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A quick reminder that we are witnessing the beginning of simultaneous cascading global catastrophes. It's a good day for a long walk.

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The hypocrisy of so many academic organizations and universities that have remained silent when academic freedom and the right to assemble was violently repressed in the past two years yet they’re suddenly concerned about academic freedom because Trump is taking away funding.

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Elon and Trump show how wrong sci-fi writers have been about villains. They are always making them evil geniuses, but it is now clear that sheer stupidity is a core trait of these types of villains. Without stupidity they would be totally different people, and never would have risen as such.

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#OtD 20 Feb 1917 a food riot by mostly Jewish women took place in New York's Lower East Side. Women overturned an onion-seller's cart and began seizing food, and hurling it at police when they arrived. They marched to City Hall and gave speeches stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 18, 2025 ~ With canaries! "We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake." climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...

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The Lancet, the world's most trusted medical journal, has published a new study showing that life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by almost half during the first 12 months of Israel’s live streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians. loom.ly/OuzGfEc

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I'd say it's playing out more or less as the experts predicted, as horrifying as that is ... climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-...

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Breaking News! Code Yikes! It's looking like Antarctic sea-ice extent hit its annual minimum on February 16th at 2,141,000 square kilometers. This makes 2025 the 4th lowest minimum on record, behind 2022, 2023 and 2024. Next up -- will the Arctic set a new record low maximum?

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For those who follow climate clichés, this may be an all-time record: "This makes the ice sheets canaries in the coalmine for climate change, and we ought to pay close attention. Crucially, the window for corrective action may still be open for the ice sheets..." medium.com/the-new-clim...

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Bravo Sabine!! @hossenfelder.bsky.social Reminded me of my in-vain attempt in 1995 to get the PhD program in our math department de-accredited. So much that calls itself theoretical physics and math is inside-the-bubble bulls&%t. This post is exactly why I quit academia. youtu.be/shFUDPqVmTg?...

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#OtD 16 Feb 2013 Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz died in Adra central prison. During the Arab Spring, Aziz helped establish the first local committee the Damascus suburb of Barzeh, through which local community could self-organise resistance and mutual aid. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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Today is David Graeber' Birthday! We will have a Zoom event at 7pm London time, you can join it at this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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After setting an all-time record minimum on February 9th, the 365-day running mean for global sea-ice extent is headed back towards "gobsmacking bananas" territory:

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe." Source: Elon Musk speech at Paris-Sorbonne University, December 2, 2015.

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Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 11, 2025 ~ How about 18 of the last 20? "If the world experiences 18 consecutive months at or above the 1.5 degree limit, it will be 'virtually certain' the Paris agreement has been breached, the report found." www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/c...

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“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

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After processing the latest NOAA data, I stated that the rate of methane growth is increasing. The news is even worse. "Well-meaning policies aimed at reducing atmospheric sulfur appear to be having the unintended consequence of lifting this sulfur 'lid' on wetland methane production."

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "By 2050 the sea will rise by 2 to 3 feet. Wealthy coastal cities will fight the rising water with dykes and levees; others will lose their underground infrastructure and face building collapse." www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-floode...

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Breaking News! Code TGIF!!! That's right, NOAA just output its monthly data for CO2 and other GHGs, so for now, we still have access to this information. And this one is crazy. A one-year gain of 3.85ppm.

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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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First priority of fascists: destroy science and independent thought. They are not wasting time.

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#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: Our Faustian bargain is coming due. “A shocking rise of warming has been exposed by, ironically, a reduction of pollutants, but we now have a new baseline and trajectory for where we are.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#OtD 4 Feb 1938 a wave of strikes began by dock workers in #Hawaii demanding equal pay with dockers on the West Coast of the United States, and a union shop. The strike ended with police shooting 50 unarmed workers in the Hilo massacre stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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#OtD 4 Feb 1987 Afghan women’s rights activist Meena Keshwar Kamal was assassinated. She founded RAWA in Kabul in 1977 which promoted Afghan women’s literacy. She was likely murdered by the Afghan KGB. RAWA continues mostly in secret due to Taliban rule stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

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gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics. I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data. I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation. In remembrance:

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#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

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Neo-liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Privatization, Deregulation and Tax cuts for the rich were always about solidifying class power.

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January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024. This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....

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#OtD 3 Feb 1953 was the Batepá massacre of the native Creole forros in São Tomé and Príncipe, who were protesting slave-like work conditions on plantations, killing hundreds. Portuguese colonial authorities claimed to be fighting a communist rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.

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The bigtime Arctic f&%kery, with temperatures in some parts reaching 28°C (50°F) above average, begins today and will last at least a week. Today:

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Next week on Feburary 12th is David Graeber's birthday! We will hold a Zoom to discuss David Graeber's ideas around Anarchism and Anthropology. The writer and activist James Schneider will speak! For those interested, you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "I could never have imagined things unraveling more abruptly than they have since the hardcover of this book was published in January, 2019." www.goodreads.com/book/show/40...

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