David Hodgson
@davidhodgson.bsky.social
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Ecology / Conservation / Regeneration / Climate / Technology / Doughnut Economics / Finance / Extreme Weather / Corruption / Inequality / Politics. And music. My orienting question: How can we grow a livable future for all humanity
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extremetemps.bsky.social
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN

Over 2000 records have fallen no-stop since June and keep falling every single day.
Today more records were broken - *=all time R:
36.6 Kasenuma
36.2 Kashimadai
37.4 Zao *
36.0 Ononiimachi
36.6 Yamada *

The record heat will continue all September !
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ketanjoshi.co
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s
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edburmila.bsky.social
Encouraging everyone to think about how every right-wing paramilitary death squad around the world for the past century has armed itself with “lost” or “stolen” military/police gear and also 97% of their members were the same guys but with masks on.
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’, hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

- Plastic production soared more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says expert review in @thelancet.com

#plasticstreaty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
www.theguardian.com
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racheldonald.bsky.social
VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX!

Conspiracies are born when people have lived experience of abuse and exploitation but no language to make sense of it.

It's not a conspiracy—it's capitalism.

www.planetcritical.com/p/its-not-a-...
It's not a conspiracy, it's capitalism
We can't make sense of the present without knowledge of the past
www.planetcritical.com
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious
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weatherprof.bsky.social
The marine heat wave in the North Pacific is one of the most extensive, spanning the giant N Pacific, and in spots, the most intense, I’ve observed. Anomalies near Japan are 15 F (8C) above normal. (Japan just recorded its hottest temp on record.)
The reason for this N Pacific heat wave is… 1/
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
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gregsargent.bsky.social
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
newrepublic.com
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midnightsun49.bsky.social
They are using FEMA money for what now?

Isn't this fraud?
www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...
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mattortega.com
Are we allowed to identify this as ethnic cleansing now?
gilliandn.bsky.social
"Far-right Israeli Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) says Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish."

“There’s no hunger in Gaza,” he says. “But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip."

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish
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www.timesofisrael.com
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jamellebouie.net
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
brianbeutler.bsky.social
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
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kerriarsenault.bsky.social
ssteingraber1.bsky.social
PEIPLE WILL DIE. 7th post in an endless series:

A dozen carcinogen-spewing petrochemical plants in Louisiana have been exempted, by Presidential proclamation, from rules to make them lower their cancer-inducing emissions.

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bencollins.bsky.social
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
wired.com
WIRED @wired.com · Jul 15
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
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tribelaw.bsky.social
President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like
Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.
www.rollingstone.com
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