Look guys, the martial law is temporary. It’s just a brief vacation from having any rights.
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Look guys, the martial law is temporary. It’s just a brief vacation from having any rights.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Lukes called this the 2nd face of power. Although arguably controlling the media environment means they also have hegemonic control of people’s understanding of reality, the 3rd face of power
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least political and financial power.” 🧵
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So embarrassing for NY, used to be an environmental leader next to CA/MA but now Hochul is working with the White House on bringing back fracked gas against NY climate policy. Shame @governor.ny.gov www.ehn.org/new-yorks-bl...
Fuck you
clear line of attack, no begging or pleading for the good republican. approve.
INCARCERATING NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS PRE-TRIAL BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR WAS UNJUST AND BAD PUBLIC POLICY AND THE DATA SHOWS IT.
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For when you’ve tried telling men that brains and fetuses and remote lands are full of plastic and it just isn’t getting through… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brutal
Forcing a pregnant woman to sleep on the floor, denying a child with a brain tumor treatment — these are just some of the damning allegations about ICE detention made in a new report from Senator Ossoff. This report adds to what we've long known: ICE detention is dangerous and puts lives at risk.
WITHOUT our consent? So much for HIPAA.
“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”
And academic jobs! lol @stanford
Reads like a shitty undergrad group project by those guys who came to class once, late, and then interrupted the instructor to ask “but warming + SLR means we’ll have a beach here? Sick” Embarrassing for everyone involved in their having PhDs
SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:
"I’m barely eating. There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” Today in @thenation.com: Mothers in Gaza are trying to keep their kids from starving to death. But they're starving too. Please, please listen to them. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Why we so stupid?
Also works for chemical/plastic production
idea for people whose federal reps aren’t voting for evil, call/email/skeet govs/local leaders instead
The most important story in the world right now.
Just so people understand, when mommy puts her hands in front of her face, mommy is gone forever. We don't have the technology to bring mommy back.
You can read every one of today's NYT online headlines and have no idea the government is kidnapping people off the streets and putting them in cages.
Feels very Orwell
Yes it’s good for the world, and,
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump officials are now empowered to "discipline" federal scientists and "correct" their research if it doesn't advance administration's priorities. Science will undergo a hostile red team review. Fringe and industry-affiliated science will be given more weight. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass? That’s just evil and cruel.
This is not a technology you need if you expect device searches at the border to be rare or targeted
The only thing that could mitigate climate change is stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Tell your friends and radio producers.
Every 5 years, the US wants to bomb a country to “save its women,” while stripping away rights from women across the US
This is why they won't let Members of Congress in for legally mandated oversight. The operators of these facilities need to be charged with state crimes.
I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.
Hell yeah @mayorwu.boston.gov
REALLY SAD! Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.” UCS Statement:
the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
Is there a movement to call/message local and state executives to pressure them to stop LEOs from participating in ICE raids/arrest masked men with guns kidnapping people in the street? I haven’t seen it but seems like it could be more effective than calling MOCs
The Big Oil-owned House of Representatives just voted to raise everyone’s energy prices. Remember this the next time you hear an oil executive talk about “affordable energy.” They don’t give a shit about that, you, or anything other than selling more oil.
Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
“We need this aid to enter now. It has to go to people who are desperate.” In this video, our colleague Louise Wateridge speaks from a UNRWA warehouse in Amman, Jordan, where supplies have been held up due to the 11-week-long siege.
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
This is violence. It’s eugenics. It’s fucking evil. And the worst part is it’s gonna get very little attention and most people aren’t even gonna notice cause y’all have simply moved on.
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
"What is life like in the shadow of solar farms?" It's not a bad question but it does raise the extra question of why are you living underneath ground mounted solar panels, isn't that too low, are you bonking your head, are you a rabbit etc
"All I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter’s baby." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
MA folks: Call your mayor, your city council, your state rep, your congresspeople, and Governor Healey and ask them what their plan is to keep Mass residents safe. This threatens *everyone's* civil rights. Find all their #s at reps.fyi.
DOGE Death Dashboard
Hard to keep track of everything lost but this one is devastating.
It’s worth a read
Project 2025 itself called for the defunding and dismantling of NOAA for being a source, it said, of the “climate change alarm industry.” Stop being idiotic, people. Trusting oil and gas isn't reasonable. It's stupid. 3/3
I've been reporting for years on anti-abortion groups' strategy to push bills like this in many states and in Congress: www.politico.com/news/2025/01... www.politico.com/news/2022/11...
This weekend, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya praised the Trump admin for "bringing back academic freedom," saying researchers at NIH who disagree w him are still free to publish. Kevin Hall resigned due to censorship at NIH, incl being told to remove his name from a paper mentioning health equity.
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Why we need a National Climate Assessment -- “For thousands of years, we humans have been making decisions based on the past: like driving down the road looking in the rear view mirror. But now, thanks entirely to human actions, we're facing a curve in the road greater than humans have ever seen.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a one-act play in 1911 where the protagonist catches a corrupt milk company delivering healthy milk to rich areas and adulterated milk to poor neighborhoods.
Here is a list of immigration attorneys that can help with student visas that get revoked. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
this is the kind of thing you would use as an example to explain racism to a child
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe
I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
If you cannot test the water, nobody can say it’s dirty. If you cannot test the air, nobody can say it’s toxic. If you cannot test the industrial waste, nobody can say it’s harmful. If the science is not done, there is no evidence to judge. That’s the goal. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
@jraq.bsky.social
Federal websites, scientists, and institutions are being forced to scrub language that contradicts President Trump’s agenda grist.org/language/tru...
Not to make everything about fossil fuels, but plastics are literally✨fossil fuels ✨
The fact that policymakers are creating contingency strategies for scenarios far beyond ideal targets is of course prudent from a risk management perspective - it's also a terrifying admission of the reality that we have failed to reach even the least ambitious of our climate goals
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
Cutting Medicaid will kill kids (& adults)
Jury selection just wrapped in the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial. By my count: 7 of 11 of the jurors have ties to the fossil fuel industry. 3 work at fossil fuel companies 3 have husbands with industry ties 1 has mineral rights I'll be here all month covering the trial for Drilled.
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
Trump's new energy secretary, fracking exec Chris Wright, went on Fox Business yesterday and argued that there are "pluses" to climate change The DOE then posted the video on its official YouTube. heated.world/p/trump-ener...
Why does this matter? It might not seem like oil companies have much in common with evangelical orgs, tech ideologues, or far-right politicians. But they can all benefit from working towards a shared political vision, said Adrian Bardon of Wake Forest. Read more 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
Wild that the US government is crumbling because a Nazi hack wants to offload a bunch of defective cars
They’re going after the weather Just like they said they would in project 2025
Hello—I am looking for first person essays by scientists and doctors that are relevant to the news to run in Slate. Pitches and submissions: shannon.palus@slate.com
this is 100% correct
In the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the City Council of Arlington approved plans by French energy giant TotalEnergies to drill 10 new gas wells near a daycare center, residential neighborhoods and elementary schools.
Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.
Monstrous www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Are your normie friends paying attention? When people ask me how I’m doing, i just say not good. American democracy is being ripped apart. We are dismantling foreign assistance programs that keep millions alive.
At the Pentagon Press Corp, NYT is out, Breitbart is in.
This is why I shifted my career from biodiversity to climate Because if we don't address climate change, there'll be little biodiversity to conserve Climate breakdown is so grave it risks rendering conservation obsolete
Staffers at "U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump administration has stripped away the legal-immigration status of 600,000 Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:
Would like to mention that what is truly indoctrinating youth is the petrochemical industry’s investment in normalizing fossil products k-12 and higher ed eg journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
US friends, write your reps: uphold legislation already reducing lead exposures by replacing leaded (drinking water) service lines -- there is no safe exposure level for a developing brain -- with safer, copper (not PVC or CPVC) piping. Script, details here: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/01/28/r...
If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.
FYI: THIS IS THE SAME PLANT, the SAME CLASS of CHEMICALS featured in the movie DARK WATERS (2019). #PFAS www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAO...
Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
