🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA: Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today. I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.

The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

My 83-yo Dad is in an assisted living facility in a deep blue state and we got an email yesterday that he would need a physician’s order to get the covid booster this year.

If Trump can’t handle a New York crowd he should stay the hell out of NY. #USTA www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

WHAT??

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

PSA If you’re attending the US Open today, you know what to do: *When you see DT, Boo LOUDLY *Record video & audio on yr phone *Post the video online immediately #FvckDJT #FvckESPM #censorship

@rolex.bsky.social If you invite Trump to the US Open you have to live with the consequences. This request by the US Open is shameful. It’s what happens in dictatorships. @espn.com please don’t follow this! You will be complicit in censorship. @rennaestubbs.bsky.social @servedpodcast.bsky.social

I’m extremely honored to have been elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Of course this wouldn’t have happened without the support of my colleagues at LDEO/Columbia, many collaborators, and the wonderful students and postdocs I had the privilege to work with.

US soft power (and to a lesser extent its hard power) has historically been highly dependent on educating future foreign leaders here. This is an own goal on so many levels.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

"Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report" by Dennis Pillion for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...

What makes a country great in the 21st century is science, and it’s really insane to purposefully destroy its science enterprise.

The foundation of science and engineering in America is being eroded, badly. This does NOT save us money, and it certainly doesn't make us “great again”. It hands the leadership of 21st century to China, on a silver platter. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Am once again getting comments that I should read Project 2025 which is my cue to remind everyone that I wrote a very long explainer/analysis about the FEMA section of Project 2025 which you can read here: www.disaster-ology.com/blog/2024/12...

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online

From my cousin who lives in Paris. Says it is 80 deg F right now at 1 am...That type of heat there will kill the most vulnerable of people,

Shameful -- building a concentration camp in an environmentally sensitive wetland where ICE can disappear people who are just trying to feed their families. And fetishizing the cruelty

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

Fuck those pigs.

Both science and universities in the US are in the process of being devastated by our current president and his administration. I felt compelled to use my little platform to say something about this. So instead of my uncle, I'm talking about this instead, this week on the podcast. bit.ly/3Ta2FIE

The 💯-hour Weather and Climate Livestream is now available on YouTube! Head to www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR... to rewatch your favorite talks, catch up on the parts you missed, and learn how you can help Save America's Forecasts. And there's still time to call your reps at wclivestream.com/act

I really wish they would stop viewing dystopian sci-fi as a user’s manual

22. Again, not climate sensu strict but counting bc I worked on them at DOE — proposed repeal of appliance efficiency standards (May 12, 2025)

21. NSF abolishing its divisions and rotators, and focusing the agency narrowly around AI, quantum, biotech, nuclear energy, and translational science

20. Furlough of @unidata.bsky.social (May 9, 2025)

19. OIRA guidance setting the social cost of carbon at zero for reasons of uncertainty (May 5, 2025)

18. Widespread anticipated RIFs at US DOI, including elimination of the Climate Adaptation Science Centers

17. Proposed Schedule F (Schedule Policy/Career) rules would subject scientific agencies to greater political control. (Federal Register notice April 23, 2025)

16. Discontinuation of NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disaster data set (May 8, 2025)

15. Decimation of the Energy Information Administration (cumulative layoffs, reporting as of May 5, 2025)

Thank you for the list. This breaks my heart, but people need to know and feel the loss if we hope to recover from this god awful administration and complicit politicians.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

this was a constant of the first term too except it’s way worse this time just a constant endless barrage of awful as he inserts himself into every aspect of our lives unwanted even if you aren’t directly affected by his policies personally it never stops

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

“We are embarking on a radical new experiment in what conditions promote #science leadership, with the US being the treatment group, and China as the control.” Never thought I'd see that conclusion but here we are. Leadership needs new approaches - arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I know many of the dedicated federal employees who were fired without cause or incentivized by fear to early retirement or resignation. To call these brilliant scientists “nonsense” is deeply offensive to me 😡

This interactive paints a horrifying picture of how science is being stifled in this administration.

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

ICE, with backup from local police, the FBI, and DEA, is invading our communities to kidnap our loved ones—friends, family, neighbors. This is state violence, plain and simple. But we are not powerless. The people are rising up, and we are many. We see you. We will not back down. 📸: Taylr on Twitter

1/2 Today in Minneapolis, ICE/FBI raided a taco restaurant, yes, you read that correctly, a taco restaurant, dressed in full battle gear—long guns, body armor, the whole damn militarized show. Do they think they’re in a war zone? This is about instilling terror, rooted in racism. It won’t work.

1/2 Buried in the GOP’s budget bill is a dictator clause—a sneaky provision that would let Trump ignore court orders without consequence. It guts enforcement of contempt rulings unless plaintiffs post a bond, making the judiciary toothless. This would crown Trump king. 🔗 tinyurl.com/Crown-Trump

Thankfully, the Swiss trust science and evacuated the town days earlier. But yes, add this town's disapperance to the many, many costs of climate change.

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:

"National parks are intended to be havens for native species. If we can’t maintain the ecosystem here, I don’t see much hope for other places." ~NPS biologist 🌏

🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.