During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals. Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

you just haven't seen any of them for the last 15 years because they go to another school

Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid. It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years. www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...

“We’re going to help Americans with their ACA premiums by sending everyone a paper bag of ripe bananas.”

Where we are in the climate crisis: Amazonian dolphins dying in hot tub lakes. www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...

He beat the wrap, they must be reuben those charges www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

Pennsylvania voted for Trump in 2 of the last 3 presidential elections, we have a Republican senator, and a closely divided state legislature. But sure, by all means call us a blue state.

Just reported a cool coyote encounter I had recently on Seattle's urban carnivore citizen science tool, and I have... questions for the people who saw a bear in Denny Triangle and a mountain lion in Montlake. carnivorespotter.org/urban-carniv...

"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

"These notes describe orphan wells spewing toxic water near homes or into streams, leaving scars of salt residue. A homeowner reported that his grandchildren often play near a purging well. Ranchers have lost calves, which, drawn to the salty water, died after drinking it."

I spent much of Tuesday talking to some of the top hurricane experts in the country about how climate change helped turn Hurricane Melissa into such a beast of a storm. Here's what they told me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/c...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Definitely not endorsing any prankery but someone I know swiped a bunch of those huge inflatable holiday decorations in the dead of night... and then set them all back up, but every yard now had a different one than it started with.

“For us, it was quite clear that climate change does impact our basic human rights." For the NYT Magazine's climate issue, I wrote about a group of law students from the South Pacific whose clarity and tenacity helped reshape international law gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Meteorologists are sounding the alarm on Hurricane Melissa: "It makes you wonder if this is going to become a new normal going forward when we get storms like this." from @mollytaft.com

I knew the gov was putting insane banner notices related to the shutdown on official pages but this language is beyond. What the actual

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Please can we just have some subtle metaphors for once

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"These days, your money belongs to Donald Trump, and he does whatever he wants with it. The White House belongs to Trump, and he does whatever he wants with it. That’s what kings do. And it's part of the broader breakdown of democracy." — @snipy.bsky.social

We can all understand why the military being paid off by anonymous randos is bad, yes?

Periodic reminder that The Open Notebook is a public good and an amazing resource for people interested in learning to write about science

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

This is the video that Homeland Security posted today.

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.

Call this what it is: rank corruption. Major corporations funding a president's vanity project is a textbook model for pay-to-play. Why else would tech giants, crypto firms, and defense contractors care about a 90,000 sq ft ballroom?

A big part of why the White House's destruction feels so visceral is that it's emblematic of a much broader pattern of wantonly chopping up our shared national patrimony and selling it for parts

Paging every GOP member of Congress to remedial constitutional literacy class, stat

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

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. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED

We are such an incredible long way past "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

In Carlisle, PA, we are sincerely doing our best!!

In a car-dependent city, the other people you are living in a city with are just ... drivers, competing with you for road & parking space. They are theoretical, abstract, mere impediments. When you're walking in & around plazas, they are real, concrete, with faces, with real lives.

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

UPDATE: This summer, organizers said more than 5 million people participated in No Kings protests against President Trump. Organizers say they expect an even bigger turnout this time around.

Scenes from the ‘No Kings’ anti-Trump rally in uptown Charlotte. 📸: Khadejeh Nikouyeh #nokings #charlotte #trump #protest

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

The wildest thing about every Trump pardon and commutation? “Mr. Santos will also no longer be required to pay more than $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to his victims…”

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

This is bad on its face, but maybe the worst thing about it is how much was driven by carbon-absorbing systems breaking down (trees on fire, hot ocean, degraded soil, etc) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

Since it's apple season, here's an old favorite story of mine, about the strange and competitive world of apple branding story.californiasunday.com/cosmic-crisp...

Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.