Environment (3rd Quarter, 2024)

Landmark new research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall (July 25, 2024) 

 

How cormorants are rethinking their migration routes in the face of climate change (August 21, 2024) 

 

Bird species are disappearing at an alarming rate in Kenya – new study (August 22, 2024)

 

 

We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe, warns biodiversity summit president (August 22, 2024) 

‘Humanity is failing’: official report warns our chance to save the Great Barrier Reef is fast closing (August 24, 2024)

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows (August 28, 2024)

 

 

Aquatic life under threat as pollution and warmer waters wreak havoc (August 30, 2024)

 

 

Canada's 2023 wildfires emitted more carbon than most countries (August 30, 2024)

 

 

Seabirds: 40% of UK species in trouble – bird flu, climate change, and overfishing to blame (September 2, 2024)

 

 

Methane emissions are at new highs. It could put us on a dangerous climate path. (September 10, 2024)

 

 

Mike Joy’s grave new world (September 10, 2024)

 

 

Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says (September 18, 2024)

 

 

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve (September 20, 2024)

 

 

Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows (September 23, 2024)

 

 

Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as endangered for first time (September 30, 2024)

 

 

 

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Random Tweets (2025)

The governor of Ohio just signed a law that charges people hundreds of dollars to get police body cam footage. Welcome to America where fascist cops can ruin your life on video, and then you gotta max out your credit cards just to get the proof and clear your name. (January 3, 2025)

 

 

The human species only survived and excelled because of cooperativeness, collaboration, shared burdens and shared benefits. Whatever system it is we have now flies in the face of over 300,000 years of human evolution. But please, tell me again why everyone doesn't deserve healthcare. (January 3, 2025)

 

 

 

Random Tweets (2024)

So the President can be a felon but voters cant? Seems backwards (January 16, 2024)

 

 

Boycott Western Media Entirely (January 17, 2024)

 

 

If Donald Trump, a man CONVICTED of 34 FELONIES, can be President of the United States, the question ‘Have you ever been convicted of a felony?’ needs to be REMOVED from EVERY job application in America! (May 31, 2024) 

Is there's one person, one administration and one moment in time you could point to as sealing the fate of America, it would be the Barack Obama moment. And it was all the more destructive because of all the hopes and dreams of many many millions of Americans who saw Obama as a huge great promise they could almost feel at their fingertips. (July 14, 2024)

 

 

Today is 22 years since Paul Wellstone's plane crashed, just days after having been threatened on the Senate floor by Dick Cheney for voting against the invasion of Iraq. His family barred Cheney from his memorial service. Paul Wellstone's dead and it's Dick Cheney's party. (October 25, 2024)

 

 

John Maynard Keynes is credited with saying, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” If you are a left/centralist politician, the answer is, “I ignore them, Sir!” (November 12, 2024)

 

 

I know our elites want to talk about everything except this, but as a historian it is my duty to tell you that in such conditions you simply cannot keep a democracy alive. It requires ever more propaganda, authoritarianism, and violence. It is is not sustainable. It is dangerous. (November 28, 2024)

 

 

Elon Musk, whose net worth is over $500 billion, met with US Senators, whose average net worth is $2.3 million and who make $15,000 a month with fully paid health benefits, to discuss cutting social security benefits to people who get an average of $1700 per month. (December 7, 2024)

 

 

 

Random Tweets (2023)

Considering 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, folks have some mighty ignorant takes on the unhoused population when they're only two weeks away from joining the club. (February 15, 2023)

Obama passed a bill to improve trains brakes and the rail system overall. Trump repealed it and the regulation that required trains to disclose carrying toxic materials. (February 17, 2023)

"Moms are superheroes." - Erin Brockovich (February 21, 2023)

Friends, public schools educate 90% of American kids. You cannot privatize all schools. It’s not mathematically possible. The school privatization scheme is a money grab. They’re going to grab it where they can, and leave the rest of our kids behind in defunded schools. (February 28, 2023)

If you want to understand why America is getting crazier/weirder you have to understand that a dying Empire will use Propaganda to get the People to fight amongst themselves instead of fighting their government. (May 3, 2023)

Since Jordan Peterson seems to be trending every other day, here are some examples of why Jordan Peterson is a pseudo-intellectual hack. (June 4, 2023)

In 2010, a horrific earthquake struck Haiti, killing an estimated 160,000 people. A day later, Pat Robertson went on The 700 Club and told viewers that Haitians were to blame, claiming they made a deal with the Devil during their 1791 rebellion against slavery. (June 8, 2023)

In school, we learned that socialism was an inhuman system that was holding humanity back. (June 8, 2023)

Being a CPA I have to occasionally remind people that corporations received a 40% PERMANENT tax cut under Trump. Forty effing percent! I can't believe we're not in the streets with torches and pitchforks over this. (June 19, 2023)

 

 

The planet is burning up and you’re mad about who I’m fucking. You’re living paycheck to paycheck and mad about my pronouns. One bedroom apartments are $2k and you’re mad about my mannerisms. No social safety net, but my affection in public sends you into a rage. Pause, indeed. (August 5, 2023)

As we rebuild Hawaii, we must restore the Green New Deal promise of public land and water use. (August 11, 2023)

After paying income taxes and mortgage costs, most homebuyers have less than 30% of their income left. (August 12, 2023)

How CIA propaganda works. Every American and non-American should watch this video like 25 times. (August 23, 2023)

 

 

Every single job should pay a living wage. (October 2, 2023)

Let me be crystal clear- as a jewish grandchild of holocaust survivors I am always on the side of the people imprisoned in Ghettos and not on the incredibly armed and modern army who serves as their jailers. You're not going to be able to bully me into another opinion. (October 8, 2023)

Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is schedule for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act. (December 11, 2023)

 

 

 

Random Tweets (2022)

I met an unhoused woman who has two years of disability payments sitting in a bank account she cannot access because she does not have an ID. (June 23, 2022)

Welcome to the United States. Where guns have more rights than women. (June 24, 2022)

Another disabled friend has taken their life. Faced with eviction and knowing his disability couldn't be managed on the streets. (June 25, 2022)

In the same 24 hours, scotus made abortion illegal in half the country and the Senate of the largest, most "progressive" state in the Union confirmed that yes, they would like to keep prison slavery in place. (June 25, 2022)

In 1975, women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights. 90% of women walked off their jobs & homes, shutting down the entire country. The men could barely cope. Five years later, Iceland elected first female President. Now Iceland has the highest gender equality in the world. (June 25, 2022)

That cop in Uvalde having his lock screen be the punisher logo and him being scared to take on an active shooter is truly the perfect encapsulation of how cops see themselves vs who they really are. (July 13, 2022)

Class warfare idea: tie minimum wage to average local rent. make the bosses go to war with the landlords." (July 17, 2022)

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil fuel companies. (July 19, 2022)

Am I the only one that sees a problem with working 8-9 hours a day and then going home to having about 4 hours to yourself which includes getting ready for the next day??? This is not life… (July 21, 2022)

The US is a country that has 4% of the world's population, yet holds 25% of the world's prisoners. (July 20, 2022)

I have spent the last 3 days trying to get chemo approved for a patient, and this whole time my patient is not getting treatment as his cancer progresses. An insurance company has decided they know better than the patients oncologist what chemotherapy regimen they should be on. (July 20, 2022)

If a fetus is a baby, then Texas can’t deport undocumented pregnant women since US citizens can’t be deported. (July 21, 2022)

This week the UK Government quietly removed ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international statement on human rights. (July 21, 2022)

 

 

An inflation reduction strategy that doesn’t prioritize rent regulation is doomed. Housing costs are American households’ biggest monthly expense, and rent is a key driver of core inflation. Now is the time for federal action to regulate rents, by any/all means necessary. (July 28, 2022)

Arsenic found in the water at the Riis houses in NYC. (September 5, 2022)

Kim Dotcom: Elon Musk is putting everything on the line to give us more Internet freedom and free speech. That’s exactly what the enemies of the people don’t want. They want to keep you consuming their fake news and propaganda so that they can manipulate you. (November 29, 2022)

An audit of the California Highway Patrol found that they exaggerated their overtime hours and reported full shifts when they didn't even work at all. Over 50 officers were charged with fraud and wage theft, but a judge dismissed the charges because it's standard police practice. (December 4, 2022)

Random Tweets (2021)

The problem with capitalism is that if you aren't born into wealth, your only capital is your labor. So automatically, your human body, is now a commodity that you must sell, and if you can't sell it for enough, you won't be able to care for it and will lose your capital. (January 26, 2021) 

"Poverty is a failure of society, not an individual." - Jess Scarane (January 31, 2021)

"Why does rent go up but the quality of the apartment stays the same?!" - Tinker Hell (February 2, 2021)

"The wrong people have money." (March 20, 2021)

 

 

At some point we have to recognize that the financial anxiety young people are living through is not normal. (March 28, 2021)

"Very rough Easter." - Beth (April 4, 2021)

"I'm not saying you should tear this country down brick by brick but I am saying that your government denying you healthcare, especially during a pandemic, is, in the least, criminally negligent and in many cases, arguably, premeditated murder." - Aaron (August 7, 2021)

"What’s it called when the bank says you cannot afford a $950 mortgage payment so you’re stuck paying $1500 in rent instead." - Alex (August 8, 2021)

My company does this icebreaker thing where every week a different person sends an email to the whole company talking about their average day, and today's coworker started his "I wake up each day furious to be laboring under capitalism" and it has caused quite a stir. (September 3, 2021)

"Berliners just decisively voted to expropriate ~240,000 apartments currently owned by “mega-landlords” " - Karishma Mehta (September 27, 2021)

Corporate censorship is to be opposed even (especially?) when it is just some infantile, reactionary fool being "deplatformed." (December 14, 2021)

Random Tweets (2020)

The difference between our empathy & judgment is always, whether we know the story (February 14, 2020)

 

I’m seeing chatter about government bailouts for airlines. Maybe the airlines should have saved some of their paychecks for a rainy day? A good start would be if the airlines gave up that daily $5 latte. (March 9, 2020)

American history books are like: Slavery was bad but then Lincoln fixed it (June 7, 2020)

Jen Pereleman warns DWS (August 16, 2020)

Jen Perelman: DWS physically shoved one of my volunteers handing out palm cards (August 16, 2020)

Beth and Pancakes points out the value of empathy. (November 9, 2020)

Random Tweets (2019)

To say “I don’t see race” in a country where race was the metric for humanity is to functionally state “I choose not to see injustice.” (September 11, 2019)

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