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tinjar.ghost.io/break-on-thr... A short #story that I submitted to the Protopian Prize ( Democratic Futures category) protopianprize.com/democratic-f... If you like the story then you may want to the check out my #novel "A New Faith" at tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #fiction #climate #books #booksky

Gasoline-only cars now make up just 49% of global new vehicle sales, down from 73% in 2021: electrek.co/2026/10/05/g...

Trump administration now trying to hamper operations of an offshore wind farm that's already up and running 🤔 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... via @mariagallucci.bsky.social

Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Elon Musk has spent at least $276 million since July to boost Republican candidates, a record-breaking sum. That’s just 0.028% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

"Originalism" is like any other RW ideology: it's a skin suit, to create a pretext that there are consistent principles involved. The more power they gain, the less they need the skin suit. Thus Alito's "conception of law that is unshackled by restraint and focused solely on conservative victory."

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billmckibben.substack.com/p/from-bad-t... @billmckibben.bsky.social given the speed of the broad-based clean energy transition - I absolutely from the bottom of my heart hate to say it - the longer the Iran and Ukraine wars last, the faster the transition will accelerate. #climatechange

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

MeToo went about 1% as far as it should have gone.

www.slowboring.com/p/the-permit... At no point does this #centrist #political #pundit even bother to mention the 10s of thousands dead so far this year thanks to #climatechange. Not to mention the 10s of millions suffering in hellish ways. But #politics is all these folks can see. No #empathy.

Holy shit.

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

"The dark silver lining is this might be the coolest October of the rest of our lives," @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social said. It was 103 degrees at Dodger Stadium yesterday: www.latimes.com/sports/dodge... via @kbaxter11.bsky.social

Good news California! You can now install plug-in solar panels without permission from your utility. Your gas company is also required to offer you thousands of dollars to install electric appliances instead of replacing your gas line. Lots more here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/newsom-cle...

The bright side of El Niño? California will hopefully capture a lot of groundwater (and reservoir water) to sustain the state through dry times: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... "America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history" #ai #llm #creative #art #jobs #employment

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... Of course #China has nothing to do w/ #democracy or any such progressive notion. However, this is quite a curious achievement - keeping #billionaires down instead of growing into a #kakistocracy that is happening in many places democratic and authoritarian.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Lol, Trump is reducing global greenhouse gas emissions despite himself.

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

This puts the lie to everything they say about AI being "the future". There is no future if they continue down this path.

Trump is doubling down on fossil fuels and rolling back climate protections—leaving us with consequences that will last long after his presidency ends. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092026/trump-epa-plan-to-repeal-power-plant-rules/

Trump’s EPA will no longer limit pollution from gas and coal-burning power plants. Reminder: Trump took millions of dollars in donations from Big Oil, and his EPA chief Lee Zeldin is cozy with the coal industry. Is there anything this regime won’t destroy to please its bankrollers?

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

. World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell Find out more: www.theguardian.com/environ... #ClimateAction

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... "highest number of averted deaths was 29,509,934 (20 273 842–38 603 961) for a 3% wealth tax on ultra-high-net-worth individuals" #Tax the #billionaires - all of them! It is simple - really!

15/ Comparable novels - Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock” Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” Steven Markley’s “The Deluge” Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends” Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island” Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”

14/ Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace? #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #solarpunk #hopepunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #clifi #scifi #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #adaptation #migration

13/ will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition? Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land?

12/ In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions -

11/ How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments.

10/ Motivation - A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world.

9/ Rachel is a part of the #US delegation stationed at the #UN headquarters. She conceives and brings about the financial mechanism to construct and operate Sequoia. She is from the rural parts of #Texas

8/ Camille is a Norwegian #climate #activist who used to organize mass protests against #fossilfuels but who later decides to take a more direct approach to ending the use of #oil #gas #coal She is called upon later in the story to save the city.