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Climate policy PhD candidate at Northeastern U Energy nerd, into pollinators
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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...

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...

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: [email protected]

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.

Charles Koch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump tax breaks Revealed: fossil fuel billionaire’s Americans for Prosperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tech is in league with both authoritarianism and the fossil fuel industry www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...

Great breakdown of the narratives for climate denial & delay in fossil energy, plastics & agrichemical comms

Thrilled this paper is making a splash. 2 key findings: 1 Climate policy obstruction comes from beyond the energy sector. 2 the propaganda is also aimed at youth, eg k-12 schools

Fun times ahead for a lot of people who were operating under the assumption of a federal government that does stuff about disasters

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

These attacks on EJ and DEI better be a wake up call to the climate movement. Don’t enable or legitimize fascism for your stupid NEPA gutting. This is why “equity vs speed,” false narrative is so offensive. You think we’ll have a rapid transition now that equity is dead?

that'll teach those evil researchers who want to... *checks notes*... improve... health. www.science.org/content/arti...

They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.

New research suggests misleading climate messaging used by oil & gas, plastics & agrichemicals industries on social media is “aligned and coordinated”. Researchers sorted 12k tweets into 8 types of argument — 4 of climate denial, 4 of climate delay. @gristnews.bsky.social @jbwinters.bsky.social