Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”

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the 12 year deadline everyone is talking about refers to the point where climate change becomes “irreversible”, where we are unable to avoid the affects of climate disaster and no longer would be able to keep temperatures from rising above 1.5°C higher.

that is not what the 18 months in this article is referring to

the 18 months here is referring to the opinion of scientists and activists (the very likely Correct Opinion) that in order to meet the 12 yesr deadline, we would need to have legislation in place by 18 months from now, not that climate change becomes irreversible in 18 months

my gofundme hasnt been getting donations in months so ill make a separate post here to get help with bills and food. i only make $400 every 2 weeks rn ans i have everything i need to start youtube and that is a process within itself to make money from and my mom is currently unemployed caring for my grandmother. she’s still trying to get paid being her inhome care support but that process has been stalling bc of missing paperwork. i need financial help for transportation to work, rent (which has increased again to $900), and/or groceries/phone bill or pg&e (which is high bc my grandma’s heart device is dependent on an energy source to work)

donation links are:

paypal.me/sleeepisforlovers

cash.me/$sheisresting

venmo: sleepisforlovers

i hate to do this but i really cant sustain us on my own and ive been increasingly su*cidal and anxious lately and it’s hard to get out of bed lately or even look at myself. if you want to and are able to help, we’ll be grateful.

I’ve been struggling a lot with my mental health for the past several years and I recently started going to therapy, which has been helping me cope with a lot of my traumatic life events so far. But my mom told me she won’t help me pay for my therapy anymore and I don’t have enough money to pay for my sessions. These therapy sessions have been the only thing that has encouraged me to keep hanging on and I can’t mentally afford to have them taken away from me.

This is the October 2018 edition of this post, and hopefully the final version.

Dessie is now ten years old. Yay!! For the last two years, she’s held steady at 22% total kidney function, in Stage Four Chronic Kidney Disease. At her last nephrologist visit, her creatinine has gone up. She says she’s tired all the time.

We think she’s tipping over to Stage 5 CKD/End Stage Renal Disease. Her next visit to the nephrologist is in December, and I’m expecting to get the diagnosis then. If not, great! But I’m not hopeful.

I think we’ll need to make another trip to Seattle Chikdren’s Hospital then, so they can run their own labs and make her active on the deceased donor transplant list. Normally, I’ve been told by them, once a child is active on the last, they typically receive a donor kidney within six months to a year. So I think 2019 will be her year of the transplant. Possibly dialysis before then — I know her local nephrologist wants to avoid it if we can.

The transplant itself requires we stay in Seattle for three to four months, with frequent follow ups afterwards. (First every month, then every two months, then every three months.). Each trip by car takes 6.5-8 hours each way, and usually two tanks of gas. Special Mobilty Services can help with gas, and lodging, if we can give them two weeks notice.

The transplant will be a journey in every sense of the word. I would love it if this could be fully funded before then.

If you have a spare kidney and want to try to be her living donor, here’s the Donors need to between 21-45, in reasonably good health, and O+ blood type. No smoking or drinking alcohol, not even occasionally. If this is something you’re interested, please contact the University of Washington’s living donor program at 206-598-3627, and mention you’re interested in donating to Dessie McAdams. That begins the process.

I’m a single mom, with three kids. To deal with my hideous finances which have put us in the negative regularly since May of 2017, to get us back on our feet, we are moving in with my mother for at least the next year. Perhaps longer; she hasn’t put a deadline on it. I think I’m going to have to declare bankruptcy to get our from under, which will tank my already bad credit score. So I’m not sure of our prospects afterwards; if I could, I’d rather buy a place than rent, but even renting will be hard, with bad credit and high rents.

In the most immediate future, we need about $300-500 through October to either rent a dumpster or hire a junk hauling service to clear out the backyard, garage, and basement. There’s a lot of heavy stuff my mom and I can’t handle.

This move to my mom’s also gets us away from my ex and his family, and Imbin the process of getting the parenting agreement modified to supervised visitation. He molested Dessie, by her account, sometime while we were married, around when she was 4-5. (I reported it to CPS and the police as soon as I learned of this, but as it was some years after it occurred, there was no evidence and they did nothing).

He’s also verbally and emotionally abused all of us.

His family may decide to bring in a lawyer for him with the requested change in parenting plan; I don’t know.

I guess what I’m saying is, once we move we’ll be doing better than we have in a long while. But help is still needed. A miracle, even, if it could be so, to get us through her transplant and from there to a safe place to live independently. Please get this fully funded (or more) as soon as possible, if it can be done.

If you don’t want to use the GoFundMe, that’s fine. We also have

PayPal.me/kerryren

Venmo@KerryRen

SquareCash $KerryRen

And CirclePay at [email protected]

If using these, please let me know who you are and if you’d like to be publicly thanked. Not all the apps are conducive to interactions, I’ve noticed.

We are incredibly grateful for all the help we’ve received through tumblr so far. You guys have literally helped keep us alive.

If you can’t donate, don’t worry about it. If you don’t want to, don’t bother me about it. Boosts and reblogs still help, though!

Here, have a cute pic of Dessie with a plush kidney a mutual sent her!