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Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

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Multiple independent studies show Trump caused at least 100,000 needless deaths.

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"Los Angeles wildfires have become perfect fuel for Trump and climate denial" by Matthew Rozsa for @salonnewsroom.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2025/01/11/l...

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Berkeley fire chief warns of ‘structural challenges’ here similar to LA. www.berkeleyside.org

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"2024 ocean temperatures hit all-time high: Report" by Jayashree Nandi for MSN: www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...

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Self-styled climate “centrists” deflecting attention from the PRIMARY underlying contributor to these disasters (fossil fuel burning and human-caused warming) is a free gift to polluters and petrostates

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The peer-reviewed science shows that the primary factor behind the increase in wildfire extent in the western U.S. is increased aridity and fuel load due to human-caused warming. Via #AAAS #SciLine: www.sciline.org/climate/clim...

submitted 42 days ago • 24 comments

Here’s my challenge to Mel Gibson regarding the four friends with Stage IV cancer who were “cured” using Ivermectin and Fenbendazole. Convince those four to reveal their medical records, showing: 1/4

submitted 42 days ago • 350 comments

Thank you, from someone who knows deeply the challenges of treating cancer. Bullshit doesn’t belong in the same galaxy as people with cancer.

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The upside of Trump’s taunting Canada is that we’ll get more news clips of actual leaders pushing back on him instead of our steady diet of “Chris Coons thinks this idea has merit”

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments

@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social explains compellingly and usefully in Technofeudalism how the rule of capital has changed over the decades and centuries. It’s at its worst now, albeit with a (thin) silver lining. Fantastic book.

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It’s “An abundance of Katherines”! (h/t, bow, and genuflection to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)

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Your weekend reminder that I have a starter pack entirely full of Katharines* who work on climate * alternate spellings are permitted go.bsky.app/Po82tCi

submitted 42 days ago • 81 comments

It's really not about leaving the other platforms. It's about bringing people here and giving them more engagement than the other apps. That's what people want. Engagement. Takes nothing to offer it If there is a user on another app that you like, DM them and invite them here. Post and tag me

submitted 47 days ago • 1442 comments

Too often judges fall back to legal theories of no practical import. Textualism, originalism and living constitutionalism are irrelevant labels to everyday Americans. Courts must ensure the Constitution remains a broad shield protecting individual liberty and not become democracy’s suicide pact.

submitted 47 days ago • 45 comments

I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy. Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

submitted 54 days ago • 127 comments

"Climate change is the worst. Here's just how bad it got this year." by Hannah Osborne for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

Signatures from the last two days. (Sharpie for scale.)

submitted 62 days ago • 59 comments

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

submitted 74 days ago • 2160 comments

Romania’s top court made the decision to annulled the presidential election after security services warned the vote had been distorted by a mass Russian influence campaign to favor a far-right candidate, ultranationalist Călin Georgescu. www.politico.eu/article/roma...

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"The menace of Adolf Hitler has been greatly exaggerated.... There is an innocence almost childish about the detailed fashion un which he sets out to be blood-curdling." --New York Times, Sept. 27, 1930

submitted 86 days ago • 465 comments

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

submitted 87 days ago • 341 comments

I’m ok with hopeful people, and hopeless people, if they’re honest. People who perpetrate bullshit are the villains. Like Musk, who said we’ll be ok until 1000 ppm of CO2.

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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 28, 2024 ~ The doomer closet. "Being unhopeful about climate change is so unpopular that I myself, an environment-focused journalist, am fearful of publicly admitting my own pessimistic outlook." undark.org/2024/11/28/o...

submitted 86 days ago • 12 comments

Bless his heart

submitted 87 days ago • 542 comments

I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...

submitted 86 days ago • 553 comments

The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope

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Testing the power of Bluesky: I'll be teaching a new "Introduction to Environmental Economics" class to 1st year master students in economics and statistics. Any good resources / syllabi / textbook / ideas you would have and be willing to share ? Either here or at [email protected] Thanks!!!

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

Berkeley Earth now has the handle: @berkeleyearth.org 😉

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🧵I want to engage with Snyder's On Tyranny but first want to express my admiration. It's an extraordinary distillation of a century of lessons that remain largely unlearned about democracy & fascism into a rigorous & actionable primer on recognizing & confronting American tyranny. Please read it.

submitted 89 days ago • 49 comments

And just like that, Donald Trump gets away with his insurrection. Something that would have never happened in any other democratic country on earth. Astonishing.

submitted 89 days ago • 659 comments

People often ask me if I reread my books after they come out. 1. No. Never. Ew, David, ew. No. 2. I have no interest in reading my writing unless I'm writing/editing it. There is so much else to read. 3. I read the thing so many goddamned times while writing and revising. So many. YET STILL I ERR

submitted 89 days ago • 242 comments