David Hodgson

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say

It is unbearable that the world lets this happen on our watch. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN

Over 2000 records have fallen no-stop since June and keep falling every single day.
Today more records were broken - *=all time R:
36.6 Kasenuma
36.2 Kashimadai
37.4 Zao *
36.0 Ononiimachi
36.6 Yamada *

The record heat will continue all September !

'Something bigger': Trump attorney says FBI raid is over 'conspiracy to overthrow Trump' Christina Bobb, former attorney for President Donald Trump who was indicted for her involvement with Trump’s 2020 fake electors plot, said that she believed the Friday morning raid on John Bolton’s home was “certainly part of a larger conspiracy” to overthrow the president, contrary to reporting tha...

'Something bigger': Trump attorney says FBI raid is over 'conspiracy to overthrow Trump'

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

Encouraging everyone to think about how every right-wing paramilitary death squad around the world for the past century has armed itself with “lost” or “stolen” military/police gear and also 97% of their members were the same guys but with masks on.

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Only public ownership of the water system will solve its crisis - British Politics and Policy at LSE The recent report by the Independent Water Commission led by Sir John Cunliffe recommends the abolition of Ofwat and deeper regulatory reforms. But further regulation won't resolve the fundamental ten...

Only public ownership of the UK’s water system will solve its crisis blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’, hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

- Plastic production soared more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says expert review in @thelancet.com

#plasticstreaty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's not a conspiracy, it's capitalism We can't make sense of the present without knowledge of the past

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX!

Conspiracies are born when people have lived experience of abuse and exploitation but no language to make sense of it.

It's not a conspiracy—it's capitalism.

www.planetcritical.com/p/its-not-a-...

The marine heat wave in the North Pacific is one of the most extensive, spanning the giant N Pacific, and in spots, the most intense, I’ve observed. Anomalies near Japan are 15 F (8C) above normal. (Japan just recorded its hottest temp on record.)
The reason for this N Pacific heat wave is… 1/

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Opinion | The Weirdest GDP Report Ever The economy grew 3%, but mainly because imports collapsed. Alas, investment fell too.

The economy "grew" because trade is collapsing. It's not good news at all, says WSJ. www.wsj.com/opinion/gdp-...

Are we allowed to identify this as ethnic cleansing now?

Rethinking Marine Protected Areas - why current practices are failing - Blue Planet Society We keep hearing that 30% of the ocean will be protected by 2030. But only 8.4% of our blue planet is protected, and just 2.8% is effectively protected. We need drastic change to achieve the 30% target...

Rethinking Marine Protected Areas – why current practices are failing ❌

We're told that 30% of the ocean 🌊 will be protected by 2030. But only 8.4% of our blue planet is protected and just 2.8% is effectively protected.

✊Real change is needed #30x30
blueplanetsociety.org/rethinking-m...

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Inanna Invest in a regenerative African food system that is healthy for people, planet and society.

"We are a South African systemic investing studio" inanna.global

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.

President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Brownie 2025: FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FOUR WAYS TO SAVE WATER! - Turn the tap off while you're brushing your teeth - Use a watering can to water plants instead of a hose - Invest in leaking infrastructure instead of paying big bonuses to owners - Bring water companies back into public ownership REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Remember, the best way to save water during a drought is to...

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BRING WATER COMPANIES BACK INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...

As we head into the 3rd heatwave of the summer, *please* take just 2 moments to sign this petition calling on government to help our communities adapt & prepare for the impacts of #climate change. We are not safe — we need to be #SAFER @climatemajority.bsky.social

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit

- PFAS forever chemicals above proposed safety limits in nearly all English rivers, lakes & ponds, study finds
- levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average

Our new article out now:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RIVM: bijna iedereen in Nederland heeft te veel PFAS in bloed De effecten zijn afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid PFAS, de duur van de blootstelling en iemands persoonlijke gezondheidssituatie, zegt het instituut.

Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. nos.nl/l/2573446