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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 hour ago

Making the idea that the city is a violent hellhole look absurd in a way that gets a lot of attention.

 

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

 

President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard

 

The paper is here

 

Video of it NSFW obviously

 

In Portland, Ore., however, a Trump appointee said no. She refused to play Trump’s game and instead held him accountable for his words. There is no deference due to a president who refuses to operate in good faith.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

There's huge uncertainty on the timing of when it gets bad enough to be meaningful in Europe. Anywhere from 25 to 100 years is plausible, and whether it happens at all depends on human decisions about how much to extract and burn.

 

U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

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At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, was out canvassing for Yes on 50 in California and that was a common concern among voters. The ICE raids where they sweep people up based on how they look makes people furious

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Nah. They're going to make it impossible for nonwhites to vote, so that Republicans can still win in Georgia.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

If there's an edit that alters a detail that doesn't matter to the witness, it probably isn't important. And that kind of replacement is hard to do at scale without getting caught.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Here is a gift link you can edit into the top level post to make access free for the main link

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/business/china-electric-grid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.ausE.6-UKCG5e4iBq

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago

What you end up stuck doing is deciding to trust particular sources. This makes it a lot harder to establish a shared reality

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're not idiots; they know who paid their bribe

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Obvious, but the fossil fuels industry has a long history of investing just enough in renewables to try to present themselves as the solution

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Some, but batteries are a lot cheaper and scaling up in a way that solar thermal never did

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tibetan Plateau, about 14,000 feet

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the US media landscape is full of stuff like this. I usually try to avoid them when I can find other coverage

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