@noahjgordon.bsky.social nails it: the market alone isn’t enough, we need states to close out fossil fuels, fully green industry, and ensure a stable climate. www.ft.com/content/1aec...

The global green transition won’t be driven by self-interest alone

States must actively tilt the playing field on renewable energy too

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🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Ceasefire is one word, without a hyphen as a noun or adjective. The verb form is cease fire. Do not refer to ceasefires as peace deals or peace agreements, as that would imply a lasting resolution to the conflicts.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Matthew Wollenweber@mjw.bsky.social · last wk.

California billionaires buy Louisiana politicians to pocket our tax dollars as profit

This ideology has been far more damaging to the country than anything the DSA is proposing www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"Feels like" hell outside

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza (Gift Article)

Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only benefit.

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Three postdoctoral positions available on a fantastic-looking project (based in Lyon), looking at the history of the earth sciences in the Caucasus and central Asia, 1880 to 2000: larhra.fr/programmes-e...

ENVIROSHIFT - Shifting perspectives on environmental change: A History of the Earth Sciences in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1880-2000 - LARHRA

ERC Strating Grant Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101222577) RECRUITEMENT Applications are now open ENVIROSHIFT ...

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I really urge people to watch and sit with this youtu.be/4jbltwofPr0

Documentary: Return to Gaza

YouTube video by Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA

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My “Our planes are safe after a passenger nearly sucked out window” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Ryanair says its planes are safe after passenger nearly sucked out window

Artists in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City paint a mural of Lamine Yamal (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP via Getty Images)

New Titanic remake looks good

“I guess I really have a three-part question in response to the paper…”

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time keeping is my passion.

I can’t explain it but the pub I’m at in London softly boos every time Trump comes on screen in the most British way possible

They should put Mikel Merino in early so he has more than 3 minutes to score the winning goal

I know we all know about this but can you honestly imagine playing a World Cup match against a man who bathed you as a baby?

kottke.org@kottke.org · 3w ago

Contender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]

They should try telling them this is the 3rd place game so we get some goals

Hate feeling like an old man but it drives me crazy that you essentially can’t go to a museum these days without accidentally featuring in a wannabe influencer’s posed photoshoots

This was an especially good game on the Le Monde liveblog which posts this GIF after every goal

This is a government centered on, and gleefully advocating for, predation in all its forms

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction. But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, Americans could still kill, trap and harass them."

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Just in time for the final on Sunday, have a read of our latest blog post about the history of 'addictive sponsorship' (tobacco/alcohol/gambling) at the World Cup: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/all-the...

‘All the World’s a (Sales) Pitch’: A History of Addictive Sponsorship at the World Cup - Kicking The Habit

Just before the start of this year’s FIFA World Cup, Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé made headlines for objecting to the use of his likeness by the French

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Weekend listening: Ep 2 of CONTINENTAL SHIFT features @triofrancos.bsky.social and Emily Iona-Stewart of @globalwitness.org in an incredibly insightful conversation on the politics of critical minerals—why the 'rush', who it serves, and where next www.break-down.org/episode-2-a-...

Episode 2: A (Not So) New Gold Rush

A four-part series on the global rush for critical minerals and what it means for the North American continent and beyond.

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So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

This is definitely the expression one makes when discovered by humans after living in secrecy for the entire existence of your species. "Well, fuck."

Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey babe, wake up. A new monkey just dropped.

If anyone was at (or missed!) the “early career publishing” panel #ESHS-HSS this morning and wants to follow up, I’m always happy to answer questions about the topic

And the one on mineral frontiers at least looks interesting!

Sarah Pickman@sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nice to see friends’ books on the tables! #eshs-hss