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The strikes on Iran show why quitting oil is more important than ever Oil isn’t a normal commodity – it shapes politics around the world.

The strikes on Iran show why quitting oil is more important than ever

Electrification + renewables = energy that isn’t shipped through chokepoints.

Decarbonisation is national security.

theconversation.com/the-strikes-...

Shout outs to blue sky + mastodon in today's @eurcorrespond.bsky.social, plus the role of misinformation as the War on Wind + Europe's economic heart is migrating S + E.

"Denmark generates 54% of its electricity from wind while maintaining a GDP per capita of $71,026 (the 12th highest globally)"

My violin 🎻 is playing in sympathy for the Mettees …

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RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

MAGA media feud erupts over Trump’s war against Iran: "We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore." Media figures in right-leaning spaces are bickering about President Donald Trump’s war on Iran. The strikes so far have reportedly killed multiple Iranian leaders and many civilians; three American se...

“The MAGA movement is surely dead”

“We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore”

“Illegitimate regime”

MAGA media feud erupts over Trump’s war against Iran

New from me @mmfa.bsky.social

www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

a hospital entrance sign with Emergency and South Entrance noted (almost hit) The Almost Hit Hospital has filled up again as the debate on new bike lanes heats up at city hall.

The Almost Hit Hospital has filled up again as the debate on new bike lanes heats up at city hall.

RFKjr (and entire Trump regime) are putting (multiple) thumbs on scale to sicken and kill Americans (through weakening medical system, reversing medical advances, promoting pollution, attacking social safety net, …).

Public health hanging in balance under RFK Jr. Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health. Oh, how times have changed. Back then, smallpox had just helped ...

Public health hanging in balance under RFK Jr.: rates of preventable diseases are high, and children are dying when it's preventable. Why? www.miningjournal.net/opinion/edit...

Sure cracking down on cars saves lives but people in Helsinki will never know all the positive sides of living in a fossil fuel death cult with big boy trucks that go vroom vroom, such as feeling very manly once you've climbed the little step ladder into your big boy truck

We’ll, also to Wag The Tail to divert attention from Trump’s child rapes with Epstein

Given how little he cares about Americans, the chance that Trump gives a shit about the Iranian people is zero.

Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf? The IRGC announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and there are reports of British and other vessels turning around

Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

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A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

I served in the military for 20 years. Afterwards, I devoted another 25 years directly supporting the military, as contractor and civilian.

For those serving now, you are either participating in or supporting an illegal war. The orders to commit were illegal. You have an obligation to resist.

Yet more proof of AI’s critical importance for and wide range of climate solutions. /s

@ketanjoshi.co

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

I was literally pulling up the FBI indictments of the Iranian hackers two days ago for a forthcoming article ab this 🫠

Trump dismantled the entire infrastructure that disrupted this op! Kate and Stamos and I were sued by America First Legal — case is entering its 3rd year. These fucking hacks.

First Venezuela, then Iran, and there's rumbling about Cuba. When will Democrats learn their lesson and stop talking about the Epstein files?

Operation Epstein Fury is the most sophisticated military operation in the history of the United States.

by Pete Hegseth

When I said we wanted a multi-polar world, it was based on the idea that the USA wasn't going to act like we do. Not sure I like this version.

RFK Jr. May Eliminate the USPSTF, Original Task Force Members Warn

Every single step that the anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK Jr takes to dismantle the US medical, public health, & health research systems is incredibly painful & distressing

This one would hit so hard

Without the USPSTF, evidence-based screening & prevention would crumble 😢

Far (FAR) worse:

- US essentially alone
- beyond incompetence in national security leadership
- no “after” planning
- …

Wide protected bike-lane filled with people riding bikes in central Paris. #UrbanBiking #UrbanTruth

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

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New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.