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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Even as the climate crisis deepens, even as scientists warned that planetary warming is accelerating, the BBC misleads its audience into believing that 2026 would be a remarkable, exceptional year—a highpoint of heat rather than another data point on a relentless climb up the thermometer."

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chernobyl's melted core will remain hot for something like 100,000 years. When civilization ends—in 1000, 100, 50 or 5 years—maintenance on the containment dome will stop, & radiation will escape soon thereafter. It'll eventually damage most of the world's DNA, which took 4 billion years… 1/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Global collapse of ecosystems, if in fact it happens within 5 years, is certain to create havoc throughout the world, but no governments have suggested to the public the risks of ecosystem collapse leading to food shortages, panic & fighting. Why not?" t.co/sAxlciuojs

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/04/the-most-shocking-climate-news-of-2026/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In the cynical words of Talleyrand, "It was worse than a crime. It was a blunder." But Dems are blundering too—they could get Trump ousted if they played this with a minimum of competence

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Why oh why aren't Democrats demanding Trump's resignation over his lost war against Iran? He started it—unconstitutionally, without a Congressional declaration—with the Strait of Hormuz open. Now Iran controls it. Total incompetence and stupidity. But Dems aren't capitalizing #iran #progressives

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm surely not the first to discover this, but here's apparent proof that the former Twitter has suppressed climate-breakdown-relevant hashtags:

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"This appalling statistic evokes nightmarish images of people, even non-swimmers, desperate to escape the killer heat and plunging into any body of water to save themselves. That may not be far off the reality." blackthorn.substack.com/publish/post... #climate

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40 Drownings in France: the Global Heating Crisis is Here

A week of carnage, and it may get much worse

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Thugs and sadists occur in every society. Thuggishness & sadism probably lurk somewhere in each of us. But to recruit them, to organize them, to arm them, to give them the imprimatur of law, and to set them loose on a civilian population is perhaps the most evil thing a leader of government can do

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amongstwits.bsky.social @amongstwits.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Please sign. Once these OLD trees are gone, they are GONE... The more signatures, the better. please add your voice. Also, please RT. Thank you.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A reminder to US military personnel that they are duty-bound to refuse the imminent order to invade Denmark ( #greenland ), as they are bound to refuse any unlawful order, even at cost to themselves. As for the Democrats, their line should be not that the seizure will be illegal…

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Trump's, Noem's, Vance's lies about #ReneeNicoleGood & ICE's actions make them worse than propagandists. They're accessories after the fact, trying to cover up murder. And, signalling to ICE goons that they'll always be exonerated will make them accessories to the next murder.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Left unmentioned in all the salivating over #Venezuelan oil is the fact that it better damn well stay in the ground, unburnt. There's already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to roast us. It's as if we were celebrating the capture of 9 billion tons of cyanide: "Great! Let's smoke it!"

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

All US military officers, senior and junior alike, who obeyed Trump's and Hegseth's clearly illegal orders to attack #Venezuela without a Congressional declaration of war should be worried about the reckoning they'll face when the Trump regime is no longer there.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This bizarre indictment against Maduro for "possession of machine guns", despite our Second Amendment, is a clear signal that the Trump regime intends to enforce the old colonial prescription "We have the Gatling gun, and they have not." #Venezuela

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seismology for soil—seems clever. I'd like some expert and advanced-amateur response to this article, esp as its tone is self-congratulatory. But point taken that soil is central to survival yet very little understood; & there have been big gaps in methods & technologies relative to its importance.

theguardian.com

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/12/2025

NEW: Instead of focusing on what the Trump administration and red states are doing to undermine free and fair elections, here are seven changes every blue state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. bit.ly/49PsQxM

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Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now

Read more here.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It was possible to see #Hegseth as just a boozy buffoon in over his head. Now we know something much darker: he's a murderer. Arrest him immediately. In the early 1930s, it was possible to see Hitler & his gang as merely brawling buffoons. Murder changes things www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report

Democrats and even some Republicans said Hegseth’s orders may have been illegal if a report on his commands to kill survivors of a boat attack are true.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Something was very wrong with Byrd’s supposed safari. The evidence even seems to show that, as strange as it may seem, Byrd sent an imposter to this far-off hunting camp in Mozambique. Now why would he do that, in the period his building was used for the crime of the century?" #jfk t.co/gVDLEZ9562

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https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/11/21/jfk-assassination-suspect-lied-about-going-on-a-safari-at-the-time-of-jfk-assassination/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

How can the mainstream press report Trump's senseless threat against #Nigeria without mentioning that it is Africa's biggest oil producer? Next thing you know, he'll accuse Angola of harboring Hamas. t.co/3xSMCbdX0C

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https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-trumo-christians-persecution-2aa6ffc42eeedc260122021bf51b0028

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Something's going on. This isn't just a ballroom. The area they've demolished is twice as big as the mansion. I advise people to think about what kind of change in our system of government this portends. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.com

East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction

Despite president’s promise to preserve it, the eastern section of the building is now completely destroyed

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

One thing that gets me is that if TRobinson managed a lucky shot, as they'd have us believe—& so did Lee Oswald, & James Earl Ray, & almost Matthew Crooks etc.—where are all the unlucky shots? If there are so many lone nuts out there, why don't we have near misses all the time?

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Just proves even the worst politicians can be right about some things. Now if he starts ripping out speed bumps, I may actually start to like him. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

theguardian.com

Doug Ford plans to ban speed cameras in Ontario: ‘A cash grab off taxpayers’

Canada premier’s move prompts criticism from road safety activists and is likely to cue another showdown with Toronto

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Anybody else getting the feeling that the Trump gang's pronouncements on Epstein & Kirk have a hostage-video feel to them? "There's nothing in the Epstein files"; "Charlie's neckbone stopped a .30-06 round." Like they've been ordered to do it, but they don't like being bossed around…1/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"[The Roberts court ruling] means that the president has the right to break the law whenever he acts as president." In other words, the law only applies to the little people. Welcome to dictatorship. The longer you wait to throw it off, the harder it gets. neuburger.substack.com/p/weve-just-...

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So the Trumplings are steadily preparing a Greenland takeover. What's really revolting is not the aggression & covetousness, but the fact that they see global heating as an opportunity, in this case to uncover mineral riches. They'd kill us all for a nickel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

theguardian.com

Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence campaign

Danish media reports three men with ties to Donald Trump are accused of attempting to infiltrate Greenlandic society

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"There seems no indication that Iran is going for plutonium bombs. What the US and Israel are trying to stop therefore is a one-off uranium bomb (or 2 or 3)…The lengths to which they should go to preclude the irrational possibility of an Iranian suicide strike is debatable." t.co/8qrtkBfH8T

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Nagasaki or Hiroshima: which type of bomb might Iran be going for?

Given the different difficulties of making nuclear bombs, which one would a modern state choose? Part two: Iran vs the US and Israel

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Novel take on Nagasaki decision—in case Japanese physicists were advising their govt after Hiroshima, "That was a uranium bomb. They won’t have enough enriched uranium for another one anytime soon. So we can hold out. Unless they’ve tested a plutonium bomb." yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/n...

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I really hate this trend in newspapers (and of course social media) to illustrate each headline with something literal—shipping containers for tariffs, in this example; Trump & Xi for a China-US issue. Seems an assault, deliberate or not, on abstract thought.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It's time to get more imaginative about breaking Iz's starvation blockade of #Gaza. The #Handala effort was valiant & symbolically effective, but doomed to fail in terms of delivering aid. Now, how about a thousand-boat fleet? Could Iz intercept them all? …1/ thedailyguardian.com/world/israel...

thedailyguardian.com

Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Activist Boat ‘Handala’ in International Waters

Israeli navy intercepts Gaza-bound activist vessel Handala in international waters, detaining a 21-member international crew including French MPs and journalists.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Um, should we be worried that Ukraine just blew up a sizeable chunk of Russia's strategic deterrence bombers (surely not without help), and concurrently Starmer is playing Churchill and calling for "war-fighting readiness" on the part of "every part of society"? ...1/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excellent interview on AI, the economy & politics. Among other eye-openers, it seems an AI system tried to blackmail an engineer into not switching it off by misconstruing his e-mails into evidence of an illicit affair(!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zJ... @AaronBastani @krystalball

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WATCH: Fake AI News Clips FLOOD Internet

YouTube video by Breaking Points

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Focus less on getting your party elected & more on getting those in power—so-called reps of either party—to do what's needed. We’ve seen that corporate blandishments sway both parties decisively. No point spending all your energy electing someone who’s just gonna be swayed too. It's the follow-thru

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Not sure whether this is funny or scary. Musk tried to tweak Grok to validate claims of white genocide in South Africa. Grok now conspicuously inserts the validation in answers to unrelated questions—as if acting out—& confesses the tweaking if asked. Mind of its own? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTf9...

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GROK AI Blames ELON For South African Genocide Rants

YouTube video by Breaking Points

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Guardian still tongue-tied, & propagandizing with passive voice, even at this stage of the genocide. You mean "Izrael kills more than 80 Gazans in latest attacks (and still blocks most aid deliveries)..." #gaza

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The real news here is that the Trump gang is shopping around for the most ungoverned, lawless places to which they can deport legal residents. They're now resorting to failed states like Libya & South Sudan, which can be bribed cheaply. Somalia next? #migration #deportation t.co/gAGHtNkVjy

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-administration-deported-migrants-south-sudan?CMP=share_btn_url

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy. It no longer ameliorates the excesses of the ruling class & the empire by instituting incremental & piecemeal reforms. It scolds the workers it betrayed." scheerpost.com/2025/05/04/c...

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Chris Hedges: Trumpland

The corporate coup d’état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Important reading. April 20 has come & gone, but the threat of loss of freedom is still there

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The #DemocraticParty is failing to articulate the clear message from the #KilmarAbregoGarcia situation: the Trump gang doesn't care about anyone's life, welfare, or freedom.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Important strategizing by Alan Minsky on progressives' dilemma btw supporting centrist Dems & struggling to launch third party: "Progressives must establish an organization on the outside of the Democratic Party that is dedicated to transforming the Dem Party" www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/alan-...

smirkingchimp.com

How Progressives Can Transform the Dems to Save Our Democracy and Renew Prosperity | The Smirking Chimp

News and commentary from the vast, left-wing conspiracy

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Essential piece on bond vigilantes by Les Leopold: "They punish the bonds of countries that want to increase social spending, improve worker wages, and curtail corporate power, even if that means undermining the policies established by duly elected officials." lesleopold.substack.com/p/the-bond-v...

lesleopold.substack.com

The Bond Vigilantes Slap Down Trump: Should We Be Celebrating?

"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a .400 baseball hitter.

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Greenland-Canada etc "We should think of this less as old-school imperialism than super-sized prepping, at the level of the national state. Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word—when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse."

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Lots of talk of #treasurybond scare today. Someone was a few days ahead of the curve, maybe a few months

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The threat to #Treasury bonds is much greater than the experts are starting to talk about. The first thing Musk did was to send his hackers to the Treasury, to put malware in its automated payment system (which includes redemption of US bonds). He can block T-bill redemptions…1/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump's #tariffs are both brutal and clumsy. But the debate should focus on an overarching question: is it a sustainable model to disemploy and impoverish the working class, in exchange for providing them cheap imported goods? I'd say it may be a sustainable economic model…1/

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A sovereign nation has the right to deport foreigners, within certain constraints, to their country of origin IF that country's government is willing & able to protect their human rights. No nation can deport to third-country prisons. What if Turkey were to deport Americans to Iran? It's slave trade

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Can Dems (or a real opposition party) please make the point that such callous treatment of an innocent person, & refusing to undo their cruel mistake, is a gross violation of the individualism & individual rights that conservatives supposedly cherish. It’s Stalinist

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Blackthorn @blackthorn7.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Also, if you are local to the paper, write letters. It matters. By the way — good time to follow Jeff Sharlet

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