"Better, & more expansive, east-west transit [is] a moral imperative for residents who live east of the Anacostia River. They [...] face some of the greatest transit burdens in the city, & their relative exclusion from public investment is now, cynically, being used to justify another project"

absolutely loved this story

DC, it is #WeekWithoutDriving ggwash.org/dcten/week-w...

"Ideas whose time has come" @scientistsorg.bsky.social CEO Daniel Correa talks about policy entrepreneurship during rapid tech transformation on the Accelerate Science Now podcast, here: tinyurl.com/55mzhhn9

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

happy to chat on record/on background/off record!

thank you @wired.com for these first person accounts of DOGE in the federal government www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

kudos to the descriptive skill of this writer, Oliver Kornetzke

"Computers can now invent viable — even potent — viruses." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Recent college & grad school alumni: Work for 6 to 9 months with one of over 2 dozen NGOs in DC on international peace & security issues, including nuclear arms control, peacebuilding, & diplomacy. Apply by Oct. 20 to @scovillepf.bsky.social for the spring '26 semester. scoville.org

hold space for your outrage, but remember that they want you to be outraged. the thing they’d hate the most is for you to stay head down and focus on securing your rights, your health care, your environment. they’d despise it if you focused on a better future, hand in hand. that would show them.

Russia's “‘PolitStacker’ is the world’s first television program created by artificial intelligence” by @mjgault.bsky.social on @404media.co www.404media.co/russian-stat...

Con-GRACE-ulations to our very own Grace Wickerson for their well-deserved recognition as a 2025 @grist.org 50 fixer. Grace works tirelessly to develop and promote evidence-based solutions to the extreme heat epidemic in particular and the climate crisis at large.

Read the full series here: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

In the second part of Peter Bonner’s series on the cancellation of the 2025 FEVS, he addresses common complaints and offers both short- and long-term recommendations. Read the full blog post to learn more: dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

"Losing this data for 2025 hamstrings federal managers from making evidence-based decisions" writes Peter Bonner of @scientistsorg.bsky.social

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

"Despite widespread recognition of the need to mitigate the threats posed by catastrophic wildfire and ecosystem degradation, our lands and communities are at risk now more than ever" 🌳 @scientistsorg.bsky.social + 21 orgs support #FixOurForests Letter to the Senate: fas.org/publication/...

The #FixOurForests Act uses smart, science-based solutions to restore forest health and reduce wildfire risk, while preserving important environmental standards. That's why we've joined 21 other organizations urging the Senate to pass the bill: citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/news/cc...

🚨 Big news from the National Science Foundation (NSF) CIVIC! New grants are going to 14 community-led teams across 10 states, each receiving up to $1 million to pilot real-world, research-driven solutions. Learn more: fas.org/publication/...

Three rural hospitals are closing in Virginia because of the Republican budget, and Winsome Sears can’t stop talking about how “great” the bill is. Republicans are wrecking people’s lives—gutting your health care, tanking the economy, defunding education—and acting like they’re doing us a favor.

Five DMV regional trips to trails by transit: ggwash.org/view/100623/...

"There is no standing guidance, as far as we can tell, inside the Pentagon on whether and how AI should or should not be integrated into nuclear command and control and communications," Federation of American Scientists director of global risk" @jonatomic.bsky.social futurism.com/experts-conc...

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

"If Democrats return to power with the same approach as the Biden years, they will be back in the business of losing $5 on every sale but trying to make it up in volume."

"[F]ailure to slash carbon pollution is also a failure to increase access to jobs & other daily needs without having to pay a fortune for multiple cars, drive long distances, & risk personal safety. This access largely depends on local and state-level decisions under our local officials' control."

Want abundant energy? Ask who benefits from scarcity, by @scientistsorg.bsky.social Senior Fellow Arjun Krishnaswami: "Energy will not be abundant in the mid-Atlantic unless we take on the interests that are benefitting from scarcity." fas.org/publication/...

Very, *very* smart piece from @espiers.bsky.social about why media efforts by Dem consultants are so often comical failures. Highly recommended:

Today is the sixth day that the homepage of Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation

dawg are these assholes gonna make me defend john bolton

“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than four times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population. The government’s priorities could not be more clear."

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this whole 🧵! DC now, who next?

Referring to crashes as “accidents” or claiming that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a crash, are not random language choices. They’re the result of PR campaigns. Listen to this really important interview with @grantennis.bsky.social by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social on “Dark PR.”

Wrote about the most violent day in D.C.'s history, January 6, 2021, the current takeover of that city by the guy who instigated it, the right-wing snowflakes complaining they're afraid to walk down the street, and why the right fears and loathes cities (and lies about why). Bonus Epstein finale.

"Once you dig even a little deeper, these ideas seem to be in direct contradiction to Trump administration actions thus far." - a look at Trump's AI Action Plan by @colesci.bsky.social @geomblog.bsky.social & @costasamaras.com

AI doesn’t live in the cloud. It runs on land, water, and electricity. We're challenging the idea that AI is clean or green. Vote now for "Who Pays for AI?" 🗳️ participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

The affordability of car-light living: "American households – maybe not most of them, but a significant percentage of them – have the opportunity to dump one of their cars and save a bunch of money." Urbanists should hammer away at this point, noting how e-bikes/cargo bikes make it easier.

Trump has given the District of Columbia the opportunity to make its case for statehood to the American public. Long overdue.

Bowser: "If people are concerned about a president's ability have the MPD be responsive to the DOJ, the time to address that is when we're talking about statehood for DC."

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

You can put the link 🔗 in the VERY SAME POST as your post about the content !! There is no algorithmic penalty for links here !! We will still see your post and the original content link won't be buried in a reply !!

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do. Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.

"We won’t achieve energy abundance unless we contend with the powerful interests that benefit from scarcity. Doing so requires reforming electricity markets, refreshing regulation of electric companies and rethinking the way we pay for grid infrastructure." www.utilitydive.com/news/energy-...

We have learned from our recent brush with Bluesky adult content censors, and do not wish to suffer the consequences again. Behold! Censored tarantula genitalia: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Shorter version of my science diplomacy article for those who aren’t ready for a wall of text. Thanks to @sciencebusiness.net for running it in this form! For the extended original, head on over to @issuesinst.bsky.social! sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/in...

On @marketplace.org: former U.S. Chief Data Scientist & @scientistsorg.bsky.social sr fellow @denicewross.bsky.social There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities” 🧪📉 www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...