Stephen Leahy
@stephenleahy.bsky.social
Author & Enviro Jurno +25 years | SEAL Award for Enviro Journalism; UN Global Prize for Climate Reporting, etc 3000+ articles @ The Guardian; Nat Geo; Vice; New Scientist; IPS; etc Substack: https://leahy.substack.com https://authory.com/StephenLeahy
Are Americans no longer respecting the rule of law? Very bad sign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
This federal judge ruled against Trump. Then the threats began.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s experience is emblematic of the climate facing jurists, whether nominated by Democratic or Republican presidents.
washingtonpost.com
Surprise! Trump’s administration pays out about $100bn in tariff refunds--60% of what was collected. None of the refunds will go to the public, only to corporations. www.ft.com/content/b0f7...
Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs
US customs officials repay about 60% of the levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court
ft.com
🎥 How to survive a heatwave - make your home a cool zone (without air conditioning) More detailed #video ▶️ youtu.be/mSSQmkH2XdM What other tips do you have!? PL RP🩷💚💙 Thank you! #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction #heatwave #heat
NPR reporter: The US military has struck more than 15,000 targets in Iran since the war began. Host: Wow. Other reporting: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say
Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country
theguardian.com
Great article on how Smith’s Government is upping their AI misinformation slop by @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. This slop will be hard to sell as the consequences of the USA’s AI boom dominate the information ecosystem. Texas just set a moratorium. 👏👇 #abpoli albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/albe...
Alberta propaganda push suggests UCP is encountering stiffer opposition to AI data centres than it expected - Alberta Politics
The United Conservative Party Government must be encountering stiffer opposition than it expected to its plan to make Alberta North America’s dumping ground for the Artificial Intelligence data centre...
albertapolitics.ca
Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 7h ago“Nowhere is the US [AI] data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers” #txpoli #abpoli #OOTT #FAFO arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/t...
After Trump lost in 2020, Flynn threatened a “shooting civil war” and urged Trump to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so the military could conduct a new election. That’s the kind of person who got $1.25 million of your money. 3/4🧵
Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election
‘Only then can the winning candidate be accepted as legitimate’
independent.co.uk
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
nytimes.com
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
A 🧵 Nepo baby David Ellison’s recent OpEd deflected attention from the reality that the Paramount attempted takeover of WarnerBros is corrupt to the core, a debt-time bomb, a natl security issue, would decrease diversity of voices in film/media/ journalism +a press freedom issue. #BlockTheMerger 1/n
"Ms. Vokurka said it is “very difficult to believe” that the Métis Nation’s project will be finished without additional funding. “It’s very challenging. The government left us holding the bag here, and it’s not our fault.” Two contractors .. said they had not been paid in months."
Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social · 9h agoAlberta Premier Danielle Smith said construction on 3 recovery centres on Indigenous land will soon finish on budget, subcontractors facing stacks of unpaid invoices doubt it. Plus: One Indig group fired its contractor www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
the thing is how it's just mentioned in passing that these rich petrostates are going hard to guarantee their post-oil economic security; like it's hardly worth elaborating upon and yet it's very significant in the context of more, er, 'frontier' petrostates, or indeed oil demand
Kate Mackenzie@katemac.bsky.social · yesterday“the small desert state has spread investment, influence and military hardware across Africa with dizzying speed in a bid to harness trade and resources for its post-oil future.”
FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...
“To be called out by the most powerful person in the world…. and called a sick, violent vandal when all I had done was pick up a piece of trash was awful.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/08/04/woman-recounts-reflecting-pool-arrest-says-she-was-humiliated/
Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken
Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.
washingtonpost.com
Surprise! Trump’s administration pays out about $100bn in tariff refunds--60% of what was collected. None of the refunds will go to the public, only to corporations. www.ft.com/content/b0f7...
Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs
US customs officials repay about 60% of the levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court
ft.com
i am not sure there has been a person in history who enjoys campy theater as much as trump and who will end up more hated by every single person who has ever participated in it
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Nationalize oil firms, then run them into oblivion as we transfer to 100% renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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
theguardian.com
Playing the what bus can I take to escape the smoke tomorrow game. Looks like Bainbridge ferry to Straight Shot to Port Angeles could work or 574 to Intercity Transit to Grays Harbor Transit to Aberdeen are both low smoke destination options. I've had a headache all day, even indoors.
Trump’s continuing insistence that vandals, rather than his idiot contractors, ruined the Reflecting Pool was deranged and ridiculous from the get-go. The NYT characterizing it as one of Trump’s “most cherished narratives” is sanewashing. See presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
presswatchers.org
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h ago“.. During the meeting, Ms. Pirro, her voice raised at times, directly confronted Mr. Burgum, accusing him of misleading the president. She made the case that Mr. Burgum had promoted a self-serving cover story to conceal his own missteps.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
As technological change forces workers to switch jobs more often, many Americans may need to retrain several times. Yet those who lose their jobs receive little help doing so
Can America retrain workers before AI leaves them behind?
Success will require investing in employees as seriously as America invests in chips
bit.ly
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Wyoming, like other red and rural states, has a problem,” German Lopez writes. “Its suicide rate is about double the national figure.”
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
nyti.ms
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Remember those 'please conserve energy' texts Alberta sent out? Octopus Energy does something similar in the UK, except customers get paid, sometimes just a few $. @shastingssimon.bsky.social explains the difference on the new episode. 🎧 www.energyvsclimate.com #EnergyVsClimate #AlbertaEnergy
It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways.
OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
wired.com
Unlike the Ontario wildfires, which were mostly burning in the woods, these fires have now burned through urban areas, making the smoke extra, extra toxic. Take the AQI warnings seriously this week, PNW neighbors.
Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 3d agoHeads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx
I wrote a book! A whole, real, actual book! Ada Limón, genius poet, said nice things about it! As did other absolute heroes! And now it's in libraries and bookstores in several countries! Be careful what you wish for, it might turn out awesome bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
bookshop.org
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11mo agoi wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here
Amazing audience participation at the Japan pavilion too! (Maybe you can’t call it “audience” participation, with so many people taking part.) The Edmonton Japanese community was one of the original 11 Heritage Festival founders #yeg #yegheritage
