There may be no turning back this climate crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold.

Climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences.

Just another obvious example that he is not the President of ALL states, just the ones he likes and support him. To wit, notice funding blackmail attempts to California, other democratic states. ICE tactics in blue states, newly envisaged voting policies he wants to implement. The DISunited states.

Supporters of Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, said she had been on hunger strike since 2 February.
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How is this legal? "A $1 million price tag for private access to the president; this is how Trump is turning America’s 250th birthday into a pay-to-play spectacle; the 250th festivities, is offering tiered perks for donors, including VIP access to events/engagement opportunities with president for $

Vatican announces Pope Leo will not visit U.S. this year Pope Leo’s decision not to visit the U.S. in 2026 reflects his desire to emphasize the importance of other parts of the Catholic world.

Along with a million others..... not exactly a welcoming place of late.... let's not get into the biblical hypocrisy taking place with respect to immigrants, the poor, etc. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Surreal

Ha,

The Trump Administration’s War on Data A series of recent steps have erased the shared facts that help uphold democracy.

The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

Epstein’s world: Inside his network of wealth, power and hustle The late convicted sex offender’s private correspondence reveals the methods he used in cozying up to the one-percent.

How late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein positioned himself at the center of a globe-spanning network of wealth and power - a discreet ecosystem of traded favors and blurred lines between personal relationships and public influence.

FYI Barack Obama won 3 Emmys: Outstanding Narrator for Our Great National Parks (2022), Working: What We Do All Day (2023), and Our Oceans (2025). He earned 2 Grammys: Best Spoken Word Album for "Dreams from My Father" (2006) and "The Audacity of Hope" (2008).

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

Just the latest in a long line of envy that POTUS has towards the Obamas{more intelligent, popular, winner of Noble, successful production company in Netflix and bestsellers and the list goes on and on}. Latest trope, more disgusting during Black History month, something else they want to eliminate.

How Autocrats Meddle With Elections The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

“You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

BREAKING: Trump wants D.C.'s Dulles Airport, NYC's Penn Station named after him as condition for releasing tunnel funds.
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Work to be suspended on $16 billion New York City tunnel project on Friday Work on the $16 billion New York City Hudson Tunnel Project will be suspended at 5 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Friday because President Donald Trump's administration has refused to lift a four-month-old freeze on federal funding, the Gateway Development Commission said.

Work to be suspended on $16 billion New York City tunnel project on Friday reut.rs/4qjZJHi

Trump aides sought to pressure Senator Chuck Schumer to help name New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars he has frozen for a rail tunnel under the Hudson River. nyti.ms/4ajpykM

You realize this is because the Obamas were a success on Netflix and Melania was a bust....

'Ecological disaster': Bosnian river flooded with waste once again Seasonal rains sweep garbage from illegal dumps into the Drina River, where it accumulates behind a hydroelectric plant’s fence.

Seasonal rains sweep garbage from illegal dumps into the Drina River, where it accumulates behind a hydroelectric plant’s fence.

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Because Congress is doing such a fantastic job for its citizens, really working hard, behaving like an independent separate branch of government, holding Executive accountable from time to time.

During the week of the supposed “ceasefire,” from January 25 to February 1, Russia continued its attacks. Russia used more than 980 attack drones, nearly 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and two missiles, aiming to disrupt logistics and transport links between cities and communities.

🎥 Zelenskyy

Unbelievable. I have heard of large egos, but this one never stops.
"Ego is inversely proportional to Knowledge." - Albert Einstein

New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.

Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

More to follow....so much for "free and fair" electoral process.