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What's the point in seeking deals from such an obstreprerous US admin? And what can be done instead?

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“While Republicans attempt to shut down America’s entire scientific research apparatus, the rest of the world moves on. The demise of the IRA would decisively surrender the global market for all types of commercialized clean energy sources (and nuclear energy) to China.” @advaitarun.bsky.social

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Climate litigation could potentially put oil and gas firms on the hook for trillions of dollars in damages. As law scholar Ben Franta has explained to myself and @johnvaillant.bsky.social, the further climate law develops, the more of an existential threat it becomes to the fossil fuel industry.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

What should frighten us all is that this is not common knowledge. This explicitly anti-life ideology is being successfully enacted in the US right now, and without unified pushback it will spread.

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“The rest of the world should hope that the EU, of all trading powers, can stand up to Trump… Trade is one area where the EU indisputably has the legitimacy to act collectively and the size and economic resilience to resist Trump’s bullying.” on.ft.com/4dBHQ29

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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

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 23 days ago • 68 comments

“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.”

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

@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...).

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

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...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments