Angry Future

O say can you see The mushroom cloud rise O'er Hiroshima As the city is burning And the children all scream O God please kill me now For the pain is so bad And my skin is searing And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land that Spreads fear So we'll steal what we crave

John Fetterman’s wife Gisele posted this in response to last week’s killing by federal agents in Minneapolis. Incredibly, the senator himself has not yet said anything publicly or issued any statements.

From the sea to shining sea Turtle Island will be free

One Nazi gone. More to go. Many more to go. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

For a piece of shit like Suozzi to do a mea culpa like this. What a demonstration of the power of collective action— we’re winning.

My latest blog post: "We live in a rapidly deteriorating biosphere in a late-stage necrocapitalist dystopia forced to have a relationship with hope. To paraphrase Socrates, unexamined hope is like an unexamined life. Not worth living." climatecasino.net/2026/01/is-i...

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

The latest, from November 18, has the planet at 1.61°C above pre-industrial. Will the planet reach an anomaly of 1.80°C above pre-industrial over the coming few days, as forecast? The Climate 8-ball is busy eating gobsmacking bananas.

"What is worth more - art or life? Is it worth more than food, worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? The cost-of-living crisis is part of the cost-of-oil crisis. ..." #COP30 #Collapse2028 #Climate

And today, 21 Nov, our regular protest crew at the Josh Burns' office will be joined by the mighty 💪 Melbourne Climate Choir

Exemplifying the "yes, you can just do things" approach @prisonculture.bsky.social encourages, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and Alice Wong started Crips for Esims for Gaza. Unpaid, and w no formal organization, they've raised $3,000,000 US chuffed.org/project/crip...

Trump is now calling for the executions of Democratic veterans who reminded the military of their duty to disobey “ILLEGAL” orders.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "we offer this stark warning: if humanity fails to combat the great global crises we face today, there won't be an Earth--at least not one that we'd recognize." www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the war in Gaza won the nonfiction award at the National Book Awards.

Another reason to stop eating red meat: A 47-year-old JetBlue pilot ate a hamburger and died because he had an allergy to red meat triggered by a tick bite.

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 20, 2025 ~ Bright green truths. "A global pandemic, competing existential crises and the sinister spread of right-wing populism have exhausted so many of us, rendering us either too shell-shocked or cynical to engag with something so painful."

A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:

NEWS: A stunning courtroom admission may have just blown up the Trump DOJ's case against James Comey. Prosecutors just admitted the full grand jury NEVER reviewed the final indictment, only the foreperson did, after Lindsey Halligan brought an altered version straight to the magistrate. 1/

Microplastics are in our blood, brains & bones. Linked to strokes, osteoporosis, immune & reproductive harm, even effects on the brain. Billions of tons of plastic are breaking into trillions of particles. Humanity pretends we’re immune. apple.news/Ah5tgKrq_TUK...

Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 30, 2025 ~ These are the coolest days. "Extreme heat is not a distant risk – it is here now, threatening our people, our economies and our future." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Your 'doom quote' for today: "In some regions of the tropics, outdoor life will become virtually impossible. People will flee, just like many other living things, to higher, cooler climates." www.amazon.com/Heat-Will-Ki...

About ten years ago observers noted massive craters that had formed in Siberia. The cause was a mystery at first, but scientists eventually linked the exploding land to climate change and rising temperatures, caused by pockets of methane below the surface.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I hired Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, and worked with him closely until he was murdered by the Saudi regime in Istanbul -- simply for expressing himself. I put my safety on the line for years to push publicly for justice and accountability in his murder. www.npr.org/2018/10/18/6...

🧵 The side of Nepal the media won't show you 🇳🇵 youtu.be/IyxSqeFrlp0?... 2/3

Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates

Your 'doom quote' for today: "As resources and habitable land diminish, nations will turn against one another in an effort to maintain or gain what they feel is their share and their right." www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...

America celebrates Holocaust Denial every Thanksgiving Many chose to not see

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 23, 2025 ~ The Pyrocene. "Deadly infernos that have emptied out villages and forced farmers to become firefighters have engulfed four times as much land this year as the average for the same period over the past two decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Google President Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

More than half a million people in Gaza City are experiencing famine after almost two years of war, displacement and harsh Israeli restrictions on food and other aid, a new report says.

Stephen Miller in DC about protestors of the federal takeover in DC: "“We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old,” And here’s the Stephen Miller Band, with much younger hippies. harryshearer.com/le-shows/jul...

Can someone explain to these clowns what a HISTORY museum is? Poster child for the dumbing of America, right here.👇🏾

Earth is burning America is in deep denial

The display of asskissing is unparalleled in the history of my universe. How empty and weak does a person have to be to require this sort of display? How weak does a person have to be to indulge him? Thank you South Park for pushing back! #BTG #Pinks #RESIST #SouthPark youtu.be/sEJpQQVJecI?...

JD Vance is Evil Morty

This really is an incredible piece. Steve is one of the best tech journalists of all time, he deserves twice the attention he gets, I don't see anyone else doing this level of in-depth analysis. Astonishing that nobody else got this story. This should be front page of @techmeme.com!