Gill Raker
@branxpina.bsky.social
—a politically unaffiliated and agnostic iconoclast… a skeptic and asocial lone-wolf with perhaps a spicy dash of intermittently explosive personality disorder…
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Release the Unredacted and unedited Epstein Files.
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Release the Unredacted and unedited Epstein Files.
🟣 The Chinese bond issuance and the Venezuela escalation are two sides of the same coin demonstrating that alternatives to dollar hegemony are viable and attractive while testing whether the US can still enforce dollar dominance through military power… 😏
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kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
The Real Reason Why the US Overthrew Venezuela
And why it all started in China in November 2025
kasperbenjamin.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
🟣 The Chinese bond issuance and the Venezuela escalation are two sides of the same coin demonstrating that alternatives to dollar hegemony are viable and attractive while testing whether the US can still enforce dollar dominance through military power… 😏
kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-real-r...
📌 "Y'all wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f*cking thing?" 😏
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
📌 "Y'all wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f*cking thing?" 😏
📌 In 1926, science writer David Dietz talked to experts about what the world might look like in 2026 if (1) “the dreams of science fail to materialize” and (2) “science succeeds…”
*/The world population is >8 billion… 🙄
*/The world population is >8 billion… 🙄
January 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
📌 In 1926, science writer David Dietz talked to experts about what the world might look like in 2026 if (1) “the dreams of science fail to materialize” and (2) “science succeeds…”
*/The world population is >8 billion… 🙄
*/The world population is >8 billion… 🙄
🖇️ Top 15 CO2 emitters (1850-2022)…
January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
🖇️ Top 15 CO2 emitters (1850-2022)…
🕯️How much the planet warms with each ton of CO2 emitted remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but there is uncertainty in predicting it:
This uncertainty hinders governments, businesses and communities, from setting emission-reduction targets…
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
This uncertainty hinders governments, businesses and communities, from setting emission-reduction targets…
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Narrowed uncertainty in future global temperature and remaining carbon budget
Global temperature projections and remaining carbon budget estimates for critical
warming thresholds remain highly uncertain. Accounting for land-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks
under high-emission scenari...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🕯️How much the planet warms with each ton of CO2 emitted remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but there is uncertainty in predicting it:
This uncertainty hinders governments, businesses and communities, from setting emission-reduction targets…
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
This uncertainty hinders governments, businesses and communities, from setting emission-reduction targets…
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
💥 Who woulda think it! … 🤗
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
💥 Who woulda think it! … 🤗
💥 The Antarctic Peninsula cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021:
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
💥 The Antarctic Peninsula cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021:
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
✅ Bottom Line: Gates’ shift is driven less by conscience than by pragmatism. His climate-driven ventures have underperformed, the alarmist narrative is fraying, and he’s repositioning himself as a “reasonable centrist” to preserve influence. It’s not repentance —it’s survival…
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
✅ Bottom Line: Gates’ shift is driven less by conscience than by pragmatism. His climate-driven ventures have underperformed, the alarmist narrative is fraying, and he’s repositioning himself as a “reasonable centrist” to preserve influence. It’s not repentance —it’s survival…
⛓️💥 Bill Gates rejects the “doomsday view of climate change,” but he’s still too alarmist, says an influential climate scientist:
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
⛓️💥 Bill Gates rejects the “doomsday view of climate change,” but he’s still too alarmist, says an influential climate scientist:
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
Under (Financial) Pressure - Barnes - Financial Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Under (Financial) Pressure
We examine how financial pressure influences rule enforcement by leveraging a novel setting: NFL officiating. Unlike traditional regulatory environments, NFL officiating decisions are immediate, tran...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Under (Financial) Pressure - Barnes - Financial Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
—Just like it’s fair to say that the DOE'S author team was likely curated to have a particular perspective, it’s also fair to say that the response’s author team likely has certain overrepresented perspectives on contested interpretive and normative…
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guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
Livestream with the "blue team"
A team of 85+ scientists organized on Bluesky to respond to the DOE climate report. I joined journalist Andy Revkin and three of these scientists to discuss this on Sustain What.
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
—Just like it’s fair to say that the DOE'S author team was likely curated to have a particular perspective, it’s also fair to say that the response’s author team likely has certain overrepresented perspectives on contested interpretive and normative…
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
—The Colorado River powers over 16 million families, 5 million acres of farmland, and $1.4T in economic activity, and this year it’s collapsing at an ALARMING rate:
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
September 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
—The Colorado River powers over 16 million families, 5 million acres of farmland, and $1.4T in economic activity, and this year it’s collapsing at an ALARMING rate:
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
—Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism than leftism…
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
September 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
—Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism than leftism…
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
—This is an amazing analysis, based on semantics, of a very opinionated discussion that goes inside the current DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority, following Trump's administration agenda…
When Power Rewrites the Science
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When Power Rewrites the Science
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When Power Rewrites the Science
Inside the DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority Reto Knutti warns that the U.S.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
—This is an amazing analysis, based on semantics, of a very opinionated discussion that goes inside the current DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority, following Trump's administration agenda…
When Power Rewrites the Science
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-p...
When Power Rewrites the Science
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-p...
💥 “The extreme scenario of >3 °C till 2050 is > 4 billion deaths and breakdown of human civilization is conservative… What hasn't been realized is that current humans might likely reach this mark by 2040 as too many feedbacks are now mutually synchronizing and reinforcing...”
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August 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
💥 “The extreme scenario of >3 °C till 2050 is > 4 billion deaths and breakdown of human civilization is conservative… What hasn't been realized is that current humans might likely reach this mark by 2040 as too many feedbacks are now mutually synchronizing and reinforcing...”
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—I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation…
August 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
—I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation…
🖇️ There’s a graveyard of false stats —buried by statistical rigor, not forgotten: And standing tall above their intended resting places are these two enduring tombstones… 😏
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
🖇️ There’s a graveyard of false stats —buried by statistical rigor, not forgotten: And standing tall above their intended resting places are these two enduring tombstones… 😏
💥 A week of fear porn:
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
💥 A week of fear porn:
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
🖇️ Explaining the Wheel of Knowledge… ☺️
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🖇️ Explaining the Wheel of Knowledge… ☺️
—Who else is using AI to read papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals? I tell the Grok Lady to describe the paper in a way that a 5th grader can understand, then I then ask her questions about the papers,and now I think I will no longer go to seminars not presented by AI… 😏
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
—Who else is using AI to read papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals? I tell the Grok Lady to describe the paper in a way that a 5th grader can understand, then I then ask her questions about the papers,and now I think I will no longer go to seminars not presented by AI… 😏
—This study supports the theory of the intergenerational epigenetic transmission of violence trauma in humans by identifying novel DNA methylation sites and evidence for epigenetic age acceleration: These results indicate important directions for future research…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
—This study supports the theory of the intergenerational epigenetic transmission of violence trauma in humans by identifying novel DNA methylation sites and evidence for epigenetic age acceleration: These results indicate important directions for future research…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...