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This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.
Currently a Tsunami Watch (threat still being evaluated) for entire U.S./Canada West Coast following very large M 8.7) sub-oceanic quake near eastern Russia in West Pacific. Plenty of time to refine/crunch numbers further for West Coast, but more imminent threat closer to epicenter.
To fight the Trump administration's war on solar, we have to get rid of dumb permitting requirements for putting panels on your roof and balcony. Australia and the EU have done this--time for our mayors and state legislatures to follow www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Worth remembering that when activists pushed Biden to declare a climate emergency & use emergency powers to accelerate the clean energy transition, VSPs scolded them. Ha ha, that's crazy! Fun update: Trump has claimed emergency powers to substantially slow the transition & no one said shit.
LIVE: Senator Warnock introduces the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the 119th Congress. 🗳️ Timed with the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (August 6), this bill renews the fight to protect and strengthen our democracy. #VotingRights #JohnLewisAct #VRA6
"...cancer mortality rate declined by 34% from 1991 to 2022 in the United States, averting approximately 4.5 million deaths." - ACS Cancer Statistics, 2025. In 30 years, we've cut the death rate from cancer by a third. The current pipeline has *actual cures* for specific cancers in it.
These Israeli academics, artist & intellectuals calling for "crippling sanctions" against Israel have more courage in their little fingers than von der Leyen, Starmer, Merz & countless other invertebrate European "leaders" who bring shame to us all. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
You can’t overstate just how impressive this heat dome is. It covers 2/3 of contig. US, 80% of US population 90+ high temp (~260 mill people) Peak intensity of heat dome record for SE US in late July. Peaked at 3.7 sigma which means this heat dome is extremely rare in our former climate of the 1900s
The forklift this very happy man 😀 is driving is an ATX-3000 Sidewinder omnidirectional lift truck. It utilizes 'Mecanum wheels', a series of rubber rollers oriented at 45° angles. The net results of this system is that the vehicle doesn't need steering: it can move in any direction by....
“Primate researchers have found that the macaques steal belongings to use as currency to trade with humans for food.Some monkeys can distinguish between objects we highly value (smartphones, prescription glasses, wallets) and those we don’t (hats, flip flops, hair clips) and will barter accordingly”
If Dems had passed everything in the original BBB -- health care, elder & child care, voting reform, energy reform -- inflation would have been somewhat higher and they would have lost control of government. But they lost control of gov't anyway. So we would have been in the same situation ...
Disgusting to see major Israel arms supplier Keir Starmer treat Palestine’s basic right to exist as a bargaining chip in some macabre geopolitical game. There’s a reckoning coming for all who abetted this Holocaust. Starmer is cynically dusting off his excuses. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
The Fort Worth Zoo is one of the few programs to successfully breed Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in captivity, with the first zoo-reared group hatched in 2005. They've been so successful, they've been able to release them back into the wild to bolster declining wild populations.
They always do this: they suppress the actual science of a phrase & spread its colloquial meaning, if that creates misunderstanding. They did it with "uncertainty," and they're doing it now with "we have avoided the worst-case scenario" & "the worst-case scenario is misleading." 🧵
"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans." www.propublica.org/article/wate...
More than $30B in U.S. clean energy manufacturing investment has paused, canceled, or delayed in the six months since Trump took office, according to a new report During the same period, only $3B in new investment has been announced new from me, in @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/economy/trum...
I've been asked by reporters to comment on this. I wish I could but I don't want to. What I will say is that I'm relieved to find out that ocean acidification from fossil fuel CO₂ emissions isn't a problem because the ocean was more acidic when life first evolved billions of years ago. 🙄
Trump's EPA is trying to destroy the Endangerment Finding -- the solid scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases are dangerously changing the climate. They've published fake, misleading claims from climate deniers. This will devastate efforts to stop climate change. The EPA comment period is open.
The Wall Street Journal has published the most anti-science editorial I have ever seen, celebrating a victory against "climate imperialism" - ie. efforts to respond to an accelerating crisis that is endangering hundreds of millions of lives and is on course to end organised civilisation.
Councilmember Traci Park asked the state to suspend SB9 for the Palisades because adding duplexes "could lead to an unforeseen explosion of density." Now LA Mayor Karen Bass has issued her own bad-faith statement in agreement arguing SB9 will "drastically further challenge ingress and egress"
Your daily reminder: solar power, just like wind power, isn't going to grow exponentially forever in a dazzling ecomodernist free-market fantasy curve. It gets buffeted by reality just as much as anything else does, and needs continued policy support -> www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releas...
Other thing I wrote this morning (🫠). I tried to give a little more science context than I've seen in other coverage, such as the costs of climate change to the U.S. and the the harm it poses, particularly to younger generations who will feel much more of the impacts in their lifetimes. 🧪
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "Is the necessary zero-carbon transformation to our societies, economies, industries, entertainments and sports likely to happen in time to stop the shit from really hitting the fan? Honestly, no, it’s not likely at all. "
Excellent @hausfath.bsky.social -- many thanks. "with long-term warming trending strongly upward and, potentially, accelerating, the world is expected to firmly pass the Paris Agreement 1.5C target ... in the next five years." www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...
hanging out up north in grand rapids, minnesota this week as my comadres at fire in the village lead their first summer camp, coherent crow camp they’re teaching kids how to play music, make prints, create zines, paint murals, and use their voice—i’m honored to get to be a part of it
Around the 15th century, the English began covering their cart & wagon wheels with malleable iron. These coverings were called "tires", either as a shortening of "attire" or a link to "tie", because they covered & held together the wood underneath. Sometimes this was spelled "tyre".
This, over on Elon Musk's website, is bullshit. Who the hell is meant to be "lying" about this? Variations in wind power resource in a warming world are incredibly well-researched. This is lazy propaganda designed to falsely sell a vision of helplessness and fossil fuel reliance for social clout