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Decent and certainly qualified picks for board seats — also politically astute when it come to Powell — and a sharp contrast to the fetid Dana White www.axios.com/2025/04/11/e...

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“Scholars of racism face a peculiar accusation: that studying racism causes racism. As facile as this criticism is—no one thinks that agriculture professors cause world hunger, or that cardiology professors cause heart attacks…this sort of ignorant bullying comes with the territory.”

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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) around our planet... Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

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Trump's obsession with bilateral makes no sense, and it's the responsibility of his economic team to explain that to him. (I don't know if they're failing, or not even trying.)

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Trump officials have the private goal of deporting at least 1 million immigrants this year. Analysts say that's unrealistic.

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“This executive order parrots some of the arguments that we’ve seen from companies like Exxon Mobil, as they’ve sought to have climate cases removed from federal court and then dismissed in the state courts,” @ucsusa.bsky.social's Mulvey says. grist.org/politics/why...

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I know this will surprise folks who bought cars based on promises they'll be self-driving "next year," but he's now admitting that DOGE will only deliver on 7.5% of the promised $2,000b, and even that is only coming "next year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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I’m thrilled to share that Heatmap News — just in time for its second birthday — has won a NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD! Our project “Decarbonize Your Life” has been received the 2025 award for service journalism! You can find it here: heatmap.news/decarbonize-... asme.memberclicks.net/american-soc...

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Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

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NEW | Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 🇺🇸 Among all the turmoil, some positive news from the latest @ember-energy.org data for March 2025: 🏆↘️ The share of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 49.2% 🏆↗️ Wind and solar power hit a new record high of 24.4%

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Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

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Still need to register for #SEJ2025? Online registration is open through April 16 and will reopen on-site. Secure your spot today before workshops and tours sell out! Conference.sej.org

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New piece from me published in Nature Climate Change: Decarbonization can improve energy security, robust trade and a circular economy increases energy security, and critical minerals are not like oil. 🔌💡 Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Open access link: rdcu.be/eg3lR

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Big story from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — the White House has been suppressing and censoring pool reports. www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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A bright spot, spotted on @cnn todayre the Trump WH’s retaliation against the AP over “Gulf of America” from @brianstelter.bsky.social: The ban of @apnews.com is unconstitutional

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NOAA is a $6.7B agency.

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Here, GIJN shares some of the no-cost, easy-to-use data tools that #NICAR25 conference panelists described as surprisingly useful but unknown by investigative reporters. 🔗 Full story: https://twp.ai/9PQGIQ

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Utterly enraging.

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News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees. “From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”

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This Reuters Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jelani Cobb last Monday in Oxford. It's impossible to overstate how timely it was. On capitulation, McCarthyism and a crisis of credulity. Must read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...

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Extreme storms continue to sweep across the US South today, as damages and deaths from last night's severe weather is just now being assessed. How is climate change affecting tornadoes? It's hard to detect a robust signal in such small, short events, but there's evidence that ... [see next post]

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I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today. If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming. Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.

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new from @climatessn.bsky.social co-director Jennifer Jacquet et al. insideclimatenews.org/news/1403202...

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Listening (on terrestrial radio!) to @onthemedia.bsky.social with @davidenrich.bsky.social on the potential for Sullivan to get overturned, context of Clare Locke. Super solid episode not just because I’m a @brookegladstone.bsky.social super fan 🙌🏽

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A letter from @aparnamuk.bsky.social, SEJ's Executive Director: "Celebrating Love for SEJ’s Community on our 35th Anniversary" conta.cc/4hDO2HR

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When I saw wondrous @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social’s email update about today’s livestream on Twitch, I immediately felt better…tuning in now!

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In Chicago, organizers and community builders are providing plenty of alternatives to watching today’s inauguration: from protests to family-friendly activities. Here are a few events taking place in Chicago on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today. thetriibe.com/2025/01/here...

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our zoning code is being revamped to allow this sort of development — as well as apartment-style homes — in every part of the city. naturally, opponents are screaming that it will destroy the city’s character

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the US government signed a contract giving SpaceX tens of millions of dollars for its satellite network service just this week so maybe there’s not some nefarious anti-Elon witch hunt but Elon Musk’s companies actually just regularly breaking the law

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Lord grant me the strength to know when it’s time to cede the stage to others, before physical and mental faculties are fully diminished.

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The @nytimes.com should issue a correction of this factually incorrect claim that Biden and Trump “met with striking auto workers.” Trump held a campaign rally at a non union shop and did not lend support to the strike. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/u...

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