Polymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!
Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterdayThere is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
Big money spent $70 million to try and defeat Abdul El-Sayed and it didn't work! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.
🇺🇸USA gun culture is so deeply embedded they can’t even do anything effective to stop suicide by firearm, their leading cause of death by gun. It’s just “cowboy up” for them. The 🍁gun cult wants to bring that culture here. They must be stopped. 🤔🧐😠 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming (Gift Article)
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
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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
Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.
Canadians are fed up with lying Pete Hoesktra. He puts the ass in ambassador. There is a national campaign to make him persona non grata. Here is my call out to get Canadians to sign the parliamentary e-petition to give him the bum's rush. @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com youtu.be/dw5JtXUuJZs?...
THROW THE BUM OUT - CANADIANS TAKE THE FIGHT TO HOEKSTRA
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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This isn't just another negative headline. Can our brains even grasp how devastatingly serious this is? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
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Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias
Droughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itself is catastrophic, says Yiannis Baboulias, a Greek writer based in London
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An Explosion of Misery "CRUELTY IS THE POINT" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
An Explosion of Misery
Making American hungry and uninsured again
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🇨🇦 ⚠️CANADA's UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS UNDER ATTACK ⚠️NEVER hand 100% of the power to ANY right wing party. pressprogress.ca/canadian-hea...
Canadian Healthcare: When Provinces Go Rogue
Guest panelists discuss the ways provinces are undermining Canada's healthcare system
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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.
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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The California Democratic Party has officially endorsed a one-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires that will be on the ballot this November. They're right to support it — and Gavin Newsom is wrong to oppose it. Here's why.
Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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🇨🇦⚠️Charlie Angus: Who's Holding Canadian Gov'ts Accountable? Quote: "Canada has entered an unusual period in which neither the Official Opposition nor much of the mainstream media is effectively scrutinizing government decisions." open.substack.com/pub/markhamh...
Charlie Angus: Who's Holding Canadian Gov'ts Accountable?
Watch now | Responsibility for asking the hard questions increasingly falls to independent journalism and, ultimately, to all of us
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'Very strong' El Niño threshold reached for first time in over 10 years "The U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) also uses... ...Very Strong El Niño: +2.0°C and above According to data from the Bureau (BOM), the relative Niño 3.4 index reached +2.02°C during the week ending on August 2, 2026"
'Very strong' El Niño threshold reached for first time in over 10 years
Recent sea surface temperature observations show that the tropical Pacific Ocean is rapidly warming towards a ‘very strong’ El Niño event.
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If it wasn’t for truck drivers, we’d starve. If it wasn’t for sanitation workers, we’d be overrun by rats and disease. If it wasn’t for construction workers, we wouldn’t have roads and the economy would collapse. Just because a job isn’t glorious doesn’t mean it’s not existentially important.
The realization that the smart kids, not just jocks and cheerleaders, can also peak in high school is a rough one.
Canadian citizens brought two US industries to their knees with grassroot boycotts. Imagine what US citizens could do?
There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data. See Alt text for details. PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php
I had a regular radio segment on “city-building” for several years on CBC Radio with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social here in Canada, that people still tell me they really enjoyed. Also had regular segments with radio in other parts of the world, including with @greenj.bsky.social on ABC in Australia.
Christie Page@cpageyyc.bsky.social · 2d agoCanada would benifit if there was a radio show where the average Canadian was easily exposed to urban planning concepts from guests like: @tomflood.bsky.social @jaypitter.bsky.social @penalosag.bsky.social @lanefab.com @brenttoderian.bsky.social @shifter.info #cbc @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
Alberta’s pipeline pitch is heavy on public, light on private investment — so who benefits? #Cdnpoli🍁 #CanadaSky🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Why Alberta’s new pipeline pitch can't rely on the private sector, at least not yet | CBC News
Energy experts and economists say Alberta’s public-private pitch may be the only way to get a pipelines done in today's context, but if there are benefits, they could go beyond just the oil and gas in...
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My mom and grandma told me about this. It happened in Los Angeles. The last streetcar ran in 1963.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
