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“Notably, 41% of households with direct or indirect federal government employment that had experienced job loss said they were food insecure, according to the study, with two-thirds of those households indicating they experienced the worst level — “very low food security.”

“The science demands action, the law [ICJ] commands it, the economics compel it and people are calling for it,” says António Guterres, UN head, at climate summit #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A federal judge today struck down a DHS policy of withholding funding from states unwilling to cooperate with ICE, calling it "coercive" and "unconstitutional."

"There’s about 2 billion people who we’re hoping will look this up and realize that they personally, their health is being affected by the same facilities that are really causing the climate crisis."

"The understaffed GSA was left in a mess, according to another former employee who said the downsizing happened too quickly. Too many people were given the boot and GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months, he said."

“I know it feels like giving up and abandoning your students, but it’s like the guidance on an aeroplane: put your own mask on first and then help those around you.”

“Dating back to his first term, when he mused about injecting bleach to kill off the coronavirus, Mr. Trump has used his position of authority to dole out medical advice, some of it deeply flawed. He often strays from the scientific consensus, seeking out individuals who confirm his own hunches.”

"Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase, CDC researchers wrote in an article published Monday (Annals of Internal Medicine). Only two antibiotics work against those infections, & the drugs are expensive and must be administered through an IV"

"I have had several conversations with corporate clients ... where they have said this new fee is simply unworkable in the U.S., and it's time for us to start looking for other countries where we can have highly skilled talent"

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

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Really glad science isn't going to be politicized anymore. 🫣

Finally on. Trump suggesting autism researchers lied, withheld information, one of the worst things to ever happen, went from 1:10,000 to 1 in 12 (boys in CA). No autism in folks who don't take vaccines (amish). Going great so far!

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

“The cancellation of the report, which has been conducted for 30 years, comes amid rising food insecurity and recent cuts to federal food assistance programs, including tighter work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.”

“The Intl Criminal Court has said rape is being used as a weapon of war in the region. More women are getting pregnant than ever before…part of the problem was the major disruption to birth control supply chains after the Trump admin stopped funding family-planning programs in developing countries”

Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.

US President Donald Trump plans to introduce a new $100,000 application fee for H-1B worker visas, according to a White House official, in an effort to reduce their use as part of his broader immigration crackdown reut.rs/4220Nqd

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Breaking news: A federal vaccine advisory panel unanimously voted on a more restrictive approach to coronavirus vaccines by recommending that everyone consult a clinician before getting a shot.

BREAKING: RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers added confusion to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.

The Science Foundation launched last week to raise public funds for transdisciplinary, discovery-based research go.nature.com/46w7vpT

not okay w WH trying to intimidate me or others behind the scenes which this seems to be about. Why else does WH need to know which law professors spoke to the press before a story is published? The WH was asked a question about the law (as were we), not asked about personal or factual issues. 2/2

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

Verbatim: "White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson described Mr Swain as a "longtime Democrat donor who has spent hundreds of dollars supporting liberal politicians, including loser Kamala Harris, with radical climate policies that the American people have repeatedly rejected."

Breaking news: TikTok has gotten a green light to spin off an American version of the app in the United States that will be partially owned by a consortium of Trump-allied investors.

From our own Dani Replogle: "Existing [water] standards are inadequate to protect Iowans, given the outsized cancer rates, the frequent fish kills and recent struggles in reducing drinking water contaminant levels to even the under protective federal Safe Drinking Water Act standard."

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

“The broadly worded proposal, which would legally authorize the president to kill people he deems narco-terrorists and attack countries he says helped them, has set off alarm bells in some quarters of the executive branch and on Capitol Hill”

Now new ACIP member Hillary Blackburn uses anecdotes to claim that mRNA vaccines may have caused her mother’s and other people’s cancer. There is no evidence from the vaccine safety surveillance systems that there are higher cancer rates after COVID19 vaccination.

"The failure to get health impact studies is rooted in environmental racism."

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

"Gas moves up through faults into a cavity under the permafrost that’s solid enough to prevent most of the gas from leaking into the atmosphere. When ⬆️ temps thaw permafrost, the seal is weakened...pressure inside the cavity increases as higher temperatures release gas trapped under the ice" =Blast

“The fingerprints of climate change are evident”

BREAKING: CDC's ACIP just voted 8-3 to change vaccine recomendation and stop recommending MMRV to children as their first dose.

“The Ellisons have also made no secret of their intention to move CBS News to the right. They are negotiating to acquire The Free Press, a heterodox publication co-founded by Bari Weiss that prioritizes criticism of “woke” culture, and put Ms. Weiss in a senior position at CBS News.”

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

More than one in four US homes—amounting to $12.7 trillion in real estate—faces at least one type of “severe or extreme climate risk,” like floods, hurricanes, and wildfires - new report by Realtor fortune.com/2025/09/03/h...

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors. Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

The White House’s bid to fine UCLA threatens the wider state, said UC President James Milliken.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

The @theguardian.com climate pledge 2025 This update reflects the urgent and growing challenges facing our planet – and how the Guardian is more focused than ever on exposing the causes of the #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Re-upping this call for pitches for @technologyreview.com.

“We need to give young scientists hope that people continue to believe in the value of science,” says @sciencefoundation.bsky.social’s founders Maren Friesen and @signalvsnoise.bsky.social. My latest story for @nature.com.