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Retired software engineer. Writer. Canadian. Card carrying member of the Reality Based Community. My politics can involve labels and jargon at times, but in the end it all comes down to two very simple ideas: bullying is bad, and sharing is good.
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1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 113 comments

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 60 days ago • 132 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 62 days ago • 463 comments

1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

submitted 63 days ago • 75 comments

Some light reading :-) for y'all. Five books for this annus horribilis. If you like book reviews, maybe more to come.

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submitted 76 days ago • 175 comments

One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 76 days ago • 385 comments

This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database. #science climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

submitted 84 days ago • 80 comments

WHO DID THIS!

submitted 86 days ago • 2087 comments

Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.

submitted 86 days ago • 397 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 88 days ago • 204 comments

tout se tait, l'ennemi dans l'ombre se repose on nous a dit ce soir que Paris s'est rendu je n'oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses ni les deux amours que nous avons perdu

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments