$12 million ICE bucks to a company that was created to own an effing sailboat the calls about waste, fraud, and abuse are coming from inside the house

"Last year, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published its long-awaited report on the environmental impacts of nuclear war. The last time it did such a comprehensive study was in…1985." Important @thebulletin.org series kicks off with intro by @francoisdm.bsky.social

"Presidents may disagree with, or even ignore, the [National Science] Board’s recommendations. President Trump, however, doesn’t simply disagree with or ignore advice; he feels compelled to eliminate groups that don’t rubber-stamp his policies so he can appoint loyalists."

Recent military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites don't just risk escalation—they threaten the structural integrity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In a new piece, Syed Ali Zia Jaffery (@alizia1992.bsky.social) explains why ignoring Iran's NPT positions weakens the global treaty. 🧵 1/

the quotes of the matt huber climate/dems piece on the other site are unhinged

See: If I Were President, by Richard Somerville (published 2008) www.jstor.org/stable/26220...

yup

yikes idk how i missed this until now

*butterfly meme* is this...fiscal conservatism??

How does China expand its nuclear arsenal while posing as a champion of disarmament? At the 2026 NPT Review Conference, Beijing is deploying a highly effective diplomatic shield: the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). 1/6 🧵

A US-EU trade deal last year that calls for “mutual recognition to each other’s standards” for cars has made it harder to close a loophole that allows Europeans to import larger vehicles like the Dodge Ram 1500 and Ford F-150. Love when a country is big enough to force its dumb policies on others.

"we are all pedestrians at some point in our journeys"

we're not a normal mine, we're a cool mine see, because we've got "PlantOS" and "MineOS" and "CapitalProjectOS"

eternal screaming continues

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Charlie Grandquist, the chef at Slough Farm, said he’s worked hard to find ways to eliminate alpha-gal allergens from the meals he cooks for farm staff and the Island community. He estimated that around half of the farmers he regularly cooks for have alpha-gal."

truly the worst thing to happen to twitter (and there's a lot to choose from!!) is the thing where they broke the ability to search links/urls

how convenient

it is so taxing to log on every day and face the horrors

Trump admin okays using poison bombs to kill wildlife—same kind of poison bomb that nearly killed a 14-year-old kid and DID kill his dog in 2017

incredible how much damage can be done just by Not Doing Your Job

ugh

Of course, lots of recent canonical texts are on the chopping block. In Search of Lost Time (by Proust)? Gone. Moby-Dick (by Melville)? Gone. Below is a gif of an actual Texas Tech administrator realizing that queerness is in everything.

noooooooooooooioo ozzzzzzzy #survivor50

the thing is i really thought cirie was going home when they split the tribe and jonathan won immunity but damn... she had him in her pocket too! and she managed him just right. and then of course also the expert extra vote play. brilliant! #survivor50

6/ In his latest for @thebulletin.org, Vincent Ialenti (@vincentialenti.bsky.social) warns that without an independent, mission-specific organization to manage waste across administrations, this plan may just be the latest episode in a 40-year cycle of failure. Read the full analysis:

The Trump admin has a new "Nuclear Campus" plan. With it, it wants to bundle waste disposal with advanced reactors and 50,000+ jobs to make hosting "politically untenable" sites attractive to states. Is it going to break the US nuclear waste gridlock for good? 🧵 1/6

In other news: Arctic winter sea ice extent was the lowest ever measured in 2026. phys.org/news/2026-05...

did not foresee posting about the blake lively justin baldoni fiasco but you're telling me independent contractors aren't protected against workplace sexual harassment?? ummm people.com/blake-lively...

"One proposed amendment would raise the maximum line speeds in poultry slaughter from 140 birds per minute to 175 for chicken and from 55 birds per minute to 60 for turkey. For swine slaughter, the agency is proposing there be no cap on line speed at all."

if i was an entrepreneurial type (i'm not) and cared about golf (i don't) i would look into making a golf course that wasn't absolutely freaking terrible for human and environmental health

This herbicide is so toxic it’s been banned in over 70 countries. But plants in the South are releasing it into the air. This reporting from Delaney Nolan for The Lens sheds light on the toxic threat of living near paraquat manufacturing and application sites. thelensnola.org/2026/04/29/...

this seems optimistic

"If we reduce super pollutants quickly and adequately, risky geoengineering may never be necessary," writes Paul Bledsoe.

It's a great gig. If you're sophisticated journalist, you should at least take a look.

NEW: On April 28, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused environmental law scholars of bias, conspiracy and colluding to influence the U.S. judiciary. The next day, free-market conservatives kicked off a multiday climate skepticism event for more than 150 judges.

Richard Dawkins right now

alarmingly large shoes to fill, but someone's gotta do it!!

It's not uncommon for both solar geoengineering and sharp reductions of super pollutants like methane to be described as emergency brakes for climate change. Neither is a complete solution if carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, but one is a LOT less risky than the other, argues Paul Bledsoe:

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

It me. (I am the environmentalist)

Ok I too hate abstract proscriptive climate theory navel-microscopy, but also I'm sorry, I can't help it, that headline

hoping i got it out of my system and i can now go forth and ignore all their posts on the other site but idk i lack self control and discipline about this kind of thing i just WILL be ragebaited

the incoherence of the ecomodernist position is driving me absolutely crazy (not sure where this thread is going yet, it's hard to know where to start)

just had to ask my bf what the origin/meaning of the "my 13th reason" meme is to see if it's appropriate for me to use on here and uh, no i don't think it is

AI is being woven into military systems intended to help human commanders make decisions in times of crisis, but there is no real-world data for training machines about nuclear war, write Ulysse Richard and Yorgo El Moubayed.

took me a minute to get to it but this is as good as they said

pavlovian response to the outlook new email ding even though i know perfectly well i just emailed a note to myself

i-- what was that. okay, james?

lol there's not a ton of uncertainty here because they've budgeted enough time for a vote so devens is safe #survivor50