Before Trump invaded Venezuela he invaded US democracy.

What is more galling to you, the war, or the lies? What happens when the world becomes a lie? When everything you say, do, think, believe, hope for, is a lie? Good luck with all that individual agency you have.

“The transition to clean energy isn’t just about cutting emissions … It’s about refusing to let your economy, your security, your people’s wellbeing be held hostage by events you cannot control, in places you cannot reach, by leaders you did not choose.”

Million-year-old seashells preserved in siltstone.

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Florida’s Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.

Is it beginning? The attackers may be harming the innocent, which should be condemned. But what is every word of climate delay, every new ICE car, every centrist politician without a spine, every NGO that would rather be respectable for elites than speak the truth?

Under customary international law, which is received in US law, Maduro possesses complete personal immunity as an incumbent head of state. Not sure how US prosecutors are going to get around that one. #venezuela #internationallaw

This chilled me to the bone. Yet Australia just sent a billion dollars to the insane “ally” five men chose for us in 1942.

33. A well-written bit of philosophy of field geology: "The rocks don't lie, but preconceptions and human experience can cause us to misinterpret what they reveal to us." #TabClosed2026

"Live with your century, but do not be its creature." - Friedrich Schiller

Russia’s claim that Ukraine recently targeted key government sites in Russia is a deliberate distraction. Moscow aims to derail real progress towards peace by Ukraine and its Western partners. (1/2)

Happy 2026 everyone. The geopolitics is real bad and I hope it doesn’t cause you harm, and that your personal worlds are nurturing and caring. I have some leave and while I am writing I may be spending a lot of it with a vibrant nonhuman.

Today is my last daily verification ❤️ I have tons of resources for how to verify on your own and I’ll also probably make a thread soon on other trusted verification sources- but as always the best thing you can do to verify a family is in Gaza is speak with them

Comment: As the computational power needed for AI continues to double approximately every 100 days, the energy footprint of these systems is not static but is exponentially accelerating. buff.ly/hVtJxp4

'If you just take the good models, even for the intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50% ... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10, 20 years or so.' Odds on! Wd mean massive problems for food supply etc.

This neurovirus surge in the north east is no joke folks. My whole family has been hit and have been in and out of the emergency room. The yale hospital here is totally booked out. The nurses said it’s the worst thing they’ve seen since COVID.

this is the most inclusive and risk free option. A full royal commission into antisemitism will become a post-truth mess that dishonours the victims. if we’re worried the public service will cover up its flaws, welcome to reality. Demand the Richardson review be thorough and transparent.

Looking forward to 2026, I wrote about the war we refuse to see and the enemy we hide #WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat @anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...

Peace on earth.

Alexander Pope decried the cruelty of cooking lobsters alive in 1713. 313 years later the practice will finally be banned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

We’ll deny everything - climate change, genocide, human rights - until there is no reality anymore. We’ll die for your fantasy.

Our “ ally”

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Militarism is a key element of the sovereign ban of nature. Imagine if this referred to people? But its cool with nonhuman beings.

Interesting

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

The Colorado River Basin is quite literally 50 feet from collapse. But a deal to save it isn’t any closer to happening. Our take on the deadlocked negotiations over the future of the river the West depends on: insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...

🗣️🎙️ I wrote more stories this year than anybody wants to read, but here are 7 that I found interesting 🧵⤵️

A important statement about the Bondi massacre. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/12/medi...

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social: It is the responsibility of Congress to declare and authorize the use of military force. Congress has not authorized a military use of force. There has not been a case made, and I think the absence of one really speaks volumes.

“Trade deals are signed under the ‘Royal Prerogative’ rather than parliamentary authority. This means there is pretty much no democratic accountability of how they happen…. British trade policy is being utterly shaped by big business”... in what the report calls ‘corporate capture’ of the process.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

This book on the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field is excellent, not least because the author has a training in Straussian political theory and knows how to read texts with care.

One day, I write that paper on the lessons from human-animal relations for political theory. In the meantime, I just read papers about bears, wolves, and reindeer every now and then.

Every article about the dismantling of NCAR says the same thing, but read every one because it's so insane.

📰New from our journals!📰 Moths sipping moose tears, deep-sea squid in disguise, coral reef recovery breakthroughs, and more! Explore six fascinating studies in our latest media tip sheet: https://ow.ly/qUrA50XHajr

This will be very bad for Europe, unless we all mask up.

Might be of interest: Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“What have I done!” 🤡

Especially because the problem is not lack of solutions: it's the fact that we are being prevented from implementing them. 3/n global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Octopus suckers don’t just feel — they sense microbiomes. Distinct microbes on eggs, prey and other objects trigger chemotactile receptors, prompting reflexive movements in the suckers and arms. Scientists say these microbial cues help guide key survival behaviors.

"The Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation has regained ownership of close to 900 acres of tribal land, 175 years after their ancestors were evicted during the California Gold Rush in the 1840s....The land borders Yosemite National Park and the Sierra National Forest." www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

In the upside down dying is living

This tipping points report is incredibly important. It also contains a glaring mistake in the summary: to hold global heating at 1.5C “net zero by 2050”. In the Ecology Politic we call this a pseudoscientific delusion that states use to deny urgency. The safe carbon budget for 1.5 now is zero.

A scientific journal retracted a study which found that glyphosate — the active ingredient in one of the most widely used herbicides on the planet — does not pose a human health risk, igniting a debate over the chemical’s possible link to cancer.

The accumulated waste of generations of mass consumption is decaying in landfill, + the chemicals those goods were drenched in - lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs - are seeping slowly back out into water, soil + air. Our report with @investigate-europe.eu: euobserver.com/eu-political...

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor. It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.