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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Very interesting data. Worth reading and sharing widely.

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Not quite every country!

There is really no part of our lives and our country that Doge is not destroying on its ideological raid.

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really recommend this piece, and @resnikoff.bsky.social’s substack generally. A succinct summation of why it is such a pathetic betrayal for big law, media, and academia to bend the knee to authoritarianism. Because it reveals the premise of these institutions to be flatly a lie.

The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways Trump’s executive order supposedly expanding IVF access offered nothing concrete beyond a weird nickname for himself

Incoherent nonsense as usual from the “fertilization president” who wants us all back barefoot and in the kitchen. Something else that slipped under the radar.

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Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you.

So much for lowering costs.

Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report

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While working as national security adviser, I set up a group chat on an open source app to coordinate a strike in Yemen, potentially violating the US Espionage Act. Even worse, I also inadvertently included the editor of a US news outlet, who reported detail of the conversations.

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.

My full interview here:

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

DO you want to know what to say to your MAGA uncle when he goes off on a rant?
👇👇👇👇

YouTube video by Billy Bragg Billy Bragg - Between The Wars from TOTP with Steve Wright

Forty years ago this week

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Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense? How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich

Millionaires are officially done paying into Social Security for the rest of 2025 as of today. 

If we want to ensure Social Security’s long term future, we must scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

I wonder…?
“A study from Dublin City University’s anti-bullying centre last year found that social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube Shorts fed and amplified anti-feminist and other extremist content to blank smartphones registered as 16- to 18-year-old boys within 23 minutes of use.”

The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline Up to 20 large-scale solar projects are planned to boost the UK's net-zero goals

“We have seen an absolutely astonishing rise of solar installations in Britain and also globally. That’s because the cost of solar has plummeted. It has become so cheap that some solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles or fence panels.”

Me in the ipaper inews.co.uk/news/environ...

I didn’t know if other people stress cleaned. Glad to know I’m not alone.

Cheers to Newcastle fans everywhere.

Big Dan Burn and Isak. Tears in Newcastle, Maine

64 years old and have been waiting for this my whole life. Can’t explain the intense emotion.

🌅 Tell me ma, me ma

Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order

Interesting read. Maybe it’s time for a 3 or 4 party system? Right, center right, center left and left. Then people would have proper choice. And of course the end of the electoral college so the choice counted.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If ever there was a more timely publication!

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, edited by Michael Lewis (March 18)

I called him and Angus King earlier, to no avail. Very disappointed in the NH pair too.

Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Grok!
"Since WWII, Democrats have outperformed Republicans on the economy. GDP growth averages 4.23% under Dems vs. 2.36% under GOP. Job creation? 1.7% yearly for Dems, 1.0% for Republicans. Also, 9 of the last 10 recessions started under Republican presidents. Data speaks louder than party lines."

Measles Is One Of The Most Contagious Diseases On Earth With the Trump administration suppressing public health information, here's what you need to know.

This week, we shared a post from friend of Team TBP, Amelia Mavis Christnot, on the very present danger of measles in an increasingly vaccine-skeptical U.S. under Trump. Don't miss this fascinating piece!

If every Senate Democrat said, "we won't let Musk and Trump do what they're doing to famers, to social security, to cancer research and to every American's health without a hell of a fight" and just repeated that, they'd be shocked by how much of America would be on their side.

And there are green shoots, even in the frozen north.

We grieve with you.