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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11h

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By me: Increasing numbers of Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 12h

D'Annunzio supplied the theatrics, and Gentile the manifesto.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovann...

Giovanni Gentile - Wikipedia

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 13h

And the person who thought up much of the modern fascist state was Italy's leading poet:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...
The defense from wild ideas is robust democratic engagement, so that manipulators - of whatever background - will only appear in a population too stable to be undone.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 13h

"Paradoxically, even as nature delivers new blows, a troubling share of America’s retirement wealth remains locked in the same climate-exposed assets that are driving the instability."

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 14h

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 16h

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 18h

As #snakebites surge in #Southasia due to flood conditions, revisit Diwash Gahatraj and Ali Jabir Malik'ss award-winning reporting linking climate change and snakebite prevalence in #Southasia. Read their piece from May 2024 now:

Snakebites surge across Southasia amid rising heat, floods and habitat loss

Climate change is driving an increase in snakebites and envenomation deaths in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and beyond – and community-driven solutions are leading the fightback

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19h

The US National Guard has spent 400,000-plus hours per year for the last 10 years in disaster response efforts, including wildfires, floods, and more, according to a new Pentagon report.

By @mlavelle.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org…

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 20h

Great related thread, w/an important question and some good answers. A short answer is that well-educated Americans haven't needed to believe in anything outside of career for 2 or 3 generations, and that's showing up now. Not even 'spineless;' there's no memory of spine.
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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 22h

I really have yet to find a very good theory explaining why it is that both the Republicans and the Democrats have been so openly handing power to a guy who tried to murder them.

It is truly one of the scariest and most bizarre political events I've ever seen.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 20h

Apart from being alarming and important work, real James Lovelock thing going on here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hy...

Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 21h

Kim Stanley Robinson's essay for McKinsey is still a great diagnosis of the persistent problem. Why would anyone 'elite,' of whatever their stated political outlook, consent? What are the conditions in which elites will consent to change?
web.archive.org/web/20120705...

McKinsey & Company
Topic: Climate change
Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme
By Kim Stanley Robinson
22 February 2009

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 21h

History seems to tell us (even the recent history above) that a prevailing fear of elites is becoming non-elite. Thus this dynamic
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

There are widespread concerns that current trends in resource-use are unsustainable, but possibilities of overshoot/collapse remain controversial. Col…

www.sciencedirect.com

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 21h

At Yale, the center of campus (formerly Commons) is named for Stephen Schwarzman, a Trump loyalist.
After giving this description of global warming in 1981, Gus Speth later went on to be Dean of Yale School of the Environment, '99-'09. I'm sure he was/is reachable by trustees:
youtu.be/rtH7KBi0M44

Gus Speth - "Warming Warning" (1981)

YouTube video by Jim Speth

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 21h

'A polity that allows elites to lie is not sustainable' -- whoa. Welcome to several decades of US history.
Let me point out that the two schools at Harvard that grant PhDs in climate science are both endowed by Trump supporters, Ken Griffin and John Paulson.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22h

Trump was President on January 6th.

The FBI agents were sent by his FBI in response to the riot at the Capitol.

The lies are either getting more ridiculous and dangerous, or his grip on reality is. Either way, this is not a man who should have nuclear codes.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

"...That another (convicted, etc.) New Yorker is president after appearing on a reality TV show for 14 seasons..." even more fitting

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

44 years later, that NYC is likely to get a socialist mayor while still being the center of world finance puts some spin on Andre Gregory. That another (convicted, etc.) New Yorker, familiar even in 1981, is president, even more so.

City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

It's the same list, being crossed-off by maniacs.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Eugenics in Space

Fuck the humans! Bring on the drug-fuelled silicon dystopia!

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this article because so much media coverage of the soy trade drama focuses on farmers and not the political economy of ag. If a story covers rare earth it will explain its uses. Why is the same not standard for soy or alfalfa? Need to make the connection for readers.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 2d

"How much soy we produce shouldn’t be a barometer for how well our agriculture sector is doing, but for how unsustainable it is."

I wrote for @newrepublic.com that the trade war with China shows we grow too many crops to feed not people but factory-farmed animals.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry

The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

newrepublic.com

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

Even on Bluesky, people avoid links like this.
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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

If we could do magical things (without building solar system-sized datacenters), it would be great to go back in time (with an iPad), pause that shoot, and show Wally Shawn & Andre Gregory today's news. And then let them re-write accordingly.
Gregory would approve of the frogs I think.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

44 years later, that NYC is likely to get a socialist mayor while still being the center of world finance puts some spin on Andre Gregory. That another (convicted, etc.) New Yorker, familiar even in 1981, is president, even more so.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

Linked to an earlier theory
youtu.be/MRBZDmf1jSw

My dinner with Andre - We are bored

YouTube video by Semtex

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

Falling, or shoved. A really worthwhile area of investigation:

youtu.be/aJMpU45aYaQ

Charlie Eaton | Class Struggles: The Elite War on Universities

YouTube video by The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

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