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I really respected Zelensky for standing up to Putin in 2022, even though it seemed suicidal. So I have to respect him for standing up to Trump in 2025, even though it seems suicidal.

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‘We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States. “America First” always meant America alone, a predatory America whose role in the world is no longer based on democratic belief.’ www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Meanwhile, Russia drones have attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine. www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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NOAA does weather forecasts, tracks hurricanes, provides maps/data for aviation, shipping & oil exploration, etc … It’s hard to imagine firing its employees won’t cost far more $ than it saves in the long run www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Zack Labe, who not only published climate research but also communicated it thru near-daily graphs, maps & GIFs, is one of those fired from NOAA. I can’t think of many people who demonstrated so clearly that their work was in the public interest.

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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

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NEW: “Elon Musk’s Starlink is installed above all the buildings in the campus where we are now. Now the fraud work is running normally," a human-trafficking victim wrote. A WIRED investigation into reports of criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia using Starlink:

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With the US Antarctic program in limbo, scientists say foreign countries are "actively recruiting" their colleagues & students. "People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.” Make America Great Again! www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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I say we ignore this mysterious disease until it gets bigger, then close our borders to a few arbitrary nationalities, shut down & reopen random businesses & finally argue about the tyranny of masks as we die from vomiting blood www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

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A wise friend sent this to me I'm reminded of the old Turkish proverb: "When the clown enters the castle, the clown does not become king but the castle become a circus."

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Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

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The US joins Russia, Belarus, Hungary & North Korea to vote against a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This was chilling. Grateful for 60 Minutes, its brave guests, Scott Pelley and Lesley Stahl leading interviews on what’s going down at DOJ, FBI and CFPB. Without fear or favor. Please make sure to watch. And share with everyone you know to watch. It matters.

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2024's data. We are losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

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How much will global warming 'cost' global GDP. A range of assessments nicely laid out in this table. Source: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

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Glaciers have lost 6.5 trillion tonnes of ice this century. That’s enough freshwater to meet humanity’s needs for 700 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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So the solution to a chronic FAA staff shortage that possibly contributed to the DC aircrash is ... to fire more FAA staff 🤔 apnews.com/article/doge...

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For those keeping track, Arctic sea-ice extent continues its record daily lows. Meanwhile, Antarctic sea-ice extent is now ranked third lowest for the day -- behind (surprise!) only 2023 and 2024. Put this together and the planet continues to experience record daily lows for global sea-ice extent.

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NOAA operates 18 satellites & 1,300 ocean buoys. A private company could maybe launch one or two satellites or a few dozen buoys. That’s a fraction of the picture NOAA provides (to private TV stations, websites & apps) www.wired.com/story/noaas-...

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A few hours after word broke of Navalny's death, we lost Dmitry Markov. His portraits are out of this world. Raw, warm, human. his work: www.instagram.com/dcim.ru/ his book isn't easy to find but if you ever spot a copy: www.ozon.ru/product/ross...

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Each year, Arctic Sea Ice Extent reaches a low point in September. But over the last 15 years or so, the September minimum extent appears to have plateaued... 🧵Thread on this why this is happening, and how it's hiding catastrophic changes...

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At the conference, AAAS leadership called on scientists to "support" each other in an "unnerving" time. But people were afraid to call the Trump administration what it is: an attack on science. That doesn't bode well for the coming fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/c...

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Democracy doesn’t die in darkness after all; it dies in JIRA tickets filed by Palantir alums. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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“The rules in the Constitution are only as durable as the institutions that preserve and protect them. And Trump could chip away at them, or even try to defy them completely, through both legal and extralegal means” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Fire health officials as bird flu hospitalizations rise … what could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Elon Musk's xAI wants to use gas turbines long-term at Memphis site, documents show

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National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

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Only you can prevent forest fires.. 🔥

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🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉

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“Don’t buy swasticars.” Anti-Elon protest outside a Boston Tesla dealership

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“Admonitions to obey the law will not stop Trump and will not dissuade his supporters … His attack on the government has to be contrasted with a vision of how the system could work and should work — for the people, not the emperor-in-the-making” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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Research funding is being cut, scientists are being fired & studies suppressed, @holdenthorp.bsky.social is saying at the #AAAS conference. This harassment “has gotten worse in the last 6-7 years, it’s gotten crazy since November & it’s been absolutely insane in the past 3 weeks”

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New research shows rate of global warming increased by 50% since 2010 over the four preceding decades. At that pace, we'll reach close to 2C of warming before the next IPCC report comes out.(Graph from WMO). insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...

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A Russian drone hits the (internationally funded) Chernobyl containment. What was it Trump said? “Putin wants peace”?

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"Beyond Petroleum," which just abandoned its 2030 climate target, is now under pressure from an activist investor to sell off its renewables www.ft.com/content/25cd...

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2 studies suggest the 1.5C target is dead. But keep in mind: “Crossing 1.4C is a failure. Crossing 1.6 is a failure. And every increment thereafter, considering what we knew 30yrs ago about the dangers of continued fossil fuel emissions.” www.axios.com/2025/02/11/w...

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The UK’s 1st ocean-based carbon removal plant has started stripping CO2 from seawater at the Sea Life Weymouth aquarium. Doesn’t look like much & uses loads of electricity But this needs to become one of the biggest industries in the world by 2050 per IPCC www.newscientist.com/article/2466...

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Before the Super Bowl, New Orleans forced 100+ unhoused people into a warehouse with a leaky roof, no floor & not enough blankets—& paid the company running it as much $ as would cost to rent 1,200 apartments for a year (@djbelieve.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“No matter what happens in Super Bowl LIX, either Brady, Mahomes, or the Philadelphia Eagles will have won nine of the last eleven Super Bowls.” On the big day, a poisonous love letter to the 21st century NFL www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The LA fires were caused in part by a “hydroclimate whiplash”: 2 abnormally wet winters grew extra plants, then a record dry winter turned them into fuel. And whiplashes like this are getting more frequent. @weatherwest.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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FBI nom Kash Patel got $25,000 to bash the FBI in a film whose producer previously received money from Putin’s cultural foundation & Medvedchuk. Would have been a good thing to ask about at his confirmation hearing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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good morning. a $2.6 billion dollar battery factory in georgia has been canceled the company blames market conditions and battery prices but they were also seeking a loan from the federal government to make the project pencil out

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Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. 🧪

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