"When Trump says that he’s leading us on an excursion, that he’s obliterated the enemy’s weapons, that the excursion is complete, it’s natural to think these terms mean what they used to mean. They don’t. They mean whatever he wants them to mean."
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Huge investments in renewable energy have made Spain more independent from fossil fuel imports, and less vulnerable to the surging prices following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran
An end to fossil fuels is better for the climate and people's bills – and takes power away from tyrants
Two researchers who study outbreak preparedness and response at Brown University’s Pandemic Center view the return of measles in the US as a grim signal of what’s to come.
Because how a country controls measles is a proxy for how well it would control many other diseases.
No pay wall.
How Stupid are 'Americans'? This stupid:
Trump administration's fundamental failure to understand the asymmetry.
"The American people can accept honest mistakes. They can accept fog-of-war judgment calls. What we as a nation should not accept is moral drift at the top of the chain of command."
Superb—and *very* unsettling—roundup from @weatherwest.bsky.social. The imminent SW heat wave (likely the most intense for March on record) will involve similar dynamics to the June 2021 scorcher in the PacNW. This landscape-parching heat may set the stage for serious fire/drought trouble by summer.
Demand the best of yourself.
The Stoics come down hard on procrastinating. "Putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself," Epictetus said, "you will live and die as someone quite ordinary." Stop deferring. Demand the best of yourself.
Bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare [via @theguardian.com]
The conflict in Iran is hurting your wallet—and the planet. The "Peace President" has gone to war, and Big Oil is already cashing the checks.
The only real path to security and peace is a fast, just transition to clean energy. You can’t hold the wind or sun hostage.
War By Richard H. Fay War dissipates goodwill. War delivers heartache. War dispenses sorrow. War deals ruination. War deprives humankind Of tranquil contentment Provided by peaceful Coexistence of all. War desolates nations. War defaces landscapes. War desecrates nature. War deals devastation. War disallows culture To flourish unhindered Free from the heavy boot Of martial oppression. War demolishes lives. War destroys families. War decimates households. War deals bloodshed and death. War demands innocents Pay the ultimate price For a politician's Deplorable folly. War is Hell!
New poem: "War".
I think this one speaks for itself.
Background image Koeln 1945 obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain in the United States.
#poem #poetry #war
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'The West has let fascism govern its agenda because it is what Trump and Netanyahu are pursuing. Too many countries, including the UK, have obsequiously fallen in line behind these staggeringly incompetent leaders. We might pay an enormous price.'
Richard Murphy
Two men fired multiple shots at the US consulate in Toronto early Tuesday in what police described as a "national security incident," prompting beefed-up protection for US and Israeli diplomatic buildings in the city.
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Trump:
“Based on what Jared Kushner told me, I thought Iran would attack us.”
Not his intelligence agencies. His fucking son-in-law.
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Oh man, does RFK Jr's pick to review safety of the Covid vax sound awful! I'm always suspicious of self-described experts who use weird words like 'biologics' & 'pharmacovigilance.' And there's so much more...
=shaking my head in dismay=
America’s “Dimestore Dostoevsky” gets his LOA due today, with the publication of Jim Thompson: Five Noir Novels of the 1950s & 60s! Discover the knockout novels of the underground writer Stephen King called “absolutely over the top.” Order your copy from the LOA Web Store and save 20%.
Telling powerful human stories about the benefits of renewable energy matters. But nowhere near as much as $4 billion matters.
“Her reporting depicted the war as a psychodrama of vanity and hubris that indicted the values of the ‘Greatest Generation’ to which she belonged.”
Andrew Holter reads Mary McCarthy on Vietnam in a new era of wartime illusions—and new efforts by writers to puncture them:
So despicable and disgusting. Americans are risking their lives overseas, and the Trump family is cashing in! There is no bottom with these people!
I gifted this so you can read it.
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"It was always strange to assume that a brain worm would pick and choose which judgments to infect." Many of RFK Jr.'s other ideas are pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and wrong.
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social in for @citizencohn.bsky.social in the latest edition of The Opposition:
Farm workers harvesting romaine lettuce
"Guillermo" is harvesting romaine lettuce in Maricopa CA. "This is a very difficult job. You need to work fast while you are continuously bending down and getting up and using a sharp knife to cut the lettuce." #WeFeedYou
Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM
Trump has just spent billions of dollars replacing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei and, in the process, sent the price of oil soaring over $100 and plunged the world economy into crisis.
Great job, numnuts.
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Need to go outside the US media to see real analysis.
"Most of the world is appalled by the ignorance of Trump and his people... Now they are playing at war, a game about which they know incomparably less than those who’ve done it for real in Vietnam and elsewhere."
Worth a read.
“Ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts
- consensus definition for proposed inclusion of Ecocide as international crime in Rome Statute
Tune in tonight at 9 p.m. ET on the Life with John Mayer SiriusXM station (ch. 4) for the premiere of "Grateful Dead Listening Party", featuring live recordings hand-picked by the Dead & Co guitarist.
John Mayer Wants To Listen To The Grateful Dead With You On Sunday Nights:
Joe, you'll be missed. Your performance at Woodstock remains a pure moment in American history.
