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“Among the horrors the Israel-Gaza war has brought to its people, the torture of parents seeing their children starve and being powerless to save them is surely one of the worst.”

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

There is money for climate justice and a just transition - it’s just being spent on AI

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If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

yup

Rebecca @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reminded me of this quote from Adam Hochschild "When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot. The new officials, not surprisingly, came up with higher figures."

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped Their charges range from an unwanted touch from behind to aggressive, sudden kissing to fingers groping up their skirt and into their underwear. Donald Trump and his campaign insist all of the stories...

Reminder “16 women have accused Donald Trump of various forms of sexual assault, including one accusation of rape and another, in which the accuser has not used the word “rape” but whose description meets the legal definition of rape.”

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He's saying the families are evil for asking why their kids are dead.

If you wondered why Trump has embraced 'religion' recently, it's not just because he thinks they're easy marks for a grift but he can blame God for shit and say it's out of my hands

Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

#climatecrisis tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds

- Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

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@houstonchronicle.com needs to follow the lead of @texasmonthly.bsky.social
and as @latimes.com did in the fires and drop all the paywalls from flood related stories. These are stories vital to community safety and understanding. No paywalls are barriers to information

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster.

Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."

Unfortunately it’s not a big step from “The forecast was wrong” to “NWS is incompetent and wasteful,” and there are strong political incentives to make that argument now regardless of the truth (see also: attacks on FEMA after Helene)

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

Earth's climate is in the era of 'global weirding' Weather is harder to predict and more extreme

For more on how our weather is becoming more extreme and harder to predict using the tools and expertise we've developed based on past conditions, read:

Wouldn’t wish what those parents in Texas are going through on my worst enemy

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

Being a Texan and seeing the horrifying floods in so many places I know and have lived - I’m immediately angry at Rep. Chip Roy for voting yes on the spending bill. It’s not time for the US to pull back on clean energy transition.

A quick🧵about the devastating Texas flooding -- and how it connects to climate change. ⬇️

(Photo cred: @nytimes.com)

Unbelievable rainfall totals from this event, and it's still raining.

Several pockets of 10-20" rain totals. That's up to HALF A YEAR of rainfall that has fallen in just the last 36 hours #atxwx #txwx

Devastating flash floods slam Texas Hill Country; Tropical Storm Chantal heads for Carolinas » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

The latest from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and me on Friday's horrific flash flooding in Texas (followed by yet another deadly flash flood in central TX on Sat AM). We also have an update on newborn and not-too-fierce Tropical Storm #Chantal.

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Where Clean Energy Goes From Here The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is one signature away from becoming law and drastically changing the economics of renewables development in the U.S. That doesn’t mean decarbonization is over, experts t...

the one big beautiful bill is going to pass. it's certainly bad, but not as bad as it could be. so where does clean energy go from here? @emilypont.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social gotchu

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

‼️ Y'all, House Republican leadership just told their members to go back to their offices. The floor has emptied. They don't even have the votes to pass the procedural Rule that's needed to get to a passage vote on the bill. 👀

There's still time to make noise --> 5calls.org

EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC DAY IN EUROPE
39.3 Germany Dozens of records (next tweet)
39.0 Netherlands
40.6 France including monthly record 38.4 Guebwille
38 Czechia, 37 Poland

34.0 Holbek DENMARK all time record
etc etc

Another day for history book in Europe

Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.)

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.

A new generation of leaders is here.

Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans

A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans.

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The silencing of public climate resources reminds me of this tenet of The Party in 1984:

"We shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there shall be no words in which to express it."

#EndClimateSilence

I get that they're all-in on climate denial, but now hurricane denial?

The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis, is fighting for climate justice at the world’s highest court.

Excited for @rollingstone.com article by Julian Aguon about Vanuatu's fight at the ICJ "At its core, this case asks the court to clarify how existing principles of international law apply to the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced: climate change"
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