Dan Gillmor@dangillmor@mastodon.social
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports
Nicole Parsons@Npars01@mstdn.social
@dangillmor@mastodon.social
MAGA billionaires require that Texans ignore the connection between Greg Abbott's public corruption with the oil industry AND climate change flash floods that drowns children.
There's nothing normal about summers with heat domes, wildfires, & floods.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/flood-storms-climate-change-1-in-1000-year-rainfall-rcna217863
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/climate/summer-of-flooding
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2025/08/09/fall-2025-forecast/85442401007/
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/18/greg-abbott-texas-fundraising-governor-donors/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/50-million-alert-dangerous-heat-southwest/story?id=124478465
https://prospect.org/power/2025-01-29-texas-model/
https://www.newsweek.com/millions-americans-us-stay-inside-31-states-2105480
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heat-domes-extreme-heat-and-humidity-triggers-alerts-across-eastern-u-s/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/us-states-heatwave-fossil-fuel-money