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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

Every American needs to watch this:

Corporatist fascism, plain and simple. DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics. This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...

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Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

“These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.”

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Andor's Nemik eulogizes Renee Nicole Good. I lifted work from excellent photojournalists to make this video, but it felt really urgent to get the message out and it will take me quite some time to do a credited version. Apologies. (This a repost with a more cogent description and alt-text.)

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

The very definition of fascist

“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

Typical CEO In Chumplandia......

ICE attacks & pepper sprays Rep. Adelita Grijalva

The Golden Age.

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...

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A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

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Something that I think about almost often... The Trump Administration and the "pro-life" GOP killed thousands of children around the world. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Meta projected that 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods — that's $16 BILLION. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

🍁 Another reason to like Canada… #humanity #FeedThePoor

As rain and thunderstorms pelt the East Coast on Thursday, air traffic controllers continue to call out of work in greater numbers after missing their first full paycheck, causing further delays.

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

#Messages in bottle written by World War I #soldiers in 1916 found on #Australian beach: "Absolutely stunned" Link for more: www.cbsnews.com/news/message...

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My feelings, exactly.

It has happened! 200 days of 100% WindWaterSolar on CA's main grid in 2025 Including a record battery output of 47.69 GWh on 10/17 Gas down 18.5% v '24 & 37.2% v '23 PV up 14.6% v '24 & 43.5% v '23 Batteries up 56.8% v '24 & 202.7% v '23 Demand down 2.1% v '24 & 1.3% v '23

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days. Epstein Shutdown.