Brian e Noble, PhD, dark & light in living relation

Judge dismisses activists' lawsuit against Trump, but concedes 'very real' climate harm | CBC News A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.

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“A United Nations agency said on Wednesday that heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, "turbo-charging" the climate and making weather more extreme.”

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

Good question, except he forgets that it’s all stolen Indigenous land, and that taxes are drawn from an economy built on growing layers of resources extracted from the fruits of that land. Another “thought pretzel”

She’s losing the battle of working hard at trying not to lose

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Canadian softwood producers hit with new 10% tariff on lumber shipments into U.S. Trump issued a proclamation Monday night, imposing a new tariff on imports of softwood from Canada and other countries, effective Oct. 14

So Trump is imposing new tariffs on Canadian lumber & on films produced outside the US.

*Notice that the one industry he is leaving unharmed is oil & gas?*

It's a tell...🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more

Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already

The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Primate Encounters A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

What a federal government shutdown might mean for travelers | CNN IThe US is on the brink of a possible government shutdown. The travel impact would be felt in longer airport lines, muddled itineraries and US National Park closures.

“…coming at a time when many tour operators and hospitality industry workers are reeling from the dearth of Canadian travelers, a significant number of whom are vowing to stay away as long as President Trump is in office”

#ElbowsUp has consequences

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

Economies of Planetary Demise

Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already

The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Climate Emergency? No doubt.
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire. And we’re past summer already

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

Economies of Planetary Demise

Then leading to re-election of a conspiracy-ridden party in USA with a narcissist, autocratic leader dismantling its science-based institutions, undermining media sources that rely on meticulous science & social science to verify news, defunding universities, militarizing against public who disagree

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration

The character of political discourse and the cast of actors exchanging racist / anti-racist barbs gets more and more dystopic by the day

Le declin de l’empire americaine

Analysis: Trump’s ‘right about everything’ rant offers no answers to a world on the brink | CNN Politics President Donald Trump, who holds the job once reserved for the leader for the free world, had no words of reassurance or poetic invocations of democratic values for America’s alarmed allies in an add...

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Dog’s Breakfast Diplomacy explained

useful🧵from @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social reminding us of deadly vaccine politics in 1885 & drawing on M. Bliss, Plague: a history of smallpox in Montreal (Toronto 1991) & J.M. Berman, “When antivaccine sentiment turned violent: the Montréal Vaccine Riot of 1885”, Can Medical Assoc Jo 2021: E490–E492

Then leading to re-election of a conspiracy-ridden party in USA with a narcissist, autocratic leader dismantling its science-based institutions, undermining media sources that rely on meticulous science & social science to verify news, defunding universities, militarizing against public who disagree

This just confirms for me what me and my academic colleagues have seen with our students: AI helps those who already know what they are doing (e.g., double-checking facts or knowing how and when to implement advanced writing/rhetoric). It does the opposite for amateurs (such as most undergrads).

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walkability of environments result in increases in daily physical activity, providing evidence of the importance of the built environment on physical health.

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The-responsibility-of-intellectuals….
Chomsky & to this moment

Will Australian courts outlaw anti-Zionism? In Australia, the pro-Israel lobby is suing two University of Sydney scholars under racial discrimination laws. If they succeed, anti-Zionism will be legally classified as hate speech and essentially...

In Australia, the pro-Israel lobby is suing two University of Sydney scholars under racial discrimination laws. If they succeed, anti-Zionism will be legally classified as hate speech and essentially banned.

mondoweiss.net/2025/09/will...

#Palestine #Israel

Sacred Or Sacrificed? Kauai’s Secret Island Sparks New Battle Off-limits Kaula is a tiny island off Kauai that few have ever seen. Recognized in 2025 as a traditional cultural place, its future as a Navy range is now in question.

Ka’ula “Echoes of Kaho’olawe”
Massively militarized, US uses Kānaka Maoli sacred sites for missile training

“Oral histories, chants tie Ka’ula to ancient voyaging routes, spiritual kuleana
Access prohibited
No cultural visitation
No stewardship
No healing”

#demilitarizehawaii
@hapahi.bsky.social

ICE's Texas facility locks kids in a fortress masquerading as safety, where "care" means caged boredom and medical neglect. Bureaucrats play god with tiny lives, their empathy a cruel joke. #ImmigrantRights

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The-responsibility-of-intellectuals….
Chomsky & to this moment

Sacred Or Sacrificed? Kauai’s Secret Island Sparks New Battle Off-limits Kaula is a tiny island off Kauai that few have ever seen. Recognized in 2025 as a traditional cultural place, its future as a Navy range is now in question.

Ka’ula “Echoes of Kaho’olawe”
Massively militarized, US uses Kānaka Maoli sacred sites for missile training

“Oral histories, chants tie Ka’ula to ancient voyaging routes, spiritual kuleana
Access prohibited
No cultural visitation
No stewardship
No healing”

#demilitarizehawaii
@hapahi.bsky.social

5 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments Republican politicians and other conservatives are calling for employees, including those in higher ed, to be terminated for their social media posts about Kirk's killing.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.