John Gage
@johngage.bsky.social
Software at Sun Micro 20 years, Oracle 10 years. Nature, science, Nordic. Climate solutions advocate @citizensclimate. Most effective climate policy: #CarbonFeeAndDividend. Pass it on: carboncashback.org/resources Tell students: cfdmovement.org.
$30 million to buyout primaries in just two states. This isn't an election; it's a corporate hostile takeover of our democracy.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Thank Jeff Merkley for telling the Department of Interior, “It is unacceptable to ask the American taxpayer to bailout Trump’s poorly attended Freedom 250 Event.” Trump had already diverted money from National Parks to fund the 2 fests. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AzN_1T3a7Rx2...
Trump Asks for Millions More to Cover American State Fair Disaster — The New Republic
Trump isn’t done trying to fleece the American taxpayer—this time, for the poorly attended Great American State Fair.
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Distant Dome: Political Gimmicks Won’t Lower Property Taxes indepthnh.org/2026/07/18/d...
Distant Dome: Political Gimmicks Won’t Lower Property Taxes - InDepthNH.org
A late 1970s rock band was named Cheap Trick, which could also be the title for House Bill 1300 which Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law last week.
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Trump, the GOP and the polluters & plutocrats they answer to are responsible for the death and damage caused by this fossil-fueled disaster: www.reuters.com/business/env...
Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats
Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern U.S. from the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. on Friday, floodwaters tore through Texas's Hill Country for a third day, and new fires erupted in the Pacific North...
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Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump threatens higher tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke: “Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal”
Trump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back."
UPDATE: This first-of-its-kind wrongful death case is moving forward after a state court denied oil companies' motions to dismiss this week 🧵 (1/3)
Dana Drugmand@danad1012.bsky.social · last yr."This latest case—the first filed on behalf of an individual climate victim—is another step toward accountability," said @climateintegrity.org's Richard Wiles www.climateinthecourts.com/big-oil-face...
I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...
Cities, states warn of credit impact from proposed federal grant rule
Discretionary termination of grants allowed under the rule would pose a particular risk, issuer advocates said.
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Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
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Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job, via @NYTimes
How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job
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Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say reut.rs/4wcggQZ
Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say
The record-breaking heatwave engulfing Western Europe would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, which has made this week's soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, scientists said on Friday.
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The six family dynasties providing significant support to Project 2025 — Bradley, Coors, Koch, Scaife, Seid, and Uihlein all have long histories of fighting for financial and environmental deregulation
John Gage@johngage.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
Disgusting. And Rogan and his tiny tie say nothing
And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Don't trust me... listen to him 👇
Watch Jon Ossoff -he is earnestly leaning hard into anticorruption, and his critical stance against the Israeli leadership is spot on. His Mar-a-Lago Mafia phrase is in perfect pitch. He needs to win reelection now.
Plutocracy is the problem. It’s amazing to think that we could have democracy and climate solutions if not for six families whose wealth enables them to derail it all.
John Gage@johngage.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher
Is America repeating authoritarian history? Harvard historian discusses how current attacks on American science map cleanly onto dangerous patterns of the past. We aren't just fighting for the planet; we're fighting for the truth. Watch the new episode! @fisherdanar.bsky.social
“His is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self-importance. As if the little people’s rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war with the Third Reich and entitles this comic-book nobody to lecture actual heroes.”
Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry joining a mob to breach the US Capitol. Now, he’s been rewarded with a top counterterrorism job at the Pentagon. You literally cannot make this up. Apparently, invading a government building is great resume building for national security now. 🙄