PhENtastic.bsky.social

Lowest common denominator writing, just what ever editor wants! "Can you sound exactly like every other stale, overdone, cliche-ridden hack?"

"If we're the GOP, then surely MAGA will lose." Some overpaid consultant the DNC is paying to help them lose, apparently.

love that we invented a calculator that lies so effectively real people have to waste their time trying to keep its constant bullshit out of real knowledge spaces

How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine A report from “HEATED” and Atmos found sizable donations from fossil fuel companies and billionaires to anti-trans organizations

Written version here, for the readers!
xtramagazine.com/video/fossil...

YouTube video by Xtra Magazine How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine

Anti-trans hate is the NEW, new climate denial.

Great @xtramagazine.com piece building on coverage from @yessfun.com and @emorwee.bsky.social about how the fossil fuel industry is funding the anti-trans movement.

Failed to act on anyway. People noticed Fox wasn't "news" from the jump, but for some reason we (besides media matters et al) decided not to do anything about it, let the internet make it worse, and then act confused about how things are worse than when we didn't give fascists internet megaphones

I have too much to get done today so I gotta nope out of the news but I will say that someone once said we needed to keep a scoreboard of how often pundits/columnists are absolutely wrong and it should be published with all their future work to give proper context

But there are already plenty of websites that lets kids talk to pdf files...

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

This is awesome (sucks that it has to exist)

The political killings you don’t hear about Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

Fine then, we'll go back to calling it climate denial.

Not like they're going to object to the holocaust denier association at this point anyway

"Murdered" would even be active, instead of passive...

Koch/fossil fuel backed daily caller, folks

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Climate denial is unpopular, you cant build an audience with it. Bigotry appeals to young white men, fossil fuel industry knows they hold disproportionate power, this is how they roped in young men to radicalize

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Can confirm that millions of dollars have been spent solely on trying to get climate scientists on CNN, to basically zero success relative to racist propagandists directly paid by billionaires to mainstream bigotry and disinfo

Headline: Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract from Hurricane Response

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk.

with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Climate scientists haven't failed to communicate properly, and climate advocates haven't failed to do politics.

Climate policy has been sabotaged.

That's the bottom line of the new book on Global Obstruction that you can pre-order here, or just mark your calendar to d/l for free Oct 14th!

Welcome to the World of Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

Welcome, to the World of Obstruction!

Join @amywestervelt.bsky.social as she talks with co-authors of a new book detailing the decades of efforts to obstruct climate action.

Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

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Sadly, innards still half baked

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

Abundance... of cavities

Astonishing nobody, it turns out that the Abundance movement is the brainchild of far-right billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Does appeasing fascists work? As a Business professor, I don't see why it wouldn't!

What was behind an 'insane,' mysterious flood of wildfire conspiracies For nearly two weeks in May, BC Wildfire Service's feed on Facebook was suddenly slammed with an unprecedented number of conspiracy-laden comments, many claiming — falsely — that fires burning in the ...

"It is incumbent on Facebook and other social media companies to protect their users to the same degree that, you know, people in a bar are protected by a bouncer. If somebody is in your face and yelling, they get asked kindly but firmly to leave."

CAAD Comms in @nationalobserver.com