The most important article and critical warning you’ll read, until it’s too late

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Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse

I've just caught up with two sobering articles by two great thinkers - ecologist William Rees and climatologist James Hansen.
Read, weep - and awaken?
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/twenty-fou...

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber

Today's must-listen

"A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse"

Helpful.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries unveiled a 10-part plan for House Democrats' efforts to counter many of President Trump's moves to upend the federal bureaucracy.

"The arguments for patriarchy, white supremacy, Christian nationalism, and free-market capitalism join together as in a defensive circle of clasped arms . . . "
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/bethneff...

Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the World and What Normal People Have Absolutely Any Interest in Whatsoever

Frost: You expect me to believe that someone like Elon Musk who is worth over $340 billion, is going to be in charge of helping us decide what my mom's social security check is going to be?

Nominated again for Office of Management and Budget

www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Someone asked about the mass Xodus of scientists to Blue Sky. Here is a great explanation. It is great to be able to share scientific findings, intellectual discussions, critical analysis and interact with fellow scholars. NO to bots. NO to trolls. NO to algorithms set by an egotistical man-child!

“Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” (Gift article)

Hello? Anybody?

An oligarchy is bad enough, but when it's populated by tech bros who are happy and willing to use their toys for profit without regard to anything like a social contract or concern for implications, the consequences are unfathomable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm honored to be here among the journalists, scientists, artists, activists, and political observers who might actually make some contribution to a livable future. Still much to be done to reach a broader coalition - anxious to see what that conversation might look like.