David Wallace-Wells

YouTube video by Save America Movement Amazing Grace

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.

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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

Clean Trucking Takes Off | BloombergNEF Sales of electric heavy trucks are taking off. The analyst team at BloombergNEF recently published a comprehensive factbook that digs into details on sales, policies, truckmaker strategies, technology...

“Over 89,000 electric trucks were sold worldwide in the first half of 2025, up 140% from the same period last year. China accounted for almost 80,000 of those, with sales in Europe making up most of the balance. US sales shrunk to just 200 units.” about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

“They are forced to say, pathetically, that what the Trump administration has done is unlawful, instead of insisting, without hesitation or equivocation, that it is wrong.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.

A yellow crane extends from a barge on the water, with a city skyline in the background. The image includes a breaking news headline about Trump officials withholding funds from NYC for infrastructure projects.

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

The week of Biden’s inauguration more than 20,000 Americans died of COVID—an annualized pace above one million deaths per year. That death has been diminished by revisionist memory, but less well known is that the next winter the toll got awfully close—19,000 per week, an annualized toll of 988,000.

Per-student costs were always MUCH higher than the average, but DeSantis and pals' spending spree has depressed every significant academic metric, hemorrhaged faculty, eliminated the school's strong points and replaced it with an athletic program no one in their right mind could give a shit about.

Trust in the CDC to deliver reliable vaccine information has fallen among Democrats from 88% in 2023 to 72% in 2025, according to KFF. Trust among Republicans has grown only from 40% to 44%. The Dem drop is 4x the GOP improvement. Overall, only 37% trust RFK Jr. on vaccines.

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

“A broad shift to electric vehicles -- which are quieter than traditional vehicles -- could yield noise reduction benefits of $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in dense urban areas.” www.nber.org/papers/w34298

Tax breaks, tax credits, and subsidies are on the list.

Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of India’s Kidney Disease Epidemic Cases of chronic kidney disease unrelated to pre-existing conditions are on the rise in India and other tropical nations. As climate change raises temperatures and humidity, the disease is increasingl...

According to the WHO, “unpublished estimates from rural Uddanam in Andhra Pradesh—a major farming region and a recognized hotspot for kidney disease—have suggested that CKDu could be affecting as much as between 40 and 60% of the population in that region.” e360.yale.edu/features/ind...

“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis – report University of California, Berkeley, study found that those who experience severe effects will see upto a $1m in costs

“The average [Californian] born in 2024 will likely face up to $500,000 in additional lifetime costs from climate crisis, and those who experience more severe effects will see up to $1m in costs." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW:🌎Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York🌎

China, Russia, Turkey and 8 other nations announced new pledges at the UN climate summit

But two-thirds of countries are still to announce their new NDCs

Analysis⬇️

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Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

Gunman Who Attacked Midtown Office Building Had C.T.E.

“Mr. Tamura, a former high school football player, shot himself in the chest after shooting four people and left behind a note that said his motive was anger at the National Football League, which he blamed for hiding the effects of C.T.E.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Darkly amusing that Mr. Tough on Crime is replacing all these career prosecutors with Chads and beauty queens whose only qualification is loyalty, and have no idea what the hell they're doing. It'll be interesting to see the stats on DOJ prosecutions and convictions next year.

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Republican push for tips on Charlie Kirk posts drives firings of public workers • Stateline Hours after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Suzanne Swierc shared two thoughts on her private Facebook page — that the killing of the right-wing activist was wrong, and that his death reflected “the vio...

“President Donald Trump has threatened to expand the crackdown beyond Kirk, warning falsely in the Oval Office last week that negative press coverage of him is ‘really illegal.’” stateline.org/2025/09/26/r...

Do everything you can to stop the enshittification of the climate.

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

New:

Kristi Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Naples, Florida tourist attraction after campaign donor intervened

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Support for Israel in U.S. drops sharply, Netanyahu unpopular, new poll shows Quinnipiac Survey Finds Only 47% of Americans See Backing Israel as a U.S. Interest, Down From 69% in 2023. Half of Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, While Just 31% Approve of Trum...

“Quinnipiac survey finds only 47% of Americans see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023. Half of voters believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while just 31% approve of Trump's handling of the war.” www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...