Catherine

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Severe floods significantly reduce global rice yields Rice-killing floods reduce global rice yield by 4.3%, with losses rising due to increasing extreme floods since 2000.

Devastating floods led to a 4.3% global reduction in annual rice yield from 1980 to 2015, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4iiwfYd

You’ll notice that the same media who couldn’t stop attacking Biden’s age or Hillary’s emails to her daughter or President Obama’s tan suit are now okay with a convicted criminal bulldozing the White House for his ballroom and inviting actual murderers to the Oval Office.

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an

It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".

Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?

New York Ban on Migrant Arrests in Courts Survives Trump Challenge A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to strike down a New York law prohibiting immigration agents from making arrests at or near state courthouses.

A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to strike down a New York law prohibiting immigration agents from making arrests at or near state courthouses

Halligan is in DEEP trouble in the Comey case A recording from Allison Gill's live video

DOJ didn't get a warrant for the core evidence in their case against Comey. www.muellershewrote.com/p/halligan-i...

"New disclosures posted Saturday...show that Trump’s purchases of at least $82 million include bonds from Netflix Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., Boeing Co., Meta Platforms Inc., Home Depot Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Intel Corp., of which the US government acquired a stake under his administration."

Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts.

“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment has made a surprise intervention in the legal challenges against the decision by Environment Minister Murray Watt to extend the life of Woodside’s NW Shelf LNG project.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/un-ra...

U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte

How is walking around Home Depot brave or “officers risking their lives to enforce our nation’s laws”

The rhetoric justifying this is laughable

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

ICE Ads Are All Over Your Favorite Streaming Services

If a dystopic voice asking you “to fulfill your mission” of rounding up undocumented immigrants has snuck its way onto your streaming airwaves, you’re far from the only one.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

How in the mind-bending fuck do we live in a world where conservatives call 14-year-olds “women” when talking about their rapes but also call 40 year olds “girls” when talking about their achievements or successes?

#NewsCorpse

Senior neo-Nazi may face deportation to South Africa after parliament rally The Albanese government will consider the visa of Matthew Gruter, a senior member of the group that rallied outside NSW parliament. He may also face the sack.

The Herald can reveal officials in the Department of Home Affairs are preparing a brief for the Albanese government to consider the visa of neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6

I truly hope that at least Summers is ruined by this round

imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein

one of the grossest things I’ve ever read

If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.

@albomp.bsky.social When it comes to pathetic Nazis without citizenship, kindly pull the Fuck Right Off lever.

No one should have to face such threats.

It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

A graphic from the front page of the WSJ, titled, "The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump." Using blue does it compares how many of the email threads released by Oversight are about various people. 1,670 are about Trump. 207 mention Michael Wolff. 155 Kathryn Ruemmler, 117 Larry Summers, and 512 Clinton.

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Single-cell quantification of senescence burden reveals cell type-specific ageing dynamics across organs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688272v1

The murderous little piece of shit who kills Washington Post journalists, right? *That* crown prince?

That’s the one you’re honoring, yes?

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts The NSW Land and Environment Court invalidated the approval for the Ulan coal mine expansion near Mudgee, based on a precedent set in July.

NSW courts cancel the extension of a large coal mine near Mudgee on the basis of the Court of Appeal overturning the 2022 approval of MACH Energy’s massive Mount Pleasant mine in the Hunter Valley in July. Congrats 🥳 Mudgee District Environment Group! #ClimateAction

www.smh.com.au/environment/...