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At least AI wasn’t such a thing during Biden, they’re gonna let this 80 year old simmer his brain in slop the next two years bsky.app/profile/osin...
OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 2d ago🇺🇸⚡️ Today, Trump shared an AI-generated image depicting himself alongside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
In 1966, a British scientist warned Shell that burning fossil fuels was likely causing climate change. Shell's response? Keep it secret—then fund climate denial instead. Read DeSmog's new investigation here: buff.ly/WoS1Cav
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…
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Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to contain historic fires that have burned hundreds of thousands of acres and forced more than 300,000 people from their homes, ahead of yet another heat wave in a punishing summer for the continent.
Record-breaking fires tear through France and Spain ahead of another heat dome
A wildfire the size of Philadelphia is pushing near the French city of Bordeaux, where temperatures could soar into triple digits in the coming days.
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444/ Houthi's imposing selective embargos against Saudi oil through the Red Sea "China has held direct talks with Yemen’s Houthis to secure safe passage for Chinese oil tankers through the Red Sea." www.reuters.com/world/china/...
China in touch with Yemen's Houthis to allow ships to sail through Red Sea, sources say
China has held direct talks with Yemen's Houthi movement to enable its tankers to sail through the southern Red Sea without being attacked after the Iran-aligned militia pledged to prevent access to S...
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www.latimes.com/california/s... “Wets” and “tonks,” referring to the sound of a smashed skull
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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We would need an area the size of Mexico to sequester all the necessary CO2: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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'Asked in January why Williams was leaving the governor’s office, spokesperson Izzy Gardon wrote the aide had “earned his freedom :)” after more than a decade working for Newsom.' calmatters.org/environment/...
Newsom appointee under fire for lobbying ties to toxic waste industry
Environmental groups say Rhys Williams' new job at a lobbying firm undermines his impartiality on California's waste oversight board
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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine examines the current state of climate attribution science “at a moment of accelerating impacts and heightened societal attention.” Bookmark this one.
Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts
Read chapter Front Matter: Decades of data and research indicate that human-caused climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of several types...
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The National Academy of Sciences is on Trump’s radar because they are in his way." from Benjamin Santer in a new essay on "Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego."
American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences
Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego.
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People cluster in tiny slivers of shade at LA Live on a 90 degree day.
If you're locked in just right....The Odyssey will have you balling
NEW @us.theguardian.com investigation into allegations that Amazon pushed smaller companies into raising prices: “They’d say, ‘You need to go to Target. You need to go talk to Walmart to get them to raise their price.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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NEW: Taylor Farms is a big player in conservative politics. The company donated $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025 and its CEO has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates. It's also spent $810,000 on anti-regulatory lobbying since 2025
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Just watched a kid flip through slop videos at a diner in rural America, after I read a slop column in the local paper. Bleak experience, 0/100
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
NEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...
They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.
A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.
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NEW: Yusef Robb, a top advisor to Mayor Karen Bass, has been doing crisis PR for Lineage, the operator of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned last month. lamaterial.com/p/bass-advis...
One of Mayor Bass’ Top Advisors Is Helping Lineage Do Crisis P.R.
Yusef Robb, a close but informal advisor to the mayor, has been doing communications consulting work for the operator of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned last month.
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🔴#MozambiqueExosed: New video online youtube.com/shorts/tKaDa... In partnership with @evidentmedia.org @observateurs.france24.com @papertrailmedia.de @zdfde.bsky.social @source-material.org
Unpublished UN report implicates energy workers and Mozambique soldiers
YouTube video by Evident Media
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While President Trump lusts for Greenland, Svalbard, Norway is the other melting Arctic hot spot. So this Earth Day, we took a 9-day voyage aboard an ice ship and had our minds blown by the scenery, the speed of The Big Melt and real-time adaptation of bears and men. www.cnn.com/videos/title...
Arctic disappearing | CNN
CNN’s Bill Weir joins scientists in the rapidly warming Arctic, where sea ice is record-low, glaciers are shrinking and wildlife is shifting. Meanwhile, global politics threaten the research needed mo...
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The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
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Society will continue metabolizing mass death and suffering. Moral and knowledge-based appeals for climate action are dead ends: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Germany Recorded 5,000 Excess Deaths in Late-June Heat Wave
Germany recorded more than 5,000 excess deaths during the late-June heat wave, according to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office.
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What percentage of Graham Platner's recruitment was because his last name sounds liked Platinum