Yep. I’ve come to this conclusion too. It increasing shapes how I see my own field (climate change education). US won’t get serious about CC until they realize it’s in their geopolitical interest.
Increasingly think that every country’s politics is being fought over and reshaped by these new material forces.
We discussed essay by
@katemac.bsky.social & I with @parismarx.com at his podcast Tech Wont Save Us. Out soon!
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
My employer Canterbury Shaker Village lost a small NEH grant. I wrote it. I used words such as "equality" and "citizenship." The same words were used in CHATGPT to cancel grants.
The same words are in the nation's founding documents.
Imagine thinking that your little nests of herbs and fruit leather insects and pickled kelp or whatever are worth ruining people's lives and literally beating up a generation of restaurant workers for.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
any podcast recs for Latin American history? (English, Spanish, or Portuguese )
it's worth noting that as I read this... whatever it is... friends in qatar and dubai are literally reporting explosions so
These warnings about food security are happening almost weekly now
But does anyone think the government is taking a blind bit of notice
The UKs 3 worst harvests have been in the last 5 years
By 2050, the number of calories per head globally could be halved
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
'Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years'
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time
If the US spent that money on education, health care, and helping people, then we wouldn't have enough people in precarious positions to conscript for our war profit machine.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Nintendo takes Trump to court demanding full refund of illegal tariff money www.rawstory.com/nintendo-tru...
Energy crisis brought to you by the party that gleefully pretended wind farms cause cancer www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
In one of these periods, we freaked out about stagflation & recession… 🤔🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord
Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.
This is not good.
All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...
If you ignore people who say they “don’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.
RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the first Democratic state to try to shape how such events are taught.
Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Why are we observing a 'green backlash' when serious efforts to decarbonise have scarcely begun? I'm happy to share my working paper, 'The Political Consequences of Climate Ambition: Evidence from Australia', which analyses how voters respond prospectively to proposed climate policies. Brief 🧵:
cc: @mattpolprof.bsky.social Was thinking of your work on liberal socialism here. Perhaps of interest:
"The ideology that has utterly failed is conservatism; the center right has ceased to exist across the world, its institutions taken over by fascists, its voters pledging allegiance to a new flag."
In this essay, @polphilpod.bsky.social helpfully reframes the discussion of "postliberalism."
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
trump's fascism is categorically different to previous conservatism
my latest
www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
Under the cover of war, the US DoJ has just quietly released some of the missing Epstein files that directly relate to Trump.
In which, he is accused of sexual assault by a then 13 year old who says he tried to force oral sex on her.
Shameless. news.sky.com/story/epstei...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Quite an opening paragraph.
