What do you do when members of your family die because of "errors" made by corporate health care? Nothing will bring them back. I don't see a path to sane healthcare in the US. We have the highest HC costs and worst outcomes of "developed" nations. I feel powerless and angry. No, I can't sue.
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it. www.levernews.com/hakeem-jeffr...
Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
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The famous hockey stick graph. This isn't all that hard to fix. EVs work great. Solar power is now the cheapest way of generating electricity. Batteries can store power for use when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
1/ 🚨New piece out co-authored with Ben Shread-Hewitt on the EU's adaptation framework and the risk of a 3°C world. Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. Here's a 🧵on some key points. Thanks @climate-risk.bsky.social for publishing this article.
How the EU adaptation framework vastly underplays the risk of a 3°C world
Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable - but it makes it seem so
strategicclimaterisks.substack.com
You actually don't have to be an Olympic gold medalist to see what went wrong. See Where the Reflecting Pool Renovation Appeared to Fail www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
See Where the Reflecting Pool Renovation Appeared to Fail
A Times analysis found dozens of areas across the pool's new liner that showed tears, bubbles and peeling.
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👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥
“If ChatGPT were a person,” he said, “it would be facing charges for murder.” Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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From Worcester to the Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts knows what’s possible with fare-free transit. My new report with @pressley.house.gov shows that going fare free saves money, grows ridership & simplifies transit. We must pass the Freedom to Move Act so communities can go fare free.
Satire: theonion.com/technologica...
Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity
SAN FRANCISCO—Hailing rapid developments in the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday that technological advancements were now allowing data...
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What was once planned for development will remain open space for bald eagles and the many other species that depend on it. This is a reminder that when people come together, we really can make a difference. Thank you for helping protect Big Bear’s wildlife for generations to come. 🦅💚
Excellent coverage on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight about the #ClimateCrisis. Especially clear analysis from Nick Bridge of @chesc.bsky.social
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
🔥DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “ICE has nothing to do with immigration. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets, weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution. ICE cannot be reformed, retrained… ICE has to be ABOLISHED.” (And held accountable)
Oh how the cultists used to cheer at his campaign rallies when he said this.
Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.
Well, this adds up. No wonder she’s always “concerned.” Financial disclosure records show that Susan Collins received campaign contributions from men whose names have appeared in the Epstein files!
More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered
Collins took money from men on the Epstein list before voting against releasing the files
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Smoke gets in your eyes, lungs, and bloodstream. Smoke kills. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/c...
Deaths From Wildfire Smoke Have Risen Globally (Gift Article)
Wildfire smoke is linked to tens of thousands of deaths a year, a number that is rising with climate change.
nytimes.com
It will be interesting to see what happens with the credible allegations here. No one wants to think that the press and the American public could possibly have double standards for Republicans and Deomcrats. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
The Fossil Fuel Treaty: Countries commit to phasing out dangerous, polluting fuels and phasing in economical, renewable sources of energy.https://www.fossilfueltreaty.org/?cn=CLIMATE%20TWEETS%20OF%20THE%20MOMENT%2071526%20ITM&cid=3307364282baadcd8703b3b55b69efdb&linkname=Fossil%20Fuel%20Treaty
That Cyclospora outbreak: Cattle feedlots are right next to lettuce fields in Salinas, CA. Cattle feedlots are a nightmarishly-inhumane way of maximizing profits at the cost of suffering in animals and, when the diarrhea from the cattle reaches nearby crop fields, humans. www.ewg.org/news-insight...
E. coli from factory farms threatens America's leafy greens
A single enormous cattle feeding operation potentially threatens the safety of thousands of acres of leafy greens grown in the U.S. during the colder months, an EWG analysis shows.
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If the whole planet went to complete solar & wind energy we could stop global warming in 5 years. 5 years,folks. The oil & gas industry would be relegated to machinery only.
"The unknowability of the future is not a reason to give up on it—but the very reason not to." Emily AStking from Heated, a climate site.
