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jswatz.bsky.social
I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.
January 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
For no reason whatsoever, I’m reminding you that before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that Iraq’s oil revenue would fund everything.

www.meforum.org/middle-east-...
On March 27, 2003, for example, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraq’s oil revenues could bring between US$50 and $100 billion within two or three years following the country’s liberation. “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” he said.
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.
January 1, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
“When’s the next nationwide protest?” You might be asking yourself.

Here’s a big one that’s happening in less than a month!

Jan 20th. Free America Walkout. Women’s March, 50501, & More. Be There.
December 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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bryangodbe.bsky.social
Science has made one thing clear: global heating is behind today’s extreme weather. That greenhouse gas emissions warmed the planet was understood. What can now be shown is that warming produces record heatwaves & more violent storms with increasing frequency.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of gl...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
leapingotter.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Funding Censorship and Support Diverse Artists
This is about who gets to exist in public spaces and whose stories get to be told on America's stage.  Drag performers have been attacked directly, resulting in bomb threats, armed protests, and...
sign.moveon.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
These are the places where American students learn about the world. These cuts are one sign — I know there are others — of a country that is shrinking away.
www.dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee...
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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bryangodbe.bsky.social
Oct 2024 - Sep 2025, temps across the Arctic were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US NOAA said, with the last 10 years being the 10 warmest on record. The Arctic is heating up as much as 4x the global average, due to burning of fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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freetailed.bsky.social
this is terrifying 👀
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
December 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp made billions of dollars last year from Chinese ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. www.reuters.com/investigation...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to minimize "revenue impact" caused by cracking down on the scams.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis

Right now we’re just doing oil piracy

open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
leapingotter.bsky.social
Criminal
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
leapingotter.bsky.social
Extreme Republicans in Congress just launched a sham investigation into the Center for Biological Diversity. But the real corruption they should be investigating is Twin Metals and its Chilean parent company. Take Action > act.biologicaldiversity.org/o5VEUgY5pk6p...
The Center for Biological Diversity is Under Attack
This “investigation” doesn’t name a single unlawful act, because there are none. The real corruption they should be investigating is Twin Metals and its Chilean parent company, Antofagasta plc.
act.biologicaldiversity.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Coincidence?
(via #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly)
6 THE PRESS !ere is evidence that individuals and organized groups particularly in the USA, who have historically been climate deniers or policy sceptics, have turned their attention to the COVID- 19 crisis and found a voice in the (right- leaning) media. — James Painter, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, June 2020 The press, as we have already seen, has engaged in widespread attacks on both science and scientists. Beyond the usual suspects— Fox News, the rest of the Murdoch media empire, and other conservative media— even mainstream outlets like the New York Times have in recent years miscommunicated the science behind climate change and COVID. Onetime conservative turned progressive critic John Cole runs a very popular satirical Twitter account known as the “New York Times Pitchbot.” He uses the account to satirize the often risible commentaries that appear these days in the New York Times, mocking the “Gray Lady” with op- ed titles that he imagines could, despite their absurdity and audacity, nonetheless #nd their way onto today’s New York Times editorial pages.1
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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giantwhispers.bsky.social
Wondering why "anti-drug" Trump would pardon the former Honduran President despite him serving a 45 year prison term for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. (how much is that in small boats 🤔?) It all comes back to Trump's big tech donors and defending their technofascist "Network State."
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Dec 1
Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/
How President Trump Can Crush Socialism and Save a Freedom City in Honduras
In the impoverished nation of Honduras, there are geopolitical developments afoot that have major implications for U.S. policy and the future of freedom throughout the world.
www.stonecoldtruth.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
“To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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teslatakedownla.bsky.social
Tesla Board and Shareholders… THIS is your trillion-dollar man? 😂

This is a foul-smelling puddle vaguely resembling a tech executive.

Good luck with your investment.
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · Nov 24
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM