Hearings are scheduled next week in Lighthiser v. Trump, a challenge to Trump's energy executive orders brought by 22 youth. The 120-page complaint is a sweeping narrative that weaves together personal stories, global energy trends, and Beltway politics. legal-planet.org/2025/09/10/y...

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Here’s @kareemabduljabaar.bsky.social talking about the importance of UCLA research to human health. Groundbreaking research at UCLA leads to new discoveries and saves lives. Go Bruins! #researchpowersprogress www.threads.com/@ucla/post/D...

Story out today from @uclahealth.org on one of my projects in lab studying rare neurodevelopmental disorders using patient stem cells and brain organoids. UCLA #ResearchPowersProgress 🧪 www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

www.ucla.edu/research?utm... #ResearchPowersProgress #ucla #research Trump administration is trying to halt more than $500 million in research funds to UCLA. I work there. I'm incredibly proud to be at one of the world's great public universities. UCLA researchers save lives and improve the world.

CNSI member Steven J. Jonas (@uclahealth.org) has received a $400K @hyundaiusa.com grant to develop nanotech “liquid biopsy” tools for more precise, less invasive childhood cancer care. Nearly $2.8M awarded to @ucla.edu to date. #ResearchPowersProgress Learn more: cnsi.ucla.edu/august-7-202...

#ResearchPowersProgress #StandUpforUC

At a moment when environmental regulations, public television, and research universities like UCLA are all under attack, this new documentary on LA‘s smog, and how it helped create modern environmental regulations and agencies, seems especially timely.

A lung cancer patient’s survival hinges on breakthrough research now gutted by Trump’s funding cuts. UCLA scientists lose critical support as MAGA’s war on science strips hope from families fighting for their lives.

Jewish faculty at UCLA have come together to condemn Trump’s demand for a $1 billion fine to settle claims over alleged campus antisemitism. “Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world.”

"David Shackelford is at UCLA. And Donald Trump just cut off the school’s federal funding." The fact that Shackelford is working on pioneering cancer treatment research? Eh. @citizencohn.bsky.social on Trump's surrender in the war on cancer: www.thebulwark.com/p/research-t...

Jewish faculty at UCLA condemn trump attacks on the university: "Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world."

In the immortal words of Justice Jackson, Republicans are playing Calvinball.

BREAKING: Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center “This injunction is a huge relief for millions of people who love the Everglades” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Trump officials may soon hold public climate science debates, recruit more denialists to attack research and go through every line of the National Climate Assessments to highlight doubt, a DOE report author told me. “We will have to enlist other scientists," he said. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Amazing work — cheers to the Florida team at @biologicaldiversity.org, the Miccosukee Tribe, & all those fighting fascist destruction. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

No way around it: California is starting to backslide on climate. And it’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault. My column today looks at Newsom’s failures on rooftop solar, oil industry accountability, home electrification and more: www.latimes.com/environment/...

“Critics call it extortion” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

In this Ohio diner, UC is a common misspelling of UFC. But they do know this: The best way to fight antisemitism is to cut off funding to globalist researchers in the University of California system.

NEW: Records show extensive pollution under the Phillips 66 oil refinery in Los Angeles—almost 500 Olympic pools’ worth. Yet the company is giving limited assurances it will clean its mess after closing the plant this year, and state oversight is limited. capitalandmain.com/theres-a-lak...

Donald Trump is extremely mad at @biologicaldiversity.org today for winning a last-minute TRO saving sacred Apache land at Oak Flat from being given to a foreign mining company to destroy. He can choke on his own sickening allcaps bile for all I care. We'll never give up the fight for Oak Flat.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor, one of the largest and most fragile ecosystems on the planet. Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that climate change will accelerate impacts to public health and welfare. "Sixteen years later, the scientific evidence supporting the endangerment finding is even stronger, with zero countervailing evidence," scientists recently wrote: bit.ly/4fGldKO

Not just faculty, but also students, parents, staff, and alums, and from other UCs as well. You can still sign and share the letter: sites.google.com/view/jewsforuc

L.A. volunteers who document ICE raids are being arrested. How to do it safely

BREAKING: A new legal attack on the Clean Trucks Partnership threatens 52K+ electric trucks on US roads. Volvo & Daimler signed the deal–will they stand by it? Experts warn this move risks stalling progress as EU & China surge ahead. buff.ly/Xs7Fy8l

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought. Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Scientists & Experts: Stop the EPA's Attack on Climate Science & Public Health secure.ucs.org/a/2025-scien...

BREAKING: Public Citizen, NRDC, Sierra Club & others are warning truck makers like Daimler Truck against trashing an agreement that boosts electric trucks and secures the future of the trucking industry. More:

Money Trail guest columnists Dan Becker and Maya Golden-Krasner @biologicaldiversity.org say Trump’s policies will hurt U.S. automakers, autoworkers and consumers, and harm public health and the environment. themoneytrail.substack.com/p/trump-is-d...

I see we’re at the “OK, Nixon will release his own transcripts of some of the Watergate tapes” stage of this story.

“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.

The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Right now, lawmakers in #CAleg are considering how to plan for refinery closures and a transition away from fossil fuels. We need your support. Contact your legislators to demand they oppose the oil shakedown and stand up for our health and our climate: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

Yesterday, @politico.com ran an article about this week’s @calenergy.bsky.social meeting claiming that climate and environmental justice groups are lining up behind a plan that would “pump the brakes” on the transition away from fossil fuels. It’s time to set the story straight ⬇️⬇️

The oil and gas industry has held Californians hostage for too long. The only way to escape is to invest in the transition to renewable energy, and quickly. #MakePollutersPay www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

Hi there. “#SB34 is a death sentence for my neighborhood.” Leaving the fate of South Coast's clean air rules to Sacramento lobbyists perpetuates environmental racism. VOTE NO TODAY ON #SB34: lasentinel.net/sb-34-is-a-d...

When Dems considered an agenda called “Build Back Better,” mainstream news outlets agonized publicly about how they couldn’t use the term, and would instead call it, e.g., “Biden’s spending bill.” With Republicans in charge, calling their agenda One Big Beautiful Bill, that’s all out the window.

Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)

Whether it’s Democrats saying Latinx or Republicans fantasizing about having alligators eat all 65 million Latino Americans, both sides are struggling to connect with America’s fastest growing group of voters.

People are going to die. This is not a game.

“Environmental safeguards are often attacked by developers and lawmakers but this shows we desperately need them to make new development projects better and safer.” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

What could go wrong? www.latimes.com/environment/...

We are all nostalgic for the somewhat pre-nuclear age of 2003

Since Trump fired everyone ahead of hurricane season, we figured he needed help delivering this message so we showed up at FEMA HQ to help out. #MakePollutersPay #NoFEMA #ClimateJustice

There’s always a tweet.