"Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond." www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

We've used this so far for policy analysis (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...), capturing flood-risk dynamics (doi.org/10.1111/jfr3...), and isolating the effect of structure inventory errors on damage estimates (dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...). Hopefully it is something that can be useful for you as well.

Our free and open source software for estimating property level flood risk under uncertainty now has a peer reviewed software paper! We would love your thoughts for improvement and contributions! github.com/abpoll/unsafe @jdossgollin.bsky.social @vsrikrish.bsky.social

SNAP and other similar programs are corporate welfare for businesses who DO NOT PAY A THRIVING WAGE. Never, ever allow GOP fascists to tell you people on SNAP are moochers. They are working, paying taxes; they are children, or ppl with disabilities. The CEOs and shareholders are the moochers.

My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist. We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group. Tell your students to apply! #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Opinion Nicholas Kristof "Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Projecting future sea level rise is a difficult task. 🌊🔬 In a new podcast episode, @vsrikrish.bsky.social discusses the complex factors that contribute to sea level rise, the impact of different greenhouse gases, and more. Listen now! 🎧

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Here's Gorsuch getting Sauer to explicitly admit this: x.com/Acyn/status/...

This is incredibly dangerous, especially in the hands of ICE under this administration. A birth certificate or passport should be determinative, not what a facial recognition app says, particularly given known biases of facial recognition models.

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Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Sometimes stories only make sense after you've stared at the wall for a long time. Other times only when you've been staring at heaps of crushed rocks. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

More evidence supporting this really neat paper doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (JSTOR version: www.jstor.org/stable/45295...)

Isn't that pretty much the cost of the ballroom conservatives keep saying he's paying for out of pocket? Hmmm

Reanalysis of that Nobel prizewinning study of patents and innovation statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/21/r...

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Contrast this report with Brett Kavanaugh's recent description of ICE's raids. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

High tide flooding along the Jersey shore after yesterday’s nor’easter, video courtesy Rob Auermuller

Yep when Trump says he loves coal miners he means the guys who own mines — as always the little guy was good for conning out of a vote and after that the mass grave. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

an article with more context www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has been accused of nearly 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas The state COULD have fined the company more than $3M... BUT Regulators are only seeking a penalty of $242,800. By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

An escalation of wood / furniture pricing will drive higher replacement costs and more expensive insurance claims from natural catastrophes.

Sam Alito thinks you can have standing to sue over any law that results in more votes for Democrats

Sounds like America may have committed a serious war crime that VP Vance laughed about, joking about “not going finishing.” This is why we do not permit extrajudicial executions by the United States military against civilians— not in peacetime, not in war, not ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

To estimate future flood risks, it's important to capture how people respond to risk and interventions. In this new study, we show that many behavioral pathways can produce the levee effect, but most studies only consider one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @vsrikrish.bsky.social

Rarely are the corruption documents made public by the perpetrators.

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

The "Tacos Chotiner" tweet remains undefeated

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is facility sitting pattern I documented in DUMPING IN DIXIE 35 years ago. Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of #EnvironmentalRacism in the South | Truthout truthout.org/articles/big...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Wow!

Highly recommend this paper

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We finally FINALLY finished the big insurance piece. There's a LOT that is not in there. But I think we've got a few of the important bits. TL;DR insurance is extremely interesting, but it's neither the climate problem nor the solution. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.