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Todd Dufresne

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Cnd philosopher. Interested in climate change; art; progressive politics, anti-war; recovering Freud scholar (critic). Beliefs: Tolerance of intolerance is not a virtue. A better world is possible. ‘Doomers’ are basically correct. ❤️✊🏻

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10.03.2026 05:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@anniemleonard.bsky.social I promised you a copy. If you provide me with a preferred (work) address, I’ll send it out. ✊🏼DM or email pls.

09.03.2026 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next “The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this.”

'“You and I will be gone,” the U.S. official said, also referring to this reporter, “and Trump, too, but this attack on Iran is going to have a super long half-life. Generations long.”'

09.03.2026 00:53 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Very much appreciate this generous blurb by a thinker I admire, David McNally. ✊🏼

09.03.2026 00:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Illinois Democrat Running For U.S. Congress Goes Viral With Genius Attack Ad—On Herself

Beat 'em to the punch.

08.03.2026 16:30 👍 1956 🔁 323 💬 54 📌 16

Very kind of you. Second half pushes hard against the forces of dystopia — and for a better, more just future. ✊🏼

08.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a call to move toward an activism grounded in a collectivist politics. I call it left populism and the orientation “utopic realism.” ✊🏼. Ie pursuing the best possible world based on freedom for the “99%”. Thx for asking. 😊

08.03.2026 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New book March 2026! Called “an urgent and important book,” I hope to reach non-experts worried about climate and social justice today. ✊🏼 #climatechange

03.03.2026 16:28 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1

Arresting journalists.

Fatally shooting protestors.

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

30.01.2026 21:35 👍 6471 🔁 2172 💬 472 📌 135

The US must be kicked out of the Olympics.

25.01.2026 19:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

without meaning the slightest bit of disrespect to the No Kings protests, the sentiment on the ground here is less No Kings 2025 and more Leipzig 1989

24.01.2026 00:40 👍 1693 🔁 133 💬 16 📌 6
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The people of Minneapolis have come out in force to protest—and TNR was there to witness. trib.al/I4rlxUx

"I’ve photographed under dictators, societies on the cusp of breakup, and outright invasion ... We are not there yet, but when rhetoric is backed by armed force, that’s how escalation begins."

24.01.2026 00:44 👍 222 🔁 83 💬 11 📌 2

Evil guy is universally panned. Where were they every other day?? The normalization of his moral and intellectual incapacities is awful to behold.

16.12.2025 17:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For more than a century, oil companies have sunk wells in this desert looking for liquid gold, leaving countless scars behind. Dunlap showed me wells ensconced by rusted-red pipes and decrepit pumpjacks strewn about the desert. These thousands of forgotten wells are not just inert fossils of economic history. Many emit methane—a greenhouse gas that's nearly 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide -and leach chemicals, including benzene, a human carcinogen.
Recently, another problem has emerged: Old, dormant wells have begun mysteriously leaking-oozing brine onto the land-and shooting geysers of toxic water into the sky.

For more than a century, oil companies have sunk wells in this desert looking for liquid gold, leaving countless scars behind. Dunlap showed me wells ensconced by rusted-red pipes and decrepit pumpjacks strewn about the desert. These thousands of forgotten wells are not just inert fossils of economic history. Many emit methane—a greenhouse gas that's nearly 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide -and leach chemicals, including benzene, a human carcinogen. Recently, another problem has emerged: Old, dormant wells have begun mysteriously leaking-oozing brine onto the land-and shooting geysers of toxic water into the sky.

Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state.

Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

08.12.2025 13:18 👍 279 🔁 126 💬 17 📌 12

Heroic figure in climate studies.

30.11.2025 19:18 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed. Why it is we think being an exceptional thief (billionaire) is qualification enough to spout on about everything is beyond me.

28.10.2025 18:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dems never learn. Why not ask Al Gore to be her running mate?

25.10.2025 14:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

'in 2019, Carney described climate change as “the world’s greatest existential threat.”'

How can you know this and then approve more fossil fuel expansion?!?

What kinds of person does that?

14.10.2025 15:39 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1

Har.

12.10.2025 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Existential wasp.

12.10.2025 17:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Arctic is turning orange — It could trigger a devastating chain effect sooner than expected In the Arctic, melting ice turns rivers orange — scientists warn this rare phenomenon could trigger a devastating chain reaction for Earth’s climate.

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 9, 2025 ~ Arctic FUBAR

"If orange rivers are the first sign, what comes next could redefine the planet’s climate system, and faster than anyone imagined. What began as an aesthetic anomaly has become a planetary alarm..."

www.ecoticias.com/en/arctic-tu...

09.10.2025 15:28 👍 101 🔁 36 💬 8 📌 9

Beautiful.

06.10.2025 06:17 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He is the terrorist who should be arrested. All the trumpsters are terrorists. Question is: Will Americans strike en masse for their freedoms before they have none? Tick tock.

06.10.2025 06:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.10.2025 21:17 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

30.09.2025 04:06 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Amplified? As a Cnd I’m already plenty horrified — and amazed there hasn’t been either a revolution or a general strike. Tick tock, folks.

30.09.2025 00:52 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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22.09.2025 05:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yep.

21.09.2025 04:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0