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Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. Former Senior Climate Advisor DOD. Climate security, climate governance, clean energy, global health, US foreign policy. Author of States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2022).
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What the f is this? Send a pointless email to everyone in the government to reply what they did last week to random email address which will be read by whom and to what end?

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Bumbling DOGE amateurs roiling relations with India by making up s--t. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

This piece summarizes the lithium that Ukraine has and provides a good scene setter for what the US might be getting into should it blackmail Ukraine into consigning its minerals over. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 4 hours ago • 656 comments

Incredible to me that anyone ever believed or credulously repeated the notion that this was about cutting waste or fraud It’s always been an ideologically motivated attack on federal capacity. We don’t need to believe or repeat obvious lies

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Can we call them Nazis now?

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

Can't build mines quickly (would take more than a decade to come online in best of circumstances), let alone in a war zone. Unclear what Ukraine has in way of minerals. The effort to extract resources from Ukraine's wider value chain including ports & oil w no security guarantee should be nonstarter

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1011 comments

Malicious incompetence in the destruction of our foreign aid system. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

We want the Democrats to be defiant not defeatist.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This is theft and imperialism. The revenue from oil, ports may be more significant than minerals. $500 billion price tag. No security guarantee. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk is incredibly f-ing weird with a god complex of wanting to re-populate the world with his offspring. It's bizarre.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

NEWS Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child, has filed for sole custody in court. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social scoops Full Story: bit.ly/4gNSBhP

submitted 17 hours ago • 123 comments

The consequences of the illegal shutdown of USAID:

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

A judge ordered foreign aid to resume. Aid groups say it’s not happening. Instead, more than 200+ groups had their contracts terminated. Food is now rotting near starving people; some aid warehouses left unguarded. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the President, but Trump and Hegseth’s firing of CJCS Chairman General Brown will reflect badly on the civilian leadership, not on the military.

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Clayton Bigsby arrested again.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Let’s go.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

DOGE sux.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Sucks to have country taken over by douchecanoe Nazis.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

F this guy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Nothing in here about what minerals or value or end uses. Horserace journalism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

No kings. No oligarchs. No Elon.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

DOGE = Coalition Provisional Authority.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

No billionaires. Give your money to charity/foundations like Bill Gates or face high taxes. I don’t care who you are.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 20 hours ago • 411 comments

Wisconsin farmers worried about: - USDA spending freeze (for farm equipment & upgrades) - Tariffs on Canadian potash - Deportation of farmworkers - Cuts to nutrition assistance making kids go hungry & taking away markets - Cuts to Medicaid taking health benefits away - Crumbling rural infrastructure

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 21 hours ago • 70 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 21 hours ago • 97 comments

This.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

The people who are running the government right now are odious human beings.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Stupid.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This is not good news that the courts is allowing the administration to put people on leave. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Good job everybody.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump Admin is FAFOing the economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

From Ironman to Joker

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

"Tyranny is rising in the White House, and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know—rather, the *people* would like to know, what you, Congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House."

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments