melissa 🦄☮️
@melissa-jean.bsky.social
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s inaugural fund received $19m from fossil fuel industry, analysis shows
President raised $239m for inauguration – more than previous three inaugural committees took in combined
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The first Nepalese glacier to be declared "dead" ☹️
Dark days coming for the subcontinent.
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...
Dark days coming for the subcontinent.
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...
Glaciologists, local communities mourn loss of Nepal’s Yala glacier | Latest News India - Hindustan Times
Lemthang glacier, in Bhutan, which is retreating was devastated by a glacial lake outburst-triggered flood in 2015.
www.hindustantimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The first Nepalese glacier to be declared "dead" ☹️
Dark days coming for the subcontinent.
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...
Dark days coming for the subcontinent.
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...
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BREAKING: Holy fucking display of colonialism
King Charles to open Canada’s parliament as PM Carney responds to Trump threats
King Charles to open Canada’s parliament as PM Carney responds to Trump threats
Liberal PM will also meet with US president on Tuesday amid tensions over threatened annexation and tariffs
King Charles has accepted an invitation to open Canada’s parliament on 27 May, in “an historic honour that matches the weight of our times”, the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Friday.
In his first news conference since an election dominated by Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty, the prime minister also confirmed he would meet the US president at the White House on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
BREAKING: Holy fucking display of colonialism
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Here's some advice from the guy who has never had a job in the real world.
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
April 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Here's some advice from the guy who has never had a job in the real world.
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
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Your must-read piece of the day. As we enter the final days of the election, a preview of what could be to come. www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
REVEALED: The Conservative Playbook for Bringing DOGE to Canada
With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.
www.desmog.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Your must-read piece of the day. As we enter the final days of the election, a preview of what could be to come. www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
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🚨 MARK CARNEY DID THE HIP FLIP 🚨
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🚨 MARK CARNEY DID THE HIP FLIP 🚨
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🔥 Firefighters warn "extreme" wildfire risk across Scotland continues this week, due to "dead, bone-dry vegetation" & warmer-than-average temps.
🌡️ Climate Shift Index shows unusual 3°-4°C above average temperatures are 4-5x more likely -- & nearly impossible without -- climate change.
🌡️ Climate Shift Index shows unusual 3°-4°C above average temperatures are 4-5x more likely -- & nearly impossible without -- climate change.
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🔥 Firefighters warn "extreme" wildfire risk across Scotland continues this week, due to "dead, bone-dry vegetation" & warmer-than-average temps.
🌡️ Climate Shift Index shows unusual 3°-4°C above average temperatures are 4-5x more likely -- & nearly impossible without -- climate change.
🌡️ Climate Shift Index shows unusual 3°-4°C above average temperatures are 4-5x more likely -- & nearly impossible without -- climate change.
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We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze
We need to talk about Rachel
Because our democracy is not going to make it through the next years without strong journalists.
tinyurl.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to try and get to these levels in extreme heat in a few years if we don't do something now. Stop letting the right globally gaslight you into thinking this isn't happening, they're a death cult
www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
'Never Happened Before': WMO Finds Past 10 Years Have Been 10 Hottest on Record | Common Dreams
"While a single year above 1.5°C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris agreement are out of reach, it is a wake-up call," wrote the secretary-general of the Wo...
www.commondreams.org
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to try and get to these levels in extreme heat in a few years if we don't do something now. Stop letting the right globally gaslight you into thinking this isn't happening, they're a death cult
www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
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Israel just massacred over 300 people in an hour. Most of them children.
March 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Israel just massacred over 300 people in an hour. Most of them children.
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🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
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Crazy idea as we stare down the impact of avian flu: maybe we should stop holding animals in completely abusive, horrific conditions that make disease so much more likely!
Factory farming is a nightmarish scourge that never should have started in the first place. The poor bubs :(
Factory farming is a nightmarish scourge that never should have started in the first place. The poor bubs :(
March 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Crazy idea as we stare down the impact of avian flu: maybe we should stop holding animals in completely abusive, horrific conditions that make disease so much more likely!
Factory farming is a nightmarish scourge that never should have started in the first place. The poor bubs :(
Factory farming is a nightmarish scourge that never should have started in the first place. The poor bubs :(
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no witty response. just rage.
those responsible for climate chaos have names and job titles.
those responsible for climate chaos have names and job titles.
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
no witty response. just rage.
those responsible for climate chaos have names and job titles.
those responsible for climate chaos have names and job titles.
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
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2024 was the hottest year on record 📈
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
March 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
2024 was the hottest year on record 📈
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉
#EndClimateSilence
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Nationalism is never the answer.
February 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Nationalism is never the answer.
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See: Climate.
Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
See: Climate.
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wrote about the existential stakes in Greenpeace's ongoing court battle with the Dakota Access Pipeline operators, the future of free expression in this country, and the long shadow of the Standing Rock protests: slate.com/technology/2...
A $300 Million Lawsuit Is Threatening a Storied Activist Group. You Should Be Worried.
The First Amendment rights of all Americans are at stake.
slate.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
wrote about the existential stakes in Greenpeace's ongoing court battle with the Dakota Access Pipeline operators, the future of free expression in this country, and the long shadow of the Standing Rock protests: slate.com/technology/2...
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Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"...the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-...
"...the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-...
Don't Look Up / Leonardo Dicaprio gets angry
YouTube video by Movie Watchers
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"...the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-...
"...the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-...
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NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’
broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
US Coup Gains Speed
Europe shakes as a new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now
broligarchy.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’
broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...