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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

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On FTN, @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social debunks "the argument from Mr. Kennedy, as well as people within his anti-vax movement ... that measles itself isn't a bad illness." "27% of the kids who have been infected in [the current] West Texas outbreak and the New Mexico outbreak have been hospitalized."

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⚡️ Most Danes back sending peacekeepers to Ukraine, poll shows. Around 53% of Danes are in favor of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine after Russia's full-scale war ends, according to a poll published by Ritzau news agency on Feb. 21, Bloomberg reported.

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⚠️Read this⚠️ 📚Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building Carbon Capture plant 🤔After FT reported, Energy department had to confirm in a letter to the public accounts committee 💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle... @rupertread.bsky.social

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🚨FACTS AND TRUTH MATTER If you still agree with this principle please watch & share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...

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It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

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NO KINGS ONLY TRAINS is a fantastic chant (heard at a presser for the california high speed rail)

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The ‘special relationship’: well and truly in the dustbin of history now. With a vicious self-obsessed dictatorial pro-Putinist installed in the White House.

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Jon Davis cartoon in the Guardian on "how the UK government is tackling the climate crisis" Or any government, for that matter... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

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Thank you to #LedByTheWild for their lovely review of Transformative Adaptations (by, amongst others, @rupertread.bsky.social @morganPhilips and... me) ledbythewild.co.uk/new-and-blogs/ #Writers #SkyWrite #WritersofBlueSky

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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What a disgusting treacherous fool Trump is. Loving fellow dictatorial bullies, while slagging off a genuine underdog hero. Just beyond appalling to call Zelensky a ‘dictator’. Trump is a maestro at #ViciousnessSignalling, who wants so bad to be an actual #dictator.

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It's easy to switch bank. Make sure your money is not fuelling the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gA...

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A new platform for insurance employees to take climate action: read this interview with @RupertRead about @CMP_voice. https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/an-interview-with-prof-rupert-read-to-keep-the-world-insurable-the-climate-crisis-needs-to-be-rapidly-slowed

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"The point is to start with the immediacy of resilience rather than with the abstraction of greenhouse gases." "... [this] synergises with the goal of decarbonisation, rather than detracting from it. from: @rupertread.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

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Our planet is burning and our banks are fuelling the fire. UK high-street banks Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds have funded fossil fuels with $556 billion since 2016. It’s time to go green. Switch to Starling, Nationwide or Triodos. Act now: makemymoneymatter.co.uk

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Further reasons for RESIGNATIONS as Norfolk CC take a budget risk with over £30m when the odds are very much stacked against the Govt agreeing the NWL road @stopwensumlink.bsky.social @transportaction.bsky.social @jamierussell.bsky.social Hair already blazing on fire ... (read article👇)

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The ‘Chaoscene’ replacing the Anthropocene? Although the article is premised around AMOC collapse (which wouldn’t affect everywhere equally), the central assertion that humans are just not preparing for absolute environmental chaos is a real jolt of thinking.

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"If we are to have a future. #Climate/nature action needs to occur way beyond activism. It needs mainstreaming. And the space needs depolarising." Read now 👇

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Interesting read. “We’re entering into a long period in which our efforts to be as gods have actually produced the opposite: a chaos that outstrips our understanding, let alone our control.” A certain Adam and Eve would have known precisely this dynamic of decision vs outcome. #ChooseWisely

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Recommended: check this one out… #thrutopia

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"Our future is far more complex than the simple narrative of ‘global warming’ suggests, and we need to be prepared for a range of outcomes, distributed in different regions, that include both extremes of hot and cold." It’s time to prepare for the ‘Chaoscene.’ #climate

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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

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#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution Plastic reality - "a ticking planetary timebomb in which objects that are used for seconds require nearly geological timescales to break down" www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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"'The climate crisis is completely throwing insurance markets into a state of dysfunction." Read @climateaf.bsky.social's Jordan Haedtler today in @bloomberg.com, by @markgongloff.bsky.social:

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I find it so telling that our so called Labour Govt refused to sign up to AI-regulation in Paris. It was a despicable refusal to precautionarily protect citizens. Labour is sacrificing our safety on the altar of possible ‘growth’,and to grovel at the feet of Trump-Vance: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

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What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

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I find it so telling that our so called Labour Govt refused to sign up to AI-regulation in Paris. It was a despicable refusal to precautionarily protect citizens. Labour is sacrificing our safety on the altar of possible ‘growth’,and to grovel at the feet of Trump-Vance: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

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On #bbclaurak, Richard Tice spews his dangerous rubbish about ending action to slash climate-deadly carbon emissions. In response, @AdrianRamsay asks, forcefully, “Have you tried telling that to the people of LA, Richard, to their faces?” Brilliant.

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Virtue-signalling has come in for lots of criticism recently. Rightly so. But there’s something worse, & we are seeing more & more of it: >Viciousness-signalling<. (When Trump or Vance speaks, what he does is exactly that. He basically says: We’re going to treat those we don’t like viciously.)

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"Our future is far more complex than the simple narrative of ‘global warming’ suggests, and we need to be prepared for a range of outcomes, distributed in different regions, that include both extremes of hot and cold." It’s time to prepare for the ‘Chaoscene.’ #climate

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Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning

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Nailed it with this idea. (Workshopping "vice-signaling" or "viscous-signaling" as catchier, though. Thoughts?)

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