Oct. 29, 2025 Recently, Philippe Sands , the lawyer and author of 38 Londres Street delivered the 2025 Irving Abella lecture. In it, he tells the story of immunity, impunity, and what’s really at stake for us today.
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Setting the Record Straight on the Cowichan Tribes Title Decision What the Cowichan Decision Really Means — and What It Doesn’t

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YouTube video by TheCranberriesVEVO The Cranberries - Zombie (Lyric Video)

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Stephen Russell | Substack Click to read Stephen Russell, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

Stephen Russell
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Release the Epstein files!

The A62s in Johnstone Strait Follow a pod of Northern resident Orca (Killer whales) in Johnstone Strait, NE Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. recorded on 11 September 2025.

My encounter with the A62s in Johnstone Strait on Thursday. It's why I love living in this part of the world.

Government officials are letting AI do their jobs. Badly Offloading government responsibilities to AI can encourage discrimination, give wrong advice, and limit access to valid claims of asylum.

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While I applaud the US Republicans for supporting DEI initiatives for seniors with serious dementia spectrum disorders and their embrace of convicted felons in roles of responsibility, in this case I think I have to question their judgement in supporting the giant tangerine wank maggot for president

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00562-w

Particularly true at at the top.

The conservative media is going bonkers trying to normalize Trump Friends,

The conservative media is going bonkers trying to normalize Trump
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Leaked guestlist shows oil execs and conservatives from Canada and U.S. gathering at Jordan Peterson's conference Executives from some of the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are listed as attendees at a conservative conference in London whose keynote speakers include the leader of the Heritage Foundation – the ...

Leaked guestlist shows oil execs and conservatives from Canada and U.S. gathering at Jordan Peterson's conference www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/17/n...

Donald Trump has declared war on international justice. Australia must speak up | Geoffrey Robertson The ICC sanction is designed to intimidate and stop it from working against war criminals, Geoffrey Robertson writes

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The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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Profiling of pesticide industry opponents halted after company practices exposed By Carey Gillam, Margot Gibbs and Elena Debre A US company that was secretly profiling hundreds of food and environmental health advocates in a private web portal has halted the operations in the fac...

www.thenewlede.org/2025/02/prof...

We are releasing the monsters California’s well-documented climate and fire history lets us see how global warming is cooking up ever more extreme fire conditions — and how the megafires are responding with accelerating frequency ...

This analysis is of California's changing megafire regime by @bsaxifrage.bsky.social is a must-read:
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/a... @nationalobserver.com

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream Americans have long accumulated wealth by owning their homes, but a new study predicts that spiking insurance rates and climate disasters now herald an era of widespread losses.

Researchers found that today, insurance underprices climate risk for 39 million properties across the continental United States — meaning that for 27% of properties in the country, premiums are too low to cover their climate exposure.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

I agree its not a surprise, #47 said exactly what he was going to do. DOGE didn't even exist before the inauguration, let alone the election. of course it's also completely illegal, but that only counts if the laws are enforced and supported by the courts and government. That remains to be seen...

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

NEW: President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe.

ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.

I think they are referring to an unelected tech billionaire taking over government departments, the databases they contain and announcing that thousands of staff are losing their jobs, without out any Congressional authority or security clearance to do so.

Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega‐Constellations We present the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of high-temperature aluminum ablation during reentry from low-Earth orbit The amount of aluminum oxide nanoparticles generated is q...

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Satellite “megaconstellations” may jeopardize recovery of ozone hole Satellite swarms will release ozone-destroying pollutants as they fall back to Earth after they cease functioning, a new study reports.

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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"All that Trump managed to accomplish was to anger local water districts & farmers who lost more than 2 billion gals of water that flowed, unused and unusable, into the dry lake bed of the Tulare basin, where it will be unavailable
to farmers in the coming hot season.”
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Google is ready to work on AI weapons now The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...