The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Four years into the war on Ukraine and the EU is still bankrolling Putin's war machine with billions in exchange for fossil gas: www.urgewald.org/en/media/eu-...

Image source: https://x.com/RedCrossLebanon/status/2041861078603214869

I donated to the Lebanese Red Cross. I hope you will, too: donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/lb/supportLRC

Stop the war!

Can Hungary Vote Out Its Autocrat? Musings on the politics & political economy of Orbánism ahead of the April 12 election

Here. We. Go. 🇭🇺💪
It’s a beautiful day for regime change in Hungary!

Over the past weeks I wrote a few pieces making sense of what’s going on, how we got here & what’s at stake. I thread them here.

1/x

brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

Image source: https://x.com/RedCrossLebanon/status/2041861078603214869

I donated to the Lebanese Red Cross. I hope you will, too: donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/lb/supportLRC

Stop the war!

This has to stop!

Come on, Hungarians, do your magic.

Interesting thread on fresh criticism of Israel from South Korean leadership.
Would it influence plans by Dana Petroleum, owned by SK's state run KNOC, to explore for fossil gas offshore Israel and Gaza?

Saudi Arabia’s key east-west oil pipeline hit as Middle East energy attacks continue Iran, Kuwait and UAE also report attacks despite start of two-week ceasefire

When even backup oil routes are attacked - after a ceasefire had been announced - maybe it's time to rethink societies' fossil fuel dependence?
www.ft.com/content/115e...

Hungary’s Orban Visits Military Near Border as Serbia Denies Explosives Find Staged Viktor Orban toured military units near the Serbian border the day after the Belgrade authorities said they found explosives near a gas pipeline to Hungary – and denied the incident was staged to influence the upcoming Hungarian elections.

This has pretty much all the ingredients of 21st century fascism:
- fossil gas (even Russian gas)
- military deployment
- fearmongering (even blaming migrants)
- cooperation between autocratic regimes (ahead of possible elections defeat)
balkaninsight.com/2026/04/06/h...

Here's one place to start -- @counter-balance.bsky.social's campaign for a social and green @eib.org: counter-balance.org/social-and-g...

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

"We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities" - excellent piece by @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A view of part of the medieval Old Town from the lower part on a sunny day. In the foreground right, a wooden little house with colorful flowers, and next to it a group of people with a dog. In the background, several tenement houses and a church tower poking behind them.

A large sign indicating state support for the post-flood reconstruction of the church and monastery behind it. The sign is placed on a broken brick wall and to the left of it, two piles of concrete pavement slabs. Check out the image from the same spot in the next post.

On the wall of a freshly renovated residential building, an address sign and about a meter above it, a black sign that reads (in Polish) "water level, September 15, 2024".

A blocked entrance to a bridge and next to it a sign with the name of the river "Nysa Kłodzka". In the foreground, on exposed soil, an array of broken pavement tiles.

Spent a couple of hours in Kłodzko, one of the Polish towns worst hit by the September 2024 climate-fueled floods.
19 months later, this truly lovely, historic town is recovering but some scars are still visible.

EU: energy crisis ‘will not be short-lived’ despite Iran-US ceasefire While Europe is less dependent on oil and gas coming from the gulf than Asia, 40 percent of refined products, such as jet fuel and diesel, pass through the Straight of Hormuz.

'Despite a possible pause in hostilities, "we should be under no illusion that this crisis that is affecting energy prices will be short-lived. It will not be,” said Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, energy spokesperson for the EU Commission, on Wednesday'

More of this, please.

Curiously, while strolling through the Old Town, I've seen several other people who were after traces of the floods. Climate disaster tourism?🤔

On the corner of the monastery building - a closer look at the spot in the image in the previous post - a woman stands in front of a tourist information sign about the church complex. I added a yellow arrow pointing to the metal plate indicating the water level during the July 1997 floods. This plate is about three-four meters above ground.

A closer look at another plate of the same kind indicating the water level, in English and Polish, during the July 1997 floods. This one is about a meter above ground level.

In fact, this deluge came less than three decades after what was then dubbed 'flood of the millennium', which was at least as destructive.
Now, the most visible testimony are inconspicuous, blue metal plates on a number of buildings that read 'flood level'.

A view of part of the medieval Old Town from the lower part on a sunny day. In the foreground right, a wooden little house with colorful flowers, and next to it a group of people with a dog. In the background, several tenement houses and a church tower poking behind them.

A large sign indicating state support for the post-flood reconstruction of the church and monastery behind it. The sign is placed on a broken brick wall and to the left of it, two piles of concrete pavement slabs. Check out the image from the same spot in the next post.

On the wall of a freshly renovated residential building, an address sign and about a meter above it, a black sign that reads (in Polish) "water level, September 15, 2024".

A blocked entrance to a bridge and next to it a sign with the name of the river "Nysa Kłodzka". In the foreground, on exposed soil, an array of broken pavement tiles.

Spent a couple of hours in Kłodzko, one of the Polish towns worst hit by the September 2024 climate-fueled floods.
19 months later, this truly lovely, historic town is recovering but some scars are still visible.

"From Dutch bike lanes and Danish windfarms to French nuclear power plants and Nordic district heating systems, European leaders have shown that a crisis can spur change. The imperative has since grown, but the imagination seems to have shrunk."

(from www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...)

The World Is Responding to Iran by Becoming More Like China That means more electrification, more stockpiling, and more coal.

I’m not saying you’re going to try to implement China’s energy policy, I’m saying that you’re going to implement an energy policy and it’s going to be Chinese heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

Donald Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter Sunday Iran threat The president warned that there “will be nothing like it,” in an Easter Sunday social media message invoking Allah.

Under the Geneva Conventions and related frameworks, deliberately targeting civilian objects, incl. power plants, bridges, & water systems not being used for military purposes, constitutes a war crime.

Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter threat

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

‘Weak and pathetic’: why is the EU not using its leverage to stop Israel? Deep divisions on Israel mean the union has failed to act over Lebanon, Gaza, or settler violence in the West Bank

There's a lot Europe can do, if not to stop Israeli war crimes, then to draw its own red lines. EU leaders have, by and large, chosen not to. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’ US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue

On Sunday, he told @edwardluce.bsky.social, "my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran": www.ft.com/content/3bd9...

It's already the second time in less than a week that Trump talked about taking Iranian oil. Yes, he's talking nonsense but, be it fighter jets or fossil fuels, Trump's America is at war with humanity.

Lithuania halves train fares for two months amid fuel price surge Lithuania will cut domestic train ticket prices by 50% for two months in response to soaring fuel costs linked to tensio...

Be like Lithuania.

Lithuania halves train fares for two months amid fuel price surge www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

With the approval of the discriminatory death penalty bill by the Israeli parliament on 31 March, calls for Europe to “do something” continue to echo in Brussels. But there is little reason to believe the statements of concern will go further than that.

A group of miners in ceremonial outfits walking. In the center, one miner holding a flower bouquet. Image from: https://slaskaopinia.pl/2026/04/01/kopalnia-wujek-konczy-dzialalnosc-fotorelacja/

Successive Polish governments have refused to commit to exiting coal. But the transition is underway since at least a decade.
Yesterday, the famous Wujek mine in Katowice shut down after 127 years in operation: wbj.pl/wujek-mine-c...

(Photo: Artur S. / Śląska Opinia)

And what if the war actually leads to a permanent reduction in demand for oil?

2026 is the year when April 1 pranks are just as sensible as your everyday news. If not more.

If you're horrified by the bloodshed and devastation in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel; if you're troubled by the specter of a global energy shock, you should join the effort to end this war.

Here's one way: support the Israeli antiwar movement.

Some pointers here (and please add yours): 🧵