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As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint Experience from past conflicts shows that pollution, contamination and ecological stress can persist long after the missiles stop flying

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

Sounding a major #envhums #envpol #STS #histSTM #animals job klaxon. FOUR postdocs working with the Multispecies dream team!

The US-Israel relationship is finally facing a reckoning. It doesn't need to slide into antisemitism | Joel Swanson Israel’s role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. It’s also creating a permission structure for antisemitism

ICYMI: I wrote about how legitimate and much needed criticism of Israel is becoming more common in the US than at any time in my life, and antisemitism is also on the rise, and the thorny question of how we sort through them: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gut Shabbos, everyone.

So what's the purpose of nuclear?

CA had enough solar+batteries in 2025 to produce a constant 4 GW every minute of 90% of days in 2025 plus more power during other hours

4 GW=180% of the constant 2.2 GW DC nuc plant, which also ran 90% of '25

Solar+batteries much cheaper, faster, safer, cleaner

38 years ago today, March 6, 1988: #TheSimpsons short “Family Portrait” first aired on The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. This was the first time Homer said "Why, you little..!" and chokes Bart.

No extra charge for the radioiodine.

The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.

The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape

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The Public Fires Kristi Noem That's not the story you'll hear from Washington

Senior ICE official says he thinks Kristi Noem was fired because of the Minneapolis protests, a sentiment I heard from other DHS officials
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-public...

APLN member Peter Hayes from the Nautilus Institute summarises and provides copies of 10 documents released under the US Freedom of Information Act on legal guidance on STRATCOM’s compliance with the laws of armed conflict in relation to nuclear weapons.
Read here ⤵️
nautilus.org/napsnet/naps...

Michael Pollan has gone from being edgy and relevant to just being adorable.

Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? The Richmond Standard has little to say about the gas flares, haze, and smoke plumes that shape life in its California community.

Chevron is Richmond’s largest employer—and its largest polluter. The primary local news site, the Richmond Standard, largely avoids covering local health issues or the impact of Chevron’s facilities on people’s well-being.

Perhaps because the site is owned by Chevron itself.

Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 - Carbon Brief Clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment.

“Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025”

#nuclear not coming to save the day, again and again...

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

Can’t recommend Tyson’s two books SAND TALK and RIGHT STORY WRONG STORY enough, they’re a blast to read and completely rewire your brain every five pages.

Russia Is Big Winner as Iran War Drains Supplies That Ukraine Needs The conflict is draining supplies Ukraine needs for its defense, while surging oil prices are boosting the Russian economy.

“Rubio told reporters the U.S. produces only ‘six or seven’ interceptors a month, while Iran manufactures more than 100 missiles in the same period.”

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Great read from @aselrod.bsky.social on Trump lingering lovingly over descriptions of violence and death.

"This obsession with the body—and particularly with the body as the subject of serious injury, even death—is a hallmark of right-wing politics in America."

The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism.

Have to say, I do not love how much Trump has chosen to make Israel the public face of a war that was ultimately a United States decision to fight.

Let’s Face Facts: This Isn’t Going Well (Iran War Edition) It’s the perhaps tired refrain of foreign policy and defense professionals that...

Let’s Face Facts: This Isn’t Going Well (Iran War Edition) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

Yearning for the Apocalypse As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

Please read @swordsjew.bsky.social (who is blocking me for some reason?) on the evangelicals in the RW base that view armed conflict in the Middle East as the road to Christ's fiery return.

I think this sounds so outlandish to normal secular people that they don't take it seriously. It's serious!

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Polymarket Pulls Bet on Nuclear Detonation in 2026 ‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.

Polymarket and the whole ecosystem of 21st century digital betting has managed to make me (a pretty socially libertarian sort when it comes to vice: sex-positive, supporter of Portuguese-style drug decriminalization, and previously fine with gambling) into Carrie A. Nation but for gambling.

This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Please enjoy the single most amazing quote from a paleontologist I have ever read: “The animal literally cemented itself—and its nether regions—into eternal history like the movie stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.” 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Men will do ANYTHING to avoid couples counseling.

Hey this is tonight!

Image of formal dress British troops with red coats and fuzzy ball hats

British troops advance on Chess Board

This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Paleontologists just found Earth’s oldest “butthole” impression. The 299-million-year-old imprint was planted by a lizardlike reptile cooling off in some mud.

Sometimes life as a science journalist takes you strange places.

#Paleontology #TraceFossils

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New at @sciam.bsky.social

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

Alito shits his bed

The Horror. "War in Middle East widens to 12 countries within 72 hours of US-Israeli strikes on Iran." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Japan eyes remote Pacific island for nuclear waste Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for burying nuclear waste, officials said.

It’s not like it’ll soon be completely swallowed up by rising sea levels……..

“#Japan eyes remote Pacific island for #nuclear waste”

phys.org/news/2026-03...