Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Oh, hello. Meet the Republican megadonor who is best positioned to profit from the Venezuelan coup and takeover of its oil industry. asiatimes.com/2026/01/bill...

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

Congress appears to have a bipartisan budget plan that would reject most of the Trump Administration's desired cuts to federal atmospheric science agencies and programs. Details on what Congress is planning for NOAA, NASA and NSF in 2026 - and will OMB follow through? tinyurl.com/bddutn9m

“Donald Trump has been quietly plotting the seizure of Greenland in some way, shape, or form for nearly eight years. We listened to his private rants about it in the first term, but we weren’t willing to carry out a takeover of an allied nation on his behalf.” www.defiance.news/p/why-i-warn...

Béla Fleck just announced he’s cancelling his performance at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra 💪

"By undoing so many rules as quickly as possible, the EPA aims to rapidly provoke lawsuits that can then work their way through a court system more favorable than ever to Trump," writes @jakespring.bsky.social: wapo.st/4jpCYjm

“These people should all be prosecuted someday.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... must read piece by @thorbenson.bsky.social

When I teach Pol Comm, I organize the class around Democratic Norms. In our last week we talk about what happens when the sanctions for norm violations are not upheld, and I assign the essay from which this post is adapted. You should read it. Consequences are good, and necessary.

The Trump administration is closing a NASA research library in Greenbelt, Maryland. The facility houses countless books and records that are unlikely to be digitized. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

1️⃣ The Trump Hotel DC cashed in on the Jan. 6 protest. - Rates jumped from $476/night before Trump plugged a wild protest to $8,000. -Average for DC lux hotels on Jan. 6 was $416. -Manager bragged about record room...

Unbelievable. The National Weather Service issued a wind warning supported by a hazard map showing places that **do not exist***.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Who remembers how "cold" last January was in South Florida? Temperatures ran 2-3 degrees below normal. But the rest of 2025 was so scalding hot 🥵 that #Miami again managed to tally a top-10 hottest year. Records date back to 1895. West Palm Beach too.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

High and low temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Sunday. While most areas were very cold, the lower Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians/Pribilofs were mild, including a daily record high at Cold Bay. No daily record lows set at any long term climate site. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

I'm not sure how much more inflation people can handle, as most are already at their breaking point. "Businesses absorbed 80% of Trump’s tariff costs in 2025. That’s about to change."

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.

Trump may be drooling and perverted, but he's a good front for this... yalereview.org/article/dasg...

Today's king tide peaked in San Francisco at 2.56’ above MHHW, the 3rd-highest water level since records began in 1897. Only two water levels in 1983 were higher. According to NOAA, the 2026 level would have been a 1-in-100-year water level 30 years ago, but is now more like a 1-in-70-year event.

BREAKING: Venezuela's vice president demands the U.S. free Maduro and calls him the country's rightful leader during speech.

Too bad she's not around anymore. Wait, what?

this is government by Fox and Friends, only dumber

Trump sounds demented right now

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

"If you break it, you own it!"

Fairbanks average temperature for 2025 of 30.1ºF/-1.1ºC tied for the 10th warmest year since 1930. There hasn't been a "top ten" coldest year in the 21st century, but half of the top ten warmest years have occurred since 2000. The typical year is now 3ºF warmer now than before 1960. #akwx #Climate

Trump takes four times the recommended dose of aspirin for cardiac prevention. Even low-dose aspirin is no longer recommended for people over 60 who don't have heart disease.

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

The grift that keeps on grifting.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Today, we've seen a wave of articles reflecting on RFK Jr.'s devastating run as HHS Secretary. We have a solution. Articles of impeachment are in the house, and we're pressuring our representatives to take action. In 2026, join us in the fight to #ImpeachRFKJr standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Potential Wednesday AM commute issues.

The snow depth in Juneau at 3 pm is 41". This ties the airport record set in Feb 1949.

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

The extent of global sea ice cover will end the year at more than 2 million square kilometers below average 😞 Monitor at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

"Once symbols of naval might with their massive guns, battleships have long since been eclipsed by aircraft carriers and modern destroyers armed with long-range missiles." www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/t...

Party like it's 1825!

“Nature reclaiming” suggests inevitability. Ghost ski resorts are the result of human climate change, followed by human abandonment. Nothing about this is natural. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

It's been a warm/cold last 7 days, depending on where you live. 🥵🥶

DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al