Wednesday Night Cat Blogging

Toying cat.

Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

Cat at rest. 

Musical interlude

Fluke - Hang Tough

 

Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

Wide-eyed cat.

Musical interlude

Blue Rodeo - Try

 

Saturday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your weekend reading.

- Hamilton Nolan writes about the inherent conflict between the politics of centrist inaction and the serious and urgent problems which require courageous and immediate solutions. And John Michael McGrath points out the problems with Mark Carney's climate strategy of eliminating emission reductions, pouring public funds into dirty fossil fuels, and hoping some electrification plan materializes despite his pushing policy in the opposite direction. 

- Meanwhile, Noelle Corbett reports that in contrast to the multitude of negative externalities caused by fossil fuel extraction and consumption, solar farms can create significant positive effects including benefiting wildlife and biodiversity.  

- Ellyn Lapointe discusses how the Trump regime's attacks on science in general and meteorology in particular have reduced the U.S.' capacity to forecast the extreme weather events exacerbated by the climate breakdown. Giedre Peseckyte reports on the WHO's call to treat extreme heat as a public health crisis. And Hanna Lee points out the causes of Canada's particularly wild weather so far in the summer of 2026. 

- Finally, Mike Brock examines the radical anti-democratic movement being pushed by Peter Thiel and other billionaires and elites seeking to eliminate any prospect of decision-making by and for the citizenry. And Adam Serwer highlights how the Republican attack on birthright citizenship in the U.S. reflects the underlying goal of undermining any sense of equal rights. 

Wednesday Morning Links

This and that for your Canada Day reading.

- George Monbiot points out that the determination by petropoliticians to deny climate change and the heat stress it causes is a threat to everybody, while George Tsakraklides notes that far too much of the general public has taken to accepting and even embracing the boiling of our shared planet. And Jason Hickel discusses how the problems with fossil fuel politics are inherent to capitalism - making climate socialism the only effective response to both economic and environmental ills. 

- Meanwhile, Victor Tangermann notes that the capital class is primarily opposed to solar energy because it's too affordable for the masses, rather than offering the windfall profits and monopolies of dirty fossil fuels and similar extractive energy sources. And Maddie Stone, Amy Westervelt and Katie Worth expose how the main authority cited for the viability of carbon capture and storage was developed and marketed at the direction of British Petroleum. 

- Ed Zitron examines how the AI industry's combined hype machine and lobbying effort is falling short of reality by a sufficient margin to make its failure seem highly likely. And Joseph Cox points out the fairly hilarious direction that AI bots talk like cavemen to avoid having to pay for more common language. 

- Wyatte Grantham-Phillips reports on the revelation that U.S. egg producers colluded to drive up the exact prices that helped Donald Trump campaign on affordability - and have been handed a sweetheart deal by the Trump regime rather than facing meaningful consequences. 

- Finally, Saul Austerlitz writes about the necessity of rebuilding community as a response and counterweight to the isolation that's allowed for our exploitation. 

Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

Slumbering cat.