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Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring? | Jan-Werner Müller

The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him

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A 'cost of living' government needs to be a 'climate action' government—or it won't be either.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d ago

BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?

FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.

Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.

The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

I have to make a joke so I don’t cry: smoked turkey

Mike Hudema@mikehudema.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historic wildfires are tearing through Turkey fueled by heatwaves and megawinds. 70+ blazes. 13 dead. Multiple thousands evacuated. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

Best spot from which to spy on the neighbours.

Irritating to see the Toronto island airport battle framed as NIMBYism. This was a project with zero business case that would have destroyed economic value and soft power – and stopped homebuilding! It was a terrible project that deserved to die. When people say no, sometimes they are correct.

The entire Correspondents Dinner should have walked out and headed straight to the Hospital to check on Mitch McConnell.

Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

This is the exact moment Andrew Tate's life fell apart.

I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.

This isn’t tens of thousands of poor people losing their homes in the global south, but tens of thousands of rich people fleeing a popular vacation spot in the south of France, so maybe the rich countries will finally care about climate change.

France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads

‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot

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In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...

First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal

Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

Pregnant women who resorted to eating mud. A man who had to bury his own mother after she died of cholera. Listen to ProPublica reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social discuss the fallout of Trump destroying USAID on “Paper Trail.” (Originally aired on @revealnews.org)

I’m sorry to say, I believe this.

@consbegone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don’t be fooled. Big oil is calling the shots, not Carney “He is going along with Big Oil’s plans, not because he fails to grasp severity of climate threat, but because he’s been outsmarted by Big Oil, which makes its demands through Alberta gov, which it controls” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“We’re really good at believing things but we’re not very good at changing our minds. Once you start believing in something you see evidence where you can and you create evidence where you don’t see any” Very interesting caller on LBC about stubborn supporters of people or movements that prove ➡️

We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.

I’ve taken the liberty of correcting your headline… FACT: Global warming is a worldwide problem. www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/2628367...

France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”

France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050

France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.

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Temperatures in Basra, Iraq hit 48°C today. Next 4 day period will see 48°C every day during which temps will not go below 32°C. This is a lethal heatwave driven by climate change.

To climate deniers: You said it was a hoax when 18M hectares burned in Canada in 2023. You ignored it when 2025 became Norway's hottest year ever. Now forests above the Arctic are burning while Canada's smoke reaches Europe. At what point will you reflect?