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“All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.” #fascism #neonazism #doge #musk #trump #government #usa #immigration

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“A small number of greedy fishermen with huge trawlers have overfished the sprats to the point of near extinction. There is nothing left for the whales to prey upon so they have moved on in search of prey elsewhere.” #fisheries #environment #oceans #ecosystem #trawlers #overfishing #whales #ireland

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" I love that we’ve got so many working-class actors on this show. The only place working-class people are represented is reality TV. I’ve had enough of the double-barrelled names. Working-class people are lyrical, we’re just not given a voice.” #trans #lgbta+ #film #culture #uk #class #visibility

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“This is an industry that is causing and accelerating climate conditions that kill people. They’ve known it for 50 years, and at some point they must be held accountable.” #oil #heat #denial #obfuscation #propaganda #necrocapitalism #carbon #climate #law

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'The country’s largest fires – the Bird River fire and the Border fire – remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba. In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year average for the province.' #forests #climate

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"The idea that you could compartmentalise knowledge just doesn’t make sense to me. You can’t dissociate biology from physics or from literature or culture. All are parts of the same ecosystem, which is the cosmos!” #art #culture #performance #intersectionality #space #nasa #film

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‘Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane and ecological world.' #salgado #photography #environmentalism #humanism #culture #art #landscape #society

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“Climate has not been incorporated into economic theory in a satisfactory way yet,” he said. “Because it’s a very disturbing element.” #climate #economics #cop30 #science #environment #oil #necrocapitalism #denial

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"This is concerning, according to the authors, because chemicals absorbed through the vagina directly enter the bloodstream, bypassing the body’s detoxification systems." #pesticides #cotton #agribusiness #weedkiller #women #tampons

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'Trump’s comments about the country’s future have altered the terrain for this vote. Proponents of independence no longer have to make the case that Alberta could “go it alone” as a country. Instead, they allude to Trump’s invitation to statehood.' #alberta #canada #separatism #oil #climate #usa

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'Federal science agencies such as Noaa are now operating at reduced capacity despite the outsized weather threats. Hundreds of meteorologists have left the National Weather Service in recent months, and several offices, including Houston, have had to scale back the services they provide.' #climate

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“I am pessimistic about humankind, but optimistic about the planet. The planet will recover. It is becoming increasingly easier for the planet to eliminate us.” #photography #art #culture #environment #rehabilitation #revitalization #humanity #conflict

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"It’s reading an article about childhood hunger and genocide, only to scroll down to a carefree listicle highlighting the best-dressed celebrities or a whimsical quiz about: ‘What Pop-Tart are you?’” #hypernormalisation #crisis #politics #psychology #sociology #climate #dissonance

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“If this trend continues, it could permanently transform critical natural areas and unleash large amounts of carbon – intensifying climate change and fuelling even more extreme fires.” #wildfires #climate #environment #bolivia #forests #science

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"... Americans making between about $17,000 and $51,000 will lose about $700 a year. On average, Americans with incomes of less than $17,000 will lose more than $1,000 a year. But if you are among the top 0.1% of earners, you’re in luck: you’ll gain nearly $390,000 a year." #racism #maga #budget

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"Clichy-Batignolles, in the city’s north-west, is emblematic of the ‘15-minute’ city approach to urban planning." #cities #planning #walkable #green #architecture #design

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“[It is] a collective call to action for every country, every business and every person who cares about a livable planet. Our economies, our communities, our health – none of it can survive without forests.” #wildfires #climate #forests #science #environment

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"The loss of ice from the giant Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s due to the climate crisis and is now the principal driver of sea level rise." #climate #environment #warming #oil #carbon #science #oceans

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" ... we are committed to recognizing a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end.” #canada #gaza #palestine #ceasefire #aid #UN #france #england #diplomacy

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'I feel like Canada’s driving on a dangerous highway at a dizzying speed. We swerved to avoid what would have been a deadly accident, but we’re still on that highway – in a clunky gas-guzzling SUV, I imagine, with outdated machinery.' #canada #trump #carney #maga #woke #fascism #alberta

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'The closest I come to folk on my new album is Sit Down, written in the 1930s by Maurice Sugar about people downing tools. I remade the song for now, because if all the key workers at the bottom of the economic pile just withdrew their labour, things would change.' #folk #music #culture #song

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"I watch many, many films and when an adaptation of a well-known book doesn’t work, 95% of the time it’s because the film-makers have been too reverential to the source.” Books and films are very different, he thinks. “They’re sometimes almost antithetical.” #film #movies #literature #novels #books

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"There’s never been so much debate about class in the creative industries but nothing has changed and things are actually getting worse and inequality more entrenched, hence the need to make our own reality. Talent is classless. Opportunity, however, is class-bound." #books #writing #literature

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“Oh gosh, look at ‘make America great again’,” he says. “That phrase gestures at memory, but in fact it functions on romantic nostalgia, which is ultimately amnesia. Because if you ask, where’s the ‘again’, no one can point to it.” #literature #books #fiction #america #culture #lgbtq+ #writing

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'The United Conservative Party under Smith has not only pushed back against federal policies, but worked to reshape Alberta’s electricity grid to all but block renewables and encourage more natural gas consumption.' #oil #alberta #politics #canada #necrocapitalism #separatism #ucp #climate #carbon

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'Trump, who said he considered himself a “very artistic person”, insists that he is inspired by the potential beauty of a unified continent. “When you look at that beautiful formation, when it’s together … you know, I said, ‘That’s the way it was meant to be’,” the president said.' #borders #canada

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My latest little piece of archival fucked-up-ness ... #autofiction #prosepoetry #writing #cannabis #books #literature #poetry

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“We want to make our own cars,” Trump said. “We don’t really want cars from Canada, and we put tariffs on cars from Canada, and at a certain point it won’t make economic sense for Canada to build those cars. And we don’t want steel from Canada because we’re making our own steel.” #canada #tariffs

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'Between 41% and 55% of respondents in the five European countries polled: Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, said they thought another world war was very or fairly likely within the next five to 10 years, a view shared by 45% of Americans.' #war #politics #nationalism #conflict #nukes

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“This effort aims to sustain the momentum of the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA), the authors and staff of which were dismissed earlier this week by the Trump administration, almost a year into the process.” #climate #science #environment #nca #trump #denialism #research

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"My only ‘crime’ is refusing to accept the slaughter of Palestinians, opposing war and promoting peace. I have simply insisted that international law must be respected. I believe the way to a just and long-lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis is through diplomacy and restorative justice.”

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'The report outlined the party’s efforts to erode democracy, including inciting hostility toward asylum seekers and migrants and viewing German citizens “with a background of migration from predominantly Muslim countries” as inferior.' #germany #afd #extremism #racism #fascism #democracy #politics

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'The group said activists from 21 countries were onboard on a “mission to challenge Israel’s illegal and deadly siege of Gaza and to deliver desperately needed, life-saving aid”.' #gaza #aid #israel #warcrimes #greta

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“If you look at the various crises we face – the biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the mental health crisis – we tend to think about them in silos. But they are all interrelated, so we need a much more coherent, holistic approach.” #environment #rewilding #uk #ecology #healing

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“Many of the events predicted for 2050 or 2070 are already happening. We underestimated the speed of change. What we’re seeing now is an acceleration – a failure of our predictive models.” #climate #science #heating #india #pakistan #middleeast #science #environment

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'Those detained had been subjected to “sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats of harm to them & their families + attacks by dogs … [and] forced confessions”.' #gaza #unrwa #palestine #warcrimes #israel #idf #starvation

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“It’s been shown time and again in so many studies that people whose personal and economic circumstances are deteriorating are more likely to vote for rightwing extremists. This means that strong social policies are needed to counter the AfD.” #dielinke #germany #left #politics #reichinnek #fascism

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“Where are the ceremonies fit for the purpose of naming and commemorating the times that we’re living through?” she asks. “To see the Great Barrier Reef fall, that’s 10,000 9/11s.” #anohni #climate #grief #reefs #music #art #culture #indigenous #science #emotion #gaia

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The new program, titled Art X Freedom, will invite artists to make site-specific projects that “interrogate issues of social justice and freedom”. #art #culture #justice #protest #politics #rights

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“I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart.” #gaza #israel #holocaust #genocide #war

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'The 84% of reefs exposed to bleaching-level heat in this ongoing fourth event compares with 68% during the third event, which lasted from 2014 to 2017, 37% in 2010 and 21% in the first event in 1995.' #climate #reefs #science #ocean #bleaching #heating

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'Analysts say the waning sentiment among sovereigntists is simple calculation: an independent Quebec can only exist with an independent Canada.' #quebec #separatism #canada #trump #politics #culture

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