To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom

I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this: www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

Dick Cheney Declassified: The VICE File (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

It's a good day to re-read this 2019 piece from @foianate.bsky.social and @nsarchive.bsky.social's Tom Blanton.

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NYT couldn't find someone to defend the Gates memo who wasn't a former *Gates scholar*??

Scoop: The EPA has reconsidered its plans to kill the popular Energy Star program in response to intense backlash. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...

The Top Secret Testimony of the CIA's MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

“Nothing that Trump does says that he cares about people. Everything about his actions shows his disdain for poor and Black people specifically, but poor in general.”

A really good FOIA win from @theintercept.com (which shows, in addition to the substance of the document, that it can be worth asking for records from federally funded nonprofits.)

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation @nsarchive.bsky.social briefing book by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

With Trump making trouble in Latin America and threatening more, an article in the New York Times looks at the long history of US interventions there and points to key archival evidence revealed over the years by the @nsarchive.bsky.social

What does the government shutdown mean for FOIA requesters? The @nsarchive.bsky.social’s advice: Submit at your own risk, and don’t miss your 90-day appeal deadlines! unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...

This great New York Times article from a few days ago links to several important revelations from the National Security Archive. Links to those resources below. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

What does the government shutdown mean for FOIA requesters? The @nsarchive.bsky.social’s advice: Submit at your own risk, and don’t miss your 90-day appeal deadlines! unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...

EPA will no longer expedite FOIA requests made by members of marginalized communities impacted by pollution.

The government is shut down — and so is the public’s right to know. Read my latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social: unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...

Looking forward to presenting on FOIA and access to information to @climaterealityproject.org’s NY Chapter with @laurenleharper.bsky.social. Join us on 10/20 (link in flier)!

The government is shut down — and so is the public’s right to know. Read my latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social: unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...

EXCLUSIVE: I dug into why the UK government released the world's most potent greenhouse gas into a London Tube station - twice! - in 2007. Includes some new details about these experiments. www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-worlds...

One spin: Librarians and archivists are just as important as spies.

ICYMI: Special shoutout to @nsarchive.bsky.social alumna @laurenleharper.bsky.social featured on @lastweektonight.com's episode on Presidential Libraries!

The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968, Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

ICYMI: Special shoutout to @nsarchive.bsky.social alumna @laurenleharper.bsky.social featured on @lastweektonight.com's episode on Presidential Libraries!

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more. It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help. Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

Just going to leave this idea here: One member of the chat, Michael Bartels, now works for the federal government - the Small Business Administration. Might be worth a FOIA request or two.

John Oliver is right. Secret donations to presidential libraries enable bribery, while public access to presidential records is at an all-time low. Use our action center tool to tell Congress to close the secrecy loopholes and increase transparency. freedom.press/the-classifi...

This week’s main story is about presidential libraries, why they’re important, how Donald Trump may be exploiting their loopholes, and – what else – a psychic gorilla with a dangerous distaste for one specific president.

John Oliver is right. Secret donations to presidential libraries enable bribery, while public access to presidential records is at an all-time low. Use our action center tool to tell Congress to close the secrecy loopholes and increase transparency.

Article from the National Security Archive on disappearing data: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report.

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

Telling me you listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast regularly is quickly becoming the flag telling me you listened to Joe Rogan regularly was 5 years ago.

The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to disappear critical climate data - leaving the public totally unprepared to fight the threats of climate change. Read more from @rsanta.bsky.social:

Data erasure and alterations aren't just a threat to the public's right-to-know--they make it harder for the government to study, enforce, and inform about climate policy. How are federal agencies supposed to prepare for and regulate threats that don't exist? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Trump admin has fundamentally distorted our access to publicly available environmental data. Massive losses include the deletion of National Climate Assessments, shuttering of atmospheric monitoring programs, and closure of federal climate offices: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

This topic has gotten a lot of coverage—and for good reason—that’s why we at the @nsarchive.bsky.social wanted to update you on where the massive data losses stand, and the data rescue orgs fighting to scrape, preserve, and protect federal data: m.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...

Data erasure and alterations aren't just a threat to the public's right-to-know--they make it harder for the government to study, enforce, and inform about climate policy. How are federal agencies supposed to prepare for and regulate threats that don't exist? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Wrote for the @nsarchive.bsky.social about how the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its efforts to remove and alter critical climate resources and data this summer: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Trump admin has fundamentally distorted our access to publicly available environmental data. Massive losses include the deletion of National Climate Assessments, shuttering of atmospheric monitoring programs, and closure of federal climate offices: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Link to the report: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Archive's @rsanta.bsky.social talks about her new report on Disappearing Climate Data www.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...

Wrote for the @nsarchive.bsky.social about how the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its efforts to remove and alter critical climate resources and data this summer: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

Earlier this year the president proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 24 percent, the clearest indication of his priorities going into a possible shutdown. Funding for Earth science programs specifically would be cut by MORE THAN HALF. These are some of the satellite & space instrument missions at risk

“Either we all go home or it’s business as usual … nobody knows what’s going to happen,” one NASA scientist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told @thebulletin.org.