The level of destruction from the tornado in Appleton, Menasha, and Neenah, Wisconsin is unfathomable.
This just doesn’t happen here. I’ve lived here for 45 years, I know.
Photos are from NBC 26 in Green Bay
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”
Interesting. I think you may be right. Could you specifically name anyone else responsible for this sorry state of affairs, like, I dunno, someone acting in some kind of executive capacity
Today in Ozieri, Sardinia, Italy, a young horse trainer breaks down in tears as she tries to save her horse from the flames. This is what climate change looks like.
Todd and Julie Chrisley defrauded banks out of millions and dodged their taxes. Owed $22 million in restitution. Their daughter spoke at the RNC. Trump erased all of it, and twelve hours after walking out, Todd was reportedly on a shopping spree bragging the feds got screwed. That’s the whole system in one sentence.
Major chemical company Chemours is pushing the Trump administration to fast-track approval of a new PFAS forever chemical for use in data centers.
Trump purchased up to $165,000 in Chemours stock last year.
This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
I sat in a room with Vivienne Westwood and people from NASA. They told us this would happen. We have been screaming about it ever since, demonised and called radical. She spent the rest of her life warning everyone. Now it is here.
I am done screaming. I will leave that to the skeptics for the day their mountain homes and their villas in the south of France go up in flames. I have watched two fires in a few weeks. One in Edinburgh, one in the south of France. This is the future arriving early and it is reaching everyone.
Last week I was at a party with some of the richest people in the world. Ash was falling on their dinners and in their perfectly styled hair. The sun was orange above us. The moon came up orange too. Like something out of a film. Many of them have worked out they could be next.
There is hope but not for long. NASA’s projection, the one Vivienne turned into a map, showed that if the planet warms by four degrees everywhere below a line level with Paris becomes uninhabitable. Around the time she died the news said we had warmed by 1.1 degrees. We are now around 1.3 to 1.4. Once we pass 1.5 and stay there, turning it back slips out of our hands. After that comes mass extinction, mass displacement, and war over what is left. Water becomes the most valuable thing you can own.
They are the weakest amongst all of human kind. Or the most corrupt.
The Trump admin has abruptly fast-tracked construction of an AI data center on federal public lands.
The land was originally designated to a solar energy project and will now be replaced by a project that will "consume more energy than the entire neighboring community of Boulder City, Nevada."
I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.
Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.
I wish it was more common knowledge that almost all regulations exist because companies weren’t doing these things on their own and bad things were happening because of it.
The Rio Grande is the beating heart of Big Bend National Park. This is the plain truth for Big Bend's ecology, recreational use and cultural history. Water is life in the desert. If you know Big Bend at all then you know this. And bulldozers are rapidly closing in on it.