Eileen Laurie
@eileenlaurie.bsky.social
Artist. Educator. Dreamer. Doer. https://linktr.ee/eileenlaurie “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
As lethal wildfires abound and record-shattering heat takes tens of thousands of lives on the world's fastest heating continent, the EU plans to row back on emissions cuts Capitalism will never stop sucking the world dry until either we are dead or it is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses
Under the proposals, the EU plans to relax its emissions trading system to give companies more time to reduce their carbon output.
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You effing idiot! @andyburnham.bsky.social An utterly ignorant and nonsensical decision Look around you for f*ck's sake And explain your decision to the relatives of the 2,700 people who have just died in the UK as a consequence of the mass burning of fossil fuels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Repost by @NickKristof RT by @NickKristof: The world's richest man has the blood of 100s of 1000s of the world's poorest people on his hands. And he took joy in doing so. It's obscene. Kudos to Nick Kristof for shining a bright light on this darkness! Click to see original repost
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All cancel culture is bad, but rightwing cancel culture is more pervasive and has more powerful backers than leftwing cancel culture. These people are hypocrites as well as Inquisitors. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have no doubt: the campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life | Afua Hirsch
The move against the boss of London’s Southbank Centre sends a forbidding message about who is and isn’t seen as fit to lead in UK culture, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
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I Watched a Pilot Refuse a Deportation. German Media Turned It Into a Story About a “Rampaging” Immigrant. Full Story on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
I Watched a Pilot Refuse a Deportation. German Media Turned It Into a Story About a “Rampaging” Immigrant
On Austrian Airlines flight OS240, a man cried that he couldn’t breathe while officers held him down. The pilot refused to fly. I witnessed the scene — but German media told a different story.
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gasp, you don’t say! the most obviously predictable thing happened when the lying machine was rolled out in healthcare?
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Apartheid är festlig också! Israels säkerhetsminister får en tårta av sin fru på sin 50-årsdag. Den pryds av en snara – symbolen för etniskt differentierat dödsstraff för palestinier, en hjärtefråga som han nu har drivit igenom.
NEW: The Scottish Greens have pledged to introduce an 'Offord tax' after Reform UK's Scottish leader 'boasted' about owning six homes, five cars and six boats in a live TV debate 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...
. Solar is winning the energy race - world's cheapest power source Find out more: www.dw.com/en/solar-is-winn... #ClimateAction
Solar is winning the energy race
The world's cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.
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Unfortunately we are and remain one world. A Canadian-South African tech billionaire's support for an American political party leads to mass death in South Sudanese refugee camps in Kenya; an American-Israeli attack on Iran leads to Thailand buying oil from a Russia that is invading Ukraine.
. Nature-based solutions: how restoring ecosystems can fight climate change and protect communities There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍 to take #ClimateAction. More: thenationonlineng.net/natur... .
Nature-based solutions: how restoring ecosystems can fight climate change and protect communities - The Nation Newspaper
The Nation Newspaper Nature-based solutions: how restoring ecosystems can fight climate change and protect communities
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Det är fortfarande svårt att ta in att Sverige har en rasistisk lagstiftning som gör att barn utvisas och skiljs från sin familj den dagen de fyller arton, oavsett hur länge de har bott i landet. Att man ens kan komma på en sådan lag!
STUDY: “Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.” Follow great scientists here like @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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For all my fellow overthinking worriers out there. Choose a time and a place to worry, and until then put all your bodies in the worry box.
NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL. Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers. www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...
National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees
The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.
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This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo agoICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
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Update from last week re: ongoing impacts from October's ex-typhoon Halong. "Bryan Fisher, director of the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management…said with the scale of destruction, the rebuilding effort will take years." #akwx #ExtremeEvents alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/05/o...
Officials estimate $125 million in Western Alaska storm damage so far, and a long road to recovery | Alaska Beacon
The Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management director updated lawmakers, and outlined a “significant cleanup mission” planned for this summer.
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Everybody's telling you to build community! And they're right, but not just bc it's good to be less lonely or bc you need a distraction from fascism. It is, in fact, how we win! thewhitepages.net/p/seven-reas...
Seven reasons why hosting a silly little potluck (or game night, or porch hang, or book club, or group hike) is essential to defeating fascism
Honestly, I don't think we'll win if you don't
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
