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The dark history of forced starvation as a weapon of war against Indigenous peoples An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents experienced ‘starvation winter’ on the Blackfeet reservation.

Over 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing famine conditions. All 320,000 children under 5 are at risk of acute malnutrition.

Starvation as a weapon of war has a dark history, not just in the Mideast, but here in the US, according to a scholar of Indigenous history:

An update on the real #climate trouble we are in from the granddaddy of public understanding of this matter, NASA’s James Hansen.

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Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

The Washington Post engaging in "debate" on this shit is terrifying.

This shit is dark -- laundering bad-faith morons like this. Without mRNA, we don't have Covid vaccines; we don't have potential for other vaccines and cures.

They want to kill us.

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The dark history of forced starvation as a weapon of war against Indigenous peoples An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents experienced ‘starvation winter’ on the Blackfeet reservation.

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What Is America, and for Whom? A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? American society has always been divided over what this country should strive to be

This is Part II of a broader reflection on how to situate our Trumpist moment in U.S. history – sparked by a question I have been getting constantly in recent months: “Why is America suddenly so divided?”

Here’s a link to Part I; the third and final part will be out soon.

Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement

This week’s piece is long - but it comes with an added audio version (read by me, not some AI garbage) to make it more accessible, hopefully.
 
Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right:

"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments."

seems problematic.

There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.

How to talk to your friends about climate action Talking about climate change is one of the easiest and most effective climate solutions. So why are so few of us having climate conversations?

Talking about climate change is one of the most powerful things you can do.

You don’t need to be an expert, just share your experience. What you care about, what you’ve tried, what gives you hope.

Conversations spark action.

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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

How industrial forestry and climate change created Nova Scotia's wildfire problem  - Halifax Examiner Industrial forestry practices have made the forest more fire-prone.  Add climate chang, and wildfire risks are so high they lead to forest closures.

How industrial forestry and climate change created Nova Scotia’s wildfire problem

A collaborative publication between the @halifaxexaminer.ca and @nationalobserver.com

by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson and @joanbaxter.bsky.social

‘A deadly scheme’: Palestinians face indiscriminate gunfire at food sites Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony appears to show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings

Israel is using the food distribution centres for starving Palestinians as sites for deliberate mass shootings.
Any Canadians serving in the IDF must be investigated as to whether they participated in these killing squads.
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Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Street greening transformation before and after in Paris

New forest in front of Paris city hall

New “school street” with greening in central Paris

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

People are starving to death. Fucking. Starving. To. Death. And their fellow humans have the absolute gall to try and spin it like "Palestinians are starving their own children to death for a photo op."
I have no words. This is genocide. You are justifying, explaining and excusing genocide.

"While most of the world barely knew #ClimateChange was even a thing #ImperialOil was so advanced in its understanding it was actually running models on solutions, calculating how much a #CarbonPrice could specifically hurt #OilAndGas profits in Alberta & Canada and they even put a number on it."

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...

Israeli killings of Palestinians seeking food are war crimes. US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

A new report by Thomson Reuters highlights the intersection between missing Indigenous women and human trafficking in Canada.

The report says Winnipeg and Edmonton are among the most MMIWG cases, and that women swiftly go from missing to appearing on sex ads.

How the Grift Works Trump pulls off a nasty con--and maybe he gets rolled too

1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

'Those emissions are potentially fueling a feedback loop in the #Arctic: As more soil thaws, more #methane is released, leading to more thawing and more methane, and on and on.'
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The “evolutionary psychology” pervasive on the far right is pseudoscience they use to justify their worldview, including the ideas that liberal women are responsible for what they see as Western cultural deterioration and that rape of women by men is normal.

Too much for most Toronto area politicians to bear, an affront to driver liberty. No deaths is too high a price to pay for any limitations on them.

Just to show how much the anti trans side is driven by conspiracy theory bs, the FTC is investigating whether trans "influencers" are getting kickbacks from gender affirming care providers and pharma companies. This is absolutely insane.

Assal Rad @AssalRad BBC's Jeremy Bowen: Israelis don't want us to film outside the window at the devastation in Gaza...communities in the north of Gaza are flat, there's nothing left...Israel will not allow reporters, like myself, to enter Gaza to report the story and they don't want us to see it BBC 0:54 embedded video 2:32 AM • 7/29/25 • 340K Views

Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing:

“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”

Most reporting is just not up to the task of registering both that 1) the White House is *attacking* universities *as institutions* 2) the White House is working *with* universities’ boards to achieve *common goals* for remaking and weakening those institutions

Donald Trump’s tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American imports

Trump is levying more taxes on US consumers than any president in US history. And he has built a massive propaganda machine to explain to people that he's not dong what he's actually doing. www.ft.com/content/50f8...

Trump Wants U.S. Energy Dominance; Solar Is the Way to Get There Despite the administration’s push for fossil fuels, solar is faster, cheaper, more stable, and increasingly American-made. Here’s why it’s the smartest…

Despite the administration’s push for #fossilfuels, #solar is faster, cheaper, more stable, and increasingly American-made. @columbiabusiness.bsky.social Prof @gwagner.com + SolarKal's David Wei '19 explain why it’s the smartest path to true energy leadership: gwagner.com/trump-solar

Booming solar and storage are propping up Puerto Rico’s grid this summer What started as a modest pilot program is now the first virtual power plant of its kind in the region, advocates say.

“This is the clearest case, at a large scale, of residential solar and batteries keeping an electricity grid energized for everyone on the grid,” said Chris Rauscher, head of grid services and virtual power plants at Sunrun