The history of leaded gasoline, lead paint, and lead pipes is one of the great examples of how unadulterated greed and lack of necessary regulations to the public health have civilization altering effects. 🩺🧪 If a conservative is railing against regulations, ask them about leaded gasoline

It is hardly the point but let’s note that Mercatus, IHS, and Templeton exist (and have grant and fellowship programs) and Hoover funds historians too. What is a monopoly?

The GOP’s “Save America Act” requires states to implement voter purge programs using data from sources that experts call unreliable, such as DHS’s SAVE program (which DOGE “overhauled”) & the SSA’s # Verification System (despite DOGE’s mishandling of SSA data). How did this crap pass the House??

“A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration "trampled" on Sen. Mark Kelly's First Amendment rights, blocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to punish Kelly, a retired naval officer”. You’re damned right they did, go off Judge.

The title of this Op-Ed by @lisapatel.bsky.social, ED of @docsforclimate.bsky.social sums things up nicely: The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe @momscleanairforce.org @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @dralicechen.bsky.social

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

RFK Jr. can't change state vaccine regulations. But, he can dismantle the vaccine supply chain. FDA's failure to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine demonstrates how HHS can weaponize the vaccine approval process to discourage the production of new, innovative, and potentially life-saving vaccines.

The fact that everything these companies do is for profit is fundamentally at odds with the goals of public health. This was true under Biden and has just gotten worse under this administration.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Gift article from WaPo: how Earth's warming is accelerating. Meanwhile we are repealing the EPA Endangerment Finding today ... and the editorials for WaPo applaud this move. Do they read their own paper?. (No I'm not gifting this dreck www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...) wapo.st/3MqvwbC

30 countries use mail voting

Today’s action “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says #climate scientist Friederike Otto. I report on the EPA revoking its own ruling on the danger of greenhouse gases: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Was this supposed to make MN AG Ellison look like a badass patriot? Because that’s what I’m taking from it 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!” (Published Oct. 2025)

Gun Owners of America is lobbying Congress to pass the SAVE Act, which would require a majority of Americans to show a passport to register to vote. But GOA opposes any law that requires showing a drivers license to buy a gun. These are not serious people.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

"Warnings of ‘Permanent’ Damage to People and Planet as Trump EPA Set to Repeal Key Climate Rule" by @brettwilkins.bsky.social for @commondreams.org: www.commondreams.org/news/warning...

NIH, CDC, HHS, and all of US cancer research and public health needed and still needs protection from Russell Vought and the P2025 White House. The defining feature of 2025 at NIH was not merely grant changes. It was unprecedented levels of presidential interference with NIH decision-making. 1/

Woody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein... No, it's not the beginning of a joke.

How does a supercomputer help further research? At the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC), high-performance computing systems support data visualization, weather forecasting, and other critical space and Earth system research.

Nice day for the fossil fuel magnates. For every other living thing on earth, sorry, try Mars: Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

For those who care less about the planet here’s the local angle: climate change is going to hit your wallet: www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...

1/ Pam Bondi is in news, so worth repost of 2016 study on $ flows. When Trump leanred NY AG vs TrumpU going forward, he started sending $, incl $500 to Bondi, Ivanka added $500, but meanwhile, Bondi wanted more, hence the famous $25K... but there was more later. bsky.app/profile/john...

Study finds no link between COVID-19 vaccines and autism www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu... via @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social

What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public health The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

This move, based on long-debunked climate-change denialism, will throw gasoline on America's home-insurance and health-insurance fires Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.

the transcript of these proceedings will be fodder for scholars of rhetorical strategies Tempted to do an analysis! cf Boris Johnson deevybee.blogspot.com/2022/01/bori...

It’s Kent Nishimura. He’s one of the best photojournalists of this era. Please use his name.

1/ Pam Bondi is in news, so worth repost of 2016 study on $ flows. When Trump leanred NY AG vs TrumpU going forward, he started sending $, incl $500 to Bondi, Ivanka added $500, but meanwhile, Bondi wanted more, hence the famous $25K... but there was more later. bsky.app/profile/john...

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

This piece by Dr @clayjones.bsky.social is a clinical and personal memoir Measles is not just a rash, fever, or the "Brady Bunch" nonsense. Years after a mild childhood infection some children develop SSPE, a progressive fatal brain disease with no cure. Preventable and heartbreaking. 🛟

WSJ editorial board hits FDA: It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad who rejected Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine without even a cursory review. www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

ah. well there you go. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.

Who could have seen this coming? Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later". A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on. When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

It's one thing to get a "no true bill." It's quite another to get *shut out* in the grand jury.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

As we count down to #DarwinDay, we're re-visiting some great pieces on why we teach evolution! "Teaching and discussing evolution opens so many doors to scientific inquiry and understanding." https://ncse.ngo/bridging-chasm-between-evolution-and-faith

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

Trump's EPA is rushing to repeal the "endangerment finding", reversing the scientifically supported conclusion that greenhouse gasses are pollutants. This terrible decision, a longtime dream of fossil-fuel lobbyists, is expected tomorrow. 2/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.