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Eamon Kircher-Allen

@eamonka.bsky.social
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Writer and researcher. Editor-in-chief @CenturyIntl. Owner and head teacher at the San Francisco Capoeira Academy.🌁🌉🍃🏔️🌃 🚴🏻🤸

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 17/09/2026
A vessel speeding through the water so fast it crushes endangered whales against its prow, a developer clearcutting a forest and killing the endangered bats who live there — these deaths may no longer be considered illegal if the Trump administration gets its way. Please help us fight back ⬇️
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Give Now to Save the Wild
Join the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Several people have commented that they are glad I am hopeful. But I wouldn’t describe my feeling as hope. It’s that I believe in appreciate the moment and what we have even though is changing fast . substack.com/@eamonka/not...
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Spiritually Reckoning with Climate Change in the Sierra, Part One
It’s been a long, hot summer.
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Six years ago today. Photo taken at high noon. Atmospheric CO2 then: 411.75 ppm Atmospheric CO2 today: 426.57 ppm Got to keep driving while the world burns down because of driving. #OrangeSkyDay
a freeway jammed with cars, headlights on, under a dark orange sky
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Same AI. Same productivity gains. Very different outcomes for workers. The difference is who owns it.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Never forgive never forget
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...
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July was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNN
July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
When I wrote about the Iran war’s economic distortions back in April this is the kind of thing I was talking about. tcf.org/content/comm...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A dangerous wind shift (visible on radar imagery) has just occurred in #Spokane, WA, where major wildfire disaster is currently unfolding. Three separate major fires (circled) near or within city limits have already caused major structure loss & chaotic, expanding evacs. #WAwx
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
US defeat in Iran isn't just real. It's quantifiable. And it can get a whole lot worse.
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The Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in Iran
Missile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing!
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Incredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
reuters.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Israel keeps moving the ‘yellow line’ deeper into Gaza, forcing more civilians out each time. Palestinian territory has shrunk by more than a quarter since Trump’s pseudo-ceasefire came into effect last year. Nidal al-Mughrabi & Ebrahim Hajjaj, @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel's yellow line, a shifting edge of war pushing Gazans from home
On a road in Gaza City's Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone ​stoo...
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor." i'm sorry but how the fuck is this correlation just coming to light now?
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sure but they‘re really stupid questions
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 18/05/2026
The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 16/05/2026
My new @foreignpolicy.com piece on these U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks as an exercise in humiliation for the United States' would-be Lebanese partners: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/t...
foreignpolicy.com
Trump’s Lebanon Negotiations Are Breaking the Country
Rather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government.
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Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
America started a war it couldn’t win. How does the world look without a dominant superpower? @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social previews our new era of asymmetric finance, trade, and warfare on Order from Ashes @centuryintl.bsky.social
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...
U.S. spent $72 billion in first 60 days of Iran War. Estimated U.S. war costs, 28 February through 28 April 2026. Column headers are as follows: Expense; Description; Cost. Rows are as follows: Operations; Mobilization, administration, combat; $15.8 billion. Weapons; Missiles, interceptors, bombs, other; $41.2 billion. Losses; Damaged or destroyed military assets; $11.9 billion. Subsidies; Paying for Israel’s bombs, interceptors; $2.9 billion. Total; Cost of the first 60 days of the Iran War; $71.8 billion. Estimated direct costs based on author's analysis of officials' statements, procurement and O&S data, open-source intelligence, media reports. Figures subject to revision as new information becomes available. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
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Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Climate change is an affordability issue. Most of us will experience it as an increase in the cost of living paired with a commensurate erosion of its standards.
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 2, Western hawks have revived colonial-era schemes to build pipelines from the Gulf to Israel. These fantastical proposals won’t work, and cannot solve the growing energy crisis. New report from CI fellow Zack Cuyler.
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
America’s war economy helps no one. Short term: ends lives, undermines democracy, makes daily life unaffordable. Long term, even worse: pitches world into recession and dystopia. New Order from Ashes episode from @eamonka.bsky.social and @tcambanis.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Title image for Order from Ashes podcast episode "A War Economy That Only Destroys"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.
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Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide
OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The pain that consumers are feeling from the Iran war is real, and likely to get worse. But those short-term costs are only the tip of the economic iceberg, writes CI editor-in-chief @eamonka.bsky.social in a new commentary.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 02/04/2026
@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @eamonka.bsky.social lays out how Trump's war on Iran – in addition to being monstrous and wrong – will also incur all kinds of second-order economic costs, making Americans' lives materially worse: tcf.org/content/comm...
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The Iran War’s Forever Costs Will Far Exceed the Immediate Pain for Consumers
The most headline-grabbing economic effects of the Iran war are immediate, directly felt in consumers’ daily life: Pump prices are up 35 percent, and the
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Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Got to stretch my econ muscles and explain just how bad the Iran war is for the US economy—and it goes way beyond inflation. New commentary for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...
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The Iran War’s Forever Costs Will Far Exceed the Immediate Pain for Consumers
The most headline-grabbing economic effects of the Iran war are immediate, directly felt in consumers’ daily life: Pump prices are up 35 percent, and the
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Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Runaway war spending disfigures every aspect of the economy. Americans will be paying the costs of Trump’s reckless war on Iran for generations. @eamonka.bsky.social for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The @cssl.bsky.social is reporting zero snow water equivalent this morning, with just a little snow left around the property. It’s the earliest melt out of the lab’s snowpack since 2015. Median March 30 snow water equivalent is 34 inches. #CAwx
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/03/2026
probably nothing
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/03/2026
Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good! Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. Additional scatter points show the maximum extents from 2000 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year.
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 22/03/2026
There are so many ways in which this war can still escalate much further.
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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 20/03/2026
“Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal” 10/10 hed, no notes. #bikedc
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Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal
After the 15th Street bike lanes were constructed, bicycle injury crashes decreased by 91 percent, according to the District Department of Transportation.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I dunno, man. I really just do not know what to say at this point.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
...And, again today, a huge swath of the continental United States clear across from the Pacific Coast to Mississippi River is experiencing all-time March monthly record heat. Some locations are so hot that they are actually exceeding *April* all-time record highs. Incredible.
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 17/03/2026
This is true but also a very problematic framing that has been adopted by too many. The issue isn’t simply a lack of strategy, it is a lack of justification for launching the war in the first place.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2026
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative.

The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 08/03/2026
A rebooted global version of the neoconservative fervor of March 2003.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 06/03/2026
The U.S. and Israel – whose war of aggression you co-signed – are working to turn a vast swathe of the region into an ungoverned waste, from which millions of new refugees will flee to Europe You absolute doofus x.com/clashreport/...
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The "forever war" paradigm doesn't really describe the Iran war, writes @abujamajem.com. This U.S.–Israeli attack is something more acute, and immediate—this is a war of aggression, chaotic and wild.
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hezbollah escalated a war with Israel that had never ended, despite a nominal ceasefire. Renewed fighting will punish Lebanese civilians, but will probably also further weaken Hezbollah. @abujamajem.com in new roundtable tcf.org/content/comm...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/03/2026
Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
NO! Wednesday or Thursday is too late. You do not need to be briefed before voting on this. Troops should stop all military action now.
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