EU foreign ministers are due to raise today the prospect of fresh sanctions on violent West Bank settlers.
But with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s representatives still in the room, key Israel files are unlikely to move forward.
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Reform said they would pay my energy bills. They haven't Residents of winning street in Nigel Farage's fuel giveaway stunt complain they have missed out on prize
In "bears crap in the woods" news.
Let's ask the insider traders...
- BBC finally reporting on this.
BBC News - The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Accumulated precipitation in Helsinki Kaisaniemi since January 1st, 2026. The value in 2026 is outside the 1845–2025 max/min values.
Here we are: the cumulative precipitation in Helsinki Kaisaniemi this year is currently the lowest on record.
Helsinki Kaisaniemi is the oldest weather station in Finland. Records have been kept since 1845.
Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Map of the contiguous United States showing the spring bloom index anomaly as of April 19, 2026 from the USA National Phenology Network. Many areas are earlier than normal.
Aside from Florida, nearly the entire contiguous U.S. has experienced earlier than average first plant blooms in 2026. Earlier springs can cause longer allergy seasons, accelerate wildfire risk, increase pests/mosquitoes, and lead to less reliable snow-fed water.
Map: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...
Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/
The biggest shift in the 2026 LinkedIn green skills report: most green hires now have job titles that aren’t ‘green’ at all. Sustainability is no longer a specialty, it’s a baseline skill for any career. The green economy isn’t a separate lane. It’s just the economy now.
We won.
Tesla Chicago is closed.
Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.
Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com
Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸
Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.
This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.
Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar
Going on Sunday morning talk shows to issue prebuttals for war crimes instead of going to church is a choice
Tragic lost opportunity.
“rare alignment that would not repeat for roughly 175 years...NASA originally envisioned an ambitious exploration of all the outer planets…budget constraints eventually scaled that back…ultimately funded for a simpler, intensive fly-by of just Jupiter and Saturn”
In the second season of Beef on Netflix, Oscar Isaac's character references "Buy, Borrow, Die" — a tax-avoidance method used by the ultra-rich.
As part of @propublica.org's Secret IRS Files series, we put together this animation back in 2021 to explain how it works:
El Niño is back. Possibly the strongest in 140 years. On top of the hottest baseline ever recorded. The floor fossil fuels built doesn't take a season off.
#ElNino #ClimateChange #Weather #Meteorologist #Science
114 gray whales tracked in SF Bay. Nearly 1 in 5 died there. Arctic waters up 13°F. Sea ice down 95%. Food web gone. Population down 50% since 2016. Fossil fuels did this. The EPA just stopped regulating them.
#GrayWhale #ClimateChange #Science #Meteorologist #Arctic #ElNino
On March 31 the Endangered Species Committee, a panel that met 3 times in 48 years, convened for 15 minutes and unanimously exempted Gulf oil drilling from the ESA.
Justification: national security.
#RicesWhale #ClimateChange #EndangeredSpecies #Trump
At 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. The next few months could be a defining moment, writes Jason Momoa.
Caitlyn Jenner Appeals to Trump, Saying She Cannot Travel After Passport Gender Changed to 'Male' Jenner's passport reissued with male gender marker, sparking a personal and political conflict. By Glory Moralidad Published 16 April 2026, 2:57 PM BST
The leopards ate her dumb face.
Who could ever have predicted that happening?
www.ibtimes.co.uk/caitlyn-jenn...
Gallegos, conchitas y martas.
So; we sent US soldiers to fight a useless war, and now we can’t feed them? Do I have that right?
Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS
Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
HELLO???
Trump is nominating the guy they fired from FEMA a few months ago to lead FEMA.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
A VERY rare prosecution of an ICE officer. However, the officer is NOT being prosecuted for anything directly related to immigration enforcement.
Instead, it's for road rage; while driving a rental, he pulled a gun on people who blocked him from passing in the shoulder.
6 Republicans cross aisle to advance House bill to let 350K Haitians keep their temporary protective status. 1st time Republicans have opposed Trump on immigration policy. (SCOTUS argument 4/29 on legality of Noem's termination of Haitians' & Syrians' TPS.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is slavery.
In NYC, a shelter for trans people experiencing homelessness should be a godsend to the most vulnerable members of our community, but issues including predatory cis men lying their way in have made it a nightmare.
And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't answering activists' emails...
Bri is also a dear friend of mine. Please help if you can.
Orbán associated think tanks have been bankrolling far-right projects all over Europe and probably elsewhere. The question is will they have the funding to continue doing so.
