Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d ago

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

Sir David Attenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18...

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Implementing a reliable process of tracking recycled materials will provide Americans with accurate information on plastics used in the products they’re buying. Consumers deserve the truth when making choices among competing products.

Senate Dems introduce plastics tracking bill

The legislation comes as House lawmakers continue their push to advance industry-backed bills on recycled-content claims.

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Climate change is real. Denialism won't save you. Western states on fire again. Vote in November like you care. Because Republicans think it's fake. Welcome to the real world and give a shit. #WeekendMotivation #WashingtonFires 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

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Climate change is an “everything” problem. Wildfires, floods and heat waves of course. But also waves of human migration and financial crises for homeowners, insurers and banks. The human pain is real, but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

The climate crisis is here, it’s accelerating, and it demands action

A California resident and an Illinois congressman are calling for urgent federal action, including a Climate Bill of Rights for Homebuyers and increased financial oversight, to protect Americans fr…

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If a climate scientist like @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @wwattribution.bsky.social says it's extremely scary how climate change is intensifying hot, dry, flammable conditions conducive to wildfires, you should probably be worried.

‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely

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It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

After today's shameful display of medical McCarthyism, imagine the next pandemic. Imagine that world's foremost expert on infectious diseases considering jumping in to help millions of people. We are in a deeply dark and disturbing place for the future of science. And for the future, period.

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

PLEASE READ: Remarkable context-setting and re-framing for the times that have now arrived. We had notice, we had time to fix this — but we ignored the warnings. The “great burning” is indeed upon us. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #PlanetaryBoundaries Well done, @patrickgaley.bsky.social

Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.

With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Cool. Now write one about cars!

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2w ago

As injuries and deaths pile up, what should done about e-scooters? Yes, we need to regulate and enforce rules, but we also need to make more room for micromobility devices in our car-centric society, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Follow the money... #SheShed #ClimateCrisis

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many major companies have abandoned or scaled back their climate commitments because that’s the way capitalism works.

This is the first investigation to trace the history of the oil and gas industry's response to its methane pollution problem, and is based on public records requests, internal industry communications, archival records, scientific papers, and interviews. climateintegrity.org/projects/nat...

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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A major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

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TFW the White House threatens Americans to shut our mouths or they will spill blood

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Any discussion of preventing further erosion of American democracy will not be complete without considering reforms to our information ecosystem.

Facebook's role in the proliferation of lies and conspiracies that millions of Americans believe about elections cannot be overestimated. From your family members to government officials, the spread of this virus has reached all corners of society.

Historians will study this mass delusion and look back on it as a complete failure of our government to balance the concerns of free speech with obvious mis- and disinformation.

All major medical associations say that making Standard Time permanent would be best for human health, circadian rhythms, and the safety and wellbeing of schoolchildren. So of course America is working to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, not Standard Time.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Whew this story For all of us who posted the photo, it’s important to know the story of the woman in it, and that she deserves more than a moment of vitality, she deserves a nation that won’t look past her when the story is hard www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

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For the @nytimes.com, the biggest crises in higher ed are grade inflation at Ivy/Ivy-adjacent institutions & 'wokeness,' not the defunding of public higher ed, attacks on academic freedom which disproportionately impact public institutions, crumbling campus infrastructure, exploding student debt

This entire episode is exactly why the Founders vested the power to declare war with Congress. They anticipated the dangers of a president being able to start wars willy nilly. Unclear though if they anticipated a president as wildly incompetent as this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

Trump Says Fighting With Iran Has Resumed as He Orders Blockade and Tolls

After several days of strikes, the president notified Congress that fighting had begun again and announced shipping fees that his administration previously deemed illegal.

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A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption. Local law enforcement opposes it — because it won’t make anyone safe. It’ll only make out-of-state contractors rich. We don’t need a corrupt wall. We need common sense border security.

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

I've turned down interviews with news outlets and interviewers whose politics I don't like, so seeing someone show up on the podcast of an actual white supremacist is sort of mind blowing. These are choices. Really bad choices.

We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.

On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com writes about the upcoming El Nino, which could be the strongest in the observational record. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...

The Strongest El Niño Ever

With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event

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