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David Hodgson

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Ecology / Conservation / Regeneration / Climate / Technology / Doughnut Economics / Finance / Extreme Weather / Corruption / Inequality / Politics. And music. My orienting question: How can we grow a livable future for all humanity .. more

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David Michael Hodgson is the Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Oriel College, Oxford.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · Aug 23

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 !

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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

www.nytimes.com

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · Aug 22

'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...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Aug 14

I considered the Department of Homeland Security’s new white nationalist recruitment memes, in the context of the well-documented history of DHS downplaying and disregarding white nationalism and “domestic extremism.” As upsetting as these posts are, it also tracks.

DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is

From the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security has downplayed the threat of white nationalism while focusing its law enforcement power on groups it deems a threat to an imaginary ideal Americ...

newrepublic.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 15

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

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

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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.

www.npr.org

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 7

A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job. www.wired.com/story/myster...

Thieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Googles and More

A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

www.wired.com

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · Aug 4

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-...

It's not a conspiracy, it's capitalism

We can't make sense of the present without knowledge of the past

www.planetcritical.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 4

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/...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

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...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 3

"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."

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

www.theguardian.com

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Deer Lady83 @deerlady83.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hero

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Today I discovered a woman called "Angie the ICE Chaser" on TikTok and she literally just follows ICE vehicles in her car. They become increasingly erratic in their attempts to lose her (breaking sooo many laws on camera) and they never do. She is single handedly striking terror into ICE agents across LA. She also follows them through neighborhoods honking her horn and shouting "THEY ARE ICE!" out her window.
There is a GFM for gas money and the legal fees she is fully expecting to come around.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Aug 2

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/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 2

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...

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.

newrepublic.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

Opinion | The Weirdest GDP Report Ever

The economy grew 3%, but mainly because imports collapsed. Alas, investment fell too.

www.wsj.com

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Gillian de Nooijer @gilliandn.bsky.social · Jul 26

"Far-right Israeli Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) says Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish."

“There’s no hunger in Gaza,” he says. “But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip."

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Jul 26

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 25

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs

The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

www.wsj.com

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · Jul 26

They are using FEMA money for what now?

Isn't this fraud?
www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Jul 24

PEIPLE WILL DIE. 7th post in an endless series:

A dozen carcinogen-spewing petrochemical plants in Louisiana have been exempted, by Presidential proclamation, from rules to make them lower their cancer-inducing emissions.

nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · Jul 1

A lot of media are covering Europe’s heatwave 🔥 but few are connecting it to the climate crisis.

Tools like the Climate Shift Index show this heatwave is up to 5x 😱 more likely because of climate change. That context matters.

csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Map from the Climate Shift Index of Europe, showing that the current heat wave over much of Western Europe is 4-5 times more likely due to climate change.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Jun 22

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

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...

blueplanetsociety.org

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

Inanna

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

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

WIRED @wired.com · Jul 15

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

www.wired.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 15

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

www.wired.com

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Jul 13

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
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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.

www.rollingstone.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Jul 12

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

T̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶p̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶u̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶e̶e̶t̶h̶

BRING WATER COMPANIES BACK INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

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

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David Hodgson @davidhodgson.bsky.social · Jul 12

Claude 3.7 and Claude 4.0 are c vastly different in capability. With 3.7 I’d code files, with Claude 4 I let it code against the entire codebase and implement intricate features

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

www.nytimes.com

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