Rob Davies

Rob Davies

@robsmast.bsky.social

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Sustainable. Just. Vibrant. The first is guaranteed… the others require intent.

Age: 100 ppm

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I get the knee jerk, but any ‘climate advocates’ that think this are delusional. Trump’s VP choice couldn’t matter less. Republican / Trump climate policy is set by billionaire megadonors, the fossil fuel industry, and a Republican. Saw that has been relentlessly propagandized for three decades.

Climate advocates fear picking JD Vance for VP is ‘a dangerous step backward’www.theguardian.com Vance’s record shows ‘pattern of prioritizing fossil fuel interests’ over the climate crisis, environmentalist says

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YET AGAIN, last month was the hottest June on record globally... [(Preliminary) data/info: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/]

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Gofundme linked at the end of the thread, since TX is very much a “you’re on your own” state

I feel so bad for people in Houston, man

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Republicans are literally running against democracy: www.al.com/news/2024/07...

Alabama GOP chairman says democracy ‘leads to socialism’www.al.com America is not a democracy, John Wahl argues.

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My personal favorite Inhofe moment was when he held up a piece of paper with the names of 17 climate criminals (including me) while standing next to a stack of laws threatening to prosecute us for something or other. amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

US Senate's top climate sceptic accused of waging 'McCarthyite witch-hunt' | Hacked climate science emails | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com <p>James Inhofe calls for criminal investigation of climate scientists as senators prepare proposal that would ditch cap and trade</p>

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Last week, my newsletter highlighted how over 1/3 of premature births are attributed to the mothers' exposure to pollution from fossil fuels. Now, a new study shows air pollution reduces IVF success by 40%. For health reasons alone, fossil fuels need to go. globalnews.ca/news/1060157...

More green energy is powering the globe every daywww.talkingclimate.ca Global renewables surge, fossil fuel and climate change impacts on mothers and babies, and how to prepare for the hurricane season

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

Must read…

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

Perfection.

Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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Sarmad Faiz on Instagram: "Perhaps one of the greatest ads ever. John Cena on patriotism and what makes America, America."www.instagram.com 7,536 likes, 881 comments - sarmadfaizesq on June 28, 2024: "Perhaps one of the greatest ads ever. John Cena on patriotism and what makes America, America.".

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Anyone who thinks that temperatures in the 1930s were as high as today's is confusing global temperatures with temperatures in the U.S., which makes up 2% of the surface area of the globe. Globally, the 1930s were much much cooler than today.

This isn’t about villains, it’s about systems. But there are most definitely villains.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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I would never favor Trump as President. Didn’t the first time and don’t now. But I was also quite stunned by how quickly so many of the white people who Really Cared about our suffering just… stopped paying attention anymore after he left office. Fascists in many communities noticed & acted swiftly.

All the big rights the white people are panicking about losing in America, they have zero attention of the huge attacks on Black people. America is in the process of reversing to Jim Crow, the state's very police are getting more & more funded & armed & killing us more. @chadstanton.bsky.social

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Don't forget the Sharpie.

Seconded…

Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Is it possible Biden & Co. are strategizing what they could do with his new, unlimited latitude to do whatever he wants without fear of accountability?

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”

Every store in town is out of Mike & Ike’s. The collapse has begun.

Delusional and moronic on multiple levels. Biden /Harris beat TFG once, they can beat him again. The power of incumbency only stacks the deck further.

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I would feel better if those who are supposed to be political experts didn't beclown themselves this way. The choice is: 1) Biden 2) Harris 3) Total chaos / royal rumble, serious risk of coalition crack up. Leading an anti-fascist coalition is very hard. There is no Aaron Sorkin solution here.

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I missed that Barbra Streisand weighed in on chevron

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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The conservative majority of the Supreme Court doesn’t think bribery is much of a crime, but someone sleeping in their car is

I appreciate Justice Sotomayor's humanity and compassion, as ever

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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This is quite poor, and morally vapid. This report essentially claims there are no values underlying a school of sustainability (!!!) that would preclude acceptance of money from effectively any source (regardless how unaligned the corporate donor's values are with the mission of the school).

After 1.5 years, a Stanford Committee recommends continuing to take fossil fuel money for climate research. In a total own-goal, the report points out similarities btw this decision & Stanford's vote to keep taking tobacco $$ in 2007.

To all the pearl clutching hand-wringers…

"Talking heads: It was an utter disaster, make him step down, we can totally field someone with less than 50 days less until election day!" Actual data: www.newsweek.com/latino-voter...

Undecided voters say they now support Joe Biden after debatewww.newsweek.com A group of undecided Latino voters said they would support President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.