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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The first Nepalese glacier to be declared "dead" ☹️
Dark days coming for the subcontinent.
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...
BREAKING: Holy fucking display of colonialism
Here's some advice from the guy who has never had a job in the real world.
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
Your must-read piece of the day. As we enter the final days of the election, a preview of what could be to come. www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
🚨 MARK CARNEY DID THE HIP FLIP 🚨
🔥 Firefighters warn "extreme" wildfire risk across Scotland continues this week, due to "dead, bone-dry vegetation" & warmer-than-average temps.
🌡️ Climate Shift Index shows unusual 3°-4°C above average temperatures are 4-5x more likely -- & nearly impossible without -- climate change.
We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze
And our climate problem!
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to try and get to these levels in extreme heat in a few years if we don't do something now. Stop letting the right globally gaslight you into thinking this isn't happening, they're a death cult
www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
Israel strikes Gaza, killing over 300 including many children Israel Palestinians This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities. Al Jazeera Live By Erin Hale, Ameera Osmanagic and Stephen Quillen Published On 18 Mar 2025 18 Mar 2025 Click here to share on social media Many women and children among more than 300 Palestinians killed in Israeli air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say. Hamas says Israel carried out a “treacherous” attack on besieged and defenceless civilians in order to overturn the Gaza ceasefire deal. Palestinian Islamic Jihad accuses Israel of “deliberately sabotaging” the ceasefire, which had been in place since January 19.
Israel just massacred over 300 people in an hour. Most of them children.
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Crazy idea as we stare down the impact of avian flu: maybe we should stop holding animals in completely abusive, horrific conditions that make disease so much more likely!
Factory farming is a nightmarish scourge that never should have started in the first place. The poor bubs :(
no witty response. just rage.
those responsible for climate chaos have names and job titles.
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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2024 was the hottest year on record 📈
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
Nationalism is never the answer.
See: Climate.
wrote about the existential stakes in Greenpeace's ongoing court battle with the Dakota Access Pipeline operators, the future of free expression in this country, and the long shadow of the Standing Rock protests: slate.com/technology/2...
Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"...the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-...
NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’
broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
American author Toni Morrison.
‘Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88,’ by Margalit Fox. August 6, 2019. NY Times.
‘Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88,’ by Margalit Fox. August 6, 2019. NY Times.
‘Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88,’ by Margalit Fox. August 6, 2019. NY Times.
‘There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.’
Today marks the birthday of American author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio.
Sylvia Plath who died on this day in 1963.
"we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail
among sacred islands of the mad till death
shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real."
1. We cannot now rule out the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. If Trump and Musk paralyse the federal government, this could trigger social, financial and industrial failures. Neither Trump nor his team know how to respond to such failures, which could snowball and converge. 🧵
