Natalie Harp is a grown-ass woman with a senior government job. We can discuss her without calling for the smelling salts.
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Hand built my off grid home and 30' Catamaran. Widower RIP Best Beloved. 29 yrs clean. Climate Doompster. Nordic Socialism is the only way out folks.
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 20, 2026 ~ Acid test incoming. "recent data of the amount of heat energy trapped within the Earth system ... indicates that Earth may actually be warming faster, aligned with models that forecast higher temperatures." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Recent Temperature and Energy Imbalance Trends Point to Higher Estimates of Future Warming
Recent surface warming and top-of-atmosphere energy imbalance point to higher future warming than previously estimated Previous constraints on transient climate response using observed surface te...
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Pretty important sentence here: Our findings indicate that it becomes increasingly difficult to exclude models with strong future warming.
In this paper, the key point is that EEI has been increasing faster than previously expected, supporting the possibility that the climate may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than earlier estimates suggested. 1/. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.
one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here
what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
“Lambeau Field is a lot like the U.S. government in that it is full of old people clinging to their seats until they die.” HEAR IT FROM PACKERS FANS! defector.com/why-your-tea...
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When a President with his own plane claims it's too hard for him to vote in person, would GOP politicians and Fox News like to explain why, for example, a working mother or someone working two jobs to pay the rent should have no problem waiting in line on election day?
“Have we reached that point in the dystopian plot already?” IG: @dyskinesiaa dyskinesiaa.com/en-us
“RB Chuba Hubbard just tweaked his hamstring last week and is described as week-to-week, which is football speak for Oh shit." by @rayratto.bsky.social defector.com/why-your-tea...
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may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate
As I've always said, we're facing a climate apocalypse and we're all going to die horribly, so don't do anything. "Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar?" theconversation.com/climate-doom...
Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it
One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.
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Ossoff mentioning “Natalie” was simply locker room talk.
I feel like we're all living through Natalie Harp's policy on North Korea.
Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:
Author and journalist Cory Doctorow coined the term 'enshittification' to describe how Big Tech has slowly ruined not just social media, but the whole internet. Enshittification happens in stages. Read more on our website ⤵️ https://theaus.in/4wJU3K8
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
It's not enough to help NYC small businesses open their doors, you have to bring customers through them. From brighter lighting to cleaner streets, we're investing $8.4 million in neighborhood improvements to bring more foot traffic and customers to 20,000+ small businesses.
From Greenpoint merchants to Chinatown lights: Where NYC’s $8.4M small-business grants are going | amNewYork
The grants announced Monday by Mamdani and the Department of Small Business Services will also pay for street cleaning, lighting, public art, wayfinding,
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NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs. But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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"Carson Wentz has the internal clock of MacGruber and the fashion sense of Tommy DeVito's agent on a hunting trip." from @mattufford.bsky.social defector.com/why-your-tea...
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Absolutely no one needs to hear a man’s opinion about AOC freezing her eggs.
God bless this person in particular! 😂
Bless The US Service Member Who Scribbled “Operation Epstein Fury”
Dear Humans,
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"Kyler Murray may be the most relatable quarterback this team has ever signed, for I, too, shall spend most Vikings games this season wishing I was playing GTA VI."....Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Minnesota Vikings - defector.com/why-your-tea...
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Gammons. “I am worried about all of the ‘men’ playing in women’s sports. We have to support the women in women’s sports.” Normals. “Name three ‘men’ in women’s sports”. Gammons. “…. Normals. “Ok, since you are so interested in women’s sports. Name any three women’s world champions”. Gammons. “….
Calling all unwitting pawns of the fossil-fuel industry, please join the doomer bashing festivities live this coming Sunday on Climate Chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7A...
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Whatever 'was gonna happen' is actually happening, as global temperatures continue to spike to record levels likely not seen in 120,000+ years.
Would not surprise me in the least if these self deluded wackjobs have decided that, in a showdown, their poser ICE troops and Armed forces true believers will enable the Glorious Diaper Reich... Unfortunately it WILL be close.