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Like ‘Em or Not, Climate Defiance Is Determined To Get In Your Face – Mother Jones

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Climate Defiance’s first big action was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2023. Courtesy Climate Defiance

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The Wellesley Rotary Club was having a perfectly ordinary country club dinner on Thursday, Jan. 25, until about 18 climate activists hopped on stage and started talking about fossil fuels.

“Brian Moynihan is one of the top five funders of fossil fuels

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The Defiance of Cormac McCarthy’s Late Style

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In a moving tribute to his friend Ned Rorem, the American composer famous for art songs and sex diaries, who died last year at 99, the critic Joshua Barone reports that one of Rorem’s signature gags was to insist that everything in the world—from music to food to people—was either German or French. In that same facetious spirit, I’d like to propose that every era in the history of taste can be classified into one of

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Vor Pelosis Reise Defiance in Taiwan

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TAIPEI, Taiwan – In Washington gab es eine besorgte Debatte darüber, ob Sprecherin Nancy Pelosi den Besuch riskieren sollte. In Peking gab es Wut und Drohungen. In Taiwan, wo Frau Pelosi voraussichtlich am späten Dienstag landen wird, wurde dem erneuten Aufflammen der Spannungen mit verhaltenem Trotz begegnet.

Politiker der beiden wichtigsten politischen Parteien Taiwans haben ihre Unterstützung für die Reise angeboten, ein Gefühl, das von vielen in der selbstverwalteten Demokratie mit mehr als 23 Millionen Menschen, die China für sich

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Under-40s are being invited for Covid boosters in defiance of guidelines

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Under-40s are getting Covid boosters in defiance of NHS guidelines, it was revealed today.

Officials have yet to officially start inviting younger adults, despite huge pressure to ramp up the booster roll-out and save the nation from even tougher restrictions over Christmas.  

But GPs involved in the scheme have began texting thirty-somethings, inviting them to make appointments. Some claim to have been able to get scheduled in within 36 hours. 

Currently only over-40s can use the online booking system to

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