Tal Harris (he/him)

And over here, children, we see the three-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly reaching a new record high.

And over there, look children, it's a category 5 hurricane devastating Jamaica.

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
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1950’s style clip art of a woman winking. Written beneath: Only dickheads and fascists use A.I.

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar A vaccination campaign against Covid begins in France on October 14 A view of a positive lateral flow Covid test Self-testing kits are the easiest and quickest way to check for Covid-19 Michele Ursi/Shutterstock Zane Lilley Published Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 13:48 Modified Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 14:28

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar.

Up to 150,000 COVID ‘auto-tests’ were sold last week amid a surge linked to the new XFG variant.

Self-tests give results in 15 mins but are only ~70% accurate, meaning 3 in 10 positive cases could be missed.

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Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

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The Future of The Free Press The Free Press is joining Paramount.

So Weiss will remain editor in chief and CEO of The Free Press and editor in chief of CBS News, so they’re not hiding the conflict here? The head of CBS News, supposedly impartial and nonpartisan, will also simultaneously be running a highly partisan site.

Premature baby dies from measles in Alberta as cases throughout province near 2,000 | Globalnews.ca An infant born prematurely died shortly after being born, after its mother contracted measles during pregnancy, Alberta's health minister said.

Canada: Premature baby dies from measles in Alberta as cases throughout province near 2,000.

"Since March, 1,914 cases of measles has been reported in Alberta, with the majority of the cases occurring in the southern (998) and northern (704) Alberta Health Services zones."

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.

Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.

If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 7, 2025 ~ our yesterdays have lighted fools.

"The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is 'not due to a few bad apples', ... but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve."

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Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 6, 2025 ~ Uninhabitable.

"...these large, flowing bodies of ice can take decades to fully adjust to the rapidly warming climate... even if global temperatures stabilised tomorrow, glaciers would continue to retreat."

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A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
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Here's an update on the global monthly surface temperature anomaly, with data from 1940 through September 2025 (to date).

The recent cooling trend has pushed the official passing of the Paris limit of 1.5°C to late 2026 or early 2027. The Climate 8-Ball is taking the under.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

This image is a cartoon depicting the "elephant in the room" metaphor. An elephant, labeled COVID-19, lies on a couch as if it’s a therapy patient, saying: "Sometimes, even if I stand in the middle of the room, no one acknowledges me." A person, possibly a therapist, sits nearby taking notes. The message highlights how, despite COVID-19 still being a major issue, society often ignores or downplays its presence—just like ignoring an obvious elephant in the room.

Sometimes, even if I stand in the middle of the room, no one acknowledges me.

Memory problems increase among Nordic children - The Nordic Times In both Sweden and Norway, the number of children seeking medical care for memory problems has increased dramatically.

“Between 2019 and 2024, for example, the number of doctor visits related to memory problems more than doubled, from 41,722 doctor visits to 98,910 doctor visits in 2024. Among children aged 5-14, visits had nearly tripled.”

Ever noticed how these increases are always since 2019?

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

AQI of 164 in Minneapolis.

Yet another day of dreadful air quality courtesy of the Canadian wildfires. I’m new to MN, but long timers have said that poor air quality has only been an issue the past 2-3 years. The science is abundantly clear that the unprecedented fires are due to climate change. Hotter & drier=bigger fires.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Mask Bans Are an Insult to Disabled People and Protesters Alike The bans threaten disabled people and protesters alike.

I was quoted in this @teenvogue.com article about mask bans and the harm they pose for the disability community.

This is the kind of inclusive journalism Teen Vogue has been doing for years.

If Bezos purchases them, it’ll be the end to stories about disability, trans rights, immigrant rights etc:

If the working-class masses have no right to land, food, housing, education, healthcare, and the basic comforts that centuries of our labor created, then the capitalist class has no right to peace. It's really as simple as that. As things continue to deteriorate, remember this.

This is the time of year that sees the fastest growth of Antarctic sea-ice. Growth has slowed to a crawl.

Antarctic sea-ice extent currently ranks 3rd lowest on record, behind only (you guessed it) 2023 and 2024.

I hate to say it, but if Long Covid is seen as primarily impacting women then our odds of ever getting it taken seriously go way down.

Misogyny in medicine. It knows no bounds.