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A useful enemy? Why Tories and Reform are calling net zero policy into question www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Genuinely shocking how far into outright climate denial Reform and some Tories have now sunk. This level of detachment from basic scientific reality should be disqualifying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

politically motivated shootings. ICE raids and peaceful protests against them being quashed by militarized police. a military parade that cost $45 million. i'm honestly surprised the protests weren't far, far bigger.

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

Posters in #DTLA for people picked up by ICE, in the style of Israeli hostage posters

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨 Alaska warmer than DC 🚨🚨 Sunday highs: Fairbanks... 85 DC... 74

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

My latest for the Sunday Independent on the flaws and risks of an HSE medical laboratory IT system www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 389 comments

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2442 comments

The Earth Day protests in 1970 helped force the passage of the Clean Air Act, which has since saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars. Mass action works.

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 5 hours ago • 318 comments

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

submitted 9 hours ago • 827 comments

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

submitted 22 hours ago • 370 comments

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

submitted 23 hours ago • 339 comments

Nothing is enough. But this is close.

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At some point, someone at the palace will tell us why the jr royals are cosplaying g Trump..

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We are over the edge. Illusions to the contrary are only hurting the people you love. Act accordingly.

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Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

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“Suspect is white male, brown hair, wearing black body armor over blue shirt and blue pants and may misrepresent himself as law enforcement.”

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Ever wonder how people on the receiving end of the "whatabout India and China" tropes nailed by @doctorvive.bsky.social thinks about that? Well you could ask. We asked @rishpardikar.bsky.social. After (more important) we got into reporting climate in India. news.wickedproblems.uk/p/covering-c...

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I mean, you could have just been a philosophy major and saved a lot of time?

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At some point soon, people today scolding "don't give [Trump/Bibi/Putin] the excuse he wants" by [protesting/asking a question/breathing while brown] will be trying to prove they were radicalised before the people they are currently scolding.

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The Israel attack on Iran and what unfolds is very likely to boost the efforts of many countries to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels - something that is already gaining a lot of momentum this year from cheaper renewables + storage:

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Happy #NoKings Day to all who celebrate (so, basically anyone who treasures American Democracy)...

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The least surprising news of 2025.

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how is this real life www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

some important tesla news you may have missed on a very busy news day www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s... swedish pension fund ap7 blacklists tesla & has sold entire stake

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The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

The first civilian detained by Marines that we know of Thank you for your attention to this matter fellow posters.

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This is a fascinating story about @peffertherese.bsky.social and friends' work helping residents of a city block in Oakland, CA, get their homes off fossil fuels. The most striking part for me was how the project helped build friendships between neighbors and a sense of community on the block.

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more of this keep at them

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NBC wrote an entire article about a group that has 1/10th as many Twitter followers as I do

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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

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Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

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Paddy’s Day, Dalkey, Ireland, 2002 ME: [smoking, a journo & regular] LANDLORD: “Dya mind if I put the wee man nexta-u?” ME: [following his gaze] Yer man?…Sure no dramas” [Bono dits] BONO: [looking at my pack of Marlboros] “Hey…dya mind?” 1/2

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