They sent 3000 ICE agents to the Twin Cities for 2 months and succeeded in arresting 4000 people.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing

UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

This is an important thread for those (primarily outside) who I've heard wondering why there isn't more protest in the US. There is a historically large amount of protest going on in the US.

Ending the endangerement finding is a big deal, on the other hand it will likely be litigated in court, where the govt. is likely to lose, and it wasn't enabling much meaningful action anyway. The US climate movement needs a strategy that moves beyond your party winning alternating elections.

"We find that firms that reduce or exit voluntary offsetting... subsequently achieve larger reductions in operational emissions intensity than firms that continue to rely on offsets." www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Personally I think that naming an ugly, inefficient, and very outdated train station after the President might be kind of fitting.

The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems” Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth Trying to recreate something that never quite existed And has limited relevance in a changing world doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

Big flocks of robins (100+?) show up in my yard in St. Paul every few days, I think they are eating hackberries (but I imagine they would eat through them pretty fast). I thought they went south for the winter? Its weird to hear them twittering like its spring in sub-zero temps.

This is a cool but kind of weird policy. We get a discount on *all* our electricity use in winter because we have a heat pump. Also, heat pumps are awesome.

I am nominating Saint Paul for the FIFA Peace Prize.

In our latest article we argue that the problems with carbon offsets can't be fixed. The problem is causal complexity which observational methods can't sort out. open access link in the second post. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Metsitystä tärkeämpää #suojelu ja ekosysteemien laaja #ennallistaminen. Our findings underline that near-term emission cuts remain critical for achieving the Paris Agreement and emphasise the need to shift from a dominant focus on large-scale tree planting to broader ecosystem restoration. #metsät

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...

the level of absolutely bonkers disinfo around food reaching millions of people is absolutely galling. netflix pushing straight up nonsense. otherwise progressive and smart people amplifying it.

This pre-print suggests that forest conservation is good for biodiversity, but large-scale afforestation is *bad* for biodiversity, and also will have little impact on short-medium term climate, underscoring the need for rapid emissions reductions. assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-822...

Social movements and non violent direct action play a key role in protecting biodiversity globally, yet consistently face violent threats and receive limited support from conservation funders and big NGOs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New from MN department of human services today: “New federal data release by the US Centers for Medicare/medicaid services shows the overall rate of improper payment in Minnesota’s Medicaid program is far below national averages.” 2.1% here compared to 6.1% nationally.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.

The good news is that they found the white blond girl who they issued an amber alert for last night. The bad news is that a whole bunch of other kids were abducted in the last few days by ICE, 20-40% of kids are not going to school because they are afraid they will be abducted by ICE

A publishing agreement that I just signed with Elsevier says that it will make the accepted manuscript available via "Chorus" in compliance with an open access policy, and provides a broken link to "Chorus", does anyone know anything about this?

UATX was obviously fraudulent from day 1. The only question to my mind is how so many people could allow themselves to be hoodwinked into taking it seriously www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

I think the lesson of whats going on here in Minnesota is that direct, aggressive, nonviolent confrontation is *extremely* effective. I hope the Europeans are paying attention to this lesson.

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

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My favorite part of the NYT article about Nisswa is the person who left "the City" to move to Nisswa and they actually lived in the small and rather boring suburb of Crystal, not in Minneapolis.

Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...

This article didn't answer my question. Suppose you went to the grocery store and an ICE agent stopped you there and asked you to provide proof of citizenship. What *to them* would consistute adequate proof? If you didn't provide proof would they detain you? www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Considering lives saved often shows that the benefits of regulation far outweigh the costs.

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

If we ever get back a functioning research grant system in the US, we need to address this. Its a huge problem for researchers.

'ok I'll read one article on something before starting on my grant proposal' the article:

Conventional wisdom seems to be that one reason carbon offsets are good is that they are politically feasible in a world where public investment is not politically feasible. I think this is wrong. Here's why:

I would love suggestions for workflows for reading scientific papers. I've been using the Kindle app on my iphone to read scientific papers for years.

We use alot of specific machine learning and content analysis methods that are AI-ish (and purpose built), and I've seen some people say that gen AI tools make things like literature searches more efficient, but I don't see dramatic changes in scientific discovery from chatbots?

I was on a search committee last year for a position that had hundreds of applicants, of which probably 1/3 (more than 100) were highly qualified and great fits for the department. If you didn't get the job, it wasn't because you weren't qualified or discrimination, its because you had bad luck.

I really enjoyed this paper: "Why don't landowners just do what they are told?" which illustrates the mismatches between expert advisors and the values of local people and decision-makers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

It was -10 F (-23 C) and our gas boiler/radiators aren't working but our house was plenty warm last night with our cold climate heat pump. Globally few people live in places that regularly get this cold, which is to say, the vast majority live in places where a heat pump is all you need.

I think its worse than this actually. Lots of American citizens still don't have real IDs.

Systematic review of evidence on Miyawaki forest restoration: Its at least 10,000 times more expensive than other techniques, yet has no well documented benefits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This article is a really really good argument for laws like the US's Environmental Policy Act, which has the value of forcing government agencies to "look before they leap" or in this case, before the CIA abandons a bunch of plutonium on Nanda Devi. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NSF stopped the CNH/DISES program with the idea that they were going to roll out something new and better to replace it, and now we've got 0 and the folks who were working on this all were fired. I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off just keeping on with the old imperfect program.