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Polymarket Takes Down Betting on Nuclear Detonation After Backlash The betting market on war is “worse than insider trading,” one lawmaker said.

Polymarket has taken down a bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated by the end of March, June, or the end of the year. Before it was taken down, users had placed over $800,000 worth of bets on the question, with users predicting a 22% chance that one would be dropped by 2027.

THE COLORADO RIVER DOES NOT REACH 2030 A Thought Exercise in Western Water, from the Near Future

I'm Diné. I wrote this from Tucson, inside the blast radius. My water bill has doubled. The PFAS plume from Davis-Monthan is moving toward my wellfield. My skis are hanging in the garage gathering dust. The unsettling part is how little I had to invent. open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

Listen to the people who know the most about war (and its horrors) from first-hand experience: veterans.

@votevets.org @vetsforrl.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social @vetsaboutface.bsky.social @veteransforpeace.bsky.social
@democrats-veterans.house.gov

Steve Pearce is unfit to lead the BLM. By advancing his nomination, Senate Republicans chose oil & gas interests over the public lands veterans rely on for health and livelihoods.

Veterans will remember this betrayal.

A one month chart of oil prices

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in fundin...

8/ It's yet another example of how dismantling EPA’s independent research paves the way for deregulation that harms our health. EPA has rolled back limits for PFAS in drinking water at the same time they're cancelling millions of dollars in grants for research on the health effects of PFAS exposure.

Hawaiʻi voters support holding Big Oil accountable for the home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity New poll shows voters are very concerned about rising cost, reduced availability of home insurance in aftermath of climate-driven Maui wildfires.

👉79% of homeowners report rising home insurance premiums.

👉66% of voters see a connection between Big Oil, extreme weather, and rising insurance costs.

👉61% of voters support legislation that would empower states to sue Big Oil companies to recover insurance-related costs from climate disasters.

The war lasted 12 days. The environmental impact on Iran may last decades Israel and United States' strikes on Iran could leave lasting health, environmental, and climate damage to the country.

Unfortunately this article that @saragoud.bsky.social and I wrote last year is newly relevant again.

War sucks. It's bad for people, bad for the environment, bad for the climate.

“That’s why anyone who thinks about the environment or cares about the environment should also care about peace.”

Some nuclear safety orgs to follow:
@livableworld.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @nti.org @nukesofhazard.bsky.social @backfrombrink.bsky.social @thebulletin.org @ucs.org @psr.org @nirsnet.bsky.social @mothersforpeace.bsky.social @outrider.org

#nuclear #nukes #war

Some nuclear safety orgs to follow:
@livableworld.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @nti.org @nukesofhazard.bsky.social @backfrombrink.bsky.social @thebulletin.org @ucs.org @psr.org @nirsnet.bsky.social @mothersforpeace.bsky.social @outrider.org

#nuclear #nukes #war

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

The humanities, literature and reading supposedly aren’t important….

but the synthetic word salad maker ingested fiction and nonfiction alike, indifferently, to generate its word predictions shaping life and death decisions in war, medicine, science, at home, etc. etc.

I can’t get over this.

The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting

"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."

Why War Is One Of The World’s Biggest Climate Threats The humanitarian impact of war cannot be overstated. Yet every stage of conflict also leaves a carbon footprint on the planet.

www.forbes.com/sites/nilsro...

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I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today.

You can call your Senators, too.

Find them here: reps.fyi

The human, economic, social & political, and environmental (including non-human animal) costs of war:
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu

costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/enviro...

#war #destruction #suffering #AntiLife

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Heroic Chicago trans comedian recalls saving infant from ice-cold Lake Michigan: ‘I guess I’m going in’ “The most important part of this entire story is that the baby is okay,” Lio Cundiff told The Advocate.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

#IdeasAtWork

A month in hospital costs: $30,100
Month in prison: $9,400
Month in shelter: $6,800
Supportive housing per month: $3,800
@uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary

h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

US, Israel ‘going Gaza on Iran’ as death toll tops 500 amid new massacres “This is carpet-bombing, which has struck everything from playgrounds, to an emergency services HQ, schools, media buildings, and medical facilities,” said one observer.

“This is carpet-bombing, which has struck everything from playgrounds, to an emergency services HQ, schools, media buildings, and medical facilities,” said one observer.

A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying. “It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you're coming from, nobody cared about us… we've been so let down and our trust is so broken. Everything's been taken from us.”

A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying.

New from me @therealnews.com

therealnews.com/a-billion-do...

They robbed us blind and told us that our neighbors were the enemy. All that culture war garbage was a diversion to distract us from the largest wealth transfer in history.

#TaxBillionaires

So the State Department is forcing everyone to immediately leave the region but is also refusing to help people leave the region.

The strike itself is illegal and disastrous but their lack of readiness for what comes next is unforgivable as well.

Incompetence everywhere.

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

Bird Losses Are Accelerating, New Study Finds - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

Sanders pitches $4.4 trillion tax on billionaires, in 2028 marker The measure comes as Democrats began to jostle ahead of the upcoming presidential primary.

New: Bernie Sanders to unveil $4.4 trillion tax on America's ~1,000 billionaires, saying it would pay for:
— Medicare to cover dental/vision/hearing
— Teacher pay at $60K/yr min.
— $3K/person checks (under $150K/yr)
— Universal childcare
— Housing expansion
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It's a Republican tradition.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social