I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
Eamon Kircher-Allen
@eamonka.bsky.social
Writer and researcher. Editor-in-chief @CenturyIntl. Owner and head teacher at the San Francisco Capoeira Academy.🌁🌉🍃🏔️🌃 🚴🏻🤸
gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas
Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
A vessel speeding through the water so fast it crushes endangered whales against its prow, a developer clearcutting a forest and killing the endangered bats who live there — these deaths may no longer be considered illegal if the Trump administration gets its way. Please help us fight back ⬇️
Give Now to Save the Wild
Join the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Several people have commented that they are glad I am hopeful. But I wouldn’t describe my feeling as hope. It’s that I believe in appreciate the moment and what we have even though is changing fast . substack.com/@eamonka/not...
Spiritually Reckoning with Climate Change in the Sierra, Part One
It’s been a long, hot summer.
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Six years ago today. Photo taken at high noon. Atmospheric CO2 then: 411.75 ppm Atmospheric CO2 today: 426.57 ppm Got to keep driving while the world burns down because of driving. #OrangeSkyDay
Same AI. Same productivity gains. Very different outcomes for workers. The difference is who owns it. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-lab-grown-diamonds-broke-the
Never forgive never forget
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...
July was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNN
July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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When I wrote about the Iran war’s economic distortions back in April this is the kind of thing I was talking about. tcf.org/content/comm...
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou know that movie The Kid Stays In The Picture, where a psychotic movie producer reflects on his life in the business? That’s me when it comes to journalism in this one:
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
US defeat in Iran isn't just real. It's quantifiable. And it can get a whole lot worse.
The Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in Iran
Missile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing!
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Incredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Israel keeps moving the ‘yellow line’ deeper into Gaza, forcing more civilians out each time. Palestinian territory has shrunk by more than a quarter since Trump’s pseudo-ceasefire came into effect last year. Nidal al-Mughrabi & Ebrahim Hajjaj, @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel's yellow line, a shifting edge of war pushing Gazans from home
On a road in Gaza City's Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone stoo...
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What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3mo agoJUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor." i'm sorry but how the fuck is this correlation just coming to light now?
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.
The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
My new @foreignpolicy.com piece on these U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks as an exercise in humiliation for the United States' would-be Lebanese partners: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/t...
Trump’s Lebanon Negotiations Are Breaking the Country
Rather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر@abujamajem.com · 5mo agoYesterday State Department announces 45-day extension of Lebanon cessation of hostilities, dates for follow-on U.S.-facilitated political and security talks between Lebanon and Israel: www.state.gov/releases/off... Today Israeli military orders new mass evacuations ahead of strikes:
America started a war it couldn’t win. How does the world look without a dominant superpower? @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social previews our new era of asymmetric finance, trade, and warfare on Order from Ashes @centuryintl.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...
Climate change is an affordability issue. Most of us will experience it as an increase in the cost of living paired with a commensurate erosion of its standards.
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research@mitceepr.bsky.social · 5mo agoClimate change is no longer a distant threat—it is already imposing substantial and uneven costs on U.S. households. This paper by @kclausing.bsky.social, @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social seeks to quantify these costs across multiple channels, check it out here: ceepr.link/4cWpkCV
Since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 2, Western hawks have revived colonial-era schemes to build pipelines from the Gulf to Israel. These fantastical proposals won’t work, and cannot solve the growing energy crisis. New report from CI fellow Zack Cuyler.
America’s war economy helps no one. Short term: ends lives, undermines democracy, makes daily life unaffordable. Long term, even worse: pitches world into recession and dystopia. New Order from Ashes episode from @eamonka.bsky.social and @tcambanis.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.
Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide
OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.
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John Morales@johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 6mo agoTrump regime again tries to shutter all NOAA labs in its 2027 White House budget. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
