Margaret Pinard

@margaretpinard.bsky.social

Looking for happy snark and people committed to educating themselves and others about history and science before we lose our only home

“If we don't get wealth taxes… Labour will lose the next election.” Economist Gary Stevenson tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that tackling wealth inequality is essential if Labour wants to stay in power.

Starting this summer, talking about attribution of heatwaves (5x more likely etc) should be the norm for every weather caster, journalist, academic, etc. The science is solid and it is a revealing tool to help people understand what is happening to our climate -- and why.

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 2mo ago

Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for June 24, 2026 across parts of Europe. Graphic is from Climate Central. Many areas see a change in likelihood of 5.

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those