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It’s been, what, 4 months? The rest of world’s responses have barely even started

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Palestine has been failed by silence and impunity - The Lancet “Every day, on average, 35 children are killed in Gaza, amounting to a total of at least 18 000 children killed in this conflict. Pre-teen children are being admitted with gunshot wounds.“ Speak up! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Sadly both the theories behind IRA have mostly failed 1. Deliverism: deliver jobs and investments to consolidate democratic voters -> win 2024 election 2. Poltiical Lock-In: deliver jobs and investments to red states & districts so that a IRA caucus inside the GOP would protect the clean economy

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The fact that the IRA was a meaningful bargaining chip in a fully Republican controlled bill writing process seems to indicate it's been pretty successful, imo

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via @akshatrathi.bsky.social I discovered this website about carbon removal projects that ranks them by commitments and captured carbon and in short, only 94 of 189 have actually captured anything www.cdr.fyi/leaderboards

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Dani Rodrik says that ideas of AI as being inevitable and uncontrollable sound very much like the narrative recited by eg Blair about globalisation in the 1990s to whenever. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/ide...

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The @iea.org (!!) saying AI is “a general purpose technology, like electricity” ugh

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Love this

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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“A review of scientific research has found that pedestrians and cyclists are 44% more likely to be killed in a collision with an SUV or light truck, compared to a passenger car. The outlook is even more dire for children, who are 82% more likely to be killed when struck by the larger vehicles.”

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If you were wondering about that “realism” thing, @advaitarun.bsky.social has got you: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...

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This is exactly how a country can lose soft power, for a long long time.

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I don’t think it’s breaking through yet how slashing the IRA keeps us in a mostly fossil future that costs more for everyone.

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And congrats to everyone who's still frequenting the Nazi bar -- apparently you're blending right in with the preferred clientele.

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Awww, no. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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👇🏽This is really wild . An actual climate change clarion call

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71 days of Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip Starving 2.1m people, almost half children

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@katemac.bsky.social and I have written about the new narrative: End of American Exceptionalism. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr... Beginning of the Europe Boom in its Metal Era. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur... Much needed Scepticism from @tejparikh.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6596...

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“How do Gazans have XYZ…” Cause they are all engineers by training or necessity I swear

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Angola: "Government spending on social services has fallen by 55% since 2015, said Tim Jones, policy director at London-based Debt Justice, a campaign group." www.cnbcafrica.com/2025/jpmorga... @tim-jones6.bsky.social

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For decades, this iconic graph has provided clear observational evidence of one of the key indicators of global climate change - Arctic sea ice loss. It’s from the NSIDC "Sea Ice Index" Now, support of this crucial data is at risk. A visual lens to our changing poles (zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...).

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NEW Dispatch @katemac.bsky.social Trump losing elections in other countries -- Canada and Australia. Will they lead a global rebellion against Trumpism? Helene Rey's surprising optimism on whether Europe can replace US as monetary Hegemon Larry Summers on US shitshow buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

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ICYMI Weekend Read: Our essay on 100 days that shook the world @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...

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Happy post election day everyone! I’m doing this. Like, now! www.walkforwagec.org.au/fundraisers/...

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No one ever said on their deathbed, "I wish I had paid less attention to my friends and family and more to the media."

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Australia’s conservative opposition leader had described Trump as a “big thinker” and appointed a shadow minister for “government efficiency”. He lost his seat in parliament today.

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For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.

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1/ The US "has decided that it now needs to engage in full-scale demolition of the same system that it created...The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built.” Latest Polycrisis from @katemac.bsky.social & I on how investors and countries are responding

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Will the trucking company be charged and sent to jail for 2 years for obstructing traffic?

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“has demand for”

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