Basta ☕

This Starter Pack.

nato being killed because of the mercator projection is quite funny tho

I’m actually very happy for James Comer and House Republicans to establish the precedent that former presidents should be hauled before congressional committees to be questioned about Epstein, pardons and other matters.

This is among the many sad posts I've seen today. Hold on, y'all. 🥹🥹🥹👇

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

I deleted the app from my phone a week ago and, my God, it has made all the difference. Highly recommended, especially if you have an even remotely large account.

December 2025 was the 5th warmest December on record globally. This month was about 1.42°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. Note the sharp temperature anomaly contrast across North America! Summary of month from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🌊🧪⚒️

Why did he put the money into a Qatari bank account instead of the US Treasury?

People have donated over $1 million to support TJ Sabula in the last 24 hours.

Zero percent chance this is true.

In Minneapolis

These men love that they are officially sanctioned to abuse women.

Sometimes they just tell us they are weaponizing the criminal justice system to push their political agenda.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Announcement: On Wednesday January 14th ALL AGENCIES (NOAA,NASA,Copernicus,JMA & Berkeley) will release their 2025 Climate Reports. Stay tuned than,I 'll post all their numbers in the coming hours

“The data shows a planet warming faster than policy response, storms intensifying alongside rising seas, and economic losses concentrating where resilience is weakest. Climate risk is now a planning variable, rather than a forecast uncertainty.” www.forbes.com/sites/dianne...

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

None of these people should be able to work in our industry again

US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductions #Climate

These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

#Inventor Maria Beasley's genius was barrel machinery. First barrel-hooping machine patent in 1881. Final design could hoop ~1700 barrels/day. Licensed to Standard Oil & others, she was generating $20K/year in royalties ($652K in 2024) by 1912. Her inventions didn't stop there... #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

China is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind. The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens. I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.

A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after 20 years #Climate

Given all the insane things that the Trump regime has done, nothing should surprise us. But I’m still shocked and angry that they are going to dismantle NCAR.

"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

Horrific. people.com/rob-reiner-w...

America is the place where your kids might die at home because of unaffordable health care, outside because they might get run over by someone with an SUV, or at school because they might get shot by someone with an AR-15.

If you enjoyed last month’s “international climate change summit catches on fire,” you may also enjoy:

I’m sorry can someone really bad die, please? Can we get a despot or dictator to drop dead?

Bluesky has genuinely revived my love for science communication online. After watching the same posts go nowhere on Twitter, seeing them resonate here has been such a good reminder of why I do this. Thanks for being here 🖤

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years #Climate

Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

Feverishly working on this

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

This entire weekend

Join us! In a few days, @climatecentral.org will be launching a new webinar series on the state of our climate! I’ll provide monthly overviews of current global and U.S. conditions, along with special guests, featured topics, and written reports. ➡️ Sign up at www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...

Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.

American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson, better known as Grandma Moses, died #OTD in 1961. She began painting in earnest at age 78. Her paintings--scenes that embody "a sense of an idyllic bygone America"--graced the covers of TIME & LIFE and are part of many museums' collections. #art #artsky

Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024. A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

"EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites" "The agency modified sections of its website by deleting information about human-created greenhouse gases and the role they play in warming the planet. It also removed links to scientific data and information."

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!