New study says that humans putting live lobsters into boiling water is wrong.
There is evidence that decapod crustaceans have the capacity to experience aversive states associated with nociception, highlighting the need for humane treatment.
Der Spiegel: German Neo-Nazis Today in Attack Mode
Tucker Carlson Wants to Keep All the Money From His Losing Bets on Trump
Tucker Carlson apologized on his podcast. For what?
He says he was “misleading” his listeners about Trump.
No specifics.
No mention of Dominion.
No mention of January 6 footage.
No mention of Covid disinformation killing Americans.
No mention of a decade of rhetoric about immigrants and Black Americans.
No mention of antisemitism and platforming Nazis into the White House.
He just says he was “misleading.” The apology seems designed to collect absolution and avoid the judgment, especially without triggering restitution for all those harmed.
His former colleagues told Lyz Lenz in 2018 that Carlson never believed any of what he was selling the public. He was making money by doing a misleading bit.
Performing the demagogue because it paid.
That makes it worse. A true believer can plead conviction. A performer who knew the rhetoric was false and deployed it anyway because the ratings were good, knowing the harms it caused, is complicit.
The bet on not being held accountable paid for a decade. Maybe the Infowars case has spooked him. The Jones $1.5B judgment plus the Dominion $787.5M settlement where Carlson was named is real precedent.
All the Trump, MAGA, America First bets now have spoiled so badly, they apparently are beyond Carlson’s ability to spin harming others into his personal profit. So he wants out. Carlson would book all the harms as regret and keep the ill-gotten winnings. Victim money stays with him. His victims stay unnamed. The innocent and vulnerable people his show helped target get nothing for his role in profiting off their harm. The journalists that his adherents went after get nothing.
This apology therefore settles nothing, as much as he pleads he should get away free.
Trump Oil Disaster Has the World Going Oil Free
Presumably Trump thought, like some 1950s McCarthy buffoonish cartoon character, that he was going to violently corner oil, by deploying the U.S. military to take it all over like a gangster.
Predictably, that hasn’t worked. The stability of oil is gone forever. Chaos of Trump has become permanently attached to any concept of “centralized” fuel distribution like oil, because he is such an archetypical villain of centralization. Decentralized, sovereign, energy is on the table like it’s the 1900s again.
At COP30 in 2025, co-sponsors Colombia and the Netherlands announced the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels. It will be held in Santa Marta in Colombia from 24-29 April.
“There is a clear momentum to phase out fossil fuels, and now is the time to capitalise on it,” said the Netherlands’ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Sophie Hermans.