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Last night's political earthquake in Michigan should make one thing very clear: it's time for Democrats to grow a spine and stop bending the knee to corporate donors.
The Failures of “Centrism”
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine
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#DataCenters are the new fault line in the Democratic Party. Corporate Dems are on the defensive. www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
Data center foes win big in Tuesday’s primaries
Winners this week either want to crack down on new data centers or enact a moratorium.
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This article about UK climate activism is more than a year old but nonetheless instructive www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?
After three years, thousands of arrests and a state crackdown on protests, the group is ending direct action after a polarising campaign
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Smoke will cover half the US today from the devastating Pacific NW fires. Here’s where we stand: 2.4 Million Acres burned in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho - 16X the size of #Chicago. 700 structures lost. Countless lives changed forever. One unsustainably warming planet. 🌍 #smoke #fire #spokane
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2d agoThe wildfires in the Pacific NW are incredibly sad and devastating. We have to face the fact that a warming climate is unsustainable. As you can see, fires in the Pacific NW are getting much larger in recent decades. The largest fires (100K acres+) have increased by 10-15X since the 1980s. 1/
MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
Yet more records of hot nights in JAPAN 15 more Highest Minimums records fell yesterday In 3 weeks Japan has totalized almost 1000 records and many more are on the way. Humidity often drives heat indexes to deadly levels as high as 50C. A heat wave like no other.
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d agoABSOLUTE INSANITY IN JAPAN 40C again. Dozens of all time records trashed in pieces.👇 Already nearly 1000 heat records have fallen in over 20 days of record breaking heat every single day and thousands more in the rest of East Asia. and guess what ? It will get worse and worse.
"Even as wildfires are raging, fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits...Fossil fuel companies are now pushing for immunity from legal and financial accountability for the climate damages they have caused. Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil! secure.ucs.org/a/2025-congr...
Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil
Big Oil must not be let off the hook for its decades of deception and climate harms. Tell Congress to stand up to the Trump administration’s corporate giveaways.
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Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · yesterdayUnusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:
Forgive me mom for the blasphemy, but this is a goddamn murder-for-hire machine. At scale.
Central Oregon Daily News@codaily.bsky.social · 2d agoOregon's senators are demanding the CFTC crack down on prediction markets that let people bet on wildfires — warning the practice could tempt gamblers to start fires themselves to win their bets.
Got that right. We must connect the dots between #climate, #migration, and #petrostate lies.
oldskier/bsky.social@oldskier.bsky.social · 2d agoSpain’s fault? Or Morocco’s fault? Neither! Climate Change, brought on by our corporate greed, has created thousands of climate emigrates, who have to move, or die, because their land no longer supports them. What are we supposed to do with them?
#ExxonKnew #fossil fuel CEOs are criminals who deserve life sentences without parole
Journos News@journosnews.com · 2d agoEurope continues to confront widespread wildfires, severe drought and record-breaking heat as emergency crews battle fires in Greece and France while dry conditions worsen across the United Kingdom. #Wildfires #Heatwave #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #Drought
I have friends who scoffed at climate change. They didn’t cause it nor could they have stopped it. There is no joy in telling them, again, how stupid and brainwashed they were
Jake Reyna@jakereyna.bsky.social · 2d agoOn Sunday, South Korea saw 108.5° F (42.5° C), its highest temperature on record. The South Korean weather agency urged people to “immediately stop all outdoor activities,” warning that even “indoor spaces without air conditioning are dangerous.” e360.yale.edu/digest/el-ni...
Every news story on the Spokane fires should do what @commondreams.org does - connect the dots with #fossilfuels How about it @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and @nytimes.com and @msnowreports.bsky.social do you have the guts to do this?
Slvrbld47@slvrbld47.bsky.social · 2d agoClimate Crisis Is Not 'Some Faraway Threat’: Spokane Inferno Forces Mass Evacuations as Oil Profits Surge www.commondreams.org/news/spokane...
This means the warmer water melted the mass below water till it was less that the top. Global warming
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2d agoThis huge iceberg was seen turning over off the coast of Greenland, near Ilulissat. TT: @@bbcnews
Climate change may cut rice harvests twice as much as predicted https://www.europesays.com/3172764/ Rice kernels swell over a few short weeks. For every day above 86°F (30°C) in that window, a…
Climate change may cut rice harvests twice as much as predicted - EUROPE SAYS
Rice kernels swell over a few short weeks. For every day above 86°F (30°C) in that window, a rice plant loses 1.1 to 1.8 percent of its yield, and on cooler
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What could possibly go wrong? interestingengineering.com/space/first-...
First 'space mirror' satellite gets green light to deliver sunlight
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially granted California-based startup Reflect Orbital the license to launch and operate Eärendil-1, its first-ever demonstration "space mirror" satell...
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@devoidcat.bsky.social · last wk.Stupidity abounds. We could just turn on a light fir sunlight on demand? Also, sounds like we are just leaning in on global warming. interestingengineering.com/space/first-...
A reason for hope! "...[Heat pumps] substantially reduce fossil fuel use relative to gas boilers even if the electricity for the heat pumps comes from burning fossil fuels. In grids with renewables...heat pumps reduce gas demand, and the accompanying emissions, correspondingly further."
Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope, July 24, 2026
U.S. heat pump progress!
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GEORGIANS! “For the first time in my life I will be voting Democrat,” said a construction worker named Scott who has lived in Effingham County for seven years. “Commissioners need to remember that they work for us, not for themselves.” www.wabe.org/20b-openai-d...
$20B OpenAI data center project sparks outrage among Coastal Georgia residents
Nearly 1,000 people confronted OpenAI and Effingham County officials Thursday about the $20 billion data center project that had been negotiated for months but announced, without any public comment or...
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GEORGIANS! THIRD ACT GEORGIA HAS OFFICIALLY ENDORSED DANIELLE BELL FOR GA HOUSE DISTRICT 44! Come and meet Danielle and lots of other folks from the Georgia State House and State Senate as we prepare for the critical midterm elections.
Good article covering a range of energy-related topics, including data centers. www.adirondackexplorer.org/environment/...
Inside New York’s energy transition
Why New York is having such a hard time breaking its fossil fuel addiction and transitioning its power grid to renewable sources.
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"The smoke is here to stay." "there’s nothing we can do to stop wildfire smoke from blanketing cities for a few days every summer — and it’s going to continue for decades to come." "Toronto and other cities are going to have to start preparing for smoke like a regular weather event"
Our smoke-filled future: How Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — for the rest of our lives
The wildfires will get bigger, stronger and more frequent — but that’s not to say there’s nothing we can do.
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U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1
Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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“Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America
France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spai...
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