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Always thinking-nonfiction-reading fiction writer. Reduce GHGE, tax the oligarchy, end mis/disinfo. Stop reaching across the aisle to a party that wants your annihilation. Fight with the ruthlessness of the enemy but with the moral center of a democracy.
TRUMP 2016: “Hillary is running for president in what looks like a rigged election.” TRUMP 2026: “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
That’s such an important point. There was a case here where a quadriplegic man went to the ER and was denied a special mattress and wasn’t regularly turned. He developed horrible pressure sores and ended up doing MAiD because he “didn’t want to be a burden”. That ER made him feel like a burden
Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore | RCI
'Whole story is a crying shame,' says advocate
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The 1% is going to force humanity to extinction. 83 million people are driving roughly 8,291,700,000 into extinction because of their greed/avarice. And the world’s governments are complicit because they won’t regulate the creation of a digital weapon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMj...
Could AI kill all humans within a decade? 'Godfather of AI' on the "not unreasonable" 10% chance
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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I want to vote for Progressive Democrats, not centrist, corporatist toe the line, take the legalized bribery donations, and continue to do the insider trading status quo Democrats, because the status quo Democrats brought us to where we are today, temporarily fubared, until we vote out this fascist.
no one sees me anyway@dhighl5184.bsky.social · 3mo agowww.commondreams.org/opinion/corp...
In 2025, Donald Trump tried to take over voting via Executive Order. We sued and won. Then his DOJ sued 30 states to get their full voter files. We intervened and won. DOJ is 0-21. Now, DOJ is asking the SCOTUS to permit Trump to leverage the US Postal Service to attack voting.
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What @rokhanna.bsky.social said.
Ro Khanna@rokhanna.bsky.social · 3mo ago900 billionaires are worth 22% of our GDP. That’s 3x the wealth concentration of the Gilded Age. We can tax that and get: ✅Free childcare ✅Free public college & trade schools ✅Extend Medicare to 50 with dental, vision, & hearing And much more. This is why we need a billionaire tax.
CNN ran the numbers: climate ranks 14th with voters, at 3%. In 2016, 40% called it a very big problem. In 2026, 39%. Ten years, the hottest decade ever recorded, $1.5 trillion in disaster losses and it moved one point the wrong way. That's not on them. That's on us.
What @andersaslund.bsky.social said.
Anders Åslund@andersaslund.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe mid-term elections should be about: 1. US government spokesmen from the president down must stop lying and start telling the truth. 2. The corruption and active support for corruption by the president must be stopped. 3. Trump's mindless war against Iran must be stopped with minimal cost. /1
Trump was elected to eliminate the Corporate Transparency Act so the oligarchy could keep laundering money. It required many companies to report to FinCEN who actually owns or controls them, which makes it harder for rich people, money launderers, and other bad actors to hide behind anonymous LLCs.
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhite collar crime is legal now www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
from Casey Michel: "Trump simply announced that there was a whole suite of legislation that folks no longer needed to worry about. He had created a new legal architecture by fiat," providing a road map for crooked regimes and corrupt oligarchs newrepublic.com/article/2139...
How Donald Trump Made the World Safe for Kleptocrats
The president is no stranger to corrupt self-dealing. But his second term in office has been about cutting rogues from all over the world in on the action.
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Dumbfounded. These Ocean Temps are WILD! Surface ocean temps departure from normal. The Tropical Eastern Pacific El Niño region is +8-12°F. And we still have months of warming ahead of us! We have reached this intensity 3 months ahead of any other El Niño on record. It’s in its own Universe.
The forecast El Niño peak is so high, I think I just rolled my ankle! 🤣 #elnino
Rivers across Europe are running low on water. The Rhine, Danube and Po are at historically low levels. The water crisis is being intensified by global warming driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas. www.dw.com/en/europes-r...
Europe's rivers are drying up. Can they be saved?
The Rhine and Danube have reached historic lows. Dwindling water levels are affecting shipping, agriculture and ecosystems — and raising concerns about the future of drinking water supplies.
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Parts of Franklin County are bracing for more rain and potentially severe flooding as emergency officials monitor rising water levels in and around Brookville: https://tinyurl.com/2thsnkba
Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia If this is the coolest summer we'll experience, then soon, we'll experience mass starvation. Crops won't grow in whiplash weather--massive flooding, followed by heat domes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia
South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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👇🎯 Unprecedented authoritarian crimes requiring immediate impeachment & removal happening every day, & our National Conversation™️ remains so wildly unserious & inadequate to the moment.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
Hot off the press, so to speak, the NOAA strength probabilities for August were just released. Given that the current El Nino is already "very strong," I'd say this looks conservative. www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...
Excellent substack! You should follow vibespocalypse.substack.com for an entertaining and informative reading experience.
Vibespocalypse | Nova Bligh | Substack
Nerdy notes on the end times. For all who hate what’s happening in the world but want to read about it anyway. Click to read Vibespocalypse, by Nova Bligh, a Substack publication. Launched 13 days ago...
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Nova Bligh@novabligh.bsky.social · 3mo agoThat #WidowsBay moment you think you’re just going to veg out and watch a horror comedy, but then you discover a larger allegory. #AppleTV
Holy fucking shit, indeed. We're killing our only home.
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3mo agoHoly fucking shit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
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This sets Arctic climate research back so far. What a shame. The pain is the point, however.
Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 3mo ago"The move to pull government resources from NOAA’s Arctic Report Card deals a significant blow to efforts to track the health of the Arctic, the region of the planet that has been most heavily affected by rising temperatures from rising greenhouse gases." via @eenews.bsky.social
@boomboomhiller.bsky.social gets me every time in this scene from #WidowsBay. The show made me laugh and yelp, and I loved it so much I wrote about it on my Substack. vibespocalypse.substack.com
And remember, stay calm. #WidowsBay
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Can someone explain to me why #YouTube is listing Dog Day Afternoon as a documentary? Enshittification is in full force and not even Al Pacino and John Cazale have been spared!
