“Enck says it is not too late to make a difference,” writes @issamahmed.bsky.social of @afp.com. “Her book is replete with advice on how to organize, lobby local governments and advance model legislation.”

New post by @citizensouth.bsky.social scary stuff and a useful read www.citizensouth.org/pakistan-buy...

Our take: "Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the biggest single step any nation has ever taken to combat oil use, global warming pollution, and helping save consumers money at the gas pump," @biologicaldiversity.org @dannyctkemp.bsky.social @issamahmed.bsky.social www.barrons.com/news/trump-t...

It's like the opposite of naming your dream dinner party guests. In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall said she'd gladly ship Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu off in a SpaceX rocket. u.afp.com/SmeW

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Young plaintiffs stand tall after taking on Trump climate agenda in court share.google/ClyOMS1KuCIH...

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Democrats secretly paid influencers $8,000/month to promote their messaging -- scoop by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

When you should be sleeping but just have to read one more chapter

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Is “drill, baby, drill” compatible with “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”? New piece out this morning on US climate litigation fortune.com/2025/07/23/y...

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This is a great story from my @afp.com colleague @issamahmed.bsky.social in Georgia, near the "Carpet Capital of the World" where water is full of PFAS www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Sasha and Jamie Cordle thought their small farm in rural Georgia would be a ladder out of working-class struggle, and a gift for their children and grandchildren. Instead, it may be poisoning them. phys.org/news/2025-06...

People who spread out over two seats or toss their bag on the seat next to them on the DC Metro during peak hours will always be losers. They're counting on it being awkward to ask them to move up. I'll still do it anyway of course.

You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months. Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us. After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent. More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an unlikely ally in the fight to keep the continent cool: penguin poo. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Yet another landmark public health victory reversed in the United States. Story by @issamahmed.bsky.social for @afpnews.bsky.social: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I spoke with Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, about his protest for Gaza at the US Senate today www.yahoo.com/news/ben-jer...

Given Trump and Musk's new slimmed down physiques, it appears as though obesity is increasingly something the wealthy can opt out from, pharmacologically

Backpedaling already: A top US science official on Tuesday backed away from a bold promise made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reveal the cause of autism by September.

A top U.S. science official backs away from a bold promise made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reveal the cause of autism by September. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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Only 14 House Democrats signed this letter calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil

New from us A NOAA engineer, requesting anonymity for fear of losing her job, said the cuts were already taking a toll. "People won't be evacuated on time from natural disasters," she said. "They could lose property -- or their lives." www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

Pretty proud of this headline www.yahoo.com/news/mission...

Messaging 'Hi' or 'How are you?' on Teams at work and then just leaving it there should be banned. It’s unnecessarily anxiety-inducing. Just get to the point, especially if we don’t normally interact.

My latest, in the Guardian (they condensed it a bit) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"We're going to be putting America first, we're making America proud, we're doing this for the US citizens," said acting NASA director Janet Petro just now about the imminent Blue Ghost landing. Striking rhetoric, big departure from "For all mankind."

Moon landings a comin'. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Good morning! Hoping your weekend is off to a great start. In honor of Elon’s new 5 bullet points e-mail, drop a bullet point of an act of resistance or where you found joy this week 👇👇

Really enjoyed covering this excellent study in Science -- and now I'm obsessed with the words precession, obliquity, and eccentricity (meaning wobble, tilt and the shape of an orbit) www.yahoo.com/news/study-r...

Nearly a decade after activists led one of the largest anti-pipeline protests in US history, the fight shifts to court as Energy Transfer sues Greenpeace for $300 million in a case with far-reaching free speech implications. My latest www.yahoo.com/news/us-pipe...

Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's decision to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket phys.org/news/2025-02...

People can spread bird flu to their cats, CDC study suggests www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

Bird flu news: A gene change in the new variant that's turned up in Nevada dairy cows may increase the risk to people... and a dairy worker has screened positive there, the first human infection in the state. www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/h...

There's currently a 1.6% chance an asteroid with the potential to flatten a major city will hit Earth just under eight years from now. Here's what you should know. phys.org/news/2025-02...

My latest. Several of the abortion pill groups mentioned in the report got their accounts restored after I contacted Meta on their behalf, but they're still baffled about why they were suppressed in the first place and said there was no reasonable recourse available www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Plastic wrapping on fruit is really starting to bother me. It has skin, it doesn't need another layer.

The @forward.bsky.social's editor in chief asked Jonathan Greenblatt how the ADL knew Elon Musk wasn't doing a Nazi salute. "How do we know anything?" he responded.

Going to finally try to make this my primary place on the internet and transition away from X. Threads was such a disappointment too.

My latest with Manon Jacob www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Musk, Bezos, now Zuckerberg -- one by one, America’s oligarchs have bent the knee to Trump. The UK may have a pretend king, but it’s the US that’s starting to feel like a monarchy.

"I'm overjoyed, I'm blessed to have received this gift, this second chance at life." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Scientists: *develop a once-every-two-months HIV antiviral injection* Scientists: Hold my beer. *develop a once-every-six-months antiviral* Scientists: Hold my beer.