Thursday, August 31, 2023

Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan To Dismantle the US Government and Replace It With Trump’s Vision | Portside

Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan To Dismantle the US Government and Replace It With Trump’s Vision | Portside: With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own.

Ben Gvir's racist comments are no different from those of Israel's founders | Middle East Eye

Ben Gvir's racist comments are no different from those of Israel's founders | Middle East Eye

New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse | World Resources Institute

New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse | World Resources Institute

Climate change: Parts of tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests | CNN

Climate change: Parts of tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests | CNN

The EPA Removes Federal Protections for Most of the Country's Wetlands

The EPA Removes Federal Protections for Most of the Country's Wetlands

How Can Endless War Backers Decry Trump Supporters for Favoring Using Violence? - LA Progressive

How Can Endless War Backers Decry Trump Supporters for Favoring Using Violence? - LA Progressive: For more than 20 years, a bipartisan approach in Congress and the Oval Office has made sure that the United States uses enormous and lethal violence abroad.

Monday, August 28, 2023

Friday, August 25, 2023

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion

The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: On Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change”

The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: On Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change”

New Report: Trump's Big Lie made judiciary a target - Common Cause

New Report: Trump's Big Lie made judiciary a target - Common Cause: “Courts and judges play an important role in American democracy and should not have to fear violence for doing their job,” said Marilyn Carpinteyro, Common Cause interim co-president. “This report highlights why it’s so crucial that the courts and judges can enforce the law fairly and safely. Those in places of power—especially the president of the United States—have a responsibility to ensure judges can do their jobs free of intimidation.”

90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report | Water | The Guardian

90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report | Water | The Guardian

BOMBSHELL: EPA Official Allegedly Admits CDC Didn't Test East Palestine Residents for Toxic Vinyl Chloride to Avoid "Mass Panic" After Norfolk Southern Derailment

BOMBSHELL: EPA Official Allegedly Admits CDC Didn't Test East Palestine Residents for Toxic Vinyl Chloride to Avoid "Mass Panic" After Norfolk Southern Derailment

School Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)


What kind of shithole country has police [in schools].

Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism – Mondoweiss

Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism – Mondoweiss

Two-Thirds of Conservative Endowment Fund Directors Are Linked to Fossil Fuels and Polluting Industries - DeSmog

Two-Thirds of Conservative Endowment Fund Directors Are Linked to Fossil Fuels and Polluting Industries - DeSmog

/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong | Bungacast

/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong | Bungacast

UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world' | AP News

UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world' | AP News

Professor Wolff On The Housing Crisis: In Capitalism, We Are All On Our Own

Owen Jones Lays It Down on Good Morning Britain

Jon Stewart Forces Economist To Admit Capitalism Screws Us All

Saturday, August 12, 2023

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble | The Guardian - The Guardian

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble | The Guardian - The Guardian

It's Never About The US President, It's About The US Empire

It's Never About The US President, It's About The US Empire: Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): We talk about US presidents all the time — Obama did this, Trump did that, blah blah blah. But really it’s never the president doing those things, it’s the empire. The president is just the face of the operation, the name they put on the door that they change every few years to create the illusion that the US government is responsive to the will of the electorate.

Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert | Desertification | The Guardian

Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert | Desertification | The Guardian

A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections | John Naughton | The Guardian

A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections | John Naughton | The Guardian

‘Banality of evil’: Trump conspirator's path from 'unremarkable' to coup...

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Part 5: Red Insurrection - Bucks County Beacon

Part 5: Red Insurrection - Bucks County Beacon

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster - Los Angeles Times

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster - Los Angeles Times: The U.S. buried nuclear waste in the Pacific after WWII. It’s close to resurfacing.

World's oceans set new surface temperature record: EU monitor

World's oceans set new surface temperature record: EU monitor

Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

Post-Work Socialism is a Tempting Illusion

Post-Work Socialism is a Tempting Illusion

Forget plans to lower emissions by 2050 – this is deadly procrastination | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

Forget plans to lower emissions by 2050 – this is deadly procrastination | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian: Fixating on ‘net zero’ means betting the future of life on Earth that someone will invent some kind of whiz-bang tech to draw down CO2

Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here's how communities can fight back

Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here's how communities can fight back

Holden Farms: The Problem With Pork - Animal Outlook

Holden Farms: The Problem With Pork - Animal Outlook

Two years of COVID: The battle to accept airborne transmission | Coronavirus pandemic | Al Jazeera

Two years of COVID: The battle to accept airborne transmission | Coronavirus pandemic | Al Jazeera

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

EVERYONE LITERALLY CRYING Over Joe Wilkinson's INSANE Poem!! | 8 Out of ...

Whipping Boy - No One Takes Prisoners Anymore

Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Henri Grimes & Billy Higgins

The Economics of Oil | Patreon

The Economics of Oil | Patreon

Herman Melville the Poet - Boston Review

Herman Melville the Poet - Boston Review

Joe Biden Wants You to Kill and Die for the Saudi Monarchy

Joe Biden Wants You to Kill and Die for the Saudi Monarchy

Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections | Civil Eats

Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections | Civil Eats: The farm bill has long excluded farmworkers and other food chain workers. Now, workers and advocates are making a case for including their needs.

Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms | The Electronic Intifada

Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms | The Electronic Intifada

PragerU: A Far-Right Propaganda Machine Now in Florida Schools

PragerU: A Far-Right Propaganda Machine Now in Florida Schools: PragerU delivers a toxic mix of conspiracy theories, racism, homophobia, anti-feminism, and neoliberalism

Heat wave update: Phoenix streak to end, but more heat records will fall this week | CNN

Heat wave update: Phoenix streak to end, but more heat records will fall this week | CNN

Oppenheimer and a truly terrible mistake | Oppenheimer | The Guardian

Oppenheimer and a truly terrible mistake | Oppenheimer | The Guardian

The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It | The Nation

The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It | The Nation

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa - In These Times

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa - In These Times

The Profound Loneliness of Being Collapse Aware | by Alan Urban | Medium

The Profound Loneliness of Being Collapse Aware | by Alan Urban | Medium

Just Stop Oil are on the right side of history

Just Stop Oil are on the right side of history

Time to Make the Climate Profiteers Pay

Time to Make the Climate Profiteers Pay

Big Oil v the World 3 - Delay

The Power of Big Oil, Part Three: Delay (full documentary) | FRONTLINE