David Esdale
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David Esdale
@davidesdale.bsky.social
· Jun 22
The Grassroots Movement that Could Destroy the World. Or Save It.
Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, including the heavily-fortified uranium enrichment plant at Fordo.
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This is a well written and important post on the what we are now experiencing and the potential for transforming our world. Profound...
This is a well written and important post on the what we are now experiencing and the potential for transforming our world. Profound...
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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores
In a deeply thoughtful meditation on our relationship with animals—and ourselves—John Sanbonmatsu offers a reasoned reply to Michael Pollan's views on the dilemmas of eating meat.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
Excellent piece, thoughtful and encouraging. We really should examine our cultural fetish with cars and animal mistreatment. Eminently doable as is sketched here
Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.
Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excellent piece, thoughtful and encouraging. We really should examine our cultural fetish with cars and animal mistreatment. Eminently doable as is sketched here
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Good work, @greenpeace.org! 👍
But please don't shut down mature conversations on the sensitive but important topic of overpopulation!
Six quick responses to your post on this:
1️⃣ Overpopulation, is not, as you state, "a myth”.
See bsky.app/profile/anni... and
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But please don't shut down mature conversations on the sensitive but important topic of overpopulation!
Six quick responses to your post on this:
1️⃣ Overpopulation, is not, as you state, "a myth”.
See bsky.app/profile/anni... and
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Good work, @greenpeace.org! 👍
But please don't shut down mature conversations on the sensitive but important topic of overpopulation!
Six quick responses to your post on this:
1️⃣ Overpopulation, is not, as you state, "a myth”.
See bsky.app/profile/anni... and
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
But please don't shut down mature conversations on the sensitive but important topic of overpopulation!
Six quick responses to your post on this:
1️⃣ Overpopulation, is not, as you state, "a myth”.
See bsky.app/profile/anni... and
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Campaigner for Adlai Stevenson is reported to have said to him during the election campaign against Eisenhower:" You have the vote of every thinking person in the country." Stevenson replied that is not enough to win. Thus we are in Trumpland.
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Campaigner for Adlai Stevenson is reported to have said to him during the election campaign against Eisenhower:" You have the vote of every thinking person in the country." Stevenson replied that is not enough to win. Thus we are in Trumpland.
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AOC: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country. And we are here to say that it is not. We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
AOC: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country. And we are here to say that it is not. We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.
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Alex Hershaft - #Holocaust survivor turned Animal Rights Activist ⚖️Ⓥ
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Alex Hershaft - #Holocaust survivor turned Animal Rights Activist ⚖️Ⓥ
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Albuquerque mayor wins reelection despite being in bed with woke Hollywood: he just turned in a tour de force performance playing himself with one line on Pluribus.
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Albuquerque mayor wins reelection despite being in bed with woke Hollywood: he just turned in a tour de force performance playing himself with one line on Pluribus.
Open Letter to Zohran Mamdani – Political Moderate - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/08/o...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Open Letter to Zohran Mamdani – Political Moderate - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/08/o...
Hardly radical...
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hardly radical...
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Social justice must guide global ecosystem restoration for lasting success, say researchers
phys.org/news/2025-12... via @physorg_com
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Social justice must guide global ecosystem restoration for lasting success, say researchers
Social justice must be at the heart of global restoration initiatives—and not "superficial" or "tokenistic"—if ecosystem degradation is to be addressed effectively, according to new research.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Social justice must guide global ecosystem restoration for lasting success, say researchers
phys.org/news/2025-12... via @physorg_com
phys.org/news/2025-12... via @physorg_com
Climate Breakdown: How Bad Must It Get? - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/c...
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Climate Breakdown: How Bad Must It Get? - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/c...
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"Vi behöver ett djupgående skifte i våra sociala normer. Det är för sent för icke-radikala framtidsalternativ." @kevinclimate.bsky.social om hur Storbritannien (och alla andra länder) måste ta sig an klimatkrisen.
Professor Kevin Anderson delivers some granite hard truths @kevinclimate.bsky.social
"We need profound shifts in our social norms.
It is too late for non-radical solutions.
The UK is emitting far more than its fair share of greenhouse gases.
We need deep cuts in energy use."
"We need profound shifts in our social norms.
It is too late for non-radical solutions.
The UK is emitting far more than its fair share of greenhouse gases.
We need deep cuts in energy use."
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"Vi behöver ett djupgående skifte i våra sociala normer. Det är för sent för icke-radikala framtidsalternativ." @kevinclimate.bsky.social om hur Storbritannien (och alla andra länder) måste ta sig an klimatkrisen.
How the Jewish Chronicle Weaponizes 'Antisemitism' to Fuel a Moral Panic - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
How the Jewish Chronicle Weaponizes 'Antisemitism' to Fuel a Moral Panic - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
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I am re-upping this piece about the broader meaning of the Epstein Files meta scandal by @jamellebouie.net from NYT, one of the great essayists of our time Because so important.
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Brilliant!
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Brilliant!
KKK in the White House.
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
KKK in the White House.
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At a Madrid congress packed with far-right Catholics, Heritage president Kevin Roberts pitched Project 2025 as a blueprint for a new Christian order. His Opus Dei-tinged praise for “young men” leading a revival shows the U.S. culture war isn’t staying in America — it’s spreading.
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Heritage’s European Offensive: Exporting America’s Christian Nationalist Project
Heritage president Kevin Roberts took his Project 2025 message to Madrid, joining a lineup of anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman figures from CitizenGO, Vox, ADF International, and beyond. He made no mention o...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
At a Madrid congress packed with far-right Catholics, Heritage president Kevin Roberts pitched Project 2025 as a blueprint for a new Christian order. His Opus Dei-tinged praise for “young men” leading a revival shows the U.S. culture war isn’t staying in America — it’s spreading.
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In short, it's never been this bad.
Here's a different and more troubling graph.
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Here's a different and more troubling graph.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In short, it's never been this bad.
Here's a different and more troubling graph.
nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
Here's a different and more troubling graph.
nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
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Thanks for pointing this out. Intersectionality...?
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thanks for pointing this out. Intersectionality...?
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
3C by 2100... we are done.
A second opportunity to examine the cloud reduction effects from shipping fuel pollution measures has revealed that the 80% cut in sulphur emissions reduces cloud droplet formation by 67%.
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#aerosols #climatechange #clouds #IMO2020 #ECS
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#aerosols #climatechange #clouds #IMO2020 #ECS
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November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
3C by 2100... we are done.
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Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵