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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"China is by no means the exclusive answer to the question of how we design more effective climate policy, but it surely challenges those who claim that democracy is." New essay from @the-breakdown.bsky.social issue 4 by @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social & James Jackson www.break-down.org/the-inconven...
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The Inconvenient Case of China
What if saving the climate means giving up on democracy?
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A sneak peek inside Issue #4: CHINA. 🔗 SUBSCRIBE to get your copy now! www.break-down.org/tag/issue-4/
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
now also featuring Iza Ding and @70sbachchan.bsky.social @thepolycrisis.bsky.social 🔥
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you're in New York during climate week, join us for the launch event for Issue 4 at the Verso Books offices in Manhattan. Featuring @johnmerrick.bsky.social in conversation with Li Shuo followed by general mirth Registration is free, full details at the link below! luma.com/jm7p0ygl
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The Break—Down x Phenomenal World present: ISSUE #4 Launch Party · Luma
Join us to celebrate the fourth issue of THE BREAK—DOWN: CHINA, with a live podcast featuring a conversation between Deputy Editor John Merrick and Li…
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ANNOUNCING ISSUE #4: CHINA With respect to climate and the environment, China is observed, understood and debated in often-conflicting terms: as the world leader on green tech and as a coal-clouded bogeyman. 📚️ SUBSCRIBE to get your copy www.break-down.org/subscribe-now/
Magazine cover titled "The BREAK-DOWN" (CHINA Issue #4) with large neon-green type over a blue halftone water texture, subtitle reads "New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate."Back cover of a magazine listing feature article titles and authors in two columns on a blue, textured background, with a barcode and price (£14) at the bottom and three publisher logos: Planet B, The BREAK—DOWN, and Common Wealth.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"This is the irreplaceable thing China brings to the table: not moral authority, but making decarbonization affordable for the first time." Our 4th issue, CHINA, is out in just two weeks, and today we've released the first essay, by Iza Ding and Deborah Seligsohn www.break-down.org/an-accidenta...
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An Accidental Climate Revolution
Rather than taking up the mantle of "climate leadership", China is walking a mundane path to global transformation.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ICYMI: in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social, @olibasciano.bsky.social follows the scientists preparing for the spread of new and potentially lethal diseases that are emerging as the planet warms www.break-down.org/on-the-hunt-...
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On the Hunt for Disease X
As the planet warms, scientists are preparing for the spread of new and potentially lethal diseases.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As the planet warms, scientists are preparing for the spread of new and potentially lethal diseases. 🛢️ ’On the Hunt for Disease X’ by OLIVER BASCIANO SUBSCRIBE to read the full essay on our website www.break-down.org/on-the-hunt-...
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Plus essays on geoengineering, water politics in Hong Kong, artificial islands and the political economy of sand and far far more, and an incredible piece of writing from the famed Chinese novelist Yan Lianke on the death of trees in his home village.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨NEW ISSUE ALERT🚨 Sneak preview of our fourth issue: China. It's our best and biggest yet, with essays on the state, transitions, dams, artificial islands, Inner Mongolia, ecological civlization & much more. + as a treat, subscribe before the end of the month for a free copy of our last issue.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Issue #4: China is coming soon. Subscribe before September 1st to get a free copy of Issue #3: Airborne. www.break-down.org/subscribe-now/
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We need to keep talking about climate change - here's why. Adrienne Buller, editor of The BREAK—DOWN, on Novara Live @novaramedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZe7...
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England’s Drought DEMANDS A Response
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
France, Spain, England and beyond are burning. Where is the climate movement? 🔥 ’Don't Say Climate Change’ by ADRIENNE BULLER is live on The New Statesman now. 🔗 Read the essay through our link in bio
Beachgoers under a bright umbrella watch distant wildfires belching orange smoke across the sky, overlaid by the headline "DON'T SAY CLIMATE CHANGE" and a subheading asking where the climate movement is as Europe burns.Excerpt describing a server in July 2015 in Vancouver who didn’t realize they were crying as ash and smoke from severe wildfires left their eyes and throat raw while taking orders, captioned with the essay title "Don't Say Climate Change" by Adrienne Buller.Blurry orange wildfire background with large yellow overlay text stating summer fires across Canada burned nearly four million hectares and 2023 saw an unimaginable 17 million hectares, with a small credit to "Don't Say Climate Change" by Adrienne Buller.Bold yellow headline reads "Less than six months later, the text of the Paris Agreement on climate change was agreed..." with a white subheading about the climate movement swelling to a fever pitch in 2019, set on a blurred orange background with a small credit to Adrienne Buller.
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great to be part of this excellent series.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Final episode of Continental Shift is now out! In this concluding conversation we spoke with Jess Dempsey, Jamie Kneen of @miningwatch.bsky.social and lawyer Tara Marsden on extractive politics, Canada's colonial history and Indigenous sovereignty open.spotify.com/episode/2WyG...
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CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 4: Extraction North of Empire
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of the best things about working in print is building relationships with incredible radical bookshops around the world—we're thrilled to be stocked with all these lovely people from Vancouver to Seoul to Mexico City. Go find us in print! support your local book sellers! rejoice! 🫨📕
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social, Professor, Providence College in Episode 2: A (Not So) New Gold Rush. CONTINENTAL SHIFT is out now. open.spotify.com/episode/3dPh...
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🌫️ ’Delayed Arrival’ by VERA HUWE for our Issue #3: AIRBORNE is available on our website! 🔗 Become a subscribe to read the essay through our link in bio and SUBSCRIBE online to get access to our full archive! www.break-down.org/delayed-arri...
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In our four-part series, CONTINENTAL SHIFT, @adriennebuller.bsky.social @uselessbouchi.bsky.social and guests explore the politics of critical minerals, the remaking of global supply chains, and how we can rectify the long-standing harms of extraction going forward. Episode 2 now live ⬇️
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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spotted in the @newsfromnowhere.bsky.social bookshop in Liverpool. @the-breakdown.bsky.social @johnmerrick.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social
Photo of The Break-Down in the News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Weekend listening: Ep 2 of CONTINENTAL SHIFT features @triofrancos.bsky.social and Emily Iona-Stewart of @globalwitness.org in an incredibly insightful conversation on the politics of critical minerals—why the 'rush', who it serves, and where next www.break-down.org/episode-2-a-...
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Episode 2: A (Not So) New Gold Rush
A four-part series on the global rush for critical minerals and what it means for the North American continent and beyond.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.break-down.org/iran-oil-and... @lalehkhalili.bsky.social talking to @adriennebuller.bsky.social for @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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Iran, Oil and An Empire in Decline w/Laleh Khalili
Our Editor Adrienne Buller speaks to Laleh Khalili about the US-Israeli war on Iran, the political economy of oil and the decline of US hegemony.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excited to share our new podcast series in collab w/ Youssef Bouchi on the critical minerals rush and its effects on the North American continent Episode 1 out now feat. @quinnslobodian.com and @isabelestevez.bsky.social !! Listen wherever you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/0Xk1...
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last Friday I was lucky enough to chair a panel feat. very brilliant @samar42.bsky.social Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long and @lorahsteichen.bsky.social @transitionsec.bsky.social we talked about the links b/w climate and conflict, & how we build a more peaceful world www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6X...
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War and Peace in a Warming World w/ Samar Al-Bulushi, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long, Lorah Steichen
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
!!! "The June 2026 heat wave was the most extreme heat event ever experienced in Europe. Using previously developed heat-mortality response functions, I calculate that June 22-28 saw 20,390 heat-related deaths across Europe" -note by Christopher W Callahan (indiana univ) zenodo.org/records/2108...
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My guy literally oversaw the largest growth in domestic oil production of any US presidency.
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 01/07/2026
“Brushing aside war and other worries”
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Annual print subscribers get two issues sent to their doorsteps every year. And if you want to get ahold of Issue #3: AIRBORNE as part of your subscription - you've got two weeks left to sign up. www.break-down.org/subscribe-now/
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 29/06/2026
Who are the crypto bros? The amazing Izaura Solipa crunched the data. Short answer: Crypto bros share the same privileged traits, educational credentials, and institutional access that characterize elites in 'traditional' Wall Street segments. Just out in SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Title and Abstract of the linked paper: 

New finance, old structures: cryptocurrencies and the reproduction of financial elites in the USA

Crypto research highlights the anarcho-libertarian feature of the crypto movement, characterizing the industry as a radical departure from governmental and corporate influence. This study investigates the characteristics of the US crypto elite, highlighting how the demographic structure and the institutional connections of the industry resemble those of the established financial elite. Drawing on original data from board members of top US crypto and financial firms, Fortune 1000 companies, and major policy-planning organizations, it develops three comparisons. Results show that crypto elites share similar socio-educational traits with traditional finance leaders and engage with powerful corporate and political affiliations, despite being more peripheral in corporate networks—likely due to the sector’s recent emergence. Notably, the White House appears in the career paths of both groups, suggesting a shared pattern of revolving door integration into state structures. Rather than a structural transformation, crypto appears to align with the broader elite configuration of the US political economy.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons." Available in EN, ES, IT and AR.
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Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines
Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"...for Sloterdijk the introduction of airborne chemical weapons onto the battlefield marked a seismic change in agency: we no longer simply existed with, or within, the environment—we had learned to control it." www.break-down.org/economies-of...
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"According to German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, the environment was discovered at 6pm on 22 April 1915. This was the moment a German regiment launched the first full-scale chemical attack against French-Canadian troops at Ypres." Read Mae Losasso in AIRBORNE www.break-down.org/economies-of...
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Economies of Breath
On the invention of the environment and the slow violence of the respiratory economy.
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Patrik Gronostaj @electrification.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Great and timely episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social with Laleh Khalili! @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Most surprising fact was the russian use of soot to weaken sea ice in the Arctic. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bre...
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Iran, Oil and Empire w/Laleh Khalili by The BREAK—DOWN
Last night, after more than 100 days since the US and Israel went to war against Iran, the US and Iran reached a partial framework for peace. When the war began at the end of February, it was all but ...
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/06/2026
Seems to be a lot of selective memory in UK's right-wing newspapers about schools not closing during the 1976 heatwave. I just checked and, yes, many schools did close early as well as allow parents to "keep their children at home if they wish". This clipping from London Evening News, 29 June 1976
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@johnmerrick.bsky.social and I have started doing regular reflections for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social newsletter, this week on Heatwave 2.0: The Reckoning, denialist hobnobbing at the Olympia Centre, and adaptation as prefigurative of a better way to live. www.break-down.org/heatwave-2-0...
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Heatwave 2.0
Reflections on scorching temperatures, denial and adapting to a new world. Plus, analysis of the separatist movement in Alberta, Canada.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social and I took the nation's temperature www.break-down.org/heatwave-2-0...
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Heatwave 2.0
Reflections on scorching temperatures, denial and adapting to a new world. Plus, analysis of the separatist movement in Alberta, Canada.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The @the-breakdown.bsky.social caps feeling particularly relevant this week
Photo of a pink baseball cap with red embroidery that reads "Talking about the weather"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We did it, everyone!
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UK records its hottest June day, beating highs from 1957 and 1976
Temperature of 35.7C recorded in Surrey, beating previous record of 35.6C, while France records hottest day nationally
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
ICYMI - @adriennebuller.bsky.social editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:
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Heatwave politics w/ Adrienne Buller | Politics Theory Other
Last month the UK was hit by a record-breaking heatwave, part of a wider climate event that affected much of Europe, whilst a subsequent and
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
it was surprising to hear Unite's Sharon Graham criticize Ed Miliband's record as 'job destroying' climate activism. We hope she reconsiders, on a day where UK is under extreme heat warnings. The climate crisis is real, we need a Chancellor who fights it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband
Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Irony is dead
An event flyer for London Climate Action Week, titled "Extreme heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world," features a background photograph of a dry, arid landscape with a road and mountains under a hazy blue sky. At the top, logos for the "Climate Resilience Alliance" and "London Climate Action Week" are visible next to a red "EVENT" tag, while the bottom of the flyer lists the event details—scheduled for 24 June from 09:30-12:00 BST at the Shaw Library, London School of Economics and online—alongside partner logos including LSE Grantham Research Institute, IFRC, Mercy Corps, and Practical Action. Stamped boldly across the center of the image in large, dark red, capitalized letters is the ironic overlay text: "CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT."
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"There's a recent study by the University of Colorado looking at global media coverage of the climate crisis. And they found that in the five years since 2021, it's dropped by over a third and actually closer to 40%." - @adriennebuller.bsky.social, editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Everything is going fine. informat.ro/en/internati...
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A nuclear power plant in France has been shut down due to "environmental constraints" related to the heatwave.
The nuclear power plant at Golfech, located in the southwest of France, was shut down on Monday evening due to 'environmental constraints' related to the heatwave, according to a spokesperson for the ...
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
NEW Britain will make supermarkets stamp out ingredients in chocolate, shampoo and other products linked to the destruction of the world’s rainforests. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Supermarkets to ban ingredients linked to rainforest destruction
Regulations will target commodities such as palm oil and cocoa in everyday goods to clean up corporate supply chains and show Britain is ‘leading by example’
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Listening back to our recent episode with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social because it's so full of insight to try to make sense of the outcomes of the Iran war, and how it could permanently change energy and geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Fh... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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How War on Iran Exposes the Decline of US Empire w/Laleh Khalili
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The once-fringe dream of Albertan independence has gained new prominence, forcing Canada to confront the political and economic power of fossil fuels. 🇨🇦 ’Petro-Separatism on the Prairies' by MICHAEL LEDGER-LOMAS SUBSCRIBE to read the full essay - www.break-down.org/subscribe-now/
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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New book club! AGAINST MONEY, with @jwmason.bsky.social Mon June 29, 4pm EST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
image of cover of Against Money. Pale green with a big “x” made of bar codes. Nice blurb from Zachary Carter on cover
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 23/06/2026
A real blow to Colombian politics. Yet another far-right government in Latin America, this time a Duterte-style crime-hunting millionaire with a self-declared state-shrinker in tow as VP.
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Far-right millionaire wins Colombia’s razor-tight presidential election
Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secures narrow majority
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Realise there's some stuff happening in the UK right now but things are also happening elsewhere! We've got a new essay on Alberta separatism and its reflection of wider discontents and tensions in Canada—in the conferedate system, in fossil fuels + more www.break-down.org/petro-separa...
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Petro-Separatism on the Prairies
The once-fringe dream of Albertan independence has gained new prominence, forcing Canada to confront the political and economic power of fossil fuels.
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