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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 2h

Whoops, your critical thinking is showing!

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 3h

There is no emissions cap! It's been proposed, nothing more. Enough with the industry straw man.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 3h

We are all going to miss property insurance when it's gone. Mortgage? Not without insurance. Just like that your property value goes up in smoke even if it's not literally burning.

Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social · 5h

California’s FAIR Plan seeks 36% rate increase as wildfire risk and insurer exits surge. With $650B in exposure but just $1.5B cash on hand, the math no longer works. Homeowners face costly coverage, rising assessments, and a volatile market going forward. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

California's insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike

As authorities solve one mystery—who set the fire that devastated Pacific Palisades—another deepens: how to make the math work for home insurance in California

open.substack.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

The very definition of a Petro State (or Banana Republic). The country as a whole isn't far behind.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

You don't have to be good to be better than Rustad, which says everything we need to know about David Eby's (narrow) win.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

This is the future Ken Sim does not want for Vancouver. He loves cars, traffic, and fossil fuel money. Not necessarily in that order.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17h

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17h

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 4h

New drought map from @agriculture.canada.ca is out. "At the end of the month, 85% of the country was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or Moderate to Extreme Drought (D1 to D3), including 76% of the country's agricultural landscape."

Canadian Drought Monitor map from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, as of September 30, 2025. https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

I'm told they gave the President a really nice gold plated jet.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

Alberta's not using hydrogen because it's a better fuel. They're avoiding the obviously necessary electrification in a plausible deniable way that serves their fossil fuel masters with their hydrogen derived from "natural gas."

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

Hate reveals insecurities. Want to understand anti-Trans hate? Consider this person's experience.

Many of today's most divisive issues share a connection to male insecurity.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 4h

Never you mind the guy behind the curtain.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Can't say I'm thrilled to see a Trump-aligned foreign power taking up a forward military position near the US-Canadian border.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 5h

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5h

Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com

"I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”

How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses

Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.

www.teenvogue.com

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 5h

At some point that prediction will be correct, they're not subtle about what they're doing.

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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 5h

The purpose of a system is what it does.
Follow the money.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 6h

Today Mark Carney sang the virtues of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a long running industry scam. CCS doesn't work and never has. Carney knows this. Why is he pushing the Fossil Fuel industry's bullshit?

Mark Carney taking questions from the press October 10, 2025.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 5h

It sure looks a lot like this. A wittier and more charming Poilievre, but with the same future destroying policies.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 6h

Today Mark Carney sang the virtues of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a long running industry scam. CCS doesn't work and never has. Carney knows this. Why is he pushing the Fossil Fuel industry's bullshit?

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 14h

UK citizens' rights laid bare.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Trump’s obsession with Canada started in 2016. ⬇️

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 16h

The course of events would seem to imply Freeland knew she was forcing Trudeau out for Carney when she resigned as Finance Minister. How convenient for him.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 18h

Well put!

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