Greg Spooner

Just in case… find me on Mastodon here: @gregspooner@ohai.social

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

"the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress" Not impeaching him for this, encourages him to keep doing it. Congress must not allow him to be above the law.

One of my hobbies is facing down American motorists who bully pedestrians with their giant vehicles and their lack of an ethical core. I think this might be how I will die. Worth it maybe.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

I made a political.

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The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.

ICE keeps running people over. Another one today in NorCal this time.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

One article after another about Trump allying with the authoritarian bloc of Putin and Xi. All focusing on ephemeral and illusory paranoia, never touching on very obvious corruption, self-dealing, and the influence of oligarchs actively attacking democracy and enjoying deals with all the actors.

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

In fact, this is what I think of those people lol www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberal...

Visit Randy.Vote/Ballot to find your nearest drop box location or voting center and VOTE EARLY!

I wrote about how access journalists are slinking back to Twitter using some of the thinnest justifications imaginable

Trump is actively trying to strip Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her. Trump is actively trying to get LaMonica McIver thrown in prison for 15 years for an assault that never happened. Neither of these two congresswomen is trying to get Trump impeached and removed. It makes no sense.

The Constitution says that members of Congress have to impeach convict and remove criminals like Trump who commit bribery treason and other high crimes. The Constitution doesn't say that members of Congress have to let criminals persecute and prosecute them on trumped up charges.

I think for clarity we should just call them “ICE death squads”

Have you looked at the night sky recently? It is ABSURD how many satellites there are, and it will get >1000× worse in our lifetimes. A few billionaires and state actors will ruin the night sky for the next few *centuries*. This ought to be a much, much bigger story than it is

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jane Doe, who was allegedly sexually assaulted in 2024 at Cornell University, is facing death threats and swatting - resulting in police pointing guns at her family.

Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...

International solidarity against fossil fuel expansion is being built energized right now in Ottawa, at the halls of so-called power. Indigenous leaders and parliamentarians from South America and Canada are uniting. #energysky #cdnpolitics

Democracy Forward have found that HSI, the investigative arm of ICE, has “obtained 26,235 US Citizenship and Immigration Services-derived records, and 50.6 million voter roll records from the US Department of Justice, for investigating so-called voter fraud.”

oh my GOD

The main lesson for those of us in the Global North is that we MUST redouble our efforts to phase out fossil fuel use as rapidly as humanly possible.

Holy shit.

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

Even most climate activists think of frequent jet travel as an inalienable human right for global northerners. We need a large mental shift in how we conceive of society and how we live if we want to have a habitable world. @flightfreeusa.bsky.social

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

Weapon of distraction: How Israel uses greenwashing to mask its climate crimes Israel's illegal occupation and destruction of Palestinian land are incompatible with environment justice. Consumers must wake up to this fact www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/weap...

Jesus loves you! (threat)

The heat dome in 2021 killed over 600 BCers. There were over 38,000 fatalities during the heat waves in Europe this summer. Selling BCers organs would also provide billions in economic benefits, but for some reason that's unthinkable, while selling out humanity's future is worthy of celebration.

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

I mean, there are other places to die on, besides hills.

BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.

The fact that the big Ds aren't demanding impeachment and removal every day is a scathing indictment of their political instincts. Their opponent is extremely vulnerable right now and they absolutely refuse to exploit his weaknesses. It's like they're trying to lose.