“helped”??

Fabulous article by my mentor, Leysia Palen, chronicling the rise & fall of Twitter as information source & organizing site during disaster events: journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... Citing a wealth of literature, Palen reflects on what Twitter was (for disaster response) & what it became

News: POTUS fired all of the 24 members of the quasi-independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising further questions about the future of the science agency that has announced its intent to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. tinyurl.com/43a8rc6k

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

Flu vaccines aren’t about “freedom.” They’re about keeping troops healthy enough to do their jobs.

Doctors say that measles is one of the deadliest and most contagious infectious diseases in the world. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and cuts penises off raccons says you'll be fine if you drink raw milk and bathe in raw sewage. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/today-in-b...

Oh come on @theguardian.com, no need to over analyze this. It's about one thing: the Pope criticized him. There's nothing deeper or religious about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Remember, the current administration wants(ed) to kill these vaccines. They are an enemy of science and we should never forget that.

Thou shalt round up the billionaire pedophiles and put them all in Alligator Alcatraz. Thou shalt shut down Fox News, NewsMax, and OAN. Thou shalt ban assault weapons.

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. n.pr/4sLetjV

This is what happens at concentration camps

Italy passed a law that allows up to 3 days off to care for ill pets.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

"The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch."

Thinking about how much trust has been eroded (more) in just the past 48 hours. In the world of disaster science, trust is so important for motivating people to take action. If its all bullshit and bluster all the time, how the fuck are you supposed to know that it's a real threat?

Brutal.

This is the sort of clip you see in the opening minutes of a deeply dystopian film

CNN: "In the initial statement from DHS, they said these two migrants had attacked the ICE agents in Minneapolis with the shovel, but what this video shows is this was not the case ... the two ICE agents made false statements under oath."

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

So is this the time to share those crazy-ass messages with tRump supporting family members? Or no? I’d be afraid to find out that they’re all in on genocide. But maybe this is a line they don’t cross.

God help us.

“It comes down to this: The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred.”

Yes. But it's not ignorance, or magical thinking, or ideological blinders. Not primarily. It's predatory delay. It's the intentional sabotage of science and policy to make climate action harder and thereby prolong the profits of oil, gas and other high-carbon and unsustainable industries.

Part of that power grab is building business models to try to profit off of climate chaos, and trying to buy up all the assets growing scarcer and more valuable in a discontinuity (arable land, fresh water, rare minerals, safer real estate, etc) www.motherjones.com/environment/...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

I think a lot about a quote I came across when I was researching the history of presidential science advisors. davelevitan.medium.com/the-presiden...

The #Trump admin plans to shutter 6 of 8 #USForestService research facilities in #CA as part of a major reorg that may leave the state “underequipped” to manage #wildfire & #drought threats. www.sfchronicle.com/california-w... #EM

Feds to close Grand Rapids lab that does global-leading research on forestry, climate change www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Trump's 2027 budget proposes cuts of: 🔻 $5.8 billion to NIH 🔻 $5.6 billion to NASA 🔻 $4.8 billion to NSF 🔻 $4.6 billion to EPA 🔻 $2.9 billion to CDC 🔻 $1.6 billion to NOAA If these science cuts pass they will make the US a less healthy and less safe place to live.

The political calculations that result in cutting NASA funding the day after the Artemis II launch must be fascinating

Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."

Trump's regime will not take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare but they want hundreds of billions of more so they can wage endless, unconstitutional wars www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

"Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed." morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade."