So the official numbers show #climatechange is worsening severe weather events, and that the costs of disaster relief + recovery are exorbitant? Just stop tracking those pesky numbers -- the "crisis" goes away! Because that always works out well. 👺 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...

oh fr we're trying to...rename greenland H.R.1161 - Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Call them concentration camps. That's what we're talking about here www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump said today he'd like to deport American citizens to a gulag in El Salvador and later urged the Bukele to build more camps to house them. There's no trolling. Ever. It's always trial balloons for the real thing. If SCOTUS & Congress don't act to free Garcia now, America as we know it is over

Trump wants to cut NOAA's 2026 budget by a whopping 25% This destruction of American national weather infrastructure is abominable.

This is abhorrent. This is FASCISM. We need to send a SUSTAINED message to this administration that this is unacceptable. How many families will be ripped apart, how many lives ruined??? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Okay this is actually SO sick. I've remained hopeful that we found find #Denisovan remains already in our collections, just waiting to be properly ID'd. This bodes really well. Really excited about what we can learn from the successful protein extraction. www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/s...

The #SAVEAct is preparing to disenfranchise millions. Make sure your passports are up to date. If you don't have one, NOW IS THE TIME. Tell everyone you know, and tell them to spread the word too. As many folks as possible need to understand what this means for their civic engagement

How about we name + shame the traitors who voted to disenfranchise millions via the CASE Act. 1️⃣ Ed Case (HI), 202-224-2726 2️⃣ Henry Cuellar (TX), 202-225-1640 3️⃣ Jared Golden (ME), 202-225-6306 4️⃣ Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), 202-225-3536 If you're one of their consituents, wanna give em a ring?

The forecast under the #Trump admin's #Project2025 playbook? Dark, and not just metaphorically. My latest dives into how the far right is dismantling national weather infrastructure + our ability to respond to severe weather. #NOAA #FEMA #NWS Read it here: rileyrogerson.blog/2025/04/10/h...

<crying in anthropology 101> This can be true of foraging (Sahlins and the original affluent society, which is not uncontested, etc), but is IN NO WAY true of agriculture. The whole point of agriculture is that you trade leisure for a more secure food supply/surpluses for lean times. #anthrosky

Now I'm just standing in my living room laughing and crying while my dog just looks confused. Fucking chemtrails and weather-changing magic conspiracies in the goddamn House.

"The House version of the bill does not forbid the practice of weather modification outright, just without a license." 🫥 From where and/or who the actual fuck would I obtain a license to CHANGE THE WEATHER & be a ✨certified geoengineer✨ www.wfla.com/news/florida...

Just took it myself and it revealed 8/15 of my tracked personal data points exposed to the whims of #DOGE. Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView OP: @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social

Jeffrey Goldberg released it all. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... DM me if you're paywalled, folks need to see this.

17% of surveyed Americans favor invading #Canada. 26% is "unsure." =43% think annexation is a great idea or are weighing it as an option, which is insane. Support is a bit higher for annexing #Greenland, with 51% onboard or still unsure. These numbers are WAY too high. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Happy week, everyone!

(1/2) Maksym Chernyak, 44, died in ICE custody from a brain bleed on Feb 20. "We called the officers and they didn't want to come until we told him that he was dead...They didn't wanna come because they didn't have no staff until hours later...” www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/t...

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It’s striking how much events in Georgia mirror US trajectory, attacking institutions, firing perceived “disloyal” civil servants, suppressing media, restricting protests, making criminal offense to criticize leader, deals w Russia, scorn for EU and EU values. US no longer has any moral authority

My museum anthro MA just became useless overnight. Sonderling: “We will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country’s core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations." 🤢 content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USI...

3 years ago, russia destroyed a drama theater in Mariupol, killing approximately 600 people who took refuge there. Today, russians are rebuilding it, trying to whitewash their crime and erase the evidence. Just like they almost erased the city. Don't let them — #RememberMariupol

If you need some good news this morning this one is fantastic

Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” documented nature’s calendar for over two centuries. Now, scientists see his work as a baseline – showing how rising temperatures are shifting the seasons before our eyes. Hugh Aldersey-Williams aka @hoooaw.bsky.social reports.

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

At least 32 people are dead across 5 states due to the outbreak of severe weather. The survivors are left to deal with the chaos, carnage, and grief. Homes, businesses, and public infrastructure in many places are wrecked. (1/2) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Recently-renewed green card holder from New Hampshire named Fabian Schmidt has had his civil rights horrifically violated. He was given little food/water, stripped, + handled so violently while sick with influenza that he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

#Tornado season is out in full force already. The outbreak last night/early AM has already led to three tragic losses of life in southern #Missouri. Be aware of impacted areas + prepared to support devastated communities on the other side of this outbreak. www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/w...

They should be. They NEED to be, and that fear is decades overdue. Those of us interested in representatives who are resisting the administration need to publicly leave Schumer & co. behind, making it known that we demand leadership that will ACTUALLY lead a proper opposition.

Our highest court is stacked in far-right favor. Checks & balances are not checking or balancing. A private tech CEO controls gov'mnt payment systems. Now, the minority party in our forsaken two-party system has acquiesced to absurd cruelty and given up its best means of opposition. Just shameful.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

Name & shame. Let this destroy careers, just as a move like this deserves. What a downright humiliation.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

@chuckschumer.com PLEASE do NOT sell out your country, American democracy, and the good people of DC. PLEASE keep fighting for us, for our core democratic principles, for laidoff workers and for our own American citizens already deported to countries not their own. SHOW THEM AN OPPOSITION PARTY.

As Schumer & Gillibrand go yes on cloture and work to influence others to do the same, it's safe to say the modern incarnation of the Democratic Party is spineless and dead. We, the people who know our righrs, need -- and deserve -- better representation than this. We NEED opposition leadership.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

I had the pleasure to participate in a workshop about the ethics of digital public archaeology of death with an amazing group of scholars. The workshop was organized by Ellie Chambers and @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social youtu.be/8kvdLivG5F0?...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Can we keep it up? 💪🫵

Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

During his speech in the European Parliament, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klychko said that "Ukrainians are now defending peace across Europe." "The reason for this senseless war is that we Ukrainians want to be part of the European family. And the Russian Federation cannot accept this.

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

[FEB 19] Global Center on AI Governance CEO Rachel Adams & Planetary Politics Nonresident Scholar Faisal Lalani @thuley.bsky.social unpack how #AI is reshaping inequality. Can we reimagine AI for a fairer world? Explore the possibilities online w/ Adams & Lalani: www.newamerica.org/planetary-po...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

[TODAY AT 12 PM ET] Join Planetary Politics Sr. Fellow Akash Kapur & Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicholas Carr for an exciting virtual conversation on the impact of the information "superbloom" defining our age. Read more about Carr's latest book Superbloom & RSVP: www.newamerica.org/planetary-po...

"We have a responsibility as a party to block absolutely everything when they are putting a match to the federal government." — @aoc.bsky.social on IG live just now