Q: Viktor Orbán seized control of universities and put them in foundations that were run by his allies. He rewrote the Constitution, he neutered the courts, and he has tried to control the media. Is that what you're advocating for in the US?

Trump VP contender Vance: I think

This is so powerful. 'There are candidates that believe in climate change ... and candidates that don't.'

Steve MacLaughlin is a model journalist for our age.

Everyone with a platform? Be like Steve. 🙌

#EndClimateSilence

This is not an easy statement for a meteorologist to make, as there is a lot of pressure to not wade into these climate waters. Big kudos to Steve for being bold and honest.

the snake is the fossil-fuel economy

The Amazon rainforest doesn't just remove ~2 billions tons of CO2 every year. It also moves ~20 billions tons of water through evotranspiration, the so-called 'flying rivers', critical for planetary balance.

I wish more people knew this.

I think the human race is in for a really grim awakening in the near future, because I still see a lot of people approach the climate change issue with this movie mentality of 'we just need the right invention to fix this' and that really isn't how it works.

If male and female roles are nature and biology, why do they need to be enforced? People will naturally do them if they’re natural.

In a private Mar-a-Lago meeting, Donald Trump offered oil companies a massive rollback of American clean energy regulations if they gave him $1 billion. Here’s why a single story on this, run last week, will be plenty.

Crucially, Alito doesn’t deny the flag was flying upside down, doesn’t deny its meaning, doesn’t express any disapproval for it and doesn’t disavow it.

Alito must step down from SCOTUS Updates.

The problem is not that he displayed bias; it's that he supported overturning of the results of a democratic election. He's unfit to serve.

Come on The New York Times The Washington Post CNN The Wall Street Journal Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times: make the stakes clear.

Just want to underscore the level of heroism underway here: Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been working to evacuate Dr. Adam Hamawy (who saved her life after her helicopter crash) from the hospital the IDF is besieging and bombing. But he and his colleagues have insisted they not leave

NEWS

After January 6 and just days before Biden was inaugurated on January 20, the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had an inverted flag flying outside of it.

That flag was the symbol that Trump supporters were using at the time for “stop the steal.”

The flag

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China's April industrial data continues to indicate slow or negative growth in emissions, giving more hope of the turnaround I have been predicting. 🧵