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Anthony Burke
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Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net .. more

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Anthony Burke is an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales. He is co-principal at the Planet Politics Institute. .. more

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 4d
Peace on earth.
A view of the Gaza strip

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 3h
Comment: As the computational power needed for AI continues to double approximately every 100 days, the energy footprint of these systems is not static but is exponentially accelerating. buff.ly/hVtJxp4

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20h
Want to learn what we know about #AMOC risk in under 15 minutes? Here's a video of my latest talk, in Helsinki in October. 6/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJX...
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d
Gotta support that!

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d
Pseudo liberals. Tune them out.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d
They would all be fascist too.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d
this is the most inclusive and risk free option. A full royal commission into antisemitism will become a post-truth mess that dishonours the victims. if we’re worried the public service will cover up its flaws, welcome to reality. Demand the Richardson review be thorough and transparent.
Albanese rejects calls for federal royal commission by families of Bondi beach terror attack victims
Labor defends plan for faster, narrower review despite Jewish leaders and families of 11 victims demanding full national royal commission
www.theguardian.com

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d
This neurovirus surge in the north east is no joke folks. My whole family has been hit and have been in and out of the emergency room. The yale hospital here is totally booked out. The nurses said it’s the worst thing they’ve seen since COVID.

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Willy De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · 3d
Looking forward to 2026, I wrote about the war we refuse to see and the enemy we hide
#WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat
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2026: Time to confront the enemy we hide
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote these words ...
www.linkedin.com

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 4d
Make a Bond movie academic

The Living Daylights: Daylight Savings Time and parochial politics in West Australia and Queensland
kenwhite.bsky.social Your Last Merry Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d
make a Bond movie academic

License to Kill: How The Constitution Was Never Intended To Protect The Lives Or Dignity of Non-White-People, By Ilan Wurman
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d
make a Bond movie academic

The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 7d
We’ll deny everything - climate change, genocide, human rights - until there is no reality anymore. We’ll die for your fantasy.
Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard
Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices
www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 8d
Alexander Pope decried the cruelty of cooking lobsters alive in 1713. 313 years later the practice will finally be banned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown
Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming
www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 10d
Our “ ally”
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 10d
Militarism is a key element of the sovereign ban of nature. Imagine if this referred to people? But its cool with nonhuman beings.
US military to stop shooting live animals to train medics for the battlefield
Defense department will still allow stabbing and burning, and ‘weapon wounding’ on animals to test weapons
www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 10d
Interesting

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 10d
New Jersey too:
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 10d
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10d
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 10d
This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 11d
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/12/medi...
Media Release: Unity, safety and prevention — not fulfilling divisive pro-Israel wishlist — must guide the Government’s response to Bondi attack
In the wake of the horrific antisemitic attack in Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today made a series of announcements […]
www.jewishcouncil.com.au

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 11d
A important statement about the Bondi massacre.

www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/12/medi...
Media Release: Unity, safety and prevention — not fulfilling divisive pro-Israel wishlist — must guide the Government’s response to Bondi attack
In the wake of the horrific antisemitic attack in Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today made a series of announcements […]
www.jewishcouncil.com.au

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Wyatt Myskow @wyattmyskow.bsky.social · 11d
The Colorado River Basin is quite literally 50 feet from collapse. But a deal to save it isn’t any closer to happening.

Our take on the deadlocked negotiations over the future of the river the West depends on:

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A River That Millions Rely on for Water Is on the Brink. A Deal to Save It Isn't. - Inside Climate News
LAS VEGAS—The Colorado River Basin is, quite literally, 50 feet away from collapse, and an agreement to save it is nowhere in sight.  Water titans clashed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this week, whe...
insideclimatenews.org

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 11d
🗣️🎙️ I wrote more stories this year than anybody wants to read, but here are 7 that I found interesting 🧵⤵️

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 13d
Thankyou. Which year?

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 13d
😂

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 13d
I love hearing celebrity scientists berate and condescend to Greta Thunberg because she calls COPs “blah blah blah”. (I can point to forty peer reviewed papers that show she is right.) So yeah, scientists shouldn’t talk politics when the effect is delay.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 13d
Fuck I wish we could abolish Christmas, the one day where abusers get to enjoy their own trip and haunt you for life. Let the man have his birthday in peace, lost to the mists of time.
An image of Christ developed by scientists showing his brown skin and Semitic features. A massive fuck you to MAGA.