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This joins a growing pile of decisions that almost universally affirm the basic principle that the federal government cannot force state and local governments to use their resources to support ICE.

i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry

The price of diesel has reached an all-time high, a result of the war in Iran and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries. That will matter across the supply chain. n.pr/4ykjqmT

The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice. n.pr/4yoJoFV

This summer, many, many news reports failed to make the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. So we wondered — have journalists made the connection between the deadly glacier collapse and flooding in Nepal and climate change? The good news? Many. Here's a thread...

Every single human alive today has existed in this era of trying to avoid worsening fossil fuel use, and then cutting it out ASAP. "Okay we're in this, but how do we stop as much extra harm as possible from happening"

If by 'climate change is unstoppable' you mean 'there are some impacts that are already locked in', then that was true like, early in the middle of the previous century? We missed the window to avoid *literally any* impacts of fossil fuel use around world two, that is a weird metric to judge by

Very good point here: A lot of university leaders will think, "the Trump administration just wants us to make some vague statements - we can live with that." They are not counting on the DOJ using those statements as the basis for legal investigations. Which this DOJ will be willing to do.

an entire party culture defined by a debilitating fear of confrontation www.offmessage.net/p/elon-musk-...

i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt

"By Nov 3, there’s every chance that Trump will be more unpopular than he is today. His mental deterioration in just these last few weeks is noticeable, and in two more months, he may literally be drooling." Good @mjtoma.bsky.social case that things will get worse: newrepublic.com/post/215132/...

i maintain that north minneapolis has the best views of the skyline and now i can add that they have the best developed trails along the riverfront too. what a beautiful place

Sometimes lone jurors are completely irrational and want to be the center of attention and cajoling, demanding special attention despite the risk of tanking a high-profile trial! Ask me how I know.

Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone pumping out workslop with Claude who was temporarily delayed yesterday because the 100% fossil-fuelled ultra-polluting data centre in a black community in the US that powers them had a lil boo boo

The people clamoring all over my comments about the importance of academic integrity a few weeks ago are curiously silent about these allegations of data fabrication. I’m not qwhyte sure why. (Part 1)

fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

Fossil fuel are significantly more costly than non-fossil alternatives in general, but the 2020s have seen more acute, crippling fossil price spikes than ever before. People hate that! The physical destruction caused by their use is also a cost people do not like paying!

I hear talk that we need UK data centers for IT 'sovereignity'. But irrespective of whether your files are stored on a computer in San Jose or Slough, if (e.g.) Microsoft get instructed to cut your access to Office365, your organisation is cooked.

"If Trump wants Greenland, he can just order Microsoft to switch off Office 365 for the country and every ministry and significant firm will be shuttered in an instant, along with many households" @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/b...

Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable “pervert glasses”.

two headlines on the same day

The amount of oil use avoided by EVs in China in the first half of 2026 is the same as the amount of oil USED BY THE ENTIRE UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Spain wants to tax fossil fuel producers in order to fund climate adaptation An application of the 'polluter pays' principle Economists estimate cost of climate-change induced drought in Europe this summer was €50bn, one bank says €180bn Someone's got to pay for it www.ft.com/content/86da...

Revealed! How companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England. Companies use 2.6 billion litres of public water a day, many not required to report or cut their use. Less than 1% use same amount of water as 10 million people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people The biggest users include oil refineries, chemical plants and paper mills, and some face no requirement to cut their consumption. @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the most persistent problems with data centre development: we have no idea what they actually do in there. If it's being planned now it's probably *something* related to GenAI, but what exactly? It's all kept secret. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

And as always a reptition of one of the worst habits of academics: "[x] shouldn't be a replacement for mitigation but an addition to it" Just blurting that out doesn't make it true. If a technology promises to keep fossil fuels going it will ALWAYS default to killing off climate action. **always**

I see a lot of these pieces that are pretty clearly trying to mask and downplay what feels like active advocacy for geoengineering deployment. Not Musk-like move-fast-ism but still a position that basically implies that scientists and governments could do it well if we just let them

It's rare to see a mainstream news broadcaster explicitly referencing loss-and-damage finance, climate justice and big-emitter responsibility in its reporting. So this moment on the BBC's News at Ten really caught my attention. Report by @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social in Nepal

Nice new report that includes this lovely little bit: by 2035 we could erase 100% of Hormuz oil and ~1,000% of Hormuz gas by switching to clean tech, EVs, energy efficiency etc. www.energy-transitions.org/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court, in every money-in-politics ruling:

No other world leader speaks as clearly about the climate emergency right now as Pope Leo

This president will grab and pocket money from everyone. Even his gullible supporters. Nice work pulling back the curtain, Comer.

The most important piece I’ve come across on Trump’s new election interference push. Please read this from @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

It's probably the only honest thing they've done

For the first time since its inception in 1991, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held outside the United States because organizers feared that it is unsafe for foreign guests to visit the United States under the Trump regime.

Both of my kids have benefited immensely from CHOP — my daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer there, for instance — so I would like to take this moment to tell Senator John Fetterman to go fuck himself

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To think that we live among idiots who think that "elite institutions" have been "captured by leftist ideologues" lmao

Fetterman is an Israel lackey. Why would he care about a children's hospital if he can't bomb it?

Thomas Rose, a 37-year-old assistant professor at MIT and an expert in the archaeometallurgy of copper, has died after being hit by a driver while riding his bike at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Ave.

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

#bienvenidosdystopia

Fantastic! For those interested in detailed geological analysis about exactly what happened and what the causes are, this video is exceptionally well made. Worth watching:

...there are systemic reasons, grounded in racism and other forms of discrimination, that make certain people more 'at-risk' from heat stress (incl. death) than others. Tschakert proposes 'Thermopolitical expendability' for this. Check out the paper for more - there is a lot to reflect on. /FIN

...because choices are constantly being made about who should live and who should not (biopolitics and necropolitics). When we talk about 'at-risk groups, frontline communities' in the context of heat, we are making it seem like it is a coincidence that these people are 'at risk' -but it is not...3/