This is worse than deer in the headlights. We’re the deer looking into the headlights. They don’t even know there’s a car. They don’t even know they’re a deer.

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (interview with German citizen) who lived through Nazi regime

Protesters are gathering outside the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago to condemn the genocide and demand an end to Israel’s blockade and starvation of Gaza. #FreePalestine

Noise protest outside the Israeli Consulate in Chicago on July 24, 2025. A sign reading "Israel is starving Gaza" is displayed for passing cars.

A statement released July 20, 2025 by the World Food Programme, detailing the malnutrition and starvation now facing those in Gaza.

A statement released July 20, 2025 by the World Food Programme, detailing the malnutrition and starvation now facing those in Gaza.

As the sign suggests, the protest comes as international outrage builds over the starvation Gazans are now facing. Per a statement the World Food Programme released earlier this week - nearly 2 years into Israel's seige on Gaza - some 1 in 3 people there are now going "days" without food.

Now: for the 2nd time this week, a Palestine solidarity protest is underway in downtown Chicago. This one is a noise protest outside the city's Israeli Consulate. Protestors bang on pots and pans behind a CPD bike barricade; a sign reading "Israel is starving Gaza" greets oncoming rush hour traffic.

Text of free article: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-vortex

Do you remember 2022? Really remember it? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-v...

If someone wanted to filibuster weapons shipments to Israel, they could just read the names of the children killed in Gaza and break Booker’s record by many, many hours.

During his appearance with Netanyahu, Trump said it would be a good thing to have, “a peace force like the United States” in Gaza.

Well, this “peace force” has partnered with the “most moral military in the world” to commit one of the worst genocides in modern times.

Words mean nothing.

The Extreme Weather Report, April 10, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels.
#extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news

Great turn-out at the protests in Madison, inspiration from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social as per usual.

long excerpt from my book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP about this being a hard time to be a parent and how you have to try anyway

"I don't remember when I started mourning the future more than the past."

-- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

BBC Global Dimming Documentary About Geoengineering & Global Warming Dailymotion video by Nico Christodoulou

www.dailymotion.com/video/xudm8n

Yeah but then there’s global dimming lol -so that little number of “lives saved” gonna seem like a big whoopsie.

The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse.

Chris Hedges is super cheery today! /s He quotes a Jewish writer about the Nazis:

"The barbarians have taken over. Do not deceive yourself. Hell reigns.”

And: "Let us fulfill the noblest duty of the defeated warrior: Let us concede our defeat.”

But even in defeat we resist, to fight radical evil!

Ocean-surface warming has more than quadrupled since the late-1980s, study shows The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown. Ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade in the late 1980s, but are...

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 28, 2025 ~ Using the 'a' word.

"This accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's growing energy imbalance—whereby more energy from the sun is being absorbed in the Earth's system than is escaping back to space. "

phys.org/news/2025-01...

"We continued our support of the families making the journey back home to the North along Salah al-Din Street. There are so many people leaving that this main road looks like a parking lot filled with cars. In order to make the wait and drive a little more bearable we passed out more of the 400 kilos of ka’ak and ma’amoul (Palestinian sweets) that we bought. Each plate had 10 pieces and the cost for the full initiative was $3,700 with 6% commission. As we’ve mentioned the fee to withdraw cash has decreased substantially. Thank you for allowing us to assist at this time and continue to donate to both the South and North campaigns in our Linktree."

Sharing from the other site. Please support both South and North campaigns and check out their regular updates (link to donate and for updates below):

South: chuffed.org/project/1132...

North: chuffed.org/project/help...

🌊🌡📈 Acceleration of warming!

We can keep hoping the data is wrong, but hope is not a strategy!

"Policy makers and wider society should be aware that the rate of global warming over recent decades is a poor guide to the faster change that is likely over the decades to come"
doi.org/10.1088/1748...

January, 2025, will likely be the warmest January since 1940, and possibly the warmest January in the last 120,000 years.

5 days worth of data to go --

Many thought and think that James Hansen overestimates, or even exaggerates the risks of climate change.

The data ('even' IPCC consensus) shows that he likely underestimated things.

Our current estimates might still be underestimates.

We ignore the warning signs at our own peril.

Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

Joe Biden leaves several legacies, good and bad. But the most tangible and lasting is this.
It's the result of his disgraceful, enduring support for #genocide: the literal wiping of a people and their built environment off the map.
Whatever else he did, this will forever be attached to his name.

I’ve been obnoxious since the LtT in the early 70’s:

Last chance for a soft landing — 1980s
Last chance for a global advanced civilization — 1990s
Last chance for the survival of large human populations — 2000s
Last chance for a partially habitable planet — 2010s
Now it’s just watch it fall apart

The canaries are all dead, the windows of opportunity are all welded shut, the frogs are fully cooked, the bananas are all gobsmacked, all the ships have sailed and the ticking time bombs have all detonated.

At least we've lived in interesting times, right? A penny for your thoughts.

Saving Everything Else It’s not about saving us. It’s not about saving ourselves. It’s not about saving our ability to eat whatever we want, to buy more crap, to travel to distant places, to have a good job, to send our kid...

Last year was likely the hottest year in the last 120,000+ years on this planet. Human civilization has never existed in conditions like these, and the f&%kery is just getting started.

The tragedy is not the loss of human civilization, it's what humans are doing to everything else.

Thread. The Atlantic reporter below reveals a particular kind of ignorance that is common among liberal people but important to see clearly.