for more on the existence of an Epstein-Nassar letter, see here

this may be true about other things but in fact the guy really hates wind turbines www.bbc.com/news/article...

LONG THREAD: My reporting on the insurance crisis has forced me to rethink some of my assumptions about where the most serious risk lies when it comes to wildfires that result in home loss. Like many, I assumed the phenomenon was most heavily concentrated in or near wooded areas. Think Paradise, CA

President Trump has a new pretense for stopping offshore wind development: vague and classified national security concerns. New @thebulletin.org article by @petergleick.bsky.social thebulletin.org/2025/12/trum...

In November, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee adopted a resolution examining the risks of integrating AI into nuclear weapons. In this piece for @thebulletin.org, Alice Saltini looks at some key takeaways: thebulletin.org/2025/12/less...

Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.

this seems very useful to know about for people who still need to see things on twitter but don't want to use twitter!

fellow journos, are you fully deleting twitter? i want to, but unfortunately it's still the only place where some politicians and political appointees post newsmaking announcements (recently, for example, the ncar story), and twitter has limited our ability to see those without being logged in

ok i've sat with this for a few minutes and maybe horrifying is slightly too strong a word. because this faced swift and decisive negative feedback as soon as they trialed it, and that's good and necessary. i guess what remains to be seen is if that feedback carries any weight...

ooooh only 7/10 but in my defense: 1) i really do think led face masks are a scam, regardless of the "limited research" 2) i know people overconsume electrolytes, but reluctant to call them all a scam because they are still useful in limited cases 3) i haven't had to research hair loss yet

.......this is horrifying. missed this when it first came out “Why would we want to present refugees as AI creations when there are millions of refugees who can tell their stories as real human beings?”

The most heart breaking part is this kind of "journalism" high up editor logic is NOT unique to Weiss. I wish you could've heard what I heard when my work was killed, silenced, suppressed and silenced (or at best, just criticized). It's eerily familiar. In some ways identical.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

this is *chef's kiss*

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

60 Minutes’ Correspondent Says CBS’s Bari Weiss Abruptly Pulled Segment on Trump Deportations By @liamjscott.bsky.social @scottnover.bsky.social “Govt silence is a statement, not a VETO,” Alfonsi wrote. “Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.” Gift link!

CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi to the NYT on her CECOT segment getting pulled from 60 Minutes: “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

ok we finished the pacific and i don't hate it as much as some people on here....but it could've been a lot better

what were they thinking? lil bit of exposition in ep 1 ("we're gonna be fighting in places you've never heard of") but then literally just war scenes with zero context beyond a little map. here's the half of the war you know even less about than the war in Europe.......and we're not gonna fix that

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

we've moved on from band of brothers rewatch to first time viewing of the pacific and i am really missing the talk over narration and the historical factoids at the end of each episode. that would have given the show so much more structure and heft. it feels unmoored without it.

Everyone in the system knows what is happening is deeply illegal. But few are saying it and I don’t really understand why. Here’s an exception (laudatory) bsky.app/profile/jess...

something something great again

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

The Bulletin is excited to welcome @wellerstein.bsky.social as a new Senior Fellow! Alex has written many pieces for the Bulletin over the years, including some of our most popular articles. thebulletin.org/2025/12/alex...

this is fascinating. the summer after i graduated hs i was one of the students my bio teacher hired to come work for his side gig as a bat surveyor. i had to get preventative rabies shots (series of 3) because we would come into close and frequent contact with bats

The fact that major media outlets keep platforming the “Loud, Overconfident, and Wrong” class while simultaneously saying we’re fresh out of ideas is just such an embarrassing self-own.

Recipe for spicy chewy gingerbread men biscuits please! (Or failing that, the thin snapable kind)

The annual #carbon footprint of #beef recipes promoted by top US food outlets adds more #CO2 than the entire country of Belgium emits in a year. #Media influence what people eat. By promoting beef-intensive #recipes they contribute to #climate destruction: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Imagine writing an op-ed so factually and morally wrong you're being cooked by the sitting House Sustainable Investment Caucus chair and Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition vice-chair on a random Saturday morning. Couldn't be me. Casten's up to 20 posts on the thread and he's still skeeting:

it's so goofy to believe making software that mimics human thought is related in any meaningful way to making software that thinks. building the most amazing lifelike animatronic horse the world ever saw does not represent progress if your goal is to create a real horse. huge waste of time actually

don't forget theyre "climate experts" too

they made that svu episode about a measles outbreak too soon (2015)

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

still thinking about david brooks and while sure it's not the most important story of the week or even yesterday, the blasé nature of the nyt statement on his attendance at a dinner with billionaires and at least one convicted pedophile is unnerving. comparisons others have made to nuzzi are apt.

i hate ai for lots of reasons but one of them is because it makes it hard or impossible to repost fun little videos like this because the voice in my head says WHAT IF IT'S AI

"in the past two years, utilities have delayed the retirements of more than 30 generating units at 15 coal plants across the country to provide power to data centers" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

In preparation for @thebulletin.org's anniversary issue this month I went through the archives to review our past climate coverage and found a LOT of gems. We couldn't include all of them in the timeline so going to share some of them here.

In preparation for @thebulletin.org's anniversary issue this month I went through the archives to review our past climate coverage and found a LOT of gems. We couldn't include all of them in the timeline so going to share some of them here.

My new @thebulletin.org piece shows how the @gpwmd.bsky.social @gp-wmdctrdisinfo.bsky.social CBRN #Disinformation Tracker reveals how false narratives move from state institutions into global discourse—and why this matters for arms control and international security. thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-de...

seems obvious but we live in a time where the obvious must be stated for the record!!

"Attempting to erase a country’s scientific heritage, as the Trump administration is now trying to do, should be of concern to every US citizen. Because if climate science is viewed with disfavor today, other fields of scientific inquiry might be next in line for the chopping block."—Ben Santer.

This doesn’t happen in other Western nations.

By nature, the U.S. Naval Institute is conservative and not an alarmist organization. I was a member for years. It is an "independent forum...to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security." Their publishing this--wow.

"The Trump administration’s world view is that the United States doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say." — climate scientist Benjamin Santer in @thebulletin.org

"The Trump administration’s world view is that the United States doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say." — climate scientist Benjamin Santer in @thebulletin.org

sad rip twitter post: i used to love searching movies or shows i was watching and finding and liking funny posts from years and years ago. there was always something. random murder she wrote episode? check

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

ok lotta tweets about hunger games but uh, this is where i went to