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Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) 🛠️🧪
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
December 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) 🛠️🧪
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
If you think it's difficult organizing and being in community with other socialists, you should try having a conversation with academics. They will literally manufacture elaborate reasons to argue with you for no reason, even when you agree on a given topic.
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you think it's difficult organizing and being in community with other socialists, you should try having a conversation with academics. They will literally manufacture elaborate reasons to argue with you for no reason, even when you agree on a given topic.
Yes, please. 🙏
China's foreign ministry said the sanctioned firms and individuals would have their assets within China frozen.
China is going after US defense firms and execs over weapons sales to Taiwan — and Palmer Luckey's on the list
China's foreign ministry said the sanctioned firms and individuals would have their assets within China frozen.
www.businessinsider.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yes, please. 🙏
When even the financial press is like, "Corporations are fucking you over in too many ways to count."
America’s food market is rigged. Look who’s getting rich while many of us struggle.
Powerful “Big Ag” — not small farmers and ranchers or even tariffs — is the root cause of the food-affordability crisis.
www.marketwatch.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When even the financial press is like, "Corporations are fucking you over in too many ways to count."
"By avoiding traditional acquisitions, tech companies have been able to skirt some level of antitrust scrutiny and quickly close deals to bring in the people they most covet."
Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep 'fiction of competition alive,' analyst says
Groq's description of its Nvidia deal as a "non-exclusive licensing agreement" mimics other recent big AI transactions orchestrated by U.S. tech giants.
www.cnbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"By avoiding traditional acquisitions, tech companies have been able to skirt some level of antitrust scrutiny and quickly close deals to bring in the people they most covet."
The story of the last 60 years is that center destroyed and displaced the left, while making life so unbearable for decades that fascists returned to power. Now, the center has no answer, except to collaborate with Nazis, while the left is unorganized, fractured, and dismantled. Things are bleak.
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The story of the last 60 years is that center destroyed and displaced the left, while making life so unbearable for decades that fascists returned to power. Now, the center has no answer, except to collaborate with Nazis, while the left is unorganized, fractured, and dismantled. Things are bleak.
This is terrifying. A 75% approval rating for a fascist regime with 92% support coming from 18-29 year olds. Fascism is ascendent globally and being normalized by competent, presentable Nazis making ultranationalist appeals.
Takaichi Cabinet Records Exceptional Youth Support in Latest Poll | JAPAN Forward
Fresh polling reveals how the Takaichi Cabinet rebuilt support across generations and regions after years of political fragmentation and youth disengagement.
japan-forward.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is terrifying. A 75% approval rating for a fascist regime with 92% support coming from 18-29 year olds. Fascism is ascendent globally and being normalized by competent, presentable Nazis making ultranationalist appeals.
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Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
US Bombs Nigeria on Christmas Day in Trump’s Latest Military Escalation
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
truthout.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
People in the US support murder, atrocities, and mass surveillance in a multitude of ways. One of them is by owning stock in Palantir, despite the fact that it's among the most evil corporations in the world, just because the number keeps going up.
Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough
The stock, which made its market debut in 2020, is an indisputable star of the retail investing world.
www.cnbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
People in the US support murder, atrocities, and mass surveillance in a multitude of ways. One of them is by owning stock in Palantir, despite the fact that it's among the most evil corporations in the world, just because the number keeps going up.
Politicians--especially Dems--present these issues as being mutually exclusive and insist that we can only talk about one thing at a time instead of building the linkages between them in the public consciousness. All of these problems are interconnected and they all lead back to capitalism.
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Politicians--especially Dems--present these issues as being mutually exclusive and insist that we can only talk about one thing at a time instead of building the linkages between them in the public consciousness. All of these problems are interconnected and they all lead back to capitalism.
If the US implemented universal healthcare tomorrow and didn't destroy the private insurance industry and abolish capitalism, it would only be a matter of time before corporations and billionaires dismantled the public healthcare system and brought us back to where we are now.
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If the US implemented universal healthcare tomorrow and didn't destroy the private insurance industry and abolish capitalism, it would only be a matter of time before corporations and billionaires dismantled the public healthcare system and brought us back to where we are now.
The ruling class says that things are "hard" when they don't want to do anything about an issue. They say things are "complicated" when they want to feed you bullshit about why they won't do it.
Universal healthcare is easy. The rest of the world has already figured it out.
Universal healthcare is easy. The rest of the world has already figured it out.
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The ruling class says that things are "hard" when they don't want to do anything about an issue. They say things are "complicated" when they want to feed you bullshit about why they won't do it.
Universal healthcare is easy. The rest of the world has already figured it out.
Universal healthcare is easy. The rest of the world has already figured it out.
Billionaires are surrounded by sycophants who do nothing but kiss their ass all day long, so when they get on social media and are forced to interact with normal people, they don't understand why everyone hates their fucking guts.
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Billionaires are surrounded by sycophants who do nothing but kiss their ass all day long, so when they get on social media and are forced to interact with normal people, they don't understand why everyone hates their fucking guts.
Liberals only care about the Epstein Files insofar as they can use it as a political football. The contents are so damning that they would be demanding far more if it actually bothered them.
Or, maybe they're just accustomed to infanticide after supporting a policy of murdering babies under Biden.
Or, maybe they're just accustomed to infanticide after supporting a policy of murdering babies under Biden.
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Liberals only care about the Epstein Files insofar as they can use it as a political football. The contents are so damning that they would be demanding far more if it actually bothered them.
Or, maybe they're just accustomed to infanticide after supporting a policy of murdering babies under Biden.
Or, maybe they're just accustomed to infanticide after supporting a policy of murdering babies under Biden.
The two party system in a nutshell. One worked for Reagan and ran George HW Bush's campaign, while the other was Bill Clinton's campaign strategist and worked for the DNC. They've been married since 1993.
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The two party system in a nutshell. One worked for Reagan and ran George HW Bush's campaign, while the other was Bill Clinton's campaign strategist and worked for the DNC. They've been married since 1993.
The Epstein Files are proof that people with more money than god do the most evil shit in the world just because they're bored. Having that much more wealth and power than everyone else breeds psychopathy. Billionaires should not exist.
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The Epstein Files are proof that people with more money than god do the most evil shit in the world just because they're bored. Having that much more wealth and power than everyone else breeds psychopathy. Billionaires should not exist.
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Going into 2026 like
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Going into 2026 like
No matter how horrible you think rich people are, in reality they are considerably worse.
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No matter how horrible you think rich people are, in reality they are considerably worse.
Time to revolt.
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January
The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January.
www.cnbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Time to revolt.
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
"The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday."
Considering that the "American system" itself brought us to this point, why is anyone surprised that a huge chunk of the population considers this to be a compelling argument? No one should have any faith in the system, or this country's institutions--including the media and the presidency. None.
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Considering that the "American system" itself brought us to this point, why is anyone surprised that a huge chunk of the population considers this to be a compelling argument? No one should have any faith in the system, or this country's institutions--including the media and the presidency. None.
It's maddening that liberals are still trying to fight fascism with rhetoric, moral appeals, claims of hypocrisy, mockery, and by working within the system. The fascists don't care. They're not playing your political games anymore. They control the system and they're actively using it to crush you.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's maddening that liberals are still trying to fight fascism with rhetoric, moral appeals, claims of hypocrisy, mockery, and by working within the system. The fascists don't care. They're not playing your political games anymore. They control the system and they're actively using it to crush you.
Higher education was already collapsing as a result of neoliberal influence and an overreliance on donor money. The federal funding cuts, attacks on student protesters, and transformation of universities into culture war battlegrounds have accelerated the process.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Higher education was already collapsing as a result of neoliberal influence and an overreliance on donor money. The federal funding cuts, attacks on student protesters, and transformation of universities into culture war battlegrounds have accelerated the process.
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Finally I get to update what I yell at men I don’t like
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Finally I get to update what I yell at men I don’t like
Critics note that there's not enough electricity in the US to power all the data centers that are being built and that AI is raising energy prices. People need to think bigger and understand that we're moving toward a future where Big Tech doesn't just own power plants, but controls the entire grid.
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Critics note that there's not enough electricity in the US to power all the data centers that are being built and that AI is raising energy prices. People need to think bigger and understand that we're moving toward a future where Big Tech doesn't just own power plants, but controls the entire grid.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM