My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely @nunderwood6.bsky.social maps!): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. It can be hard to tell them apart or to understand what powers each agency has. Here is a guide to how these forces are operating. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is very good. documentedny.com/2025/10/22/c...

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

"The order and structure give it the appearance of rationality and rigor. This appearance is easy to emulate." (David Byrne)

new hat 🙃

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NEW: In 2025, 43% of young American adults regularly get their news from TikTok. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission: radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

doom scroll interlude!! please enjoy this fantastic visual explainer about earth's wobbles and whether your star sign is even really star sign 💫

I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With @fparis.bsky.social and @iamrumz.bsky.social

Published a story with @rjnskl.bsky.social last week on the future of the ocean under growing human pressures -- and the future of cultures and economies built on the ocean and coastlines. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Vermont wants to make Polluters Pay so Now a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/h...

The dumb but deadly fossil fuel virus appears in Vermont. vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/h...

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."

Message from Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie says “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Here’s a better link, thank you:

Here is change in FAIR plan exposure in the 10-month period to June.

What happens when government disinvests from public transit? Commutes get longer & more frustrating. A NJ Transit case study from me, @suryamattu.com and @mariepastora.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.

Hurricane Erin went from Category 1 to Category 4 in 15 hours Y'all. That's well beyond our definition of rapid intensification. My update on the hurricane. It may not be done strengthening yet. Where is it going and how strong will it get? www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

Yet another metric: Royalties paid to Chinese firms have surged 5x since 2015 — from an interesting @stlouisfed.bsky.social analysis that published the same day as our story: www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

Over the past two decades, China has leapt ahead of other countries in innovations in the energy mix of the future: solar, wind, batteries, and newer frontiers like smart grids. Latest in the Power Moves series with Max Bearak: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's plausible to the considerable number of New Yorkers who learn only after moving in — sometimes a long time after moving in — that their apartment is stabilized and their landlord didn't tell them. Is it legal for landlords to withhold that information? No. Do they do it? Yes, frequently.

China now leads in major innovations that will help the world move away from fossil fuels. Via @rjnskl.bsky.social and Max Bearak www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism. www.ft.com/content/0f61...

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

NEW: Two US citizens jailed in LA ICE raids speak out. Andrea Velez + Adrian Martinez were both grabbed outside their workplaces + say agents refused to believe they were citizens. Andrea was unsure the masked men were officers as they dragged her into their car: “I thought they were kidnapping me”

A wildfire has been burning in the Olympic Peninsula for a month, growing to more than 5,100 acres at just 3% containment. Washington state is working to raise awareness of fire risk in its wet, forested environs and developing a plan to best fight fires here. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/c...

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators w/ Hiroko Tabuchi 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...