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Researchers forecast what Trump’s bill will mean for patients: Debt and delayed care Delayed treatments, canceled doctor visits and skipped prescriptions: Researchers say all will increase because of the tax and spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump earlier this summ...

“There’s really no questioning the basic reality that you can’t take health care away from 10 million people without causing many preventable deaths..."

The lack of care may cause nearly 22,000 deaths annually = "The Golden Age" aka MAGA/MAHA

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First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants

"The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly terminate a $3bn program helping hundreds of communities prepare for #climate disasters and #environmental hazards is unconstitutional and should be overturned...
A class-action lawsuit would force EPA to..."

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

From 👆: "The only thing I can say is human rights don’t exist there,” Reyes Barrios told HuffPost. There were “beatings all the time,” he said. “If you didn’t eat, they would hit you. If you took a shower when it wasn’t time, they would beat you. If you spoke roughly to them, they would beat you.”

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

"There are people out there who aren't just self-interested, but actually see self-interest as a virtue. Who do not in fact want to be in a society with you. Who genuinely don't care if they harm the public in their pursuit of whatever they want because they believe they are past such concepts as "the public interest," that they have evolved beyond such things. That there are folks who think feudalism and colonialism are the future so ong as they're enabled by AI and crypto, that eugenics is a good idea that just got a bad rap, that if you're smart enough you can cheat death, and that most people are too dumb to know they're serfs."

#Technofacism billionaires like #Palantir 's #Thiel are rapidly expanding their influence within the US & UK governments. These people are a wrecking ball to democracy, human rights, empathy, & life on Earth, but most of the public & media aren't paying attention.

Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social:

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.

Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory

They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around

You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences

The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler

They’d gladly keep you there, in the dark, while they profit from your silence. Throw the covers off. Shine a bright light. Let your voice be heard.”
― Lawrence Nault

U.S. Climate Alliance on EPA’s Climate Denial and Science Office Closure: “Americans Deserve the Truth” | U.S. Climate Alliance Alliance co-chairs California Governor Gavin Newsom and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers issued a statement in response to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions to shutter its scientific res...

The climate crisis is real & the science is well-established. The effects are harming people and threatening the natural world that sustains us. Now the federal government is using discredited claims to undermine the nation’s ability to respond – putting lives and livelihoods at risk. bit.ly/3U607f6

Some young people planning fewer or no kids because of climate change Collin Pearsall has friends who have started having children. But he has chosen a different path—due, in large part, to climate change.

And also this: phys.org/news/2024-03...

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.

It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.

Some young people planning fewer or no kids because of climate change Collin Pearsall has friends who have started having children. But he has chosen a different path—due, in large part, to climate change.

It seems irresponsible in 2025 to write an article like this☝️ about fertility choices without explicitly including how the escalating #climatecrisis, & what science tells us is coming, is affecting many people's decisions about having babies.

Do better please, @npr.org.

Hopeful - but why think anything from the International Court of Justice will be enforced? Think of their rulings to stop the genocide in Gaza, yet it has *accelerated*.

International rule of law seems dead, though I'd love to be proven wrong. Meanwhile, we, the people, are our own best hope.

For decades, schools have focused on preparing people to function in the economy – a man-made construct that we could change if we wanted to – rather than teaching them how to understand, respect & protect the natural world we depend on.

So here we are with hardly any protection of the Web of Life.

For decades, schools have focused on preparing people to function in the economy – a man-made construct that we could change if we wanted to – rather than teaching them how to understand, respect & protect the natural world we depend on.

So here we are with hardly any protection of the Web of Life.

“Active hope is not wishful thinking.
...or waiting to be rescued by some savior.
#ActiveHope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time.
We’ve come a long way & are here to play our part."

#JoannaMacy RIP

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.”

RIP, Joanna R. Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

“Active hope is not wishful thinking.
...or waiting to be rescued by some savior.
#ActiveHope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time.
We’ve come a long way & are here to play our part."

#JoannaMacy RIP

Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural Barcelona: 286, 54 Paris: 235, 138 London: 171, 92 Rome: 164, 118 Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given) Athens: 96, 79 Budapest: 47, 24 Zagreb: 31, 25 Lisbon: 21, 71 Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given) Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

Yes climate change is already killing people

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In face of extreme weather, Healey proposes ‘biggest ever’ investment in climate-readiness for Mass. - The Boston Globe The $3 billion "Mass Ready Act" would be a historic investment in climate-readiness, state officials say. Advocates are cheering — but would like even more.

What it looks like when a (state) government is not in complete denial of the escalating #climatechaos underway. More #extremeweather is coming. We're in the FO stage of #FAFO.

"The consolidation of a US reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and natsec hawks makes a lot of sense in the context of a existential battle to control global systems of energy, innovation + production"
– @triofrancos.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Red sign, which says in large letters: WRONG WAY.

For the zillionth time, Planet Earth yells at humanity,

"YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!
Stop burning oil/coal/gas for energy!
Cut your energy demands!
Stop destroying nature, your lifeline!"

Writers group accuses New York Times of being 'accomplice to the genocide in Gaza'

#new-york-times #genocide #accomplice #gaza #israel

A new dossier released by media workers has accused The New York Times of systemic pro-Israel & anti-Palestinian bias, & alleged that nearly 2 dozen of its top journalists, editors and executives have extensive ties to pro-Israel lobbying groups.

Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza The head of Mossad claimed Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya have expressed openness.

A truly outrageous and sickening request from the Netanyahu government.

The U.S. should not be complicit in or use ANY governmental, American taxpayer resources to aid and abet what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians from Gaza. 

We cannot stand for this.

What the news isn't telling you about the US floods:

In face of extreme weather, Healey proposes ‘biggest ever’ investment in climate-readiness for Mass. - The Boston Globe The $3 billion "Mass Ready Act" would be a historic investment in climate-readiness, state officials say. Advocates are cheering — but would like even more.

What it looks like when a (state) government is not in complete denial of the escalating #climatechaos underway. More #extremeweather is coming. We're in the FO stage of #FAFO.