Siddharth Jain

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

How to Hide a Famine - Boston Review Israel’s deliberate campaign to obfuscate the hunger crisis in Gaza.

“As all mechanisms to stop Israel’s onslaught are pursued, a full spectrum of aid is needed in Gaza today. The best guarantee on the effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists in to report. Doing so will also reveal who the ‘bald-faced’ liars really are.”

Alex de Waal:

Just read @adambonica.bsky.social 's latest deep dive into the Democratic Party's campaign finance spamming. Wow! data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Yusuf is economically illiterate. Of hopes his readers are. Market cap of a company values all future flows of £ to the holders. GDP here is the one year total of production or payments to labour+capital.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Note Obama's trite use of "Crisis" with nameless perpetrators. Contrast w Alex de Waal:
“Starvation is what some people do to other people.... we need to ask who is responsible.” - m.youtube.com/watch?si=61n...
Chilling by @adamtooze.bsky.social
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the shredding of international liberal order's legitimacy is because everyone knows the answer to @edwardluce.bsky.social thought experiment www.ft.com/content/6176...

maybe it means something that extrapolations, the best climate sci-fi tv show ever, literally begins by linking the palestinian struggle directly to our warming world

Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rate, satellite data reveal The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region.

Great story out in @space.com from @terezapultarova.bsky.social on our continental drying paper @hrishikeshac.bsky.social @wisegrouporg.bsky.social www.space.com/science/clim...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Israeli signatories, including the former speaker of the Knesset, are calling on immediate crippling sanctions on Israel

“That game is to maintain, no matter the violation, the tenability of Israel as a moral player, while pretending that when it transgresses it will be scolded back into compliance. The “when” here is important. The players are constantly inventing new beginnings, new red lines, new watersheds […]”

'Worst-case scenario of famine' is happening in Gaza, food crisis experts say The leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” and “widespread death” will occur without im...

The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it. The Mauna Loa Observatory deserves the same respect as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

I was thinking about what CO₂ observations on Mauna Loa — the longest real time measurement we have (i.e., not from ice cores) — mean for humanity and how we should regard it.

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DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

A modest sidenote - after the last fifteen years of carnage, can any honest person not read this headline and shudder?

"The British way" = fuck it into a cocked hat and blame the foreigners for starting it.

jasper nathaniel on X: "🧵My jaw is still on the fucking floor after reading Jenn Counter’s “Rules of Offensive Influence” — an unapologetic playbook for psychological warfare — that is published on Columbia’s website. I'm going to share some excerpts, then post the whole thing. As you read, keep in" / X 🧵My jaw is still on the fucking floor after reading Jenn Counter’s “Rules of Offensive Influence” — an unapologetic playbook for psychological warfare — that is published on Columbia’s website. I'm going to share some excerpts, then post the whole thing. As you read, keep in

posts worth reading about Israel's support network's plans x.com/infinite__ja...

A true sign of the utter depravity of our current moment. Evil thoughts by evil men, genocide as spectacle, and the utter collapse of moral authority.

Israel’s Mossad chief flew to D.C. to pitch Gaza’s ethnic cleansing plan: starve them, cage them, then deport the survivors. As Israeli journalist Gideon Levy said, it’s a plan worthy of Adolf Eichmann — the Nazi bureaucrat who orchestrated the Holocaust’s logistics.

Cartoon by @latuff.bsky.social

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said Thursday that Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish, drawing outcry among opposition politicians. “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu told Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil.

OK now everyone who has given Mamdani shit over something he never said has to publicly explain how this quote by a member of the Israeli government makes them feel www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mi...

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.”
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun.

The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.

(1/n)

‘Historic’ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.

The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’

Israel is inflicting mass starvation on the population of Gaza. Not since WWII have we seen such a concerted, deliberate, doctrinal mass murder via witholding food and aid

And @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is busy arresting peaceful protestors. Cowardly and sick

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How your research can survive a US federal grant termination Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.

This rollercoaster of a @nature.com story is out! I talked to > 20 researchers whose grants were terminated; several were reinstated recently. Most are competing for smaller pots of $ to keep research--often involving marginalized community groups--alive.

Advice: “If at all possible, push back.”

A supermarket worker handles bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles in Tokyo on 31 May 2025. Credit: Newscom / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/2wjOqqM

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.