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NOW - Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to annihilation.
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If there was ever a time for world leaders to take actions to turn back the Doomsday Clock, it’s now.
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The 2023 #DoomsdayClock announcement has begun. Follow this thread for highlights from the event or watch it live here:
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Getting ready for Christmas!
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Joan Didion was gentle in person, and quiet-spoken, but ferocious in her honesty.
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“Joan said the old governor’s mansion was ‘my favorite house in the world.’” ’s remarks on Joan Didion from her memorial service this Wednesday
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Today @ 2PM PT/5PM ET: I’ll share a few words about my friend, Joan Didion.
📺 Livestream: stjohndivine.org/calendar/42468
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"The downside of reassurance is that when you reassure enough, your allies are likely to believe you and may not step up and do more for their own defense. It seems likely that the Europeans will go back to business as usual in Europe." --
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This is a profoundly important essay. just spent nearly a year at policy planning at , and her first major essay coming out sounds a klaxon of caution. ⤵️
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In Washington’s telling, the relationship with Beijing has worsened because of changes in China’s behavior—but corresponding changes in U.S. politics and policy have also pushed the rivalry into more dangerous territory, writes @jessicacweiss. trib.al/pW4899c
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WOW!
Costs of the 20-year War on Terror: $8 trillion & 900,000 deaths!
This is revealed by a new report from the project at
Rest assured, this has not made the US or the world more safe...
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Great day for America.
Great day for the world.
Republicans: What universe do you live in?
#InflationReductionAct
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BREAKING: Democrats push climate, health, tax bill through Congress. It’s a landmark election-year win for President Biden that provides the most spending to fight climate change by one nation in a single push.
apnews.com/article/econom
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Jerry Brown was surprised — and thrilled — by Joe Manchin's climate deal
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What does Jerry Brown think of the Senate climate deal — and all the tradeoffs to win Joe Manchin’s vote, including more oil and gas drilling?
I asked him! Check out our conversation in this week’s Boiling Point newsletter:
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What he said.
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Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.
The Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an opportunity to agree on the measures that will help avoid certain disaster.
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The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (to which I belong) has published a report: “Science and technology superpower: more than a slogan?”
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldse
It's a depressing read: under the current government we're at risk of decline.
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FINAL HOURS to register: Tonight at 6:00 pm ET, we present a free online tribute to Gary Snyder with Gov. Jerry Brown, Peter Coyote, Wang Ping, Robert Hass, Kim Stanley Robinson, and other special guests. Snyder himself will also make an appearance.
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Tragic day for America — and the world. Oblivious to science and our common future, the dinosaurs of coal and their compliant stooge, , have now torpedoed an absolutely vital climate initiative. Insane and criminal.
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Breaking News: Senator Joe Manchin said he wouldn’t support funding for climate programs or raising taxes on the wealthy, a major blow for the Biden agenda. nyti.ms/3RADywA
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Our now radicalized Supreme Court has delivered yet another sucker punch. Today’s ruling cripples US climate leadership. Unconscionable and catastrophic.
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Yesterday I had the great honor to bestow the Great Cross of the Order of Merit of 🇩🇪upon former Governor at my Residence - for his outstanding, life-long contributions for environmental protection and in the fight against climate change. #California #ClimateAction
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Sound advice on how to enhance public safety — including supporting good policing — from someone who gets the polarized politics of our time.
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Mearshimer says Biden dealing with Russia totally differently from the way JFK did. Worth reflecting on.
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QI NRF John Mearsheimer on @NewsHour: "One circumstance in which a great power is likely to use nuclear weapons is...when it thinks a decisive defeat is being inflicted on it. What @POTUS is bent on doing is inflicting a decisive defeat on Russia." pbs.org/newshour/show/
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I'm puzzled by the people who simultaneously: 1) think Putin and his inner circle are irrational, paranoid, out-of-touch, and indifferent to human suffering; and 2) are also supremely confident these same people would not escalate to WMD no matter what happens in #Ukraine.
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This week on : a special #EarthDay2022 edition with & of .
It debuts tonight at 10:30p on .
It airs statewide all weekend. Here’s your local listings: foxla.com/the-issue-is/t
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NEW POLL: By a 5-3 margin (56% to 35%) voters support the plan to #BuildHSR in the Central Valley & expand to the Bay Area & LA.
The voters demanded electrified #CleanGreenHSR with Prop 1A & that's what we're delivering.
🔗 bit.ly/3M6tGH4
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"A US strategy that genuinely prioritized climate change as an existential threat would first recognize that the continued pursuit of global hegemony all but eliminates the prospects for collaboration against the shared threat of climate change." #QIBrief
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In the latest #ConnectingCalifornia asks if two ex-governors of CA can fill the world's diplomatic void: "As Schwarzenegger tugs at the heart, Brown—concerned about growing conflict between China and the West—hammers on heads."
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The US needs a big dose of clarity and humility.
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subtle analysis is rarely found on twitter but this thread by @EdwardGLuce is worth using your subtle brain to consider twitter.com/EdwardGLuce/st…
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., as inimitable as ever:
"There's a mood in the country called a Manichaean mood, which is a philosophy of 'The world is sharply divided between good and bad, and we're good, and they're bad.' I don't see it that way."
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Took a trip to Colusa County last week to talk climate change, the threat of nuclear war & life in retirement with . Make sure to check out the great photos by of Brown exploring the ranch and harvesting olives last fall:
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"In 2007, #Putin brought his black Lab Koni into a meeting with Angela Merkel, because he knew she was deathly afraid of dogs. She was indeed frightened, visibly so, and he thus solidified his reputation as a bully." ow.ly/EIGf50I9Pm5
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Rather than thumos and grand strategies, America desperately needs clarity about the perilous predicament in which it now finds itself, and the courage to think and act anew.
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Interesting discussion and thoughtful.
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ICYMI: Can war in Ukraine be avoided?
@QuincyInst hosted a US-Russian debate with @CFR_org's Thomas Graham and @ruglobal_en's Fyodor Lukyanov, moderated by QI’s own @Lieven_Anatol. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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Powerful story of the horror and the obscenity of this war. Putin and Biden could fix this. They won’t. It’s politics stupid.
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Powerful, on the ground and so sad, cruel—In the Trenches of Ukraine’s Forever War nytimes.com/2022/01/16/mag
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“Today, the members of the Science and Security Board find the world to be no safer than it was last year at this time and therefore has decided to set the #DoomsdayClock once again at 100 seconds to midnight.” – , Bulletin President & CEO ow.ly/TXW750HysbZ
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Kill to save…
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Calling it as it is.
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US foreign policy experts routinely inflate minor threats, yet they don't seem to understand that much weaker countries (e.g., Russia) can have genuine security fears too. Acknowledging this is not an endorsement of Russia's actions; it's just seeing the world as it is.
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Here is history Americans should know: many wise Americans thought the NATO expansion was bad. Short sighted then; no better now!
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Kennan called expansion of NATO “most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.” Kennan post-believed, as did most other Russia experts in US, that expanding NATO would damage U.S. efforts to transform Russia from enemy to partner. brook.gs/2bM7wZ5
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NEW episodes of the audio & video podcast, "#Climate Dialogues with Jerry Brown" released! Featuring Kevin Rudd of Asia Society and Carla Peterman of PG&E, in conversation with . Listen>> youtube.com/playlist?list=
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