Key to understanding this lack of scrutiny is that these efforts to bring American pandemic contrarianism to Norway (and Scandinavia) in large part come from people within powerful institutions. It's not without irony that the high general trust in society that makes us really resilient to...

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · yesterday

Norway has been an interesting case study in how far lab leak conspiracy theories can spread in the media because of just a few commentators - who are so far over their skis that they'd make Holmenkollbakken jumpy - dominating the discourse. It won't last. www.journalisten.no/nar-mainstre...

For all the tragedy this is, the story of Monbiot finding out he's supposedly a superspreader of Long Covid is quite amusing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid | George Monbiot

A professor has suggested that press coverage could make people believe they have the condition, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...

"Rather than merely wanting to hold fascism at bay, Weber wants to marshal a whole-of-society effort to stamp out the conditions that enable it in the first place." 📚A thoughtful review of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis in The Sling.

It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The Sling

Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.

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Lot to chew on here, like a closer look at the promises, strengths and weaknesses of the Santa Marta Conference.

The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 2w ago

We can't shy away from the fact that we are facing what could be the end of our civilisation. On our latest episode of The BREAK–DOWN, we're joined by Joel Wainwright, Professor at Ohio State and author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development youtu.be/VO8mBZC5SQ0

To reiterate my point, I don't get why this change in Scottish guidelines is hailed as a win. research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati... If you look closer at the guidelines under "Respiratory and cough hygiene" it is fully committed to an outdated droplet regime (pic 2)

Jakob@jakobjuhola.bsky.social · 2w ago

(sometimes) recognized. In intensive care wards so called AGP (aerosol generating procedures) is recognized as the one and only occupational hazard always needing filtering PPE, although this distinction is useless as it is now well known that both symptomatic and asymptomatic persons can...

Water's had enough: "Although the water is not lost, it is increasingly found in parts of the water cycle where it is of less use to humanity and many ecosystems." phys.org/news/2026-09...

Report on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up

The global water cycle is becoming increasingly unbalanced. Extreme droughts and floods are the result. This is shown in this year's report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the state ...

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"What is this realization today? That the AI edifice is a gigantic, inverted pyramid resting on the tip of a single hypothesis: the constantly accelerating upward revision of the labs’ future valuations." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar

On the economics of AI.

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The Little Ice Age as an analogue sounds familiar: "Historians have argued that cultural responses to the consequences of the Little Ice Age in Europe consisted of violent scapegoating. The prolonged cold, dry periods brought drought upon many European communities...

Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...

Ravens' Chorus Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002

This group has, by and large, risen to power through libertarian-pilled pandemic contrarianism, directly and indirectly supported by a not insignificant number of people in Scandinavia or with Scandinavian connections, including in public health.

Mallory Harris, PhD@malar0ne.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is nuts AND...290 people attended in-person (with another 230 online). Pathetic showing from a small & unpopular but very loud group that has hijacked American public health to our deep detriment.

Speaking about how "the division between occupational and environmental is not solely ideological but reflects differences in political emphasis rooted in the contradictory character of life in capitalist society", here's something I've been thinking about airborne viruses and social murder.

Nate Holdren@nhold.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...

"He [RFK Jr.] praised researchers at the University of Southern Denmark...as “the deities of vaccine research”. Kennedy attempted to fund their project in Guinea-Bissau looking at mortality after hepatitis B vaccination before local authorities cancelled the project."

RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak

The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law

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The 'moderation' we see in response to the many imminent threats is a tribute to how successful the liberal hegemony has been at portraying any alternative as beyond the pale That this remains true as the hegemony is crumbling and opening the door to fascism shows how internalised it still is

El Niño strengthening into unseen territory. The Niño3.4 region just reached a +3.0 °C anomaly (relative to the 1991–2020). Such a warmth has never been observed in September, and it's only a few hundredths of a degree away from the 2015 all-time record.

This quote from @reallandsend.bsky.social was so incisive I had to write it down: "It's about what happens when bourgeois ideology repeatedly converts unequal social and political relations into evidence of individual virtue . . . (continued)"

Death Panel@deathpanel.bsky.social · 3w ago

In our latest, we’re joined by Da’Shaun L. Harrison to discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

Registrer at fagdirektør Aavitsland, som for øvrig bruker twitter som en mix av kommunikasjonskanal for folkehelse, sympatiforum for sentrale RFK-figurer, for ikke å glemme deling av transfobiske konspirasjonsteorier, stadig er FHIs talsmann om alle ting post-pandemi. DET er "fascinerende".

Lars Marius Garshol (no)@larsga-no.bsky.social · 3w ago

Slutter aldri å fascineres av FHIs holdning til korona. Sykefravær gikk varig opp over hele vestlige verden etter korona. FHIs egne tall viser kraftig økning i ymse lidelser etter korona. Men FHI står knallhardt på at problemet er overdrevet.

Beatrice is also just straight-up correct? No one is immune to propaganda, but you should feel some shame if you fell for the framing posted by a Manhattan Institute guy

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4w ago

We gotta have some compassion and understanding in discourse, when it's comrades who you disagree with. Dozens of leftist influencer accounts on IG dunking on this one young speaker at the Socialism 2026 conference and ... it just feels like a lot? Feels like harm is being done just to make points.

These AI lobbyists are so funny. “Here we created this new nuclear weapon that no one asked for, now you need to give us lots of money to defend you from it.” Mafia racket logic.

"To my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the “outsider” credentials of the AfD." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.

Germany’s democracy has suffered an earthquake.

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New Podcast Episode on our Homepage, Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Forces of History In this episode Jacob Blumenfeld and Robin Celikates discuss the potentials and limits of the forces of history for human emancipation. Listen here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

"Once the business community realizes that is basically conning them into thinking that the issue is about to be solved or under control, the prices could go haywire (...) The question is how much Wall Street can bear: $120, $130 a barrel? So far, they’ve been... newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Ervand Abrahamian, Exchange Ratio — Sidecar

Iran after six months of war.

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In the meantime an unholy Norwegian petro-alliance of Labour, the Conservatives and the right-wing populists secures oil & gas exploration well beyond a 2°C+ world, all while the sovereign wealth fund makes a shitton of money investing in Silicon Valley tech. End times social democracy.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.

In this week's newsletter @rishpardikar.bsky.social interviews Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. drilled.ghost.io/nepal-floods...

Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test

An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. On the morning of 26 August, a series of flash ...

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CCS and IAMs have done an excellent job of preserving the status quo, as a fig leaf for SRM and geoengineering. We're already banking on techno solutions, so...

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Any honest assessment of overshoot must acknowledge that we will have to find a way to live with whatever amount of warming we end up with.”

Pyne: "The three fires we see today – nature’s; those fires that people set in living landscapes; and those burning lithic landscapes – are competing and colluding in weird ways." aeon.co/essays/the-p...

The planet is burning around us: is it time to declare the Pyrocene? | Aeon Essays

Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene?

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Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 - @leninology.bsky.social on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:

Hvorfor ignorerer FHIs fagdirektør for overvåking FHIs egne overvåkingsdata? -spør Aubrey White. Svaret KAN være at han er opptatt med å dele transfobiske konspirasjonsteorier og forsvare RFK Jr's høyre hånd "JB".

Astrid Meyer-Knutsen@astridmeyerknutsen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Forsker Richard Aubrey White med viktig korreksjon til bagatelliserende uttalelser fra Folkehelseinstituttet om #LongCovid og om forskere på sykdommen. Gavelenke: www.dagogtid.no/ordskifte/ep...

As the biosphere unravels, mainstream politics adopts climate unrealism.

Tim Stephens@proftimstephens.bsky.social · last mo.

“The rejection of net zero by Trump’s MAGA movement that seemed extreme just two years ago is now echoed around the world, not least by the Coalition and One Nation in Australia.” #auspol www.smh.com.au/environment/...

What does this tell about public health, e.g. in Norway, that knows the pandemic brought a new understanding of how diseases like Covid and flu spread, but in practical guidance pretends it's droplet/that it doesn't matter in praxis.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · last mo.

Reminds me of Donald Trump on Covid: "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any" Truth disrupts the goals of authoritarianism & fascism, thus truth (& a shared reality, based on facts, data, & evidence) must be destroyed. In its place comes data manipulation & propaganda.

Even trickier when public health (like in Norway) knows it's airborne but still sticks with droplet precaution.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.

Airborne diseases like Covid are so tricky because transmission depends on so many crazy factors. One person with Covid may not have any detectable viruses in their breath. A single swab from another person may pick up 10 billion viruses! Review: paijournal.com/index.php/pa...

The striking idea in Dylan Riley’s new essay: What if the defining feature of contemporary capitalism is that political power has itself become a mechanism of value expansion—not merely something that regulates accumulation? theideasletter.org/essay/the-th...

The Thesis of Political Capitalism

The defining feature of our era is, for Riley, the rise of “political capitalism,” in which profits increasingly depend on political power to inflate asset values rather than on productivity-enhancing…

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