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[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

🚨Breaking: Scientists say this current heatwave is the worst ever in Europe, impossible without climate change, impossible without the constant 100,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere daily from burning fossil fuels.

Everyone needs to wake the hell up and educate themselves and their friends and family.

And be aware that the people talking shit under this post are either fossil fuel industry bots or idiots who care more about their political ideology than their children’s safety, people who don’t care enough about their families to even watch a documentary about how they’re being manipulated.

https://t.co/0Vg5xPlVe0

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

JUST IN: Germany has recorded a new all-time temperature high of 41.5°C (106.7°F), according to the national weather service.

[🏳️‍🌈 Supermiralles 🇮🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇸 @BlackVillain666]

Con la ola de calor, han saltado las vías del tranvía en Bruselas

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[Marco Lambertini @ConvenerNatureP]

Today in the Netherlands they have to splash water on steel bridges to cool them down and avoid damage from the extreme heat.

The costs of extreme weather are grossly underestimated now and in the future.

#ClimateChange

The future we want

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

There’s another heatwave coming in the next 10 days.

I hope im wrong but I think we’re fucked.

People are too stupid and the whole media is just unable to tell the truth.

We literally are seeing temperature and rainfall records falling all over the planet constantly and it’s barely making a dent in peoples consciousness. There should be millions protesting in the street day in day out until global governments change.

But there is no urgency from the useless deadly media who literally think they know more than scientists who’ve studied it for decades.

The public only cares about superficial celebrity nonsense, lifestyle guff and money, even people on the left generally are not very engaged with this issue whereas the right often deny it’s even happening. Only 10% of MPs across the board attended a briefing on climate change by the chief scientist in the UK several years ago.

Politicians don’t understand and don’t care, just like the public don’t. Most people won’t even tweet or discuss it let alone watch a documentary.

Someone asked me recently why I focus more on climate change than gay stuff now. It’s because climate change is the biggest threat to gay people that’s ever existed. Because it’s the biggest threat to all people that has ever existed.

We are talking about the total breakdown of the food system, of law and order and eventually, as David Attenborough says, the collapse of civilisation itself. Mass death, in other words, and with the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - we put 100 million tons of it out every single day - it can’t return to normal for thousands of years.

The media has turned us into idiots and completely failed to convey scientists warnings about how serious and imminent climate breakdown is. It’s not decades away. It’s here. It’s now. Extreme suffering and violence are incoming.

Video: Monmouth, UK, earlier this year. Scientist Prof Hayley Fowler, video below this tweet, warned last year that the UK could now see 2/3 of years worth of rain, triple what Monmouth experienced, to fall within a day or two, enough to wash homes and cars away and to completely flood the tube system in London if it happened there. No reporting in the media at all.

[Demagogue Watch. Save Democracy. @DemagogueWatch]

@TrueFactsStated Hegseth seems to be enraged by the Pope's criticism of all of his barbaric policies and initiatives. He's sending a message to all religious leaders and teachers that they have no standing whatsoever in America's war machine. Please god/buddha/green tara, make it stop!

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Trains cancelled due to the heat.

WE ARE NOT PREPARED FOR WHAT IS COMING!

[Demagogue Watch. Save Democracy. @DemagogueWatch]

@TrueFactsStated Such interesting characters back then!

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@TrueFactsStated 😂

[Максим Мирович @MirovichMedia]

Стивен Сигал бежит из Москвы – пузатый путинский холуй пытается продать свой дворец на Рублёвке, подаренный ему путиным за счёт российских пенсионеров и больных детей.

Что-что, а «жопная чуйка» у Сигала работает на отлично. Думаю, он хорошо понимает, что в случае «грандиозного шухера» несколько миллионов долларов пригодятся ему больше, чем дом в краю голодных и злых эсвэошников.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

In any normal administration, a failure to protect one of our bases overseas would be a major issue requiring hearings and real accountability. Nowadays, we just get 30 second videos of our SecDef in PT shorts doing burpees and call it a day.

https://t.co/PUlPVwerLF

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Meanwhile we’re doing lots of billboards. These are up now/latest. Please chip in if able. https://t.co/tLqBQPTE3X

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Have weather forecasts seemed less accurate lately? There's a major contributing factor: nearly half the morning weather balloons in the Lower 48 are "missing."

This is an ongoing crisis that is degrading critical severe weather forecasts that we all rely on. It's having real, tangible impacts on degrading forecast quality.

If you work in transportation, agriculture or commerce, this should matter to you.

Regardless of the causes, this negatively affects people of ALL political backgrounds. Weather affects everyone. And it's impacting ALL of us negatively.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

This is especially concerning for severe weather forecasts. We can't go 18 hours without ascertaining how the atmosphere is layered, how much storm fuel has built up and if severe thunderstorms are going to erupt. The Storm Prediction Center has even acknowledged forecasting frustrations in at least one public bulletin.

As an atmospheric scientist myself, I can say firsthand – the forecasts I'm able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be. I'm not able to predict severe weather with the confidence I normally would. That is extremely concerning.

The United States is "supposed" to launch balloons at 0Z and 12Z ideally – a.k.a. around 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time. That's not happening. Many sites, due to staffing issues stemming from broader political and organizational issues, have pushed to 18Z, or early afternoon. That's not helpful for morning severe weather forecasts. In other words, you get less lead time. Less advanced notice. Quicker ramp-ups and ramp-downs to the forecast.

We're not able to get jet stream, temperature, moisture or wind profiles of the atmosphere each morning like we otherwise would.

Moreover, the World Meteorological Organization encourages 12Z soundings; that data is shared via the Global Observing System (GOS) under the World Weather Watch (WWW). That's not happening.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Actually there IS a connection between climate change and Earthquakes.

A heating planet is metlting billions of tonnes of ice which is changing the pressures on different parts of the Earth. We'e playing with fire...

https://t.co/1zWcWHtGwH

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

The same Democratic leaders who lost the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court and a majority of governorships are telling progressive Democrats pushing for change to shut up because they know best how to win. Hilarious!!

[New York City Kopp @NYCkopp]

💦 Mayor Mamdani kicked off NYC’s outdoor pool season today by jumping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool in East Harlem!

This year marks the 90th anniversary of New York City’s iconic WPA-era outdoor pools. Summer is officially here! ☀️🏊‍♂️🌊

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Please Share The Happiness Of A FREED Bear 🐻.

Sen, a Moon Bear, was forced to live in appalling conditions in a tiny cage at a bile farm for 27 years. Here he is after being rescued, and playing in a pool at the @AnimalsAsia sanctuary.

Sen has found happiness at last ❤️‍🩹.

Thank you to everyone who rescued him 🙏.

Sen’s story in full: https://t.co/wgizwxtsYs

🎦 Credit: Animals Asia.

@PeterEgan6 @MoonbearJill @GrumpyOldRick

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon hit with HISTORIC first-ever impeachment for illegally dismantling the department she runs Linda McMahon — the former pro-wrestling executive Trump installed to run the Department of Education — is now facing the first impeachment of an Education Secretary in American history. And the reason is simple: she's accused of breaking federal law to destroy her own department.

Oregon Democrat Suzanne Bonamici introduced articles of impeachment Thursday, accusing McMahon of "illegally transferring the operations of 6 offices under the Department of Education to other Federal agencies."

Here's the core of it. The Department of Education was created by Congress in 1980. By law, only CONGRESS can shut it down. But McMahon — carrying out Trump's campaign promise to dismantle it — has been gutting the department piece by piece anyway, using backdoor "interagency agreements" to shove its programs over to Health and Human Services and the Labor Department.

The problem? Many of those programs are LEGALLY REQUIRED to stay within the Education Department. McMahon doesn't have the authority to move them. She's doing it anyway.

"McMahon has made it her mission to close down the Department of Education, something she does not have the right to do," Bonamici said on the House floor. And she made clear exactly who gets hurt: "Educators and parents, especially parents of students with DISABILITIES, are distraught and asking us to take action to stop these illegal transfers."

That's the cruelty at the heart of this. The Education Department administers critical protections and funding for students with disabilities — kids who depend on federal oversight to get the education they're legally entitled to. McMahon is throwing that into chaos.

McMahon's response was pure deflection, whining on X that Democrats think "an impeachable offense is working to improve student outcomes" before pivoting to her favorite culture-war obsession — attacking trans students, a focus of hers since day one.

The impeachment is unlikely to succeed in the GOP-controlled House. But it draws a crucial line: a Cabinet official cannot simply IGNORE the law and unilaterally dismantle a department Congress created.

A wrestling executive shouldn't get to bulldoze public education.

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