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Here’s a thought: As a baseline, no one should be allowed to run for public office unless they fully understand how #photosynthesis — the basis of much of life — works. Without that knowledge they're unqualified to talk about the environment, energy, economy or resource extraction of any kind.

To the people who lent their credibility to this panel: are you having fun yet? It might be time to resign while you can still salvage some of it.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

here's today's post: "a police state, but with fuckwits" — this would be hilarious if it weren’t so scary. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

There's no better schadenfreude than watching conservatives eat their own. Rustad Survives as the BC Conservatives Implode via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Climate policy is no longer merely about reducing emissions or averting a crisis in the future. It's now a key part of the ongoing geopolitical conflict between China and the United States — one that presents a clear risk to Canada's interests. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/o...

According to an estimate of Canada’s 2024 greenhouse gas emissions published by the Canadian Climate Institute, the #fossilfuels industry has singlehandedly wrecked any chance of the country hitting its legally-binding 2030 emissions reduction targets. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

Fair comment.

In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government pursues a grand bargain with it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I think guns and SUVs cause autism. We should ban those.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

Look, folks, I don't make the rules.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

100%!!!

the wsj coverage of the shooter might be one of the worst and most irresponsible handlings of a story i’ve witnessed in the last 10 years

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

Climate policy is no longer merely about reducing emissions or averting a crisis in the future. It's now a key part of the ongoing geopolitical conflict between China and the United States — one that presents a clear risk to Canada's interests. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/o...

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

The ‘de-manning’ of Canada’s tarsands — yet another reason for Alberta premier Danielle Smith to FRO. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...

Hey ya'll. Remember 25 years ago when scientists said it was probably going to get THIS hot by 2050? And nobody cared because that was a half-century away? ... and now it already is THIS hot.

it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine

A new report shows why the days of Canada's oil and gas industry as a source of job creation is almost certainly in the past. Will deluded politicians so clearly in its thrall (hello Danielle Smith & federal lapdog PP!) finally start looking to the future? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Fuck this.

WTAF is wrong with Trump?

Here's something I've never experienced before: it is POURING rain outside and has been for 24 hours, yet the stench of smoke from a fire 200 km away that is also being rained on is overwhelming. WTAF is happening and why are we allowing politicians to ignore it?

😂😂😂 I wonder if it's one person just sitting there writing these scathing, incendiary on-point indictments or they do the "writers' room" thing and have a bunch of people throwing stuff out to see what sticks. Either way, gotta love the @thebeaverton.com.

Was reminded of some invasive species issues today, so re-upping this gem from several years back. On Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, culling deer is an act of cultural and ecological restoration. hakaimagazine.com/features/dee...

A woman after my own herpy heart. Biologist Chevaun Toulouse on swamp stories. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/bio...

It turns out the militias who were super concerned about "government tyranny" are now on the side of the government tyranny. Interesting.

'Worst fears': Trump compared to Stalin for sabotaging decades of research [yeah, that was me] | Matthew Chapman for @rawstory.com: www.rawstory.com/trump-climate/

The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

So true.

When a President says, "I won't allow a windmill (turbine) to be built in this country!" That's fascism. What happened to Free Enterprise?

My new column for @canarymedia.com kinda sums up what I’ve learned over 20 years of climate reporting. It’s about what the transformation of the (fucked up but improving) energy sector can teach us about the (fucked up and not improving) food/ag/land sector. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

BOOM! 104 away from 5,000! Let's get there before midnight! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. (Pssst - federally funded science saves lives) 🧪

the main thing you need to know about all these tariffs is that Donny's name is on every page of the Epstein Files

Vancouver-based The Metals Company is attempting to circumvent international regulations via a backdoor US mining bid, but its actions may expose Canada to proceedings for failing to uphold its international treaty obligations. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/n...

I've been in war. I've won battles, and then put my dead friend into a helicopter, only to learn years later some dumb motherfucker in a tie gave it away. I'm a realist. Climate change is no different. It's a war. There are battles. We've won battles. Some dumb motherfucker in a tie gave it away.

Surprise, surprise: 3 major oil and gas corporations walked back their participation in shaping science-based climate targets—when they realized it meant they would have to stop oil and gas production. The culprits? Shell, Canada’s Enbridge, and Norway’s Aker BP.