The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

The evil that men do lives after them

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

It will also kill a lot of people.

if you doubt the anger of scientists...read and circulate this piece. eos.org/opinions/sen...

The most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with … what we eat what we drive what we wear or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint. Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world. That’s why …

Wrapping up the semester in "Science, fiction, and our environmental future" with a discussion of the hope/solar punk of Becky Chambers and some synthesis on their thoughts on the next 10-20 years.

“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”

Another garbage, unconstitutional executive order from the President. Now he claims that states can't set their own environmental laws, like California's carbon trading program, which by the way, has existed since... 2006. www.latimes.com/environment/...

10/10 Onion headline

BREAKING NEWS: DIRE SEA CUCUMBER OFFICIALLY DE-EXTINCTED! These incredible predators were once feared throughout the Pleistocene landscape by even the mightiest of slowly falling marine detritus particles

Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review. "History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.

The 2024 US annual national security threat assessment from the Office of the Director of National Security mentions #climate threats ~20 times. Trump's 2025 report? Not once. The 2024 assessment mentions Greenland zero times. The 2025 Trump report? 4 times. www.dni.gov

We need to find a better word than "benefits". I paid in to SS for 53 years and I won't live long enough to get even half what I paid in back. That's fine - it's how SS should work, but I'm sick of aholes like Elmo calling them "benefits" as if he's giving me something.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Rebellions are built on hope.

Congestion pricing works.

Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Here’s a campaign to send Trunp postcards at the White House on March 15 - here comes the Ides of Trunp cc4democracy.com/2025-cards/c...

Today is #givingday at UMD - I’ll be giving to the Tom Meixner Promise Scholarship fund - will you give too? Tom was an alum of our program and a promise scholarship is a great was to honor his legacy and memory givingday.umd.edu/campaigns/pr...

🏳️‍⚧️ Yay! It’s the absolute minimum from Ds but we’ll take it 🏳️‍⚧️

You can be trained to be a worker drone - but critical thought, context, complex thinking… on your own 🙄

I just took action on "Support the Maryland Bottle Bill to Reduce Litter and Plastic Pollution, and Increase Recycling" -- will you join me? t.co/320dAc0fi8

They could try "I don't have the authority to mass fire these workers without cause and neither do you"

They have the votes to impeach and convict him So they are not helpless They are complicit

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Ursula K. Le Guin, obvs child of academics with nuggets like, “There’ll be a bar here, Senior Faculty rooms always have a liquor cabinet.”

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

“Elon Musk is firing military veteran firefighters for no reason” is the biggest slam dunk in political messaging history, Dems should be shouting it into the world’s biggest bullhorn from the top of the Washington Monument.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

Project 25—is mirroring Orbán’s successful takeover of Hungary’s democracy: 1. Purge disloyal employees. 2. Replace them with political allies. 3. Restructure agencies so they serve executive power instead of acting as independent institutions. 4. Move quickly to prevent organized resistance.

Organize – Support pro-democracy groups Expose – Amplify journalism, whistleblowers, legal challenges Vote – Drive turnout, pressure officials, protect elections Disrupt – Protest, strike, refuse to comply Pressure – Push Congress, courts, international allies Act now—democracy won’t defend itself

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

If you're looking for an insight into how things are going at NASA since Trump's regime started attacking it, here's astronomer & NASA employee Rose Ferreira on Threads. (Her now-removed interview is archived here at the Wayback Machine and it's well worth a read: web.archive.org/web/20231206... )

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

📣 UPDATE: OK, still working with some others to figure out the best way to present it all, but in the meantime here's the first batch of links to the most-recent archived versions of every page at the CDC prior to the Trump/Musk Purge: acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...

Applications are open for the 2025 Climate Equity and Resilience Summer Institute! This free, 3-week program from @cig-uw.bsky.social is open to current & recent grad students and postdocs from any field w/ demonstrated interest in climate change, resilience, and issues of equity & social justice.

Like literally is there is not one ambitious Democratic official left in DC who knows how to stage a basic media stunt? Here's the step by step: STEP 1: Get some other public servants. People love nurses and fire fighters. I don't know maybe a security guard? STEP 2: Get a camera crew. 1/3

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

The CDC has shuttered its webpages for supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools, Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth, and Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ+ Youth www.cdc.gov/healthy-yout... www.cdc.gov/healthy-yout... www.cdc.gov/youth-safe-e...

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

Join us for an event about the power of climate fiction! Date: Tuesday, February 4th Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/imagine-22... (with support from @nrdc.org and Earth Rising Foundation) #Solarpunk #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Climate