Claire McCaughey

🇨🇦🇮🇪Master gardener, Ikebana artist, wife of Métis visual artist Jim Logan, M.A. Economics Queen's '79, Fmr Head Res & Eval at Canada Council, Belfast-born

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

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[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

If a forest burns down and we make money selling the timber and clearing the wreckage, GDP goes up.
> Let that sink in.
> Our global economic compass treats ecological destruction as a profit margin. Isn't it time we valued planetary health over outdated balance sheets? 🌍📉

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

This is an absolutely bizarre scene. RFK Jr is describing Trump as the heaviest President ever while Trump is asleep in his chair.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

He’s so healthy. Nobody is as healthy as him. Nobody comes close. Doctors said he’s probably the healthiest president we’ve ever had! Period!

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

July 2026 was France's hottest month since records began. Rivers are at record lows. Massive wildfires broke records. Without major adaptation, large areas of #France will increasingly struggle to sustain agriculture. This is climate change reshaping a nation in real time.

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

Pure propaganda from Bartiroma. Things are not going well in the US. The economic data show that.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Maria Bartiromo on Democrats pointing out that the economy is not great: "That's just propaganda. I mean, look, things are going well. And I think we're all feeling it. I've spoken with a number of CEOs ... "

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Jim Stanford on the Canadian vs. American economies: "The longer-term trend in the U.S. labour market has been quite different than Canada. Since Donald Trump came back in with his trade war and the tariffs and everything else, overall employment in the U.S. has actually been falling, whereas it's been growing in Canada. Real wages in the U.S. are falling. Real wages are growing in Canada."

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

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[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

David Attenborough: climate change is humanity’s biggest threat in thousands of years.

NASA scientists: it’s going to be as bad as a huge asteroid hit to the planet and billions of people may die.

World famous scientists: it may bring about the end of human civilisation.

Farmers: the food supply is at risk.

Radio presenter: Nah. That’s not true.

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

Disturbing if true.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

So I discovered something interesting today.

I keep hearing Francesca Hong is running some innovative campaign where she isn’t spending money on TV and it’s working like a charm. This confused me because I have family in Wisconsin and I know for a fact there are tons of Francesca Hong ads on TV - there actually seem to be more ads for her than any of her opponents. So I thought "gee, if Hong isn’t spending money on TV and the Democratic Establishment hates her, who is paying for all this ad time?”

A lot of Hong’s direct TV advertising came from a super pac called Middle Class Priorities. Middle Class Priorities only has one donor, Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc. And what is Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc? A fake GOP slush fund run by Republican operatives that’s spent millions of dollars getting leftists nominated in swing districts. Most leftists who have won swing district primaries are being funded by the GOP btw, that’s why so many of them claim they won despite being outspent. William Lawrence had massive Super PAC support from an organization called Michigan Sunrise that came out of nowhere and conveniently timed its inception so it did not have to disclose its donors until after the election

On top of that, another Republican Super PAC spent 2.2 million dollars “attacking” Francesca Hong starting in early July. That’s weird - why would you waste money attacking a candidate who was barely leading in the polls at the time in a crowded primary? Because their “attack ads” only ran in extremely Democratic areas like Dane County and they were all about how you shouldn’t vote for Francesca Hong because she opposes Trump’s immigration agenda.

They were fake attack ads meant to improve her standing with Democratic Primary voters. Francesca Hong’s spike in support happened in mid-July, at the exact same time a GOP Super PAC launched an ad campaign meant to make Democratic Primary voters think the Republicans are scared Francesca Hong will stop their immigration priorities

The Republicans have spent more money on TV advertising for Francesca Hong than every Democratic candidate has spent combined. Literally her entire TV footprint is Republican Super PACs. She currently has zero dollars of her own television ad buys lined up, has spent zero dollars on TV ads the entire campaign, has no support from outside money that isn’t a Republican psyop, has one-tenth of Tom Tiffany’s cash on hand, and can’t receive support from the DNC because the party is broke

People are underestimating what a blood bath this is going to be. She’s already behind in the polls and the second the primary is over every penny of Francesca Hong’s TV advertising disappears and the GOP will spend tens of millions of dollars on ads about how she’s a radical police abolitionist who hates Valentine’s Day, is grotesquely obsessed with her son’s ethnic heritage, and pals around with a guy who said America deserves 9/11. There will be no response to these ads because Hong doesn’t have any money for ad buys and all of her Super PAC support came from Peter Thiel

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

I have no issue with El Sayed wearing a black t-shirt and jeans every day. What I have an issue with is knowing what this headline would say about a woman candidate only wore a black t-shirt and jeans every day.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Stanford: "The general momentum in Canada, I think at this point, is quite positive. So I think we're going to see continued job growth, continued economic growth."

[Claire McCaughey @cmccaug]

Most Canadians have lost the taste for US booze so even if it does go back on the shelves Canadians won't buy it.

U.S. booze might end up back o...
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[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

Non-college voters, the base of the MAGA movement, are abandoning the GOP.

MAGA's net favorability is -22 pts (down 28 pts) with them. Trump's now at -19 pt net approval with them. Dems actually lead in the race for Congress with them.

This is what blue waves are built on.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wolfers: "What we see is the US has had very weak job growth since Jan. 2025, the beginning of the Trump administration. Job growth actually to the north, despite all the difficulties that they've faced in Canada, has been substantially faster. In fact, job growth in Canada is quadruple the rate that it is in the US."

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

When someone says "save the bees", they're almost always talking about honeybees. But - while there are real issues plaguing honeybees - the bees that REALLY need saving are the 4,000 native bee species that are in REAL trouble...

Honeybees are NOT native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. It's best to think of them more as livestock than a native species that needs to be protected

That's not to say there aren't real issues with honeybees. Colony collapse disorder, varroa mites, and so on

A few years back, I interviewed Peter Nelson, who directed The Pollinators documentary, for my @epicgardening podcast. He opened my eyes tot he world of "managed beekeeping." This is an entire industry where people literally truck honeybee colonies across the country to pollinate almonds, apples, you name it

But why would you need to do this? Surely there are already bees in the area to pollinate these crops? Well, there WERE, but monocropping, pesticide use, and many other "modern" practices wiped out the native species in those areas

North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species, most of which don't live in hives. Many are fully solitary creators. The craziest part is how specialized they are: up to 45% are "pollen specialists," meaning they feed from ONE plant or ONE plant family. If that plant disappears from your area, those bees are gone...forever

So, while it's fine to add a honeybee hive to your property and harvest delicious raw honey, it's also possible they're outcompeting native wild bees for resources

At the very least you should be planting for native species too:

To do this, choose local native flowers that bloom at different times of year. Leave nesting areas, bare ground, dead stems left standing in fall. You can add a bee house too with sticks, logs with holes drilled in them, and so on to provide potential nesting habitat for native bee species

So - the "save the bees" conversation NEEDS to include the 4,000 species nobody's talking about, but are a crucial part of North American ecosystems

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: "You've seen now the start of the transformation in the economy just beginning to show up in the numbers. We're creating jobs at twice the rate of the United States. We have foreign direct investment twice the rate of our nearest G7 competitor, which is the United States. We are seeing growth pick up in this quarter. And most fundamentally, what we're seeing is business investment beginning to pick up."

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The fireflies are starting to go dark. The adults have served their purpose and are at the end of their lives. What you do to your yard between now and spring decides whether they come back next year.

Every adult firefly that flashed this summer has already laid eggs in your soil and leaf litter. Those eggs are hatching right now into larvae that will spend the next one to two years underground hunting slugs and snails.

They're doing pest control in your soil through fall, overwinter in the leaf litter, and resume next spring. The larvae underground right now are next summer's firefly show.

Grub treatments and fall pesticide applications kill them. Raking and bagging all your leaf litter removes the habitat they overwinter in. Porch lights left on disrupt the mating signals of the last adults still flying this week.

The action items are mostly subtractions: skip the fall pesticide application, leave the leaf litter, turn the porch light off when you go to bed.

The fireflies don't need much. They need the soil left alone and the leaf litter left in place.

[Ingwar Perowanowitsch @Perowinger94]

Eine kleine Geschichte des Widerstands:

In den USA haben jetzt Klimawissenschaftler:innen, die von Donald Trump gefeuert wurden, die ehemalige nationale Klimawebsite https://t.co/JQNbkCz72h, die ebenfalls von der Trump-Regierung abgeschaltet wurde, komplett neu aufgebaut und kürzlich unter https://t.co/617RD609y1 neu online gestellt. Alles ehrenamtlich und mit Kleinspenden finanziert.

Ziel der „Aktivisten“ ist es, das neueste und seriöse Klimaforschung auch unter einer Klimaleugner-Regierung weiter für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich ist.

Ein kleiner Sieg der Wahrheit über die Lüge, im postfaktischen Trumpland❤️💪

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand:
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