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@lukekemp.bsky.social gets featured on PBS Terra to talk about estimates on the high end - and by end, I mean potentially of the world:
youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
Worth watching and considering.
youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
Worth watching and considering.
This Is How the World Ends According to Science
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
@lukekemp.bsky.social gets featured on PBS Terra to talk about estimates on the high end - and by end, I mean potentially of the world:
youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
Worth watching and considering.
youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
Worth watching and considering.
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Have you voted for the NDP? Donated to the NDP? Been a member in previous years?
You may have done all of these things, but that doesn't mean you're a member right now.
My own brilliant wife made the same mistake.
Watch Naomi's message, and make sure to become a member before Jan. 28!
You may have done all of these things, but that doesn't mean you're a member right now.
My own brilliant wife made the same mistake.
Watch Naomi's message, and make sure to become a member before Jan. 28!
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Have you voted for the NDP? Donated to the NDP? Been a member in previous years?
You may have done all of these things, but that doesn't mean you're a member right now.
My own brilliant wife made the same mistake.
Watch Naomi's message, and make sure to become a member before Jan. 28!
You may have done all of these things, but that doesn't mean you're a member right now.
My own brilliant wife made the same mistake.
Watch Naomi's message, and make sure to become a member before Jan. 28!
Okay. Okay. Okay. I just want people to know that if you catch me walking around randomly saying, "Hey, Canada!" blame me not.
youtube.com/shorts/MNQWs...
It's @the-goose-media.bsky.social's fault.
youtube.com/shorts/MNQWs...
It's @the-goose-media.bsky.social's fault.
A Brief History of Canada’s Car Tariffs (sketch)
YouTube video by The Goose
youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Okay. Okay. Okay. I just want people to know that if you catch me walking around randomly saying, "Hey, Canada!" blame me not.
youtube.com/shorts/MNQWs...
It's @the-goose-media.bsky.social's fault.
youtube.com/shorts/MNQWs...
It's @the-goose-media.bsky.social's fault.
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CNN pays Scott Jennings to tell right-wing lies. If he started telling the truth, CNN would fire him and hire a replacement to tell right-wing lies.
The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
CNN pays Scott Jennings to tell right-wing lies. If he started telling the truth, CNN would fire him and hire a replacement to tell right-wing lies.
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Most economists disagree with extreme voices on debates about climate risks, and yet we keep providing fuel to both sides. This article tries to explain why.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Most economists disagree with extreme voices on debates about climate risks, and yet we keep providing fuel to both sides. This article tries to explain why.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
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Trump is the authoritarian. He/the GOP have agency & own all the things now. But the media/societal enabling of this "Blue America are not Real Folkz & their cities are sh*tholes" rhetoric, for my entire lifetime, helped make it possible. It should have been banned from polite society decades ago.
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Trump is the authoritarian. He/the GOP have agency & own all the things now. But the media/societal enabling of this "Blue America are not Real Folkz & their cities are sh*tholes" rhetoric, for my entire lifetime, helped make it possible. It should have been banned from polite society decades ago.
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Two wildly different standards for two wildly different parties, perpetuated by newspaper editors & a pundit class unable or unwilling to change their behavior when other, more serious choices, remain readily available:
First Ezra Klein, now the WaPo Editorial Board. Standards, but only ever for Democrats. Republicans can denigrate anyone they want to, including the entire Democratic Party, & the pundits & Papers of Record never write things like this.
Democracy Dies In Double Standards or something
Democracy Dies In Double Standards or something
This, from the WaPo Edit Board is genuinely stupid. It makes it sound like "dismiss[ing] a majority of the country as biased, ignorant or otherwise basely motivated" is some political no-no. This dismissal is precisely what Trumpism is! Their movement seems to be doing really well!
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Two wildly different standards for two wildly different parties, perpetuated by newspaper editors & a pundit class unable or unwilling to change their behavior when other, more serious choices, remain readily available:
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If a Democrat called a small town or rural area (let alone a city w/ more people than 11 states) a "sh*thole," Ezra Douthglesias would make it the centerpiece of their X posts, podcasts, & op-eds, & the media would make "Dems Alienating Real Folkz" the theme of the next election
This? 🦗 after today
This? 🦗 after today
The two parties are not remotely the same, & yet they are covered in our most prominent outlets in exactly opposite proportions to the actual degree of scandal, lawbreaking, authoritarianism, etc. It has been uneven for decades, but it’s reached new levels of farce & obscenity since Trump.
January 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
If a Democrat called a small town or rural area (let alone a city w/ more people than 11 states) a "sh*thole," Ezra Douthglesias would make it the centerpiece of their X posts, podcasts, & op-eds, & the media would make "Dems Alienating Real Folkz" the theme of the next election
This? 🦗 after today
This? 🦗 after today
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“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
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Great presentation to show relatives in denial about what is going on. Only problem: it's ensnared in the rigid journalistic genre convention of giving demonstrated liars the right of response--"but ICE says they're [doing something they're not]" always gets last word. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
How DHS is turbocharging its immigration crackdown
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Great presentation to show relatives in denial about what is going on. Only problem: it's ensnared in the rigid journalistic genre convention of giving demonstrated liars the right of response--"but ICE says they're [doing something they're not]" always gets last word. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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i'm very much for 'libs got it right' articles
but if you're gonna write one, maybe don't call us 'hysterical' or 'whacky' - unless you name & deconstruct the assumptions behind those terms
but if you're gonna write one, maybe don't call us 'hysterical' or 'whacky' - unless you name & deconstruct the assumptions behind those terms
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 AM
i'm very much for 'libs got it right' articles
but if you're gonna write one, maybe don't call us 'hysterical' or 'whacky' - unless you name & deconstruct the assumptions behind those terms
but if you're gonna write one, maybe don't call us 'hysterical' or 'whacky' - unless you name & deconstruct the assumptions behind those terms
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The funny thing is I never saw the point of debate when I was a kid until I watched a Republican presidential candidate take an election in a state run by his brother where the secretary of state was his co-chair.
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
The funny thing is I never saw the point of debate when I was a kid until I watched a Republican presidential candidate take an election in a state run by his brother where the secretary of state was his co-chair.
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What conservatives/right wing populists do is direct that resentment towards immigrants, minorities, classes assumed deviant, those with religious divergence.
Others.
It boils down to others.
Which brings us back to Jews.
These Others by themselves are not strong, they must be enabled.
Others.
It boils down to others.
Which brings us back to Jews.
These Others by themselves are not strong, they must be enabled.
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
What conservatives/right wing populists do is direct that resentment towards immigrants, minorities, classes assumed deviant, those with religious divergence.
Others.
It boils down to others.
Which brings us back to Jews.
These Others by themselves are not strong, they must be enabled.
Others.
It boils down to others.
Which brings us back to Jews.
These Others by themselves are not strong, they must be enabled.
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This is what they call in the business, a “tell.” One of the tools of the fossil fuel industry has used to prevent action to prevent climate change due to the release of CO2 is to sow doubt, and one of their methods is to complain that the media do not present their side of the argument.
Director Bhattacharya received an award from the Brownstone Institute.
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
January 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This is what they call in the business, a “tell.” One of the tools of the fossil fuel industry has used to prevent action to prevent climate change due to the release of CO2 is to sow doubt, and one of their methods is to complain that the media do not present their side of the argument.
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This plays into the desire of media figures to present both sides in the interest of “fairness.” Here, the Director links the contrarianism of the opponents of public health measures to the contrarianism of climate change deniers.
January 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This plays into the desire of media figures to present both sides in the interest of “fairness.” Here, the Director links the contrarianism of the opponents of public health measures to the contrarianism of climate change deniers.
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This is just performative bullshit, using the actual openness to debate of serious scientists to act aggrieved and to play the "both sides" game about important issues.
6/10
6/10
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This is just performative bullshit, using the actual openness to debate of serious scientists to act aggrieved and to play the "both sides" game about important issues.
6/10
6/10
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I am quite tired of scientists (like Will Happer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...) then the head of the CO2 Coalition and, now, Director Bhattacharya making vague accusations of bias and scientific ambiguity and then not actually engaging in a good-faith scientific debate when it is offered.
5/10
5/10
William Happer - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I am quite tired of scientists (like Will Happer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...) then the head of the CO2 Coalition and, now, Director Bhattacharya making vague accusations of bias and scientific ambiguity and then not actually engaging in a good-faith scientific debate when it is offered.
5/10
5/10
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Director Bhattacharya received an award from the Brownstone Institute.
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Director Bhattacharya received an award from the Brownstone Institute.
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
He devoted some of his time to criticize the press, including about "taking sides" on global warming.
1/10
Time for a fireside chat.
You might have already seen that convo I pointed to with @johnvaillant.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/thim...
But the algorithm must have kicked in or there's something about middle January because PBS Terra dropped an episode on the LA fires:
youtu.be/tYNwfj74WsI
You might have already seen that convo I pointed to with @johnvaillant.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/thim...
But the algorithm must have kicked in or there's something about middle January because PBS Terra dropped an episode on the LA fires:
youtu.be/tYNwfj74WsI
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Time for a fireside chat.
You might have already seen that convo I pointed to with @johnvaillant.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/thim...
But the algorithm must have kicked in or there's something about middle January because PBS Terra dropped an episode on the LA fires:
youtu.be/tYNwfj74WsI
You might have already seen that convo I pointed to with @johnvaillant.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/thim...
But the algorithm must have kicked in or there's something about middle January because PBS Terra dropped an episode on the LA fires:
youtu.be/tYNwfj74WsI
@hankgreen.bsky.social just published a video on truth and how republicans are comfortable asserting dominance over provable facts by just not acknowledging them and continuing to lie.
youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo
youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo
Truth
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social just published a video on truth and how republicans are comfortable asserting dominance over provable facts by just not acknowledging them and continuing to lie.
youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo
youtu.be/FyStPztM7eo
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Americans pay dramatically higher drug prices than patients in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Aligning US drug prices with those nations would save $184 billion annually, reducing national drug spending by 51%. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/qP9b50XWit1
January 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Americans pay dramatically higher drug prices than patients in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Aligning US drug prices with those nations would save $184 billion annually, reducing national drug spending by 51%. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/qP9b50XWit1