The first of my new Malaya Business Insight newspaper column here in the Philippines, in reaction to our last two storms malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. @amnesty.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is an absolutely massive, messy storm that's affected the Philippines from Batanes down to Tawi-Tawi. I'm hoping it moved across Luzon quickly enough to keep flooding down, but it will still be bad further north

Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner. www.space.com/space-explor...

What aviation looks like in Alaska these days. This is Ryan Air, unloading Typhoon dogs in Anchorage. Pic was taken from the Ryan Air FB page.

This is an incredible loss - emblematic of the larger media environment

CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.

Can we ask Mr Hegseth if he fired all the safety officers? (I assume safety is woke)

Václav Havel, the Czech statesman and human rights defender, who deeply shaped Eastern Europe’s democratic awakening, captured this dynamic in his 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless.” He argued that authoritarian systemts exist not only through coercion, but 5/11

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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have. The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump Republicans have zero regard for Native Alaska villages.

The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social and I have a chapter on #disasterintel in this new edition of the #oup Oxford Handbook of Nat Sec Intel. Coming out soon. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

Simplified journal metric conversion

US posture toward China marking small islands as targets, in the eyes of residents. Short video on the perspective of Palau youtu.be/X14to58jsjc?...

Everything is horrible and the world is burning, but Daisy would like to remind you that she still needs to be fed at 6pm exactly

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Alaskans aren’t prepared for how catastrophic the Trump healthcare cuts are going to be. In addition to making the ACA marketplace unaffordable for thousands of Alaskan families, it will raise premiums for everyone and probably shutter clinics and hospitals. alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/23/a...

A frustrated Eisenhower knew but could not publicly say that secret photographs from U-2 spy planes and new CORONA photoreconnaissance satellites proved that no such gap existed. In fact, the United States had a six to one advantage in ICBMs (12 versus 2) and a small lead in SLBMs (32 versus 30).

This is perfect to inflict on my students this week

Technologically advance a band. Project Genesis youtu.be/GAoEU3HcCRk?...

Here's a starting point for who you could talk to next time @dwallacewells.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/rach...

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Calling for a welfare check on @jaxbra.bsky.social

Hello, Orwell, my old friend

With everything happening in the world, I hope I can take just a moment to express how much I hate MS Teams

🧵Journalist & college professor Stacey Patton penned this stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list," recounting the horror that he inflicted on her. This is what Trump and Republicans are glorifying. @drstaceypatton.bsky.social

Racial justice was absolutely the rhetorical and communications lunch pin of this moment. And we need to start handling how to deal with that quick fast

Mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne, whose work focused on linear algebra, topology, and the properties of classical groups, was born #OTD in 1914. She was one of the first Black women to earn a PhD in mathematics from a US university – the University of Michigan.👩‍🔬 🧪 🧮

“What we build today will be what we use tomorrow.” My interview with the Guardian on the future of fossil fuels, #cop30 the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social and more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New article with @ritafloyd.bsky.social on the role of militaries in climate security discussions - we did not quite keep pace with Hegseth deleting all climate references and programs in the Pentagon, though www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My latest: The Trump administration is not waiting for the next fiscal year -- or Congress -- to cut climate science at NOAA. A new document details the money it won't spend *this* year on climate research.

New article with @ritafloyd.bsky.social on the role of militaries in climate security discussions - we did not quite keep pace with Hegseth deleting all climate references and programs in the Pentagon, though www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

For years, farmers have relied on the income from wind or solar installations for more financial stability. The USDA just announced it's taking that security away. This is another example of the administration harming small farmers to pursue its own political agenda. Read more➡️ buff.ly/g0AMnBv

1/5 Norway has stepped up—and that’s great. But as the only European country economically profiting from russia’s war on Ukraine, it should also be the top donor relative to its GDP. If you benefit from the war, you should do your best to help end it. Let’s break it down 👇

Happy Independence Day, Ukraine 💙💛

Not content with destroying #WestBank villages, Israel's #EthnicCleansing extends to olive trees. “Uprooting trees, confiscated water springs, blocking and preventing Palestinians from accessing their farms and water sources means more food and water insecurity.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The mural Milana in Mariupol portrayed a 6yo girl. In 2015, russian shelling of the district where her family lived killed her mother and left the child severely injured, leading to the amputation of her leg. This painting celebrated Ukrainian resilience. In Nov 2022, russians demolished the mural.

And US Capitol politics went on pretending all was as it ever was...

Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...

Friday Fun: Sandwich Chucking Edition 🥪 I'm inspired by that dude in DC with the improvised weapon ⚔ REPLY here with your go-to sandwich order & I'll make an #OSR style weapon for use at your #TTRPG table, based on those ingredients & toppings Commissions open! 🎲

this is about the birth of the war on drugs.... but the lines about the use of images on the nightly news (now24/7 rolling coverage) suggest the strategy

Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...