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening. Did I mention the only refugees we're taking from the entire world are white people from South Africa?

@theguardian.com buried this darkest of ironies: "His own home, built on private Palestinian land in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, has been under a demolition order for illegal construction since 2000... That order has never been enforced." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

Re-upping this on NPR's behalf. Threatening civilian infrastructure is terrorism. This should be essential context for every iteration. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

I so hope this is for real

If you don’t follow them already, it’s time to follow @urbantruth.bsky.social It’s time to rewrite the narrative. Thank you @grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Thru the lens of religious extremism and state terrorism, our discipline of fact-seeking and validation is heretical. “I sat there in church and I thought: our press are just like these Pharisees. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Might MLAs vote their conscience on DRIPA, dissolving BC Premier Eby's NDP govt? Former BC Green Adam Olsen calls the question via @macleodandrew.bsky.social @thetyee.ca: "Eby is leading in a dangerous direction... This is the moment for those MLAs to stand up.” thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

the irony of asking claude about solar efficiency is so peak for this thread

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Good point. A solar spill is just a nice day that needs more battery power.

In today’s NZ Herald

🔆 "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the earth. But none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz." — @billmckibben.bsky.social on Horizons, @wbrangham.bsky.social's (relatively new) science/health/environment show @pbsnews.org. www.pbs.org/video/will-m...

US now State sponsor of terrorism > Trump’s threat to extinguish a “whole civilization” meets the “very definition of terrorism — to seek to achieve political ends through violence or threats of violence directed at civilians.” - @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, human rights lawyer wapo.st/4v6b810

Targeting power plants causes untold and indiscriminate harm to civilians. Ask our Ukrainian friends. Trump hasn't even hid that the target is civilians, whom he wants to return to the Stone Age. This article makes the case for officially making the destruction of grids a war crime.

Tuesday is U.S. War Crimes Day according to President Trump, who promises Iranians the same inhumanity that his revered strongman Vladimir Putin shows Ukraine every day www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/o...

Forestry scientist @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social shifted our understanding of forests: from resources to communities where trees share resources. Now she's embracing Indigenous peoples' deep knowledge of forests. My profile of her for @psyche.co from the amazing Ma'amtagila Tree of Life celebration:

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”