Diogenes’ Flashlight

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

The Truth has been having a rough year.

Disney heiress says any billionaire who can’t manage to share their wealth is 'kind of a sociopath' | Fortune Abigail Disney previously said the need to tax rich people like her “has never been so dire.”

Once again. Abigail is the best!

The best thing I have heard in a while is when I heard someone refer to Stephen Miller as Pee Wee German.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

False equivalency journalism is masking the truth that the right wing is behind rising political violence nationally and globally - NPI's Cascadia Advocate Perhaps afraid to antagonize Donald Trump or his enablers, or not wanting to be attacked by right wing media, many journalists are choosing not to call out who and what is responsible for an increase ...

Credit where credit is due.

Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?

Tesla engineer accuses Elon Musk of betraying Tesla’s mission in exit letter A long-time Tesla engineer announced his departure from the company, citing Elon Musk as the primary reason for quitting. In...

We certainly feel betrayed.

Really chilling to watch Libs of Tiktok become the governing strategy of the Republican Party

Worker safety at the Hyundai plant was abysmal, but instead of sending OSHA, the government sent ICE. Now, no one will report safety issues at factories. 😡

“In our dark times, as we face a frontal assault on science, two revered scientists—Drs. Mann and Hotez—exemplify the warriors courageously speaking truth to power despite serious attacks.”―Eric Topol, author of Deep Medicine

Thanks @erictopol.bsky.social for the kind praise for #ScienceUnderSiege!

Due out 9/9, by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, courtesy of #publicaffairs/@hachettelibrary.bsky.social/ #BasicBooks / @scribepub.bsky.social
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Prager U is utter 🐂💩!

Inside the right-wing YouTube empire that's quietly turning millennials into conservatives The viral videos from Dennis Prager's "university" have clocked more than 1 billion views.

At PragerU, police are not biased against black men, and man-made climate change is debatable.

You’ll find takes on animal rights (against), the gender wage gap (doesn’t exist), and why the South turned Republican (nothing to do with race).

From 2018:

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population (Common Dreams) Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vag...

🤑☣️47☢️🤑 Of course it does... l.smartnews.com/p-63IWyU4E/y... #DCOccupation #NationalGuard #racism #wasteandabuseofpower #homelessness

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors. One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice.

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"The Myth of the Useless Humanist" vs "Humanities myths, busted" a letter to colleagues

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop

Outside Dupont north metro

They are willfully blind to their own hypocrisy.

Robespierre where are you?

Oh my God

Everything she wrote is worth the time to read!👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Moving to a walkable city can add more than 1,000 steps to your day: Study People who moved to cities with better walkability logged about 1,100 more steps per day and were nearly twice as likely to meet exercise goals, a study said.

When people moved from a low to high walkability city the chance that they met physical activity guidelines rose from 22% to 43%.

Improving zoning and pedestrian/biking/transit infrastructure has a massive health benefit to the residents of a city.

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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Gavin’s gesture clearly says, “ here is a boundary”. While the orange dipshit’s gesture is more like, “you have a spot of Ukrainian blood on your tie there”.

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”