Tonight’s elections are a repudiation of Trump’s corruption and disastrous economic agenda. We need to fight harder, push farther, and not give in. We cannot let this moment pass. Let’s protect health care, stand up for working people, hold the line, and take back our government.

We need to consider "questions about the institutions that will condition how people experience the political impacts of climate change." "...for most people, climate change will materialize not as something utterly new, but as familiar problems made worse."

Please see my newest blog post with the New Jersey State Policy Lab! @njpolicylab.bsky.social

The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.

Read the "Katrina Declaration" letter here: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

Interesting update from @ucs.org: "US District Judge Richard Stearn issued a preliminary injunction stopping FEMA from spending funds from the BRIC grant program for non-BRIC purposes. This appears to ensure funding will continue to be allocated to the BRIC program." blog.ucs.org/shana-udvard...

"Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

"Mamdani’s victory was not about 'star power'. It was very much about people power, about revitalizing democracy and opening the door for ordinary people to gain control over the decisions that impact their lives." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It was just a terrible moment where you see a program that is absolutely not political and absolutely not wasteful getting cut,” [Scranton Mayor Paige] Cognetti said of BRIC, referring to Trump’s criticisms of the program. www.eenews.net/articles/cit...

"The emergency is here. The crisis is now. It is not six months away. It is not another Supreme Court ruling away from happening. It’s happening now. Perhaps not to you, not yet. But to others. Real people. We know their names. We know their stories."

This is what it means to work for your constituents. Proud of this fellow Swattie. I sincerely hope Mr. Ábrego García is able to return home as soon as possible.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The President has no authority on his own to nullify state laws. This Executive Order is toothless. Trump is directing the Department of Justice to attempt to intervene in the numerous lawsuits that are challenging the state efforts he doesn't like. It will be up to the state court judges who 🧵

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

"The increasingly aggressive use of 'antisemitism' as a political instrument was never about Jewish safety. It has always been about power: consolidating a political order that merges religion, nationalism and authoritarianism under the veneer of minority protection."

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

Remember, everything is part of the same story. They need to destroy our democracy and crush dissent because letting billionaires take over the government in order to steal from us isn't popular and a functioning democracy wouldn't allow it.

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

It’s not about “government efficiency.” It’s about autocratic power.

"As every enterprise seeks efficiencies, the system loses its redundancy... When a system has lost its resilience, a small external shock can trigger cascading collapse."

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

I'm working on a couple of upcoming talks and can't get over how simply describing what is happening right now with attacks on the NSF, NIH, Diversity, etc. makes me sound like a raving lunatic. They've launched an all-out assault on empirical reality.

The Trump admin has implemented a vast array of changes to existing #federal funds & #policy initiatives, which has underlined the importance of both understanding & documenting the environmental justice policies that were in development during the Biden admin: policylab.rutgers.edu/a-brief-look...

Sharing my newest blog post in light of federal policy shifts on climate, environmental justice, and equity-based initiatives: policylab.rutgers.edu/a-brief-look...

"I think what we have to remind folks is our right to grieve, but then you have to turn that energy into something positive and something that will continue the [EJ] movement. ...find out what group is working in your community on an issue that you care about. Go to a public meeting."

"It is Musk who controls gov. operations and federal spending, and so it is Musk who is running the country. The constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing. The reality is that a foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government, and that his power has no formal check."

"'Constitutional crisis' does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning."

"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical."

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Yes❗ We need more scientific societies taking stances like this

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Yep... but as someone writing her PhD dissertation on federal disaster recovery grants (and their equity & environmental justice initiatives) 🫠

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

The reality of this hasn't sunk in for Americans yet. It needs to: "The White House budget office ordered a pause on all federal grants & loans Monday potentially impacting trillions in government spending and halting public programs that affect millions of Americans." www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p... 🔌💡

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

No government can ever feasibly choose to ignore climate change or pandemics. You can't stop physics or biology by pretending that they don't exist. The only real choice governments make is how badly they and their people will suffer.

I know I keep screaming this into the void but just because climate change isn’t the *only* factor contributing to an extreme event doesn’t mean it’s not *a* factor. Literally nothing on Earth is unaffected by the changing climate.

Amplifying the needs of the Altadena community and the need to stop the narrative of the LA fires as just a crisis of ultra-rich white households. www.bet.com/article/7a2t...

Disaster is a function of three things: exposure, vulnerability, and hazard. As climate change pushes up the hazard rates for wildfire, flood, hurricane & more, lack of adaptation and maladaptation on the part of both public and private entities is increasing vulnerability.

Hello Bluesky! Figured it was time for an intro post👋 My PhD research is on climate adaptation policy -- interweaving methods of multi-level governance, environmental justice, urban planning, and decision sciences. I'm passionate about teaching, engaging, and learning about these important topics!