Timothy Snyder: #War Through Weakness: tRump’s Superpower Suicide in #Iran and #Russia.
#russiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #diesel #sanctions #fossilfuels #Putin #USA #corruption
https://snyder.substack.com/p/war-through-weakness
#Musk is happily shitting on innocent bystanders again…
Matthew Brown: Something is in the air in America's happiest city. A vague Bay Area Air District notification to elementary school parents and an anonymous Substack article have this #Fremont community searching for answers.
#California #Tesla #pollution
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bringhurst-tesla-emissions-22468661.php
Corrupt real estate deal brokered by #tRump crony Witkoff & nepo baby Kushner with murderous tyrant in exchange for #fossilfuel burning.
Luke Harding: #tRump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as #Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’. Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure.
#russiaUkraineWar #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/11/zelenskyy-trump-ukraine-russia-energy-ceasefire
Oleksandra Poda, Zoriana Semenovych & Mariana Lastovyria: Russia chose its next weapon to terrorize #Ukraine. #Russia launched nine times more jet drones than in June, put cheap missiles into mass production, and ramped up its #NATO sabotage campaign.
#russiaUkraineWar #warcrimes #terrorism
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/russia-chose-its-next-weapon-to-terrorize
Timothy Snyder: Four Wrongs of a Public #Execution: Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical.
#hegseth #trump #sadism #psychology #history #ethics
https://snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrongs-of-a-public-execution
Erin Allday: How narcoleptic dogs helped this Stanford scientist crack a medical mystery.
#narcolepsy #science #sleep #medicine #dogs
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/narcolepsy-sleep-disorder-medicine-dog-22467717.php
Oliver Holmes: #Indonesia accused of ‘gross negligence’ in #wildfires lawsuit as haze tests region. NGOs in Indonesian #Borneo file class action lawsuit calling for #government to better manage annual fires and.
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/08/indonesia-wildfires-gross-negligence-lawsuit-haze-region
Daniel Shailer: This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste? The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it.
#Norway #pollution #water #mining #government
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/08/norway-environment-nordic-mining-waste-pollution-fjord-dumping-salmon
Stand Up For Science's new report: "Forging the Future of #Science and #Democracy"
Jennifer Rubin: Data Center Backlash Is MAGA’s Comeuppance
#datacenters #Ohio #maga #trump #ai #TheContrarian #elections #midterms
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/data-center-backlash-is-magas-comeuppance
Maya Yang: #US households pay 62% more for #water than they did a decade ago, study finds. For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says.
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/households-drinking-water-cost-study
Timothy Snyder: Hydrocarbons (Kharkiv Meditations, 9/10)
#FossilFuels #war #putin #russiaUkraineWar #ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy #authoritarianism
https://snyder.substack.com/p/hydrocarbons-kharkiv-meditations
Aracelly Bibl: My son died within hours of contracting #meningitis B. A vaccine could have saved his life.
"Eighty percent of parents surveyed didn’t know about the MenB vaccine, according to a recent study. Only about 13% of 17-year-olds have completed the MenB series. Another recent study found that nearly half of pediatricians don’t routinely bring up MenB."
#vaccines #health #children
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/meningitis-b-vaccine-disease-22456581.php
Sophia Bollag: As the public sours on #AI Newsom signs a host of regulations — including some he vetoed earlier.
#California #GavinNewsom
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-ai-data-centers-22453731.php
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone #AI nearly sparked world #war three this month
Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender. The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between #China and the United States reveals.
#UnitedStates
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month
Lex McMenamin: #ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in #Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too. ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as tRump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach.
#trump #resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/ice-watch-maine-tactics
The datacenter got a slap on the wrist, a $1 million fine.
Evan Simon: US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits. Records show #Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming #pollution before regulators stepped in.
#datacenters #NewJersey #Microsoft #AI #crime
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/us-datacenter-new-jersey-pollution
Russell Vought joins the war on #cancer, on the side of cancer. Let's get this Pro-Cancer shill out of office.
#OMB #RussellVought #Science
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddt3UiTDq_B/
https://www.standupforscience.net/
Do Poles really hate Ukrainians? The escalated tensions in Poland-Ukraine relations this summer caused rising #xenophobia against Ukrainians in Poland. Ivanna Spivachenko has witnessed this shift herself.
#Poland #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #refugees
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/do-poles-really-hate-ukrainians