Alec Luhn

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

Trump approves appeal for Ambler Road project, reversing Biden administration's rejection | Alaska Beacon The proposed road, being developed by Alaska’s state-owned investment bank, would open access to a mining region in northwest Alaska.

It's crazy that Trump invested $35.6m of taxpayer dollars in the company behind the Ambler Road mining project, as Alaska Native tribes & conservation NGOs have long been suing to block it, which would wipe out that investment. Probably won't happen, but still risky alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/06/t...

Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s attacks are launching their own climate information portals.

Imagine not portraying this as a crime.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

If CBS News is biased, making Bari Weiss editor-in-chief will surely just swing it to the opposite extreme www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The Aletsch glacier, the largest in Europe, has now retreated 1.4 miles.
Mountain glaciers in total lost 450 billion tonnes of ice in 2024. Not good for streams & rivers.
Great photos here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.”

Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.

Here’s why one industry is worried about Trump’s latest climate rollback The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it would rewrite a Biden-era rule aimed at limiting hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas.

Trump administration wants to roll back regulations on HFCs (very potent greenhouse gases) OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE APPLIANCE INDUSTRY.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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If you voted for him, you've done this.

I'm still yet to encounter anything particularly convincing on this - it seems like a big expense that at best might solve a few edge cases while introducing more. Putting the civil liberties argument aside, it just doesn't seem like a useful thing for the government to be doing

Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities Rats are multiplying at speed in urban areas. So, what's really behind the boom - and is it now unstoppable?

Rat activity is ⬆️ 400% in Washington DC, 300% in San Francisco, 180% in Toronto & 160% in New York.
A big reason is climate change: Rats have gotten esp numerous in cities that warmed more, since they breed better in warm conditions
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The latest report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at PIK has confirmed that Ocean Acidification has now been breached. This means that 7 of the 9 planetary boundaries have now been crossed.

#planetaryboundaries #PIK #oceans #oceanacidification #climatechange

Anybody remember the So Much Guardian account on Twitter?

🔥🔥MASSIVE ATTACK on russia
Last night

No electricity in Lgov, Kursk region.
Explosions and shelling in Taganrog, Belgorod, and Valuyki.

russian media admitted: dozens of UAVs were striking other regions too.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

The High Seas Treaty will formally go into effect next January, and I hope you enjoyed the pirate hat. I figured we could all use a bit of joy in these trying times.

Okay, closing a loop. Many of you suggested The Onion print for a very precocious preteen.

It arrived today and it is a huge hit. HUGE.

The official verdict is, “it’s like [your old people’s] Adbusters but not so despressing.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Is Polar Geoengineering a Bold Fix or a Dangerous Gamble? Debate Rages among Scientists Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as pumping up seawater or launching aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the ...

Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as pumping up seawater or launching aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet’s surface

Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other

Oh good, a new Murdoch. Except richer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/t...