Big FOIA opportunity

Very sad news www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Much respect to the UK reporter who asked Trump, "Is free speech more under attack in Britain or America?" (From 9:51 onwards.) youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

@desmog.com has won two awards for our work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Congratulations @tjjordan.bsky.social and Adam M Lowenstein! www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/c...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Very informative.

“The rush to police commentary appeared to have little precedent in other recent examples of political violence, such as the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi [or] shooting deaths earlier this year former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband Mark.“ apnews.com/article/dowd...

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

“The Trump administration promoted the Energy Department report at the same time it deleted all previous congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next iteration of the report.”

Another current event www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Looking for a US current-events read besides today’s particular news? Here is @mariabustillos.com review of the Epstein birthday book in Flaming Hydra. flaminghydra.com/book-review-...

The sound of snapping apart the squares of a chocolate bar while it’s sill in the paper and foil wrapper.

Is there a Pulitzer for "most accomplished both-sides-ing when the facts support only one side"? "By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Ding!

Perhaps because was a lot of transatlantic cross- pollination between US and UK Covid conspiracy theorists in 2020.

Ixnay on that Eacepay IzePray.

Funny how the Nazis used Jim Crow laws as models for the Nuremberg laws, and nine decades later…

The Trump administration's "climate working group" produced a report full of errors, typos, and climate denial talking points, according to a new review by upwards of 100 climate experts led by @andrewdessler.com. @sharonkelly.bsky.social and @ejgertz.bsky.social report for @desmog .

Climate denial is a hell of a drug.

Ritchie-Calder 1968: "I am referring now to the atmospheric sewage from chimneys & motor-vehicles, such as soot & fumes, which is poured into the atmosphere to the extent of 6000 million tons a year... This is upsetting the CO2 equilibrium of the entire planet" unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

We've just updated the story with a statement from Judith Curry. Also, the story includes links to the DOE public comment portal for this report (just 30 days long, closes TODAY), as well as the portal for commenting on the EPA proposal to rescind the endangerment finding. Please share!

Dolly wore braces.

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...

Orc Captain demands Frodo bend a knee. @timmonsroberts.bsky.social

The U.S. Civil War: 161 years and counting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I have heard about a whole lot of hate being directed to our trans community. Anyone using this to villainize our trans community has lost their sense of humanity."

Fellow journalists, if you cover a mass shooting, I hope you'll make sure to ask FBI Director Kash Patel about the shooter's gender identity.

If you follow current NYC politics, the spilled potato chips are very meta.

"What those woke Quakers seem to forget is that we live in a free country. If I can no longer decapitate whales to harvest their cranial fluid for candlewax, then democracy is dead...[I]f we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? " www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Happy International Cat Day! A friendly reminder that if you're bringing your furry friend on board, they must be in a carrier, bag, or other container 🐈 On @mtametronorth.bsky.social, your pet may also be securely controlled on a leash throughout the journey. #InternationalCatDay

White House to NASA: Devise plan to destroy state-of-the-art equipment [the Orbiting Carbon Observatories] that collects #climatechange data on planet-heating carbon pollution. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n.... #OSO-2 #OSO-3 #climate www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

People in NYC/NJ seem — yes that was an earthquake. A small one, but still. Tell USGS if you felt it here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

⚠Preliminary info: #earthquake (#sismo) about 4 mi N of New York City (New York) 1 min ago (local time 22:18:51)❗MAGNITUDE NOT AVAILABLE YET❗Updates at: 📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐https://m.emsc.eu 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org

Yep: USGS recorded a 3.0 magnitude quake in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ at 10:18:52 this evening.

I heard a low loudish vibration for a few seconds, but my building didn’t shake. AFAIK the bedrock here is granite. #newyork #earthquake

Trump’s climate report “cherrypicks figures and parts of studies to support a preconceived narrative that minimizes the risk of climate change.” @hausfath.bsky.social knows: it was his research they twisted to fit their preconceived narrative. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

Yay! www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

Kinda funny that a judge can speak the truth about New York state climate policy -- it isn't enough, it isn't complying with the law, no, you don't get a gold star for trying, no, you don't get to make excuses -- in a way that virtually no journalist or other public figure will.

@climate.columbia.edu prof. Radley Horton connects the dots between hotter temperatures, drenching rains, NYC's air quality alerts and Canadian wildfires: www.wnyc.org/story/fires-...

I curate an "NYC by EJG" list. It's a pretty good place to find updates on today's heavy rain and flooding alerts. Or, if you live here, just look out the window to see if your street has become a river. Mine's well on the way. bsky.app/profile/ejge...

If you're a journalist who has experienced an arrest, assault or other aggression, @pressfreedomtracker.us can document your experience anonymously. Contact our senior reporter, @stephaniesugars.bsky.social, through Signal at ssugars.01

The schmucks attacking the press could at least be smart enough to understand what an exclusive is, amirite?

One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world." - Vin Scully, April 8, 1974 youtu.be/ts3nqWNSReY?...

The Women Do News in-person Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is TOMORROW! In midtown Manhattan! Follow link for more info and to register.

Recently, I was subject to an aggressive harassment & slander campaign that began on Twitter, spilled over to major radio shows & podcasts, and led to a major right-wing website doxing my kids. The death threats were a cherry on top. www.jessicariedl.blog/p/when-the-o...

Seen In Brooklyn, NY.