Dylan Clark
@drdylanclark.bsky.social
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"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Stunning new research: If the world's entire population had emitted between 1990 and 2020 as much carbon as the world's richest 0.1%, average global temperatures would have soared nearly 54°F. #inequality #wealth
www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...
www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...
Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief
Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Stunning new research: If the world's entire population had emitted between 1990 and 2020 as much carbon as the world's richest 0.1%, average global temperatures would have soared nearly 54°F. #inequality #wealth
www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...
www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...
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In Indian-ruled Kashmir, homes allegedly linked to anti-India rebels have become targets, leaving innocent family members to pick up the pieces.
After Pahalgam, India Has a New Kashmir Strategy: Collective Punishment
In Indian-ruled Kashmir, homes allegedly linked to anti-India rebels have become targets, leaving innocent family members to pick up the pieces.
buff.ly
May 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In Indian-ruled Kashmir, homes allegedly linked to anti-India rebels have become targets, leaving innocent family members to pick up the pieces.
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There is a way that this could be — and in fact should be— framed where this is not about political victories but human rights, the rule of law and what is just in America. When will we learn to stop treating democratic crises as mere horse race politics?
JUST IN: The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now, handing the White House a significant victory.
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely on a sweepin...
www.cnn.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
There is a way that this could be — and in fact should be— framed where this is not about political victories but human rights, the rule of law and what is just in America. When will we learn to stop treating democratic crises as mere horse race politics?
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In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients.
By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.
Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.
By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.
Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.
March 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients.
By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.
Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.
By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.
Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.
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That's the way I've been characterizing the Trump administration from the beginning. Not complicated, not difficult to understand. They are militantly pro-climate change.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The E.P.A. vs. the Environment
With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.
www.newyorker.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
That's the way I've been characterizing the Trump administration from the beginning. Not complicated, not difficult to understand. They are militantly pro-climate change.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
March 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
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You can always count on @aoc.bsky.social to bring it! "There's a fundamental math problem here. There is a constant reiteration of waste, fraud, and abuse."
People are NOT disposable!
People are NOT disposable!
February 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
You can always count on @aoc.bsky.social to bring it! "There's a fundamental math problem here. There is a constant reiteration of waste, fraud, and abuse."
People are NOT disposable!
People are NOT disposable!
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Kudos to @wired.com for shining a scathing light on Silicon Valley's hostile takeover of the federal government. I subscribed. You should, too.
As we near the end of a very long week, this is maybe a useful way to process Elon Musk’s ongoing takeover of key parts of the US government www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Kudos to @wired.com for shining a scathing light on Silicon Valley's hostile takeover of the federal government. I subscribed. You should, too.
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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In our book Calling Bullshit, we suggest that if something seems too good or too bad to be true, it probably is.
This post definitely seems too bad to be true.
We also teach Fermi estimation, which I thought would reveal an order of magnitude error.
But no—it’s absolutely correct.
This post definitely seems too bad to be true.
We also teach Fermi estimation, which I thought would reveal an order of magnitude error.
But no—it’s absolutely correct.
December 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM
In our book Calling Bullshit, we suggest that if something seems too good or too bad to be true, it probably is.
This post definitely seems too bad to be true.
We also teach Fermi estimation, which I thought would reveal an order of magnitude error.
But no—it’s absolutely correct.
This post definitely seems too bad to be true.
We also teach Fermi estimation, which I thought would reveal an order of magnitude error.
But no—it’s absolutely correct.
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Billionnaires stole your living.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
December 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Billionnaires stole your living.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
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New York State is the twelfth-largest economy on earth, and now it's going to demand that Big Oil pay for the climate damages it has caused. This is how the tobacco industry met its match
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
A (successful) test of the state-by-state approach!
A day-after-Christmas present for the planet from Albany, New York
billmckibben.substack.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:59 PM
New York State is the twelfth-largest economy on earth, and now it's going to demand that Big Oil pay for the climate damages it has caused. This is how the tobacco industry met its match
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
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If we are concerned about the spread of conspiracy theories, we should realize that debunking is a distraction, a Whac-A-Mole game for fact-checkers and information watchdogs. Instead, we should address the dearth of political vision on which conspiracism feeds.
Bad Information - Boston Review
We should blame conspiracy theories like QAnon on politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.
www.bostonreview.net
December 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
If we are concerned about the spread of conspiracy theories, we should realize that debunking is a distraction, a Whac-A-Mole game for fact-checkers and information watchdogs. Instead, we should address the dearth of political vision on which conspiracism feeds.
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“They know people will get hurt. It’s incredibly upsetting. The impact of injuries & death involving motor vehicles costs immense wealth, property, time & emotion. And to take deliberate steps to INCREASE the risk? There are no words.”
There are plenty of words. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
There are plenty of words. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows
In preparation for plan, Ontario has indemnified itself from liability if cyclists are killed on streets that once had bike lanes
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:08 AM
“They know people will get hurt. It’s incredibly upsetting. The impact of injuries & death involving motor vehicles costs immense wealth, property, time & emotion. And to take deliberate steps to INCREASE the risk? There are no words.”
There are plenty of words. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
There are plenty of words. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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"One recent real estate industry survey found more than 80 percent of Americans support capping rents. Another poll showed 70 percent of swing state voters were more likely to vote for candidates who backed rent controls.”
“It’s not difficult to understand why a struggling tenant might have opted to stay in their (too-expensive) home on election day.” New online: Charlie Dulik on the election as “tenant dealignment.”
The Renters’ Republic | Charlie Dulik
In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward he...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:25 PM
"One recent real estate industry survey found more than 80 percent of Americans support capping rents. Another poll showed 70 percent of swing state voters were more likely to vote for candidates who backed rent controls.”
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READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.”
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.”
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Evidence of leadership.
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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Totally frightening. All the factors modelers can come up with explain only a small fraction of the anomaly. If this keeps up we're screweder than we thought.
2023 was unexpectedly hot, and many climate scientists are working to understand why.
In my latest article at NASA's Earth Observatory, I spoke to @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social about recent warmth and possible contributors. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15358...
In my latest article at NASA's Earth Observatory, I spoke to @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social about recent warmth and possible contributors. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15358...
Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024
Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Totally frightening. All the factors modelers can come up with explain only a small fraction of the anomaly. If this keeps up we're screweder than we thought.
Alternate headline: Rapist President Nominates Two Rapists
Don’t normalize this presidency for one damn minute #NotNormal, #DontNotmalize
Don’t normalize this presidency for one damn minute #NotNormal, #DontNotmalize
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Alternate headline: Rapist President Nominates Two Rapists
Don’t normalize this presidency for one damn minute #NotNormal, #DontNotmalize
Don’t normalize this presidency for one damn minute #NotNormal, #DontNotmalize
If corporations begin to shift to Bluesky, the death of X will be swift indeed.
November 14, 2024 at 1:41 PM
If corporations begin to shift to Bluesky, the death of X will be swift indeed.