El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

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 About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting. This is in addition to the hundreds of millions of people already facing dangerous levels of hunger, owing to years of drought in parts of Africa and pressure on food prices from the war in Iran. Continue reading...

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Wir wachsen - damit auch der Moorschutz weiter wachsen kann 🙂💪 und zwar suchen wir im @nabu.de -Team Ecosystem Restoration zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine(n) Referent:in Moorschutzpolitik. 💧🌱📑 Zur Stellenausschreibung: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4448874891

Hallo #Berlin 👋, guckt mal, hier 👇 nen interessanter Job beim @nabu.de für #MoorMussNass & Politik. Ausschreibung auch hier: jobs.nabu.de/de?id=96a8aa

Tilmann Disselhoff@disselhoff.bsky.social · yesterday

Wir wachsen - damit auch der Moorschutz weiter wachsen kann 🙂💪 und zwar suchen wir im @nabu.de -Team Ecosystem Restoration zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine(n) Referent:in Moorschutzpolitik. 💧🌱📑 Zur Stellenausschreibung: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4448874891

Some new designations by @corneliusroemer.bsky.social in the past days: RC.13 is the fourth NB.1.8.1 with S:D420N SV.1.2.1 is the first NB.1.8.1 to reach BB+6 with 346K after 679R RF.5.3.1 is the fast branch with S:V1264L XFZ.4.1 is the fast mexican lineage with 572I SV.2.2 has got S:N641K as SW.2.1

Zack Polanski is to deliver an urgent message to the Prime Minister. Watch on Bold Politics YouTube channel at 11am.

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

How to use the PMC interactive county-level COVlD map

USA: "Yes, That ‘Summer Cold’ Really Might Be COVID (Again). What to Know About Bay Area Viral Levels." 🔸COVID-19 levels in Bay Area wastewater are rising again this summer, increasing 136% in July compared with June. Source: archive.md/uaXeC

A study shows male mice recovering from severe COVID-19 can pass anxiety-like traits to their offspring. The virus alters RNA molecules inside their sperm, suggesting a father's infection before conception could change how the next generation develops mentally. Source: archive.md/U7dad

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social re.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

Countries where it’s illegal to criticize the president: • Iran • China • Russia • North Korea • The United States

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

One Earth, one sky, one atmosphere, one polluted air. Combustion, smoke, vapour, dust, pathogens. Moving through and via one shared system. No borders, no insulation, no escape. Indoors isn’t completely separate. The air carries our history. And in the end, the sky writes the record of who we were.

Republican leaders refused to say on Sunday’s news shows that President Donald Trump’s controversial “anti-weaponization fund” is dead, or whether it even should be. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

While Trump says ‘anti-weaponization fund’ isn’t dead, GOP lawmakers are silent on if it should die

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-N.C.) both refused to disown Trump's discredited "anti-weaponization fund" on Sunday.

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It's crazy how people take real abuse not looking like the version they imagine as evidence that the real version is fake

WTF

In this instructional video, we will show you how to weaponize Christ’s teachings on the obligation to forgive

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

How ignorant & smug. Do you know how many women are murdered *after* getting restraining orders? A lot. It's common. Restraining orders are worthless without enforcement, and why expect enforcement when at least 40% of police beat their own wives? www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

NEW: Sen. Bernie Moreno has finally broken his silence, accusing Rep. Max Miller of being “a danger” to his daughter, saying he “needs serious psychological help,” and that he “should not serve in the House of Representatives.”

After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.

Yeah, so, Ohio Dems need to get it together. Ohio Republicans are making it clear they should not be governing.

Times my dad was arrested: 0 Times my dad legit tried to kill my mom: a few, that I know of

When the abusers say those things, it's a marriage of convenience between gaslighting and DARVO. (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Abuser, a standard abuser rhetorical approach that is also how the Trump Administration operates, with government as gaslighting abuser.)

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The points Miller makes in his video are common from abusers. He recorded her. He calls her crazy. He says she was nice to him. He says she never went to a doctor. Anyone who is a survivor of DV has heard all of it.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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