All things tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations. esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Groundhog Moon Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2005

ICYMI @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the companies profiting from ICE’s ethnic cleansing campaign and why a bipartisan consensus keeps the out-of-control agency funded for our newsletter Group Threat (please subscribe).

Almost all of it disappears? 7/16 tipping points have a central estimate of 2C or lower. All but 3 are within possible range between today and the next few decades. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"The findings challenge a persistent [social darwinian] idea that the pandemic mainly hastened the deaths of frail people who would have died soon anyway and result in fewer fatalities in later years.", that is.

"We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” --- Ta-Nehisi Coates

In that case, Norwegian pundits, who otherwise write, talk and podcasts about America EVERY day, are not paying attention at all.

This looks like a highly interesting read, definitely applicable to Norway, where top public health officials write anti-mask articles and uncritically spread toxic misinformation about mask use. Ironically, though, surgical masks, which are NOW largely recommended against airborne pathogens...

"The crackdown has done nothing to address the origins of the upheaval, which lie in the country’s political economy." NEW @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social on the crisis in Iran www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."

The Norwegian way, electrifying oil platforms with renewable power: "Whereas the MAGA right rejects solar and wind altogether, reactionary liberals embrace energy triangulation—“all of the above” rather than a full-throated embrace of clean energy—dressed up as so-called climate realism."

This was after mind you Tom Homan had come up with the brilliant idea of separating families as an enforcement strategy.

Norway is at war with Earth's life systems, building gas infrastructure in the Arctic for production beyond 2040, in what's basically a 2°C world and above, in a region where ocean acidification, ecosystem collapse, major tipping points, potentially even an AMOC shut down are all at play.

ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols. It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them). They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.

bloody hell day: Carney on the USEFUL FICTION of the US rules-based order, where trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, where laws applied to the weakest and where the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.

Så lenge Arbeiderpartiets politikk er i grunnleggende konflikt med framtidig velstand, vil behovet for grupper man kan legge skylden på være stadig økende. berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

Feel like I’m going to lose my mind explaining to people that what’s happening now is an expansion of domestic policies to larger scales, not an introduction of foreign policies to domestic life

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Inuit from Alaska and Canada stand with our relatives in Greenland 🇬🇱 Quyana @ayyu210.bsky.social for organizing this video

FHI erkjenner at pandemien har gitt ny forståelse om hvordan luftveisinfeksjoner smitter, men fortsetter å gi praktiske råd etter utdatert vitenskapssyn: "every state that continues to permit surgical masks as default clinical protection exposes itself to claims that it is breaching its duty...

And another terrific article from @drjudystone.bsky.social on how we can protect ourselves in the face of respiratory diseases flying left and right!

YES, I agree: RFK Jr’s eugenics is linked with ICE’s kidnappings, torture, & murders “Kennedy’s anti-vaccine project should be understood as part of the broader Trump agenda, part and parcel with ICE raids and cuts to health care subsidies and food stamps” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Public health in several countries, like Norway and Sweden, acknowledges the pandemic brought an epistemic shift in the understanding of transmission of respiratory diseases, but still recommends PPE according to the outdated droplet dogma, thus laying itself open to litigation: "every state...

Den vanlige påminnelsen om at FHI's blanding av ikke-svar og hersketeknikk kommer fra "topp"-epidemiologen som støtter sentrale figurer under RFK jr., sprer råtne artikler med basal feilinformasjon om smitteveier, skriver egne og høyst idiotiske "anti-mask"-kronikker, beskylder Arne Søraas for å...

My piece for the @berlinergazette.bsky.social came out today. I reflect on how we make room for authoritarianism by depositing too much faith in liberal democracy and institutions that have failed us over and over again. I also continue my critique of national sovereignty and state competition.

If we survive its because this moment radicalizes people like this guy. "You know what fucking pisses me off..." Me too brother, me too. Also a reminder to not shame anyone who is just finding their way into action. Everyone starts somewhere!

I have more academic work coming out soon on ecological sovereignty, but in the meantime you can check out:

The actuaries are getting increasingly actuated.

Health Fascism and the Anti-State State, now unlocked :) blindarchive.substack.com/p/health-fas...

"Their dramatic expansion marks an unprecedented enhancement of the domestic security apparatus. But while this development is deeply troubling, it is not sudden or inexplicable, nor is it merely a top-down project of the Trump administration. The unconditional flow of money, equipment,...

Any updated comments? @islarsh.bsky.social www.sciencenorway.no/climate-glob...

Same old playbook: Weaponizing RCT limitations to dismiss fundamental knowledge, as frequently seen in efforts to undermine the effect of filtering masks and clean air, ultimately weakening public health. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Border violence isn’t just what’s happening at the frontier. It’s a story of a system of detention centers, of narrowing legal pathways, of an enforcement apparatus fueled by carceral tech. These aren’t and have never been separate stories

This is fascism. The reason I insist on calling it Juan Crow is because it's imperative to recognize that American fascism manifests as violent white supremacist impunity, where the circle of who gets treated like a nigger keeps broadening. It has to be unacceptable to treat anyone this way.

ICYMI: Genocide scholars are warning that the U.S. is in the process of genocide against transgender Americans. “So it’s not so much ‘will genocide happen?’ as ‘we got to stop it from happening.’” — Dr. Henry Theriault, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2017-21)

Days on the Coast Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1980

Beaver Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe 1983

Case in point: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This was a fun story to write, stick around to the end for a speed run through the past 500 million years of climate history

Underlying conflict re public health interventions is the pandemic brought forward a better understanding of how respiratory diseases spread through aerosols, and although acknowledging an epistemic shift in theory, public health around the world largely continues to act like the outdated droplet...

Symptomatisk for mye av naturtap-debatten, som aldri kommer videre hvis den begrenser seg til en estetisert "økosorg" og appellere til alle de positive tingene urørt natur bidrar med, uten å diskutere underliggende ideologi og drivere.

Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.

While a top official in Norwegian public health tweet out misinformation in efforts to pathologize people who take precautions against respiratory diseases, this is the material reality that the Norwegian and Nordic left willfully ignore in their adherence to Scandinavian conformity.

Some consider the lack of weakening of the currents between Atlantic and Nordic Seas an argument against an ongoing #AMOC weakening. Here we show why the opposite is true: AMOC weakening causes a temporary increase in Nordic Seas overturning. 🌊 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

"If the Green Deal offered green Keynesianism, Von der Leyen and European governments have found a substitute for this in military Keynesianism. (...) The rising far right — fanatically opposed to the green agenda — is in this sense serving as a convenient pretext for European elites to cut back...

I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.

Disse sitatene er interessante hvis man leser de som et innblikk i APs indre liv. Foran en tid med overlappende kriser (Weber), akselererende klimaendringer, økologiske sammenbrudd, inflasjonssjokk og økonomisk dyrtid, har ikke Brenna andre diagnoseverktøy til rådighet enn høyrepopulistiske...