Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

If we break the biological ocean carbon pumps any further, we're in even bigger trouble than we think ...

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

War-ravaged Portland

"At breathtaking speed, the Trump administration is enacting policies that will be difficult to reverse and could disrupt population health for years or decades to come. Time is running out to intervene." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

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So very sad, so very wrong. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

A Danish TV series about managed retreat. #CliFi It starts out following elites with their wealth locked up in real estate, and what happens when your monopoly land rents become very negative overnight. 🔰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAP...

The best news!!! 😍

Scoop: The Trump administration is now pushing for national mandatory land use restrictions on all wind projects — including those on private land — by claiming they present a risk to critical communications infrastructure.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

I’m adopted. So I wrote about how an attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship could affect adoptees. It’s also about family, community, and what it means to belong. Read it at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

Most likely: things are moving so fast related to this bill; and people inside NOAA are trying to stay focused on keeping the science going despite huge #s of staff lost and tons of contracts delayed. Inside the agencies, people are bailing water as fast as they can and can’t look up.

For those who think evacuating Tehran is possible based on #Israel’s warnings, which are nothing but a performative act. It would take weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran. What’s represented here doesn’t even come close to capturing the full size of #Iran’s capital city.

Imperial boomerang: when tactics of colonial rule exported abroad are imported back home

At #OOSC in Nice this week & am constantly hearing people say there is a global moratorium on #mCDR (or some specific approach like ocean fertilization). I heard the same last week at the Liege colloquium. It’s simply wrong. 🧵

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Unfortunately, the list of projects cancelled includes a "whos who" of US industrial decarbonization projects: Sublime (cement), Brimstone (cement), Exxon's H2 crackers, Heidelberg (cement), National/Lebec in CA (cement), etc,. Kraft (zero GHG food processing). A disaster. @rebeccawdell.bsky.social

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The Trump administration has now ordered her and her parents to leave the country. Her says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

Many people think solar and wind won't be able to keep the grid stable because they lack "inertia". I think solar, wind and batteries will do a BETTER job and I think you can explain it thus: - the old grid is a record player - the new grid a digital player 🧵

Three days ago: theonion.com/sean-combs-a...

What does the House Energy & Commerce Committee's draft reconciliation bill mean for IRA funding programs? We @sabincenter.bsky.social estimate that $10 billion in IRA funding (and perhaps much more) is at risk of rescission. Our latest blog has more info: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Our government is full of dedicated people doing amazing work to make our lives better, and most of the time we don’t hear about them. With the current administration, we unfortunately hear about them when they’re gone.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

As far as I can tell, Saudi Arabia appears to be the most active external mediator (as far as is publicly discernible) between India and Pakistan (and is well-positioned to do so, for a variety of reasons). Saudi FM has been to both countries. x.com/KSAmofaEN/st...

Trump and people like Rubio who enabled him fundamentally thought that the world that wasn't on TV wasn't real, and we're all going to rue living through their education on that point.

And if you're an American taxpayer interested in reading some of their taxpayer-supported work and analysis published prior to April 2025, this is what you'll see at usip.org.

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

This @ichotiner.bsky.social interview with @sushantsingh.bsky.social is worth your time. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Two days ago, it is very probable that leaders in both India and Pakistan didn't want things to get to this point, even as they wanted to pursue their political goals against the other. The thing about escalation is that it has a logic independent of what the players involved often want.

Another threshold of escalation crumbles: India apparently has started air operations inside Pakistan. (This was the suggestion with the SEAD strikes yesterday.)

In 2019, the Indian Air Force carried out one strike against one target with its aircraft entering mainland (undisputed) Pakistani airspace, marking the first time one nuclear-armed state had deliberately used airpower against another. This appears to be of a substantially greater scale.

Based on what I've seen credibly reported over the last 2-3 hours, it is fair to now call this a full-scale war.

Escalatory dynamics kicking in hard - air bases being tit-for-tat hit with missiles. Reports of IAF ops in Pakistani airspace, Pak attacks on Indian missile storage. Like when the war games start spinning into very bad outcomes. Hopefully US, PRC, Saudis burning up the phones. Deeply alarming.

My book contains a lengthy section on nuclear risks in South Asia. These were the closing words I had.

🧵Ok, I rag on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, for his impeachable conduct on deportations and abandonment of all his prior views. But today he's the one "constantly on the phone" and paying attention to the India-Pakistan crisis. Should we be reassured? Absolutely not. 1/

Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>

I've been working on a series about the systems that undergird our lives. This one, about water, is personally important. Fresh water is our worst immediate environmental problem--and one that we've known how to solve for more than a century. That we don't is infuriating. (Paywall lifted for today)

Brutal decline in climatetech funding since 2021

Fascinating and important (and depressing!) from @semaforben.bsky.social

Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...