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climat politique reggae #COYS

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Jason Hickel's avatar Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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For parents like me with kids about to enter university, we need an ethical ranking of universities because I don't want my kids going to places like this

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ooh I love Midnight Oil

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Great presentation and discussion - thanks šŸ™

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The War on Cars's avatar The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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Today, July 4th, most Americans will celebrate their independence by sitting in traffic on subsidized highways in cars they financed via high-interest loans from multinational banks and that they fueled with dinosaur juice imported from petrostates that hate the U.S.

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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Coloured Stone, The Gov, Adelaide. South Australian Music Hall of Fame inductees.

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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The idea is to tax them sufficiently so that renewables become more attractive and investors shift capital to the transition, and use the tax revenue to also invest in the energy transition, and ease the impacts for lower income people and the most vulnerable

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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Just stay clear of 5th avenue šŸ˜‰

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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well, the Olympics in general, it was never about the best athletes, but rather the countries with the most money and best sporting infrastructure

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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This is genuinely important for a bunch of reasons, chief among them being a further confirmation that there is no amount of physical, real human death and suffering that could ever undo Labor's obsession with The Optics

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Yung En Chee's avatar Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social
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How "self-indulgent" & "disrespectful" of Senator Payman to cross the floor because of the intolerability of 40,000 Palestinians being massacred, when the Albanese govt has income tax cuts & energy rebates that need crowing about! Young people have all the wrong priorities! (sarcasm font)

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Existential Comics's avatar Existential Comics @existentialcomics.bsky.social
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I feel like people don't talk about how cool electricity is often enough. The turbines go spinny spinny down by the river, and somehow that keeps my beer cold?? Absolute first class feature of civilization.

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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Tips to beat the heat: šŸ’§ Drink water šŸ‘• Wear light and loose clothing šŸ” Stay indoors āœŠ Dismantle the fossil fuel industry

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George Monbiot's avatar George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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How Britainā€™s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.
My column on the RSPCA's astonishing betrayal of its principles. It now does more, in my view, to promote animal cruelty than to prevent it. Plus bonusšŸ§µ
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot's avatar Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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Kylian MbappƩ urges youth vote to counter 'extremists'

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Guardian Australia's avatar Guardian Australia @guardianaustralia.bsky.social
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ā€˜Itā€™s very seriousā€™: Franceā€™s Thuram urges voters to keep far right out in election

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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"If a doctor tells you you've got cancer do you want to wait an extra 20 years to take the treatment and do something about it?" 5'24" Joelle Gergis refuting claims that we can wait until closer to 2050 for solutions to the climate crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImMH...

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"Australian energy giant Woodside described the extraction as a ā€œhistoric dayā€ and a "key milestone" for the company and the nation."

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Transnational Institute's avatar Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social
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The oil revolution post-WWII reshaped global energy systems and cemented the US's involvement in the Middle East. Israel and the Gulf states remain central to maintaining Western control over vital resources. www.tni.org/en/article/f...

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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"AI doesn't kill people, people kill people" - AI bot

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The EU has adopted a ā€˜business as usualā€™ approach to Israel as it perpetrates a genocide in Gaza.

Ahead of the parliamentary elections, our new research argues that by providing political cover and material support to Israel, the EU is complicit in genocide. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

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Screaming Pectoriloquy's avatar Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

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beccagrawl's avatar beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social
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As the saying goes - it doesnā€™t matter if you think climate change is real because your insurance company definitely does: wapo.st/3KhD381 (gift link)

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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the Jonny Bairstow part of The Test was gold

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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may I just suggest to the Biden people that if you're running a campaign based on the (correct) proposition that your opponent is going to wipe his ass with the entire concept of rule of law and replace it with rule of Trump, wiping your own ass with the concept of international law is not helping

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Prof. Farhana Sultana's avatar Prof. Farhana Sultana @farhana.bsky.social
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Iā€™m still baffled those two purport to care about climate justice not be anti-genocide. The fossil-military-warfare industrial complex is the one & same. If you donā€™t oppose genocide, you donā€™t really understand or care about climate justice.

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ian aIan pauI's avatar ian aIan pauI @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
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It turns out getting universities to divest from genocide will require abolishing the police.

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polqat's avatar polqat @polqat.bsky.social
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Free Palestine šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø

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Trains Trams Tracks's avatar Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social
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You are not stuck in traffic. You are the traffic.

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David Ho's avatar David Ho @davidho.bsky.social
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I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being ā€œpro-Palestinianā€ as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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seems really cool that as a Jew I am now an anti-semite if a white nationalist christian fundamentalist says I am

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em unfaithful (faithful version)'s avatar em unfaithful (faithful version) @revengeem.bsky.social
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ā€œIt would be worse under Trumpā€ I donā€™t get how you can look at whatā€™s happening in Gaza and go: well it could be worse.

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Existential Comics's avatar Existential Comics @existentialcomics.bsky.social
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What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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Solidarity with the Columbia Protests (many participants in which are Jewish, though reporters seem to have failed to notice). Solidarity with Palestine. Solidarity with American Jews & Israeli Jews fighting for a just peace. The only liberation is a shared liberation.

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Alan Baxter's avatar Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social
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So America would rather start a war with its students than stop funding a genocide overseas?

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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Orwellian situation where many of the "anti-semitic" protesters are Jews and the "pro-Israel" protesters are explicitly anti-semitic nazis and apocalytpic evangelical freaks

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