Dwayne Crowe

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

Non-objective composition https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksandra-ekster/non-objective-composition

Are we there yet? #art #oilpainting

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Americans are fed up with the political establishment and an economy rigged against the working class. Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.

Surely this will trickle down to workers, right?

These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.

Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies. That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN. What could go wrong?

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Labour Day is a time to honour workers and to celebrate the victories of the labour movement. The victories that unions have fought for and won benefit us all.

A peacock showing off its art.

It’s not enough to declare rights on paper. A free society depends on citizens who are educated, who ask skeptical questions. Without that, power slips away from the people, and the government begins to rule, not serve.

History repeats itself, and yet we do not learn from history.

The International Court of Justice said countries must protect people from climate change, an urgent, existential threat. Failure to act is an internationally wrongful act; environmental protection is key to human rights. Though non-binding, the opinion could impact global climate cases and talks.

This is a well-written article about carbon capture and sequestration by @tjwebber.bsky.social. I also like the headline framing it as a potential "future climate solution" because the only current climate solution is to stop burning fossil fuels.

A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.

On #ShowYourStripes day, notice that even the most remote population center in the world is experiencing rapid warming due to our use of fossil fuels. Show me your stripes with this tool from @edhawkins.org. showyourstripes.info

A critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening, a new study finds. It’s already supercharging sea level rise in the US: cnn.it/43jbfsT

Once you notice how gullible legacy media has become, you can’t unsee it. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

It’s not normal to write about what’s happening without any sense of outrage.

As of March 14, Prime Minister Mark Carney officially rescinded the consumer carbon tax, leaving @davidmoscrop.com questioning if the act is one of craven politics and pandering or responsive government. thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-kill...

“the widespread, accelerating impact of human-induced climate change” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Earth is undergoing rapid unscheduled warming.