The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Just out: new New Jersey state sea-level rise assessment Under current global emissions trends, New Jersey is likely to experience 1.5-2.5 ft of sea-level rise between 2005 and 2070, 2.2-3.8 ft by 2100 (or 2.2-4.5 ft, considering potential ice-sheet collapse).

"Accounting for these increased methane emissions removes over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in United States net greenhouse gas emissions." Essential paper by @kevinjkircher.com. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We missed this paper when @rlshwom.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social and our colleagues wrote our tipping points critique, but wow --

The climate crisis is one of the top most severe threats to human existence, alongside nuclear war and a massive asteroid. It blows my mind how many leaders choose to just whistle past the grave. This isn’t some event on some obscure future date—it’s already happening.

If I were being inaugurated as a university president right now, I’d probably feel compelled to talk about the role of higher ed in preserving democracy, rather than how I want our campuses to climb in rankings

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Called @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov to thank them for their No votes and asked them to show they understood the gravity of the problem by calling for new caucus leadership

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress. I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2

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The rot at the core of the “tipping point” concept…

any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience

One thing this Hill article doesn’t mention about US non participation in COP30 is that the State Department already fired all the people who knew anything about UNFCCC

I would like to see polling results for New York Jews from a poll that didn’t treat “Jewish” and “None” as mutually exclusive religious identities.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast. We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.

I understand the pressures, but this is short-sighted. But they get their grants back (for now).

We need to be worried about this. 1st some countries (Saudi Arabia) refused to welcome the 1.5 report, now they (and others) are flat out refusing to set a date for when the AR7 can be approved. Heads in the sand sort of decision-making on climate change is not just foolish it is evil necropolitics.

I would like to request someone write a law review article on the following: This administration has been aiming to establish an absolute monarchy within the unamended shell of the US Constitution. How far could a vigorous Congress go to establish a parliamentary republic in the same shell?

Asking again: if agents of a foreign adversary somehow seized control of the highest levels of the US gov’t & wanted to destroy the nation from within, what would they do differently - other than be less open & brazen with their destruction?

To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report. "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."

Wrote about the election (at length). An excerpt: www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...

In reading Bill Gates' recent #climate memo, I'm struck by how much he ignores huge body of research and action around integrated solutions - the whole reason we wrote the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment on climate, biodiversity, water, food and health! So a few key facts & lessons from our report: 1/

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To recap, among young voters… Prop 50: +58 Sherril: +37 Spanberger: +40 Mamdani: +61 I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

One of the rare occasions when I have some common ground with David Keith, but I'm not confident David and I are aligned on what would count as "responsible" research. To state my position briefly, computer simulatons are fuzzy territory for "responsibility," but

Spanberger also ran on some very well informed clean energy policies, see abigailspanberger.com/wp-content/u....

Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ran with strong pro-climate positions, focused on increasing energy affordability by getting more renewables on the grid.

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

WOW! They called it! Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey gubernatorial!

White House renominates Isaacman to be NASA administrator The White House said Nov. 4 it is renominating Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, the latest twist in an unprecedented saga over the agency’s leadership.

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

47. NASA Goddard being physically downsized during the shutdown (reporting Oct. 31, 2025)

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

I just got a call from @thedlcc.bsky.social. Not a call, as you might think, to make sure that I had voted for Democratic legislative candidates on Election Day, but to ask for money, same as any other day. Broken party, indeed.

The political writing coming out of @teenvogue.com was of the highest caliber! I was thrilled when they published an excerpt of Saving Ourselves. So sad to hear of the changes over there www.teenvogue.com/story/how-do...

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Two of the media organizations that have really "met the moment" in national coverage are Teen Vogue and WIRED. Along with student-run college newspapers in general. And scores of local start-ups. The main hope for journalism (in its dark times) is the next wave of journalists.

In our new 2025 edition of the Rhodium Climate Outlook, if current trends in policy and technology development continue, we project a likely (67% confidence) range of 2.3–3.4°C of temperature rise and an avg outcome of 2.8°C by 2100. The probability of limiting warming below 2°C remains below 5%.

I've seen Rabbi Buchdahl speak a few years ago during streamed Yom Kippur services, and speaking as someone who got a slightly hinky feeling from her sermon then: this is tremendously disappointing, fundamentally disqualifying and basically just racist

Yes, it is this scary in science. We were world leader only 10 months ago. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Obama: When he was asked to give the trump administration a grade, he said they deserved an A. These are the same folks who put secret war plans in a group chat. You don't think there's anything they could be doing better? No room for improvement?