Three landfalls in one weekend! Fri night: —Hurricane Isaias, central U.S. Gulf Coast Sat night: —TS Simon (MX), near Puerto Vallarta, possibly as a Cat 4 —Rachel (MX), N Baja Calif as tropical storm The scoop from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and me: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/hurr...

Hurricane Isaias steadily intensifying over record-warm Gulf waters » Yale Climate Connections

The most likely landfall intensity of Isaias has an unusually large range, from a strong tropical storm to a strong category 2 hurricane.

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We don’t need a revolution or collapse to shrink our collective footprint; only seven interconnected policies to downscale production, reduce working hours and redistribute wealth. Modelling degrowth policies with system dynamics: Towards policy coherence: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The declines are largely driven by human activities, including agriculture, hunting and pollution. Protecting birds across their entire migration routes, particularly along major flyways, could help populations recover. 🌍

🗽🇺🇸 🗳️ PROTECT your VOTE: The USPS new “cost-cutting plan” could delay postmarking your ballot by 2-3 days, especially in rural areas. Options to ensure it gets counted: — put it in a drop box — take it to a USPS office and watch them postmark it — drop it in a mailbox 2-3 days before the deadline.

🌎❤️‍🔥 It’s hard not to have low expectations for SCOTUS to do the right thing for life and the planet 🌎: “The consequences for oil companies weighed heavily on some parts of the discussion, while the consequences for communities dealing with a warming planet went largely unexplored.

Grist@grist.org · 3d ago

Supreme Court wrestles with who should pay for climate change

Likewise. Add to this agonizing thread: I couldn’t imagine the speed of the decent or the vicious cruelty that the few would hurtle against the living world 💔🌎.

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · last wk.

I've known ever since I first encountered the Limits to Growth in the 1980s that collapse was possible. What I didn't have the ability to imagine was how stupid and small would be the conductors of the trip down the last miles of that road.

The cruelty of the trillion/billionaire class now running the federal government is beyond belief 💔. azluminaria.org/2026/10/01/m...

More than 22,000 refugees in Arizona are at risk of losing their health insurance - AZ Luminaria

“I feel like I’m just trying not to let patients die,” Dr. Sommer Aldulaimi says in an exasperated voice.  She’s been scrambling to prepare refugees set to lose their health care on Oct. 1. Aldulaimi ...

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Cooperation has, over the course of evolution, been far more productive of increasing levels of complexity than competition. This penetrating trilogy provides a more rounded view of living world and some conceptual tools to move beyond the vicious circle of competition: iiraorg.com/three-books-...

For Peats sake!

Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky@queenofpeat.bsky.social · last wk.

Help me make this year the YEAR OF THE BOG. My passion for boglands featured in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

“The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast” #EoceneAdaptation

Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

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And the fight for the Living World!… 🤜💖🌎🤗🤛🏾

In conversation with God about End Times and Fascism

Putting God (MAGA Jesus) on trial for End Times Fascism and my plan to gather the witches

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💥#1 in Indy 📕’s: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor’s new book, “End Times Fascism” is a must read! Watch the short 🎥 here: substack.com/@naomiklein/...

💔🌎 The scale of planetary change unleashed by the ignorance and greed of the .01% is truly hard to fathom... “the equivalent of a 96-square-block area of Manhattan breaking off all at once and plunging several thousand vertical feet within minutes.”

"Double circle November 3 with a dark Sharpie. Because the key No Kings event will be Election Day."

Trump Wants to Exhaust Us. He’s Failing.

Election Day is eight weeks away.

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Nice but how ‘bout “all hands on deck for clean water, cutting C02 emissions and plastic pollution; universal healthcare, a livable minimum wage, reining in AI/Data Centers and fixing the insane maldistribution of wealth”. For starters 😎. THINK BIGGER, it’s a Metacrisis 💥 #Project2027

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3w ago

"in week one the ballroom is coming down and the kennedy center is reopening" - free statement to any dem who wants to win in 2028

Okay well, on another note: DIEsel is deadly toxic ☠️ to humans and all living things. This would be an excellent time to phase it out and get more trains on America’s coast to coast rail system! 🚆

Senator Chris Larson@senchrislarson.bsky.social · 3w ago

The President's useless war has destabilized global oil markets with no end in sight. Diesel is how most goods get transported in the U.S., which will have ripple effects on just about everything we buy.

😵‍💫 Not to mention ~ “ninety percent of the internet” soon to be nothing but AI, Ads and bots 🤑🤖 medium.com/only-humana/...

Why Intelligent People Are Slowly Disconnecting From Internet Culture

Civilizations spent thousands of years trying to solve human loneliness only for modern technology to invent a situation where a person can…

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$$$$$$$$🤑🤑🤑 talks.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Again: When Republicans like @marshablackburn say they've put money in your pocket - they're talking to their rich donors, not you

Peace and gratitude to the late, great Wendell Berry, who passed away a few days ago. His words continue to inspire! Here, on a sign at Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, where we were out last year for a firefly survey with wildlife biologist Rachel Laura. https://ow.ly/oZ1z50ZJyMm

A new UN report starts the societal conversation on the implications of a new reality: a world in which 1.5°C of global warming will soon be reached. 👇

UN Environment Programme@unep.org · last mo.

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

“This exceptional El Niño demands exceptional preparation and response. Never before in the 50-year history of the WMO have we launched a major mobilization of delivering forecasts and services to save lives and livelihoods,” [WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo] said. “We have no time to lose.”

El Niño set to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027

Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) - El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks o...

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The “we” in this comment needs further defining…”“The reality is that we have failed in that endeavor, and it needs to be acknowledged.”

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · last mo.

Earth is in the “climate overshoot” zone, according to a new UN report, and “we aren’t prepared for what’s coming,” one of the authors says.

Aside from the in my view extreme ideas on the structure of govt, and rather a large dose of utopianism, the national DSA platform actually has good ideas for local groups to enlarge on re: housing , healthcare, education, employment, etc. program.dsausa.org

DSA Program

Workers Deserve More!

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When the AI bubble bursts it’s going to be ugly 🫧 🤖. The U.S. economy grew just 1.5% in the second quarter of 2026, attributed to growth in imports of AI computer chips and other equipment for the AI buildout, which now accounts for up to 75% of U.S. GDP growth.

U.S. economy grows at sluggish 1.5% pace in second quarter | Fortune

GDP counts domestic production—meaning the surge in computer chip and AI investment shipments sliced 1.64 percentage points off.

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A Vice-President, a trillionaire and a now dead, but convicted pedophile walk into a room... This Commonwealth interview (and book review) with Gil Durand reveals the unfathomable but true story behind the 🗽wrecking ball 💣 🚨🗽💔 youtu.be/lMM6LgeIbfc?...

Gearing up to protect our voice 🗽⚙️

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · last mo.

They’re trying to intimidate people; to keep them from voting. It’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t work. joycevance.substack.com/p/revisiting...

The tragic flood in Nepal-Tibet can be linked to global warming. “Our results call attention to an indirect effect of climate change that is increasing the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards near glaciated mountains.” From B. Higman, et al. SR, 2018 scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/7d...

From Rebecca Solnit’s remarkable tribute: “Dolly Parton wasn't just a singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. She took stands…against racism, for Black Lives Matter, for queer and trans people, for women's rights. And she sang it too”. May her music play on and may she RIP 🎶🪦

In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness

We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...

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Enlightening data leak, as it reeks behind the chainlink fence…💔🌎📈⛽️ “You (we) get quantified, scolded, shamed down to the watt-hour per question. The well doesn’t report a damn thing. It takes what it wants, bills you for the privilege, and then lectures you about your “personal carbon footprint.”

How to Stop Feeling Guilty About AI

The new oil wells don’t pump anything. They answer questions.

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Great investigative report on how insurance companies are gaming climate change and raking in $trillions. 🤑

Revolving Door Project@revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out this excellent new mini-doc by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social featuring research from the Revolving Door Project, Public Citizen, and others.