Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net
Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind
"... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."
Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of a new American oligarchy. Since then, this system has only become more entrenched, ever concentrated around a crew of tech titans going all in on AI.
Our newest cover story investigates these new AI overlords and their consolidation of power.
“The term ‘climate crisis,’ which carries with it a more urgent connotation than the more familiar ‘climate change,’ has nearly disappeared from media lexicon.”
ICE has reported the 16th detained death of 2026. Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, from Mexico, died on April 11 at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. Here's what we know and what ICE isn't telling you. 🧵
Oh look, a record 54% of US consumers now say their financial situation is worse compared to a year ago due to higher prices.
#collapse
"What happened in Hungary is that Magyar, who's now going to be the prime minister, went out in the country and basically explained how the corruption and criminality affected people in their everyday lives. And that's what's happening here."
Healthcare is screwed up in America
Dropping more healthcare services to fund more wars for nothing but pretend defense makes no sense
Yeah, that’s what he wants to do
Or try to do
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
[Via @itep.org]
"Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orbán’s expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad."
nice
newrepublic.com/post/209035/...
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Repost from Mayra
There were more protesters outside the Turning Point rally in Athens GA than event attendees.
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
"All this is sparking a stampede toward renewable energy and EVs around the world." prospect.org/2026/04/15/a...
In case anyone is still confused
The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.
I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵
Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
A Category 5 storm just formed more than a month before the Pacific hurricane season even starts.
Most Americans didn’t hear about it.
Here’s why that matters—and what it tells us about where storms are headed next:
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/the-storms...
Hawaii has not recovered from the flooding a few weeks ago. Now they are facing more catastrophic flooding.
Where’s FEMA?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyW1...
