James Dunbar

Israel will deny that this was its intent. But we have no reason to believe them.

Not a lawyer but there seem to be some really easy libel lawsuits on behalf of high-profile immigrant detainees who were called gang leaders or terrorists against Fox hosts and guests. Would just need lawyers/firms brave enough to take on.

"Gazas death toll is simply staggering. Israel has pursued a deliberate policy of starvation, of manufacturing a famine.. in a clear & blatant violation of intl humanitarian law.. the impunity felt by the occupying power needs to be stopped"

Slovenia at the UN this afternoon

the gradual enshittification of everything

The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year Helsinki has completed 12 months without a single traffic fatality, a milestone credited to lower speed limits, safer infrastructure, and years of consistent planning, officials say.

Not a single person died on Helsinki’s roads in the last year.

An impressive achievement which shows cities across the world that road traffic deaths are not inevitable.

www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl... Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year - Helsinki Times

thank you!

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

very happy to hear! wishing her and you a full recovery!

very much dating myself, but when I lived in Florence, there were no ATMs, few if any places took credit cards (higher end restaurants and hotels), and rent was paid in cash (I could cash a maximum of $200 USD per week). I walked to our landlord's with 1.4M lire each month in cash.

The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump. “The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.”

Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans

Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nicholas Hopkinson | Compensatory Puffing The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into the...

‘Cigarette filters are a fraudulent product, providing no protection to people who smoke, while giving the false impression that they are doing something to reduce the risk.’

Nicholas Hopkinson (@copddoc.bsky.social) on smoking and plastic pollution, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel.

“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”

Social Movements Are Physically Reclaiming Spaces to Replace the State More than a way of protest, social movements are occupying spaces to challenge authority and fight against oppression.

The more people are excluded from effective participation in traditional politics, the more it makes sense to pursue tactics like creating counteroccupations which aim to replace the state.

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

Everyone needs to change the way they live. We must stop using so much plastic. This has been clear for decades, but hey, it's such a great way to keep drilling for oil! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Looming problems from BLS statistics politicization. Social security benefits and many long term labor market contracts are indexed to the CPI. BLS makes the CPI. Recipients care about indexed cost of living increases, a lot.
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The EPA has postponed enforcing limits on methane emissions linked to oil and gas operations while it weighs the possibility of scrapping the rules altogether.

AMERICA CAN, SHOULD, MUST, AND WILL BLOW UP THE MOON

Counterpoint:

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is another way of saying the only working part of Trump's economy is hype-based services and even then, AI is only "booming" because investors are lighting billions of dollars on fire hoping to be the last standing; there's no positive revenue anywhere in it. An economy of the 1% for the 1%.

Ah, Brașov - some memories of a quick stop there in 1994. Went to Castle Bran on the city bus, if I recall correctly. Looking forward to your experience there!

#OtD 2 Aug 1980 a bomb exploded at Bologna train station, killing 85 people and injuring over 200. Carried out by neo-fascists, it was part of the Strategy of Tension, a state programme to carry out attacks and blame them on the left stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9171...

I agree - as a project manager for large projects, I just want to know that you’re okay and struggling for time and then I can make adjustments to the schedule.
I’ve been on the other side, too, and felt great relief when I did contact my editor and revised the due date.

US undocumented farm workers feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raids Ice raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews

for the unawares, monthly jobs reports explicitly exclude farm workers. so feel free to also mentally account for the impact of ICE hunting down agricultural laborers like runaway slaves

Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’

‘Just uttering that word – ‘genocide’ – in reference to Israel, that alone, the fact that this association can even be made, should be enough to tell us that something very wrong is happening to us… This word is an avalanche: once you say it, it just gets bigger’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I’m going to cry

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”