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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important. It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit

Translation: COP 30 city Belem underwater after heavy rains.

Sen. Hassan drills Kennedy on his past pro-abortion comments: The question is do you stand for that value or not? When was it that you decided to sell out the values you have had your whole life in order to be given power by president Trump?

I remember when advocating for mercy and compassion was considered Christian. Now it's considered radical ideology.

This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

WAPO EXCLUSIVE - Johnson aide advised against subpoena of Cassidy Hutchinson over concerns about ‘sexual texts’ lawmakers sent her wapo.st/4hKX6L1

Trump: "I won youth by 36 points." (This is a ridiculous lie -- Trump lost the youth vote.)

Trump says he’s going to get rid of America’s “EV mandate.” There isn’t one. But there’s definitely a “car dependency mandate,” and Trump will make it much worse. That’s less choice, less freedom, and worse consequences for all. Via @keawilson.bsky.social in @usa.streetsblog.org #CarDependency

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

Just made a donation to Wikipedia. I encourage you to do the same if you can donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

Washington Bishop Budde just blistered Trump and his family at the inauguration service at the National Cathedral. Budde told Trump that one action of unity is "honoring the dignity of all people." The second foundation of unity is "honesty. The third is "humility." www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

"Serious concerns about the future of international #climate cooperation" - Full statement from PIK directors Ottmar Edenhofer and Johan Rockstrom on Trump's return: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... #ParisAgreement

This is so bad

ADL before: Never Again ADL now: Maybe Be Less Paranoid?

If you're interested in what Trump's Day 1 (and beyond) actions on climate change mean for US national security, foreign policy and geopolitics, I've got a starter pack for you: go.bsky.app/6Ud6gYS

He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization. He is who we think he is.

Elon Musk Holds Up AI Girlfriend App So She Can See theonion.com/elon-mu...

Trump declaring an "energy emergency," aggregating more powers to himself so as to ram through unnecessary & deadly fossil-fuel development, is all the more infuriating becuz the Dems have refused to declare a climate emergency, leaving the space wide open for occupation by authoritarian interests.

‘It’s going to be rough’: what Trump’s response to LA fires portends for future climate disasters

Conan O’Brien will be awarded the 26th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in March, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday. nyti.ms/42hpHCV

Bernie Sanders: You don’t think we should change the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour? Trump Treasury Secretary Nominee Scott Bessent: No

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller

Says a literal Fox host lol.

SEC Sues Elon Musk for Twitter Securities Fraud — SEC sues Elon Musk, alleging failure to disclose his Twitter stock ownership in a timely manner. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-sues-elon-musk-withholding-info-from-twitter-investors/

The Hegseth hearing is doing one thing incredibly well: it’s establishing that when his leadership at DoD fails, it’ll be clear that GOP Senators knew, excused it, and they own it. Serious concerns about experience & judgment are literally being laughed off.

Suozzi: It’s completely unacceptable—I can’t even imagine that it’s even being considered. Mike Johnson is from Louisiana—remember Hurricane Katrina? Think of all the disasters that have gone through Louisiana...

I did, in fact, say this, and it is, unfortunately, in fact, true

The U.S. Education Department announced on Monday that it had canceled student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the tally of Americans whose loans were forgiven under President Biden to over five million.

On CBC last night, I spelt out the moral case to keep on trying, however hard it might be. Defending the living planet is not an option we can abandon. Ultimately, it is all that counts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2V...

Someone tell that sanctimonious pixie Speaker Mike Johnson that if he places conditions on California's ability to rebuild, his state, Louisiana, the Welfare Queen of Federalism, won't be able to fix any of its roads because that money comes from the far more successful economy of California.

really good interview w/ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - there is so much work to be done and much of that work serves as a useful tool for managing the real and crippling despair we feel on climate

There is nothing more insane than Mike Johnson - from the state of LOUISIANA - setting the precedent of conditioning disaster relief on political concessions. Louisiana.

The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.

This is huge and if it happens, will open pandora’s box. It is dangerous even to float the idea. And I don’t have to remind anyone that Mike is from Louisiana, home of Katrina, the most if expensive natural disaster in history. abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Yes. ExxonMobil's own scientists DID predict how much the planet would warm given continued fossil fuel burning. And they DID warn us about the "potentially catastrophic events" that would result from that warming in their 1982 internal memo. #NewClimateWar #CaliforniaFire

This is going over about as well as you could imagine over on Twitter.

After the Palisades fire burned down his home, Casey Colvin feared the worst for his dogs, who he couldn't get back to despite desperately trying. But after five days, he and Oreo finally got a tearful and ecstatic reunion. "I'm never gonna let him go." 14/10 for all

President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦

"You Just Lived Through Earth's Hottest Year on Record. Again" by Jeff Young for #Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/you-just-liv...