🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution. The El Paso facility’s power plant could emit as much planet-warming carbon dioxide in a year as 360,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles over the same period. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution
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Gonna keep beating this like a drum: prediction markets are the most dangerous, societally detrimental financial instrument ever introduced and if we don’t do something about them right now it’s going to cause far more destruction than you can imagine.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h agoThese betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV hosts Vladimir Solovyov and Dimitri Simes mocked and threatened America and Europe, exclaiming that Donald Trump and other Western leaders remain alive solely at Russia's discretion. Also, the weather — and robot commercials. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2T...
Vladimir Solovyov and Dimitri Simes mock and threaten America and Europe
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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The problem is, even if there is a process, it relies on people being transparent and the senate enforcing the rules. And that is clearly not going to happen in this regime.
"Under the Electoral Act, the actual duty of the elector is to attend a polling place, have their name marked off the certified list, receive a ballot paper and take it to an individual voting booth, mark it, fold the ballot paper and place it in the ballot box." www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Pu...
Compulsory voting in Australia
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Did you know in Wales it's illegal for election candidates to lie, at the same time they created a recall system that allows voters to kick out crooked politicians? Guess who wouldn't last there?
18/ Abbott’s own proclamation said Texas’s self defense laws “cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive DA.” Read that again. The governor said, in writing, that a jury’s verdict doesn’t count if the state disagrees with it. cbsnews.com/news/daniel-perry-pardoned-by-texas-governor-paroles-board
Texas governor pardons Daniel Perry, convicted of shooting and killing protester in 2020
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued his pardon after the unanimous recommendation by the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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If you kept POWs in these conditions, it would be a war crime. And they are treating children like this.
Snagz@snagzwontdie.bsky.social · 2d agoFuck ICE, and GEO Group (they run these warehouses that turned into death camps). This IS NOT potable water, by any stretch. Even if I had captives to interrogate (in the army) - no way I would give them that crap. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Nothing says climate change desperation like having your navy blow up rocks in the Danube river.
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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Colorado River. Humans are the most selfish, ignorant & destructive species on earth. If you have children/grandchildren, you might want to get engaged & be proactive in working with your government officials to save what is left of our natural resources. They will thank you ~
Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident
Salt Lake City hit a milestone this month no one was hoping to celebrate: a record-breaking 109-degree day. Now, weeks later, Utah is bracing for another round of triple-digit temps as extreme heat settles over the state for a third straight weekend.
Utah is headed for another triple-digit weekend. Here’s how hot it could get.
Forecasters say the state is in for another round of extreme heat — with little relief expected after sunset.
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Remember, it’s not just us… South Korea records highest-ever temperature of 41.4 C as heatwave intensifies www.reuters.com/business/env...
South Korea records highest-ever temperature of 41.4 C as heatwave intensifies
South Korea recorded its highest temperature on Friday since modern weather observations began, as a prolonged heatwave pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for a th...
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"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach us, and not one of those miles goes through the straits of Hormuz." From Bill McKibben's recent TED talk, worth a few minutes. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
State regulators are preventing insurers from canceling policies for evacuees who can't access their homes or pay bills. https://mrf.lu/25_jl
