Climate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.

Send a message to the Liberals that you want to protect Toronto’s waterfront forever by voting for Shannon Devine in Beaches—East York. #NoJetsTO

Disappointed with how even with the late July news, @mark-carney.bsky.social still left the door open to jets at Billy Bishop Airport in the future. No wonder why @shawnmicallef.bsky.social suggested not putting away those #NoJetsTO signs just yet. #shame #cdnpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

Carney won't rule out future Billy Bishop Airport expansion

'Forever is a long time,' prime minister says

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In other words: We already have the technology.... let's get it going full speed and without any more talk about expanding the fossil fuel industry! (see last sentence in clip)

Thank you @cathmckenna.bsky.social for telling it like it is. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'We are in a fossil fuel climate crisis': former environment minister - B.C. wildfire situation 'explosive and extremely dangerous,' official says as thousands forced from homes

Former federal environment minister Catherine McKenna said the wildfires burning across Canada are clear evidence of a climate emergency.  She said new temperature records are being set every year, an...

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that PS is so relatable and funny

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h ago

Republican primary voters are so racist that a guy named Tom Smith who DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE is going to defeat Trump’s endorsed candidate because his name is Amir Hassan.

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 22h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

This is going to be every urban area, as the effects of (human-caused) #ClimateChange — floods & other extreme weather — batter unprepared cities. What are the climate mitigation strategies, & who pays?

The Weather Network@weathernetwork.bsky.social · 9h ago

The St. Catharines mayor is calling on the Ontario and federal governments to provide the region with immediate assistance and help communities pay for upgrading critical stormwater infrastructure to better prepare for such devastating storms. https://ow.ly/ehLu50ZwBn9

"Billions in taxpayers’ dollars are available to backstop a new bitumen pipeline to the west coast or dubious carbon capture technologies The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reported that about half of their members working at a national centre for disaster response were fired in January."

DeSmog@desmog.com · yesterday

Canada is doubling down on fossil fuels as climate-fulled wildfires rage. Read Mitch Anderson's latest below:

Israeli forces have launched a large-scale military operation in Qalandiya camp, surrounding the area from all entrances with a heavy military presence, including armed troops and bulldozers. During the raid, Israeli forces stormed homes, assaulted residents and journalists, and carried out arrests

"Salting the Earth" is saying with ancient roots. It refers to inflicting desolation on a defeated enemy so complete that nothing can be regrown and the enemy can never recover or rebuild. Israel is using modern herbicides and defoliants in Southern Lebanon to do exactly that. /1

Ayman Makarem@aymanmak.bsky.social · 12h ago

Not a single Israel defender has ever been able to defend this. They just pretend it doesn't exist, even though it defies any of their supposed 'arguments'.

Fifa accused of using ‘blackmail’ to force support for Infantino’s re-election bid Jordan FA president says Fifa threatened to block funds Secretary general calls selloff plan ‘sad and reproachable’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fifa accused of using ‘blackmail’ to force support for Infantino’s re-election bid

The Jordan FA president has accused Fifa of ‘blackmail’, claiming it threatened to withhold financial assistance from his federation if it refused to back Gianni Infantino’s bid for re-election

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Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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“It is astonishing how quickly some people have become reliant on the flattery machine.” So well said. AI dependency is rapidly becoming the new hopium. And the digital addiction spectrum continues to expand. More than ever, time for some vigilance.

Matt 'Wib' Ward@wib.bsky.social · 15h ago

The only way AI features in my workday is as an annoyance inserted into a program or website I use. It is something to be worked around. It is astonishing how quickly some people have become reliant on the flattery machine.

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

Since Gaza the coverage by Canadian Press has gone from one-sided pro Israel to outright propaganda to actively fanning disinformation and fear. These headlines have dangerous geopolitical implications with Trump's open threat against Canada. But the @thestar.com helps spread the BS.

“Kaseya pointed out that some 60-70% of the new cases were recorded from spreading within a community, not from contact tracing… “Contact tracing is not working,” said Kaseya, “we don’t like the trajectory of this outbreak, and it’s already the second largest outbreak (ever) in the world.”

Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges

Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.

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Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

"Should we tell people that Theodore Roosevelt, who is held up as one of our great presidents, was really a warmonger who loved military exploits and who congratulated an American general who committed a massacre in the Philippines? ... We should be honest about the history of our country."

Truthout@truthout.org · 2d ago

A new book explores the remarkable life of the late historian, teacher and activist Howard Zinn. He’s best known for writing A People’s History of the United States. For Zinn, says Zirin, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history, not just studying history.”

Jim Crow 2.0 doesn't have poll taxes. They just get rid of polling places to make it much harder for you to vote, and kick you off the voter rolls for 'reasons' without telling you. Voter suppression is racism. If a candidate isn't talking about voting rights, they aren't paying attention.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"

The Carney government cancelled the Digital Services tax to help with affordability! But as predictable as the rising sun, the "we're changing the price of our streaming service" emails are rolling in anyway. Instead of taxing US megacorps and getting the revenue, we in Canada get higher prices […]

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

And 💯 we have to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

Elon projecting one launch of starship *per day* by next year lmao

Remember: Trump consumes upwards of 12 cans of Diet Coke per day.

Study reveals cognitive decline linked to drinking Diet Coke daily

Whether you work in an office or from home, you're likely familiar with the after-lunch slump that makes you reach for another coffee or a soda.

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Followed with: And we have the solutions. Which are better, better and better!

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · yesterday

One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”

Beef is the top single cause of deforestation globally, by far. Next come oilseeds, especially soy and palm, but the vast majority of those is fed to livestock - chicken, pigs, dairy cows. We can't have our planet and eat it! We urgently need to shift diets away from animal-based foods.

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 2d ago

The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.

New Trump bribery scheme just dropped.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

The White House has invited U.S. tech companies to discuss a framework that would allow the government to review new A.I. models for cybersecurity issues before they are released publicly, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.