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[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Sir #DavidAttenborough

“Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get."

#ClimateEmergency

https://t.co/EfMrZh9RGB

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[OrthopaeDenker @dokhollidays]

Muss man so was posten?
Ja.
Dass solche Statements heutzutage öffentlich in Deutschland, sozusagen im Namen der Katholischen Kirche, getätigt werden dürfen, ist wirklich unerträglich.
@queer_de

[HC Strien @Strien9]

Merkwürdiges Demokratieverständnis:
"Nicht derjenige, der die verfassungswidrigen Gesetze macht, ist schuld, sondern derjenige, der dagegen klagt. Denn nur dadurch werden sie verfassungswidrig"

So jemand schreckt vor keinem Verfassungsbruch zurück, wenn es ihm persönlich nützt

[Volker Quaschning @VQuaschning]

Die #Kernenergie stößt in der #Klimakrise zunehmend an ihre Grenzen. Ungarn muss wegen Wassermangels ein Kernkraftwerk abschalten.
Windkraft- und Solaranlagen brauchen dagegen kein Kühlwasser und liefern auch bei Wassermangel zuverlässig Strom.
https://t.co/Sgd5511fDd

[Omas* Gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @OmasGegRechtsLE]

Eindrücke vom heutigen CSD in Naumburg. Über 1000 Menschen machten sich bunt, laut und gutgelaunt trotz anfänglichem Regengusses auf zur Runde durch die sachsen-anhaltinische Mittelstadt. An unserem Stand wurden im 'Akkord' Fingernägel in Regenbogenfarben bemalt. 🌈😃
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[Konstantin v. Notz @KonstantinNotz]

Nebelkerzen-Weitwurf mit Markus Söder. Um die eigene Verantwortung im Umgang mit Gefährdern und Ballout zu kaschieren nölt man gegen die Grünen und das BVerfG. Der Rechtsstaat ist bei Söder in schlechten Händen. Ihm fehlt das Verständnis für ganz grundlegende Zusammenhänge.

[Lisa Badum @BadumLisa]

Seit mindestens 1966 weiß #Shell, dass ihr Öl das Klima verändert, wie neue Dokumente zeigen. Seither belügt & betrügt die fossile Lobby die Öffentlichkeit.

Wie lange noch, bis wir die Verschmutzer zur Rechenschaft ziehen?

https://t.co/5K0M4iWD1C

[PRO ASYL @ProAsyl]

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat klargestellt: Aufnahmezusagen für besonders gefährdete Afghan*innen können nicht einfach zurückgenommen werden. Ein wichtiger Erfolg für den Rechtsstaat – und vor allem für die Menschen, die seit Monaten oder Jahren auf Sicherheit hoffen.

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

Planting trees is good. Protecting OLD forests is climate superpower.
An existing forest = 8-12x more effective at carbon storage than a new plantation.
We can't plant our way out of deforestation. We have to STOP deforestation.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Do you think people are realising now that climate change doesn’t mean more flip flops and ice cream, but possibly the total breakdown of human civilisation and society

#wildfires

[Xplorer 🇩🇪 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦🤍❤️ @edwin_schupp]

Uni Hamburg entlastet Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf komplett:
Plagiatsvorwürfe ‚nicht bestätigt‘. Kein Fehlverhalten. Und jetzt?
Stefan Weber schweigt? Die CDU/CSU-Hetzer, die das 2025 als Wahlkiller missbraucht haben?
Die Medien, die es genüsslich breitgetreten haben?

[Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @AmadeuAntonio]

Die US-Megachurch „Bethel“ weitet ihren Einfluss über das „Awakening“-Netzwerk nach Europa aus. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Glauben, sondern um Macht: Politischen Einfluss ausweiten, regressive Werte etablieren und Demokratie untergraben.
https://t.co/kReCXKY3wR

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Wildfires raging across Europe and Canada. Heat domes baking the US. Temperatures reaching 50°C in Tunisia. Extreme heat across the globe is being exacerbated by the continued burning of fossil fuels and authoritarian tactics that attack climate science, restrict protest and spread climate disinformation.

Heatwaves can kill directly, and they also fuel wildfires, worsen air pollution, dry out land and disrupt rainfall patterns. This deepens drought in some places and makes floods more dangerous elsewhere.

Governments must act now to protect people from the dire and worsening effects of the climate crisis. Big fossil fuel polluters must be held accountable and pay for their role in causing extreme heat and other climate harms.

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

Day 610 of daily, uninterrupted protests in 8+ cities in Georgia.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Die #Erderwärmung verschlimmert die Waldbrandgefahren, da steckt ein einfaches Gesetz der Physik dahinter. Mein Interview im Deutschlandfunk heute morgen.
https://t.co/yEka5nmFRP

[Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @AmadeuAntonio]

Alle 12 Minuten kommt es in Deutschland zu einer rechten Straftat. Mit 85.837 politisch motivierte Straftaten erreicht die PMK einen neuen Höchststand. Die Zahlen haben sich in 10 Jahren nahezu verdoppelt. Das ist Ausdruck einer langfristigen Radikalisierung. 🧵1/x

[Mel Aura @mel__aura]

Weil die SPD und die Grünen aktuell, mit 7% und 5% drin wären. Wer die AfD verhindern will, muss die beiden Parteien wählen!

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.