in the absence of a green new deal, libraries and public transit are going to be america's de facto cooling centers, keeping large number of people alive during climate disasters for the indefinite future

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 3d ago

the bus network in austin is like a circulating distributed AC system and i think i would die without it

Woah.

🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

broligarchy.substack.com

Given that land value (ie location value) is a far bigger driver of house prices than the actual value of bricks & mortar, there's not *so* much difference between the Proportional Property Tax proposal & a land value tax... inews.co.uk/news/politic...

What is a land value tax, and how would it work? Burnham’s support for land value tax -since 2010!- means this idea is finally getting serious political discussion, pretty much for the first time since the Lloyd George tried to introduce a version of LVT in the 1910s… moneyweek.com/personal-fin...

What is a land value tax and how would it work?

A land value tax makes sense in theory. Could it work in practice – and will Andy Burnham implement the property tax?

moneyweek.com

The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza was organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for families across the Gaza Strip. According to Dropsite News, the IDF killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike shortly before today’s Egypt-Argentina match.

The Government Estate Nature Plan has been published – revealing the first official map of all central government land, and that 37% of the public estate is being protected & managed for nature (thereby counting towards the 30by30 goal). Thread 1/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a3ce5...

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

TY @theguardian.com for naming the cause of this trend!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What do these companies have in common? -Block -Citigroup -Coinbase -CVS -Dominion Energy -Disney -Halliburton -Hasbro -HP -Kohl's -Live Nation -Palantir -Paypal -PG&E -Southwest Airlines -Tesla -United Airlines They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack

The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...

yahoo.com

Folks in Vancouver, Canada, pull up for this crucial symposium on Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis, organized by Brenna Bhandar, Jon Goldberg-Hiller, and Isabella Pojuner.

isabella pojuner@ipojuner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis

This symposium will gather critical legal scholars, psychoanalysts, artists and political theorists from around the world to discuss legality, impunity and crisis in historical and contemporary forms,...

allard.ubc.ca

excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis

This symposium will gather critical legal scholars, psychoanalysts, artists and political theorists from around the world to discuss legality, impunity and crisis in historical and contemporary forms,...

allard.ubc.ca

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.

Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

open.substack.com

Something to be said about politicians and pundits taking AI developers' apocalypse preaching more seriously than decades of very good climate science

wait until he finds out economics was built on the assumption that people are wrong

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

Wish I’d had this video when I taught Marx earlier this afternoon

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is real

There are 214 House Democrats. Let's see how many go on record for removal.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 5mo ago

By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Interesting from @javierblas.bsky.social on Odd Lots that "East of Suez" and "West of Suez" is still the clearest way to think of world petroleum markets. Long shadow of empire.

Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya on how UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms.

Refusing to Be Silenced: Palestine and Education in the UK

Hazem Harb, Untitled 10 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015, print mounted on 3mm aluminum composite, 172 × 120cm. Courtesy of afterall.org Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza…

versobooks.com

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’

A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

thetimes.com

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

An extremely urgent edition of: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldface lying, especially by authorities

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And Trump's just making shit up, again www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...