Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard Tracking federal lawsuits on climate and environmental actions and policies in which the Trump administration is a party. insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

NEW from @insideclimatenews.org and thanks to @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard An updating tracker of federal lawsuits involving the Trump administration insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

"Loneliness and emotional disconnection appear to have become a defining feature of life in America," www.eurekalert.org/news-release... "Three-quarters of adults (75%) reported they are more stressed about the country’s future than they used to be. "

The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It’s Mind-Blowing gizmodo.com/the-roman-em...

This line really resonates: "Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works" People just don't understand that reporting is work, broadly speaking. They can't tell good from bad. Failure on publishers. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet. www.space.com/space-explor...

Are you interested in covering politics in the Lone Star State? The Texas Observer is hiring an intern to help us cover the 2026 elections! Apply here: www.texasobserver.org/jobs/

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Astronomers are agog over this all-day gamma-ray burst. A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at all. By @whereisyvette.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...

I have submitted my book manuscript! And then, of course, immediately come down with a cold. I told my classes today that if I collapsed at the lectern to just leave me there so I could get a little nap.

NASA Administrator Nominee Would Shift Future of Space Exploration www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa... "Privately, some former space agency officials say that Isaacman seems as good a pick for NASA as the Trump administration could deliver."

NAS: Beware the Funhouse Mirror: How Social Media Misleads Us about Public Opinion Nov. 13 Webcast www.nationalacademies.org/event/45948_... How modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of public opinio

Measles could officially become endemic again in the U.S. The country (and Canada) risk losing their measles elimination status if they have a year of continuous transmission, which could have happened already. By @sipappas.bsky.social‬ @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

We're Team #Ilmenite today in the #OreCup! Not only did it enable Bob Ross's happy little clouds, it also may have helped flip the Moon's mantle. So versatile! 🔭🧪🌕 eos.org/articles/the...

“Hidden” dangers in a mass fatality aircraft crash incident: Heavy metal contamination in a forensic archaeological site in Northeast India onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "heavy metal presence in bones from a World War II aircraft crash site."

It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report. "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."

NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Group Founded By Ally Accused Of Sexual Misconduct open.substack.com/pub/importan...

No one is focusing on this tonight but… this is crazy www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

You know it’s an emergency when Fox News breaks out the bowtie guys

Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS - fascinating report by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

JAMA: "61% of US children were ever enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP and 42% were ever uninsured by their 18th birthday." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "Upcoming policy changes that reduce Medicaid funding and enrollment may worsen the risk of coverage gaps for children."

Former director of Los Alamos decries "dystopian" calls for open air nuke testing, outlawed since 1960's.

No line at polling station voting in Va. today

In April, @ejusa.bsky.social, a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit, received an email from DOJ that its federal grants were suddenly being terminated. “What nobody saw coming was that they would go back and seize money that Congress had already allocated.” The moves proved fatal for EJUSA.

"Approximately 27% of opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2022 occurred among individuals recently released from carceral settings" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "... care upon release, we estimate that 13,288 OODs ... or 16% of the national total, may have been prevented"

"This approach is fully consistent with what I discussed at my Senate hearing..." Which in my opinion was a trainwreck. I got the impression he thought the NASA Administrator set the agency's science agenda. No. The National Academies makes the recommendations. NASA makes an attempt to follow them.

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

So.Very. Stupid. Honestly, someone should start an awards program for the worst government policies of the year. This one would certainly be a strong contender in the federal policy category.

Catch the Taurid Meteor Shower—And Learn Why Scientists Are Watching It Closely Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are investigating www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

An industrial menhaden fishery out of Virginia is the last of its kind on the Atlantic seaboard. Some say it's decimating a keystone Chesapeake fish with big fallout for other bay species. But, perhaps thanks to industry political donations, no one can prove it: www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

The U.S. public health system has been gutted this year. But advocates have a chance to rebuild it in an even better way, according to #APHA2025 speakers: www.apha.org/publications...

I wonder where anyone would get the idea that they should use their position in the federal government to carry out personal vengeance missions?

I'm very excited to announce `usaspending-orm` a new Python library to ease access to data from the USASpending API. Available now on PyPI and GitHub. Repo link in thread.

The pivot to video has been great for Big Tech and absolute murder for journalism

The head of the FDA’s drug division, an RFK Jr. appointee, has just resigned as an investigation was launched accusing him of using his FDA position to seek revenge on a former rival, Kevin Tang. George Tidmarsh is also accused of trying to solicit a bribe from Tang. All the best people.

whenever I point out that propaganda works really well and is really effective, there's inevitably people who say "but there's more sources of news than ever online," as if it's easy peasy for barely educated Americans to dissect which source of info is being truthful in an ocean of bullshit

I’ve been AI hijacked. Please report as spam. Several readers have sent me Instagram posts that include videos of me arguing in favor of not eating breakfast , fasting, or promoting wellness products.  These more-or-less look like me speaking, and more-or-less sound like me. But they are not my…

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place

Weekend cleanup from Trump DOE sec'y: any new U.S. nuclear tests will only be noncritical ones. already routine, tests of parts of weapons. no booms apnews.com/article/trum... a pointless shaking of nuclear stability worldwide endangering everyone, in other words

A Tunisian man tried to sell 30 Punic bronze coins, purportedly from an underwater hoard off Tunisia’s coast, to an antiques dealer in Oslo. The dealer, suspecting the coins’ dubious provenance, alerted Norwegian authorities, who started an investigation. archaeologymag.com/2025/10/cart...

NEJM: "Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... "Ongoing peer-reviewed evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza during the 2025–2026 season."

This is amazing y’all. White dwarf pulls He from neighbor star causing dwarf-surrounding explosion… …causing inward traveling shockwave that compresses dwarf star’s core & results in supernova. Many a nuclear weapons designer was an astrophysicist b/c that’s a closest analogue to a NUDET.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

i genuinely cannot stand actual european elites condescendingly explaining american public opinion to americans. reminds me of when some british lady IRL tried to tell me she understood southerners better than i ever could, a southerner who lives in the south.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

This is how it felt teaching zoomers about punk in my pop music class today

Reporter's Notebook: "Diversionary Theory of War" Expert Publications/List "unpopular leaders generate foreign policy crises to both divert the public’s attention away from the discontent with their rule and bolster their political fortunes" scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...