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History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program.
Great point from @normornstein.bsky.social: Trump's demand that the GOP pass grotesque voter suppression measures is explicitly described by him as the way to win the midterms, implicitly admitting Trump's policies are failing.
On the pod Norm is so good on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2075...
Rand Paul: "I think we've gotten overextended. This is our second war in a month, and these wars are very very expensive not only in the lives that are lost, but also in treasure. I'm very very concerned about the debt. Half a trillion dollars for the military budget is fiscally irresponsible."
Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.
1. Again, it’s the president’s war, not America’s.
Poll after poll after poll show a majority, sometimes a vast majority, does not want the US to be entangled in a Middle East war.
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...
L'etat, c'est lui.
If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.
It is rich to be like “the mayor took time to write a serious response to an attack, which might be problematic” while consistently sane-washing the president tweets
700,000 people
It's Doublethink. It's in the book.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov we can never reclaim our democracy if you do not impeach him for this. What a fucking disgrace.
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
Fico needs a kick in the b*llocks!
Bring back shame.
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“The 30% jump in oil prices is the largest one day gain since late 1988…The surge comes after Middle Eastern oil producers, including Kuwait, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, cut oil production following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Profetisk..
Disabled people tried to warn you.
We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.
The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.
Its eugenics on a massive scale
How did bombing Afghanistan for 20 years help turn it into a vibrant democracy?!!We are becoming complicit in another illegal war!
Who can stop the US-Iran war?
China.
My article about how they could displace America as the trusted ally of peace in the world in a matter of weeks. Not joking.
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
That's not what this article says, notably not even in the headline. It says an anonymous source said that the AI use was *likely*. The source has no personal knowledge and is noting that it is the "immediate theory". Let's keep this clear.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
(FT) - Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could “bring down the economies of the world”, predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel.
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/be12...
Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003
Some 800 US-made missiles have been used in three days across the Middle East, more than Ukraine has made use of over the four winter months. #EuropeNews
there i was, thinking about a piece defending the EU ETS, and the big boss has already done it:
"Few policies have done more to combat climate change than the European Union’s emissions trading system."
gift link via @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
![Judith Butler Apology Form:
From: Date:
Reason for behaviour:
[ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
[ ] I never actually read their work
[ ] I miss not thinking about gender
[ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender
[ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
[ ] Mercury was in retrograde
[ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:msauhqa34ckvoct4rsdoijsy/bafkreich6paj6mvf7f2qn744dpctmw7bmqhf54tp3tgfyuem646eepybeq)
Judith Butler Apology Form: From: Date: Reason for behaviour: [ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s [ ] I never actually read their work [ ] I miss not thinking about gender [ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender [ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag [ ] Mercury was in retrograde [ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
loyalty to Trump is a one-way street that dead-ends in an exploding brick wall
Trump logic: promise cheap gas.
Then do the one thing guaranteed to raise oil and gas prices. 🤡
