Patrick Mazza

Editor - The Raven journal, climate advocate, history reader and maker, rocker, North Pacific Westerner/Cascadian

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@r0berto_mid_5 @caitoz See BS

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@drvolts Huge pressure to expand drilling in the North Sea. How does this play? Reform Party is surging. Climate deniers. Renewables “skeptics.” Implications for UK renewables prospects? Interested in progress on ocean energy.

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@landrights4all Is there a link to this?

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@bobby_jags It was cheap rent. The 70s and 80s let you live on limited income. So people could get part-time, low-wage service industry jobs and still have time and space to do music. I saw this in Portland in the 80s. Now the cost of living has exploded and people must work more.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The strongest El Niño in 150 years? Yes, it’s legitimately possible. Not hype. In fact, the “median” forecast for December of all of our computer models combined is slightly “above” the biggest event we know of back in 1877. (+2.9 vs +2.7 using ONI) While this peak intensity may or may not occur, all signs are pointing to a Super El Niño - a “natural” oscillation. That will expel stored heat from the deep Tropical Pacific - on top of significant longterm warming - heating Earth to record levels not measured before in late 2026-2027, powering extreme heat waves, droughts, and rain storms… while also suppressing Atlantic hurricane season 1/
#ElNino #extremeweather #science

[Eric Webb @webberweather]

We just observed the highest Equatorial Pacific oceanic heat content for *any* month since 1997 and the highest for April in the entire satellite era.

If it wasn’t clear to you before that we were headed for a “Super” El Niño later this year, hopefully it is now.

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@volcaholic1 Luckily the pyroclastic flow stopped a little short of where they were.

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@ryankatzrosene This study says we are underestimating risks from jet stream-induced failures. https://t.co/H7IixzO9LD. I think the key issue is we have not yet fully understand jet stream impacts from Arctic ice loss, or the rate of loss. Conflict is indeed causing a very short term crisis.

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@MichaelEMann “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” - William T. Kelley, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

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@EarthDay @ChristopherNFox Denis also led creation of the Bullitt Center in Seattle, one of the greenest office buildings on Earth. For many years he headed Bullitt Foundation, which funded many innovative environmental groups including my own. He’s done a whole lot since Earth Day to fulfill its vision.

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@EarthDay @ChristopherNFox Honored to call Denis Hayes a personal friend. He wryly says he’s mostly remembered for what he did when he was 20. But since he was Carter’s solar lead, founding what we now call the National Renewable Energy Lab and laying the groundwork for today’s solar revolution.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during an interview on Sunday that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024.

Hochstein was asked by Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, “In July 2024 Secretary Blinken claimed Iran was one or two weeks away from having enough fissile material breakout capacity to eventually make a weapon if Iran had decided to do so. There were indirect negotiations that the Biden administration did, but it went nowhere. So when President Trump argues that he did what no other president would, is it just simply that the bill was coming due and it fell on his watch?”

“I do think there’s a certain element to that, and that’s why I was supportive of President Trump joining in in June to take the strikes that we had thought internally in the Biden administration, we may have to take if there was a second term,” Hochstein replied. “We thought that the spring, summer of 2025 was probably, we may have to be there in the same place. And we did, we did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.”

Hochstein, for the record, is an Israel-born IDF veteran who reportedly played a major role in the Biden administration encouraging Israel’s horrific bombardment of Lebanon in September 2024. And his narrative that an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities “may have had to happen” under a theoretical second Biden term is false.

In March of last year, US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khomeini [sic] has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” contradicting both the claims of President Trump and of Antony Blinken the year before.

But even if you accept that Iran was a nuclear risk, there was nothing stopping the Biden administration from simply restarting the nuclear deal that the Obama administration secured with Tehran in 2015. The JCPOA was working fine while it was in place; anyone who says otherwise is a lying warmonger. Trump and his handlers torched the JCPOA in 2018 because it was the primary obstacle preventing them from getting to war with Iran, and the Biden administration refused to reverse this move because they wanted war too.

The Democrats were beating the drums of war for Iran well ahead of the 2024 election. Here’s an excerpt from the official 2024 Democratic Party platform explicitly attacking Trump for not going to war with Iran in his first term:

“All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility. In June 2019, when Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace above the Straits of Hormuz, Trump responded by tweet and then abruptly called off any actual retaliation, causing confusion and concern among his own national security team. In September 2019, when Iranian-backed groups threatened global energy markets by attacking Saudi oil infrastructure, Trump failed to respond against Iran or its proxies. In January 2020, when Iran, for the first and only time in its history, directly launched ballistic missiles against U.S. troops in western Iraq, Trump mocked the resulting Traumatic Brain Injuries suffered by dozens of American servicemembers as mere ‘headaches’ — and again, took no action.”

Kamala Harris, who controversially replaced the dementia-addled Biden as the Democratic candidate late in the race, labeled Iran the number one enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America’s enemies and announced that she “will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.”

I’ve seen a lot of people trying to argue that Trump’s depravity in Iran proves everyone should support Democrats, but it’s clear the Democratic Party is just the more polite-looking face on the same evil power structure.

The war with Iran was always planned. Analysts like Brian Berletic and Richard Medhurst have been laying out solid arguments that this American war is more about attacking the economic and energy interests of Russia and China in a last-ditch effort to retain planetary hegemony than it is about assisting Israel. This places the United States on a dangerous trajectory toward increasingly hostile escalations between nuclear-armed powers.

These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025.

You don’t get to vote out an empire. Whether or not the US will continue working to dominate the planet will never be on the ballot. We will continue seeing reckless US wars of immense human consequence until the empire falls, or until the American people bring the revolutionary change to their country that the world so desperately needs.

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@VanJones68 Dead babies. Dead babies. Zionist tool.

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@MichaelEMann Mein Kampf seems to be a perennial favorite according to his ex-wife.

[Antiwar.com @Antiwarcom]

The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return?
by Ramzy Baroud
@RamzyBaroud #Israel #Zionism
https://t.co/Yxf695Y1oS

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@IslanderWORLD @grok Is this real?

[jseattle @jseattle]

CHS photojournalist Alex Garland has a new book — Home: Water of Western Washington https://t.co/lJoM9owYqg

[Patrick Mazza @PatrickAMazza]

@timand2037 Sailors sick of their record 11-month record deployment purposely throwing objects in the toilets to clog them. It’s a pootiny!

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEW DATA: When a Democratic president joined with Republicans & corporate donors to pass NAFTA, it killed the working class - not just figuratively, but LITERALLY.

NAFTA may be memory-holed - but it is the sliding-door moment that explains American politics today.