That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

politico.com

Just helped one of my students move apartments. 0.9 miles, couple of quick trips. The route by car would have taken more time as we could use one of the pedestrian/bike bridges in Davis.

Pleased to report we made the cover of the upcoming issue of Diabetologia for our most recent paper!! The effort was led by Ryan Hart (@ryanhart13.bsky.social). Description in the ALT text, full open acces link here: rdcu.be/fptyS

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Bonkers BBC story extolling LNG virtues in Cameron Parish - whose council president boast of 'bright future'. CP is in the most vulnerable coastal zone from sea level rise caused by burning fossil fuels. Half its people already left. But hey, they got the tax revenue... www.bbc.com/news/article...

People get hella mad when you suggest adult drivers should be more responsible than children walking/biking

This is the latest one that I can't believe doesn't have legs. They listed all the grants by whether the states they were in went for Harris or Trump and whether they had at least one republican Senator. All grants in Harris states w/o a republican Senator were canceled.

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

nytimes.com

Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...

Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

theguardian.com

"The driver, 31-year-old Charles Medina, sped past the couple from behind... Rapp’s boyfriend responded to the maneuver by raising his hands and yelling, at which point Medina slammed his brakes, skidded to a stop and accelerated in reverse." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Our hearts are crushed’: Hannah Rapp’s violent death sparks outpouring of grief

Family and boxing community grieving deeply after Rapp was killed by motorist while she was cycling in Texas

theguardian.com

It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...

Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

thenarwhal.ca

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 12mo ago

"If Canada can't get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences," said Wisconsin state Rep. Calvin Callahan in a news release Wednesday. "We won't sit back while our air becomes a health hazard."

This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

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

climateintegrity.org

Final day of a great family trip, woke up to wildfire smoke, probably from the winds turning and blowing smoke south from Oregon. Not as bad as what covered the upper Midwest and Atlantic sea board this week, but nasty and depressing.

Upper Sacramento River on a nymph.

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?

heated.world

Alberta’s flagship carbon capture project (Pathways/Oil Sands Alliance) just had a quiet but massive walkback. 2021 pledge: 68 megatonnes/yr. Finalized May 2026 deal: just 16 megatonnes/yr. That’s a 77% CUT.

Alberta’s crown jewel of emissions reduction drops its targets by 77% | The Narwhal

The Oil Sands Alliance promised to eliminate 68 megatonnes of emissions each year. Now that number has dropped to 16

thenarwhal.ca

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

Yes, Democrats Should Talk About Climate.

Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.

electricnotes.news

To my Canadian friends and colleagues: expanding fossil fuels in 2026 and buying into Big Oil's carbon capture lie while millions of acres of Canadian forests burn is insane. Canadian tax payers are paying for a pipeline that benefits part US-owned tar sand interests. What happened to elbows up...

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 3w ago

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

If other news was reported like climate change:

Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Christ’s sake RTE can we have a story about climate change that isn’t accompanied by a jolly picture of people on the beach?

Canadian satire outlet @the-goose-media.bsky.social produces a great two-minute recap of the Mark Carney-Danielle Smith oil pipeline announcement. 👇 youtube.com/shorts/2sCuj...

Canada’s 🇨🇦 Dumb New Pipeline

YouTube video by The Goose

youtube.com

Went for a long hike on the most remote stretch of California coast, only to find this piece of plastic pollution washed up. Seems that Chevron tries to ruin absolutely everything...

I knew record amounts of glyphosate were being sprayed in California’s forests, much of it in the wake of the megafires that have hit the state in recent years. But it was hard to fully get a sense of the scale of the destruction until I saw it from the sky.

I'd seen it from the ground, but wait until you see it from the sky

A birds-eye view of California’s Roundup-sprayed timberland.

motherjones.com

The roots of some of our worst climate policies, it turns out, lie in an intellectually corrupt Ivy League collab with Big Oil. It should piss you off billmckibben.substack.com/p/youre-payi...

"You're paying the bills, buddy."

Princeton, BP, and a sad but extremely revealing chapter in the climate fight

billmckibben.substack.com

"The report calls for hood height caps of 85 cm (33.5 inches), width limits of 192 cm (75.6 inches), taxes tied to vehicle dimensions, parking fees based on size, and regulatory incentives reserved for smaller EVs measuring less than 4.2 meters (165.4 inches) long."

Researchers Want To Tax Cars By The Inch To Stop Carspreading | Carscoops

Researchers argue that stopping vehicle growth could save lives, space, and billions in energy costs

carscoops.com

Hart et al show that somatostatin released by delta cells during nutrient stimulation mostly inhibits alpha cell cAMP and Ca2+ via SSTR2. This prevents glucagon release and indirectly limits potentiation of insulin release link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓

Somatostatin receptors shape insulin and glucagon output within the pancreatic islet in mice through direct and paracrine effects - Diabetologia

Aims/hypothesis Pancreatic delta cells secrete somatostatin (SST), which can inhibit both alpha cells and beta cells of the pancreatic islet. By controlling insulin and glucagon release, delta cells p...

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