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The Tesla takedown is working

Musk's venture into politics is costing him. The billionaire’s businesses are taking punishing blows. On Monday, Tesla shares plummeted 15%, X experienced widespread outages, and SpaceX dealt w/ heavy fallout from yet another rocket failure. Musk’s miserable Monday cost him a staggering $29 billion…

Basically right, except Die Linke are no-longer “populist left. More like “radical left” or even “progressive left”, like the Scandi equivalents. BSW have done Die Linke a huge favour, by detoxifying them.

Israel has invaded Syria. The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation. A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

There is nothing like revisiting the success story that keeps on giving, ie Greece. And few are as committed to portraying Greece’s Wirtschaftswunder as the Financial Times, with the latest report coming from the economic trenches only a few hours ago. Brace yourselves for 🎉🥂 ....

21 mentiras para atacar los coches eléctricos desmontadas La más frecuente: el eléctrico contamina más Incluso en Polonia, con la electricidad mayoritariamente generada con carbón, el ahorro de emisiones es brutal En UK se ahorran 2/3 de las emisiones En Noruega se ahorra el 80% de las emisiones

This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

Since the fall of Assad, Israel has expanded further into Syrian territory beyond its illegal occupation of the Golan Heights. Netanyahu’s Greater Israel is unfolding: seizing land in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank & East Jerusalem, unchecked by the international community.

IMPORTANT: Finland is building the world’s largest heat pump to warm homes in Helsinki. It would decarbonize the city’s district heating system by end of 2026. “Helsinki has set the ambitious goal to become carbon neutral by 2030, and transitioning our heating system is crucial to achieving this.”

This may seem counterintuitive to some but the surest way to accelerate deployment of wind, solar, battery, and other sustainable infrastructures is to design them in collaboration with local community, engage young people, and build in social co-benefits through both profit sharing and placemaking.

A folk singer wrote a song about the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. “Deny, defend, depose” are the words written on the shells of the bullets. Full video and part 2 are on his instagram and TikTok @joedevitosongs

The uneven extraction of wealth and resources from South to North never ended, and the funds the South now demands for climate are a mere token of the kind of reparations that would actually be just (not to mention effective towards creating an actually-sustainable global society)

Last night, I spoke with Amnesty International's executive director about their new report on Israel's war in Gaza and its conclusion that Israel is committing genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSi...

Belgium made history on Sunday as the first country in the world to allow sex workers to sign formal employment contracts — granting them access to sick days, maternity pay and pension www.npr.org/2024/12/01/n...

You need to see shocking extent of carbon inequality around the world. A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households. How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

Pobyt jednoho člověka ve vězení: 700 000/rok Zabydlení jedné domácnosti v rámci Housing First, včetně sociálních služeb: 260 000/rok On nás ten fašismus vyjde opravdu drahu. 161>88

Němečtí Greenpeace udělali skvělou studii, podle které LEAG patřící pod EPH Daniela Křetínského nemá dostatek peněz na rekultivaci krajiny po konci těžby. A nejspíš nebude dostatečně rentabilní, aby ty peníze v budoucnu vydělali. Vytěžit a utéct, toť strategie DK denikreferendum.cz/clanek/36900...

Nový Heatwave je venku. Tetokrát o Antarktidě - s polární vědkyní Ellou Gilbert.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Big news! The 'all scientists who do climate' feed now stands at: 🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎 ...more than it ever had on Twitter! Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John! Pin it here ⬇️

Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it news.mit.edu/2024/reality...

“Welcome to the culture war – where only the right is really fighting, and the other side is helping it out by punching itself in the face.” Oof. That hits hard. Read this whole piece. Then read it again.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

For the last two years I put together all my favorite ecosocialist reads of that year. Well here is my 2024 edition! First, @adriennebuller.bsky.social’s @the-breakdown.bsky.social is my favorite new podcast & place for anti-capitalist ecological thought. Give it a read & listen! www.break-down.org

couple notes from a Jason Hickel thread from over on Twitter:

"The bicycle is magic." I feel this every time I get on my road bike for a longer ride. I can sit on less than 20 pounds of well engineered metal & tires, and all of a sudden I can quintuple my speed and range vs walking without any more effort. Truly efficient. 🚲

the American public wanted an end to the war in Afghanistan, but also none of the imagery or consequences of leaving Afghanistan. having your cake and eating it is the basic stance of most voters.

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

Renewables are exceeding expectations - but so are emissions. Why? Part of the fossil economy's staying power comes from false promises of techno-neutralisation. CCS is the OG machine saviour. A new blog for you, on why its second coming hasn't come. ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2... (+ thread)

Man, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough. “We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku

Each and every fresh snow reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets and roads for cars, making them faster and more dangerous for everyone, and how much space we could reclaim for people and public life if we thought about street design differently. We call them #sneckdowns. #sneckdown

The most significant thing about the exodus to Bluesky is that it constitutes a complete rejection of the liberal media notion that the far-right somehow deserves to be interacted with and placated.

Plenty of good #Climate and Climate adjacent #StarterPacks but how about a good 🧵that makes them all super easy to find and follow? I'm glad I asked. Here you go! #ClimateChange #Renewables #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Advocacy #Activism bsky.app/starter-pack...

The French city of Grenoble is doing pioneering work in putting Doughnut Economics into practice as a municipality. And they've just shared it in a fab report, in French & English. If you are in need of some inspiration (anyone?) I promise you a good dose here.... www.calameo.com/books/004190...

So do we have this right: Trump accidentally exposed a bunch of Republicans as alleged sexual assaulters and child sex traffickers, and then when they faced opposition in the Senate, Marjorie Taylor Greene implied their whole party was filled with pedophiles connected to Jeffrey Epstein. 4D chess!

As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, here’s a promise. To those who helped facilitate Israel’s genocide - Western politicians, media outlets, and journalists: We will not rest until you are held accountable for the crime you helped commit.