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Latest frame shows a near perfect hurricane with a classic "pinhole" eye. Only 9 Atlantic hurricanes have had stronger peak sustained winds (5 of them being from the past two decades). Great concern for #Jamaica.
Melissa, now with sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/hr) and capable of gusts to 260+ mph (425+ km/hr) on windward hilltops, 40" (1000 mm) of rain, and a 13 ft (4 m) storm surge, has started the feared turn to the northwest. First NW then north is the forecast. #Jamaica #HurricaneAlert
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
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Meanwhile March for White Australia returns this Sunday 19 Oct
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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As I write in The Guardian this morning, the danger of this moment is that if Europe does not act against Trump now, it will never act again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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NEW VIDEO: "AN ABUSE COVER-UP TO PROTECT TAX BREAKS MORE PRECIOUS THAN CHILDREN" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzI...
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Live scenes from the war in Portland, Oregon. www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...
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Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
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A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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Today is an ideal day to learn about Horst Wessel. The Nazis used his murder as a propaganda bonanza. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...
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Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon theonion.com/iran-wo...
White Christian nationalist and MAGA Trump supporter with anti-abortion hit list Vance Boelter decides killing is his way of showing how pro-life he is, and how much he loves Jesus. If he survives to trial we can probably expect a presidential pardon. abcnews.go.com/US/gov-walz-...
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Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."
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A young Anthony Albanese once mocked John Howard. Now he's become the very thing he derided, writes Bernard Keane.
How much power does a watt have? It seems remarkable that a single watt can have enough power to amplify the devastating impacts of climate change for millions of Australians & indeed the rest of the world. www.abc.net.au/news/1053239...
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Massive congratulations to @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for launching the legal action against EnergyAustralia and securing a landmark result: an apology for greenwashing and a commitment to direct emission reduction. Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well. Have a read:
Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product
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This is big. An Australian energy company has been forced to admit that there is no substitutability between fossil fuel CO2 emissions (average life in the atmosphere of c1,000 years) and the projects/credits offered for carbon offsetting, largely shorter lived nature based avoidance/removal of CO2.
Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product
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The trickle of refugees from the US under Trump will soon grow to a flood.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
With the Israeli government trading on their historical victim status they have set out now to be the abusers. In this moving song David Rovics sings about Israel’s use of mass starvation of children in Gaza, a war crime of mass murder being committed before our eyes, right now.
Entering the third month of Israel's total embargo on Gaza, the starvation has begun. www.patreon.com/posts/128486...