BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Every American should be ashamed that Canada feels the need to do this and that our fellow NATO members are having to study worst case scenarios. Provoking fear in our closest allies is not a sign of strength but of total moral collapse. Imagine if your best friends feared you might try to kill them

#SaveNCAR Update: CO Senators aren't backing down on NCAR protections, so now is the time to call your representatives and force the amendment to a vote: wclivestream.com/act/

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

Bela Tarr has died. youtu.be/tWYoqi4Kpw4?...

The next National Climate Assessment will be written by five climate deniers and an AI in a trench coat.

I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.

For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR 12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center 1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign. More info:

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

“This is a five-alarm fire not just for NCAR, but for science in the United States” - Rep. Joe Neguse(CO-02) zooming into #AGU25 on the proposed decision to dismantle NCAR, located in his district in Boulder, Colorado. #SaveNCAR @agu.org @joeneguse.bsky.social

At #AGU25 and concerned about news of NCAR dismantling? Join us today 4pm CT. We'll cover independent science action and discuss the key science functions we need the government for--like the critical functions that NCAR provides on weather and climate research. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Stealworkers

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: www.theclimatebrink....

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Too on the nose for comfort: Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Watched A House of Dynamite and wondering what it means to replace all those stern experienced professionals with podcasters and news anchors

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc... "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

“It is becoming clearer that the rule of law in the White House has depended chiefly on norms.” What a photo caption at the top of page 1 of today’s New York Times

Gift link. (I object to the New York Times calling this a "crime crackdown." The Trump regime is bringing violence to my city, Chicago, not fighting violence.)

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Nominations Are Invited for the 27th Annual Michelson Postdoctoral Prize The prize is awarded annually to a postdoctoral scholar active in any field of physics. The deadline for nomination is December 1, 2025. physics.case.edu/nominations-...

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent..." -today's announcement of the award of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Peace to Maria Corina Machado www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Our comment to the DOE and EPA about the DOE Climate Working Group report is now posted on ESSOAR preprint server. It has a DOI and can now be cited! essopenarchive.org/users/260056...

Comment by Attorneys General about the EPA's proposed endangerment finding rollback. They are not impressed. I was pleased to see our Climate Experts' review get referenced many times in this. www.mass.gov/doc/end...

Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.

The world’s top fossil fuel countries still plan to produce more than twice as much coal, gas and oil as would be consistent with climate goals. In fact, they’re planning even more than they were two years ago.

On behalf of our 85+ experts, @andrewdessler.com and I submitted a minor update to the experts’ review as a comment on EPA’s proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. This version includes a new cover letter that walks through all the science EPA gets wrong.

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

🧪 New National Academies report concludes that rising greenhouse gas levels imperil public health and the 2009 endangerment finding “has stood the test of time.” Game on. Gift link: Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

As it so happens, the first comprehensive review of end-to-end impact attribution studies on human health - the highest evidence standard in climate science - is out today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It may seem hard to focus in at a time when climate research and higher education are both under assault, but as I and my co-authors argue here: Higher education institutions can accelerate societal climate action academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

In case you haven't seen, DOE did confirm the disbanding with CNN. The report is not being withdrawn at this point, though. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

If you’re looking for a way to support science, this training will help you to write effective comments on the EPA’s endangerment finding roll back. www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/endangerment...

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.