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The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 13 days ago • 453 comments

We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 20 days ago • 490 comments

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

submitted 25 days ago • 125 comments

Reading all of the anti-trans EOs this week, I am reminded of how much harder it is to litigate against incompetent opposing counsel (as opposed to competent lawyers). You have to start by essentially constructing their argument for them in order to know what to counter. I suspect that is the point.

submitted 32 days ago • 19 comments

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

submitted 34 days ago • 97 comments

Not a landslide Smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000: New CookPolitical: over 154M votes now counted, Trump's popular vote lead down to 1.65%: Trump 76,831,007 (49.89%) Harris 74,296,538 (48.24%) www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Nancy Mace is so outraged by concepts of biological sex foreign to her she’s demanding transparency on secret military alien autopsies. Frankly that’s the kind of ideological consistency we could use more of.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

submitted 103 days ago • 134 comments

Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies. interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-... THREAD 1/10

submitted 105 days ago • 20 comments

The goal of preventing temperatures from exceeding 1.5C is “deader than a doornail” as I told the Guardian (quoting James Hansen). We’ve simply waited too long to reduce global emissions, and now will firmly pass 1.5C in the next decade www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 105 days ago • 16 comments

incompetent loyalists who will behave in lawless ways as they try to fulfill the bosses' demands

submitted 109 days ago • 95 comments

If you learn anything today, it should be this: We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked. To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲

submitted 110 days ago • 16 comments

"I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how." By @laurahazardowen.bsky.social Including, "I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news." And: "I’m researching new ways to teach kids about news." Recommended. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

submitted 110 days ago • 49 comments

The Journal of Trial and Error is a scientific publication that only publishes papers with negative or unexpected results. The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.

submitted 110 days ago • 7 comments

New article by Zhuang et al in Science Advances, showing how droughts in the western USA are increasingly dominated by evaporative demand rather than lack of precipitation. With ongoing warming, this effect is expected to increase such that droughts that were rare become much more likely. #climate 🧪

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

If anyone wants to read some good blog posts from today, I've curated a list. 1. The great @tomscocca.bsky.social defector.com/last-time-wa...

submitted 116 days ago • 21 comments

fascinating www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

The equity vs speed trade-offs of the global energy transition continue to be massive. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway

submitted 133 days ago • 4 comments

Hedge funds are shorting clean energy, going long on fossil fuels 🫠 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

"The General Staff know exactly why WCK were bombed - because in the Strip, everyone does whatever they like."

submitted 334 days ago • 2 comments

World Central Kitchen has shared the identities of the seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces.

submitted 334 days ago • 30 comments

now that the EPA has grudgingly begun revising US methane emission estimates upwards based on a preponderance of evidence, will they go back and revise historical emissions estimates accordingly? if so, much of the apparent post-2005 emission decline from coal-to-gas switching will evaporate 😬

submitted 337 days ago • 3 comments