XgenMattie
@matchew65.bsky.social
DC native. Former RN Interested in the phenomenon, Expr (🖕🏼 CDF) In search of Gnosis Go 🏈 Commanders! 💙 Very much miss my Maryland 🦀
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to meet Epstein survivors and may hold a full public enquiry into Epstein.
Burnham 'looking into' conducting Epstein inquiry, says victims minister
Alex Davies-Jones tells BBC Newsnight she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed as minister.
bbc.co.uk
Odd piece by CB. The idea that regulation of reactor cooling water discharge back to rivers as negligible is very odd - survival of river ecology is key. New cooling towers means significant river water loss via evaporation in an increasingly water-scarce world. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...
Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves - Carbon Brief
Amid a slew of misleading claims, Carbon Brief explains how key power sources - nuclear, gas, solar, wind - cope with extreme heat.
carbonbrief.org
We refuse to be passive bystanders to manufactured chaos. Real leadership doesn't come from billionaires with big megaphones, it comes from ordinary people demanding our leaders stand up for international law and human decency. Sign the open letter!
Reclaim the moral compass: a call for courageous leaders - Greenpeace International
It will take all of us to break through the fear and noise and show our leaders a better path.
act.gp
Posted this about 30 minutes ago. 🤔😕😢
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#AbolishICE #ANTIFA #DemocracyNow #PNW@resistor2025bull.bsky.social · 9h agoStepped onto my balcony in Oregon tonight. Saw zero stars - only the smoky haze. When will we get it? #Climatedisaster #Wildfires #FossilFuelEmpire #VoteouttheArsonists #AlernativeEnergy
Middle East is living something extraordinary smashing hundreds of records,no-stop,every day Even at high elevations has been scorching hot: 41.0C Taif 1453m asl ,Saudi Arabia in July and 39.0C in August. Mins >31.0C at 1200m Records for every month.
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · yesterdayMIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
On Tuesday, parts of Colorado continued to roast. 93F/33.9C at Alamosa ,new August record.
JAPAN HEAT WAVE This eternal heat wave never ends. Another scorching hot day and night. Min 28.0 Kitsuki -Hottest night in history Heat will re-intensify in the next 2 days !
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN SE ASIA Min 29.7 Tak HOTTEST AUGUST NIGHT EVER IN THAILAND Records smashed in every region of the country Min 28.4 Tagbilaran PHILIPPINES 27.2 Palu INDONESIA Thailand,Philippines and Indonesia have broken thousands of records for 1200+ consecutive days!
Rogers is also for you paying higher gas prices so Trump can lose a war over nothing in Iran.
Michigan Democrats bash Mike Rogers for downplaying Iran war’s effect on gas prices • Michigan Advance
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers reportedly told a potential voter at a Michigan campaign stop that “we’re gonna be fine” as oil prices spike due to the Iran war. The interaction between R...
michiganadvance.com
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 9h agoMike Rogers is for Medicaid cuts that will close our hospitals, for total abortion bans and for ICE ripping our neighbors out of their homes. But at least he lives in Florida.
You won't regret clicking on this beautifully told story by @lsommer.bsky.social about the Pacific Ocean and how the Trump regime is opening some marine monuments to commercial fishing.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...
apps.npr.org
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. - Carl Sagan
“Kendi notes that humanity seems to be entrapped by these racist ideas. They are recycled with great effect to confine us to a very narrow vision of what a truly humane society could be like.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-master-k...
The Master Key of Modern Politics?
Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.
liberalcurrents.com
1/ 🧵 It costs 8 cents to make you skip an election. Not a typo. A peer reviewed PNAS study found the right ad, aimed at the right voter, erased 1 in 6 votes of color in swing counties. The billionaires who lost Michigan can buy a lot of 8 cent nudges. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
commonhome.georgetown.edu/topics/clima... "As early as 1959, oil industry executives understood the connection between burning fossil fuels and climate change."
Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Early Knowledge of Climate Change - Common Home
Georgetown Professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò explores the link between police brutality, climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
commonhome.georgetown.edu
Once in a 1000 year events happening increasingly regularly all over the world say it's time to #StopAllDrilling #ReduceFossilFuelUseToZero "1000-Year Rain Event In New York The rain falling in the #Hudson Valley has peaked near the 1-in-1000 year recurrence interval." via WFLA Jeff Berardelli
"The cost to replace each camera and pole is about $3,000, law enforcement said." www.fox9.com/news/8-flock...
8 Flock cameras stolen in Winona, police still haven’t located cameras
Eight Flock cameras stolen throughout Winona have authorities asking the public's help getting them back.
fox9.com
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court said Trump was wrong to terminate climate funding. His EPA will ask SCOTUS to step in, but it's a definite setback for the Republican effort to dismantle environmental protection laws in Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds
The split ruling is a loss for the Trump administration in one of its earliest efforts to dismantle President Joe Biden’s campaign to reduce greenhouse gases.
seattletimes.com
1/ 🧵 The most expensive Dem. Senate primary in US history just ended. El-Sayed won anyway, outspent 11 to 1. The billionaires who lost tonight aren’t done. They’re about to switch sides & fund Mike Rogers instead. Here’s the playbook they’re about to run. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Proud that Elias Law Group is helping the Democratic Party fight for voting rights and free and fair elections. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Marc Elias Firm Rebounds as Key DNC Litigator for Midterms
Marc Elias and his firm have reemerged as a top legal adviser for the Democratic National Committee after the party organization cut back work with the prominent elections attorney during the 2024 cam...
news.bloomberglaw.com
We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue
