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Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard

submitted 38 days ago • 117 comments

“Exxon and other major players funded misinformation campaigns to sow doubt about climate science, delaying action and worsening the crisis. California is part of a growing number of states and local governments challenging these lies through litigation.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

"Civility for an Insurrectionist Criminal? Nah, I'll Pass" As billionaires, Joe Scarborough, corporate media, & "moderate" Democrats obey in advance & urge civility towards Donald Trump, the rest of us should reject a relationship rooted in cruelty. thelefthook.substack.com/p/civility-f...

submitted 58 days ago • 121 comments

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

submitted 59 days ago • 62 comments

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

submitted 63 days ago • 1173 comments

Quick, get it to Justice Alito. Stat!

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

This @sifill.bsky.social piece is an essential playbook on how to "survive personally and nationally" during Trump 2. The section on suggested remedies for news media mistakes is especially good. Newsrooms across the country would be smart to follow her advice. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 63 days ago • 11 comments

Dammit, America. 🤬

submitted 63 days ago • 426 comments

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

submitted 64 days ago • 563 comments

Reagan slashed the budget of the Solar Energy Research Institute, which is now the National Renewable Energy Lab, from $130M in 1980 under Carter to $30M in one year. This was bad for the US, then the leader in solar research, and bad for climate change. It was good for fossil fuel companies.

submitted 64 days ago • 64 comments

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

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NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

submitted 64 days ago • 34 comments

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 64 days ago • 904 comments

Is our military producing domestic terrorists? What can we do to prevent veterans from becoming radicalized? A problem we need to address. ⬇️ #DemCast #DomesticTerrorism theintercept.com/2025/01/02/m...

submitted 65 days ago • 33 comments

On December 13, I presented a 90-minute video webinar with 13 specific projections for 2025. Watch the full webinar replay and download the complete slide deck here: drugch.nl/outlook2025

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

www.eldiario24.com/en/north-sea... Amazing read

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Weed it out. Expose it. Talk about it

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

submitted 74 days ago • 1630 comments

So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/

submitted 66 days ago • 125 comments

More than almost anything else, I will miss having a President who is capable of compassion, decency and empathy in times of crisis.

submitted 67 days ago • 1250 comments

“[2024] is expected to end with a nearly 16% drop in homicides …. “The three consecutive years of declining homicides come in the wake of a 30% jump in murders between 2019 and 2020, the largest single-year increase in more than a century.” abcnews.go.com/amp/US/unite...

submitted 67 days ago • 461 comments

Follow the big dirty money

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

This has a lot of good advice, but don't START your security plan w/VPNs. Used as most people would, they're often not a match for the Feds. Here's EFF's guide on digital security. ssd.eff.org

submitted 67 days ago • 27 comments

My first principle for the new year: When it comes to issues involving democracy, I do not seek compromise with Republicans. There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

submitted 67 days ago • 373 comments

The raw water discussions lack some history. I grew up drinking cold water from creeks in uninhabited, livestock-free mountains. It was safe until around 1990. Then, Giardia was introduced into western mountains by people carrying the parasite from Russia. There is no longer any safe wild water. 1/2

submitted 67 days ago • 227 comments

This 2019 story feels relevant today. Did it end with the 737 Max—or was it policy? Cutting costs to near-minimum wage shouldn’t be priority over lives & safety. 📌 Boeing outsourced 737 Max software coding to $9/hour engineers, laying off in-house talent & subcontracting offshore to save money

submitted 67 days ago • 364 comments

perfect. no notes.

submitted 67 days ago • 39 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

This is something

submitted 69 days ago • 150 comments

Still the best two sentences on climate action.

submitted 70 days ago • 51 comments

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 76 days ago • 1031 comments

WHOA! THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FRAUD. GOP Rep. Kay Granger (TX-12) has been missing for six months. She was just found by a reporter in a dementia care facility. Her staff and others have been keeping this a secret from her constituents. So who’s been making these posts?

submitted 78 days ago • 1789 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 79 days ago • 380 comments

So true

submitted 79 days ago • 105 comments