Amit Forlit, who has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with running a so-called hacking-for-hire operation that targeted environmental groups, has been extradited from the UK to stand trial in NY www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/c...

@skepticalscience.bsky.social has a paper out on the value that their providing truthful climate information has gc.copernicus.org/articles/9/1...

New: As countries and consumers embrace renewable energy in the wake of the Iran war, skyrocketing gasoline prices in the US are fueling efforts to weaken state climate laws, though clean energy mandates generally have little impact on pump prices. Feel link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is just awful ... Cameras installed to enforce traffic laws are now being used to create a police state -- a surveillance state. It is time to lobby our state and local agencies to terminate contracts with Flock. banishbigbrother.com/flock-camera...

SCOOP A DOJ lawyer told a judge in Rhode Island that voter rolls data the agency has collected from states was being kept separate, and no analysis was being done to identify voting irregularities. That wasn't true.... www.wired.com/story/doj-mi...

In my humble and personal opinion, I concur with this. In addition, NASA Earth Science writ large - the data, models, science, technology, and satellites- are relied upon by over 70% of Fortune 500 companies. The ROI for NASA Exploration and Science is huge.

CBS News is laying off national environmental correspondent David Schechter, reportedly leaving no one at the network dedicated to covering climate change. Don't look up!

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Love to see anti-ICE/pro-environment collaborations.

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

Historical background to the phrase "Bomb them back to the Stone Age." Originally coined by Art Buchwald to satirize Vietnam hawks, misattributed to US Air Force General Curtis LeMay. LeMay denied he said the US should bomb North Vietnam back to the Stone Age. Trump now embraces that rhetoric.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

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”

Climate coverage slowly disappearing from US mainstream media grist.org/language/glo...

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Speaking of energy prices… “In all 50 states, the cost of home-charging an EV is considerably cheaper than fueling a car with gasoline” — @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/what...

This end of US Forest Service research into how to adapt to the higher fire risk in a warmer world is a local story across the country. www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...

Publicly-funded science is a source of knowledge that is not under the sway of the executive. It is therefore a threat to their ability to shape/control narratives and declare 'truth' via executive order. It produces meaning in shades of gray instead of the desired black/white absolutes.

not trying to read news on my (or your) days off but i read it constantly and have no bandwidth to process this all… hence the life affirming gallows humor & music threads

We live in an era where factual recounting of leading figures’ (Musk, Trump, Hegseth) words and actions plus the most rudimentary dot connecting sounds incredibly evil, so many people assume it can’t be true, or don’t want to deal with the implications of it being true, and therefore simply do not.

Massive Tuesday coming. Go vote people. No apathy

The thing about a subdued Supreme Court election is that it counts just as much as a high-profile record-breaking election. The seat at play on Wisconsin’s on Tuesday will have just as much voting power as the seat Elon failed to buy last year. And for a ten year term.

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a hot war and it's barely even in the headlines. And over petty bullshit. Under GoldwaterNichols CoS isn't an operations position. It's more readiness, procurement, running the institution. Still the normalization of the total abnormal.

If you want to view the Artemis II gallery, please go here: www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m... A fave of mine so far is Mission Specialist Koch looking back at the Earth. The first woman on a lunar mission looking back at the mother of all humans. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Fascinating and unsurprising. EVs could easily be the next chapter of the Innovators Dilemma. Better performance, lower maintenance, competitive price. Legacy companies doubled down on the old tech for too long, now just watching their market share erode.

‘India is going to face a food crisis’: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war

i think there is an aspect of this which is true but honestly i think the *real* reason car dealers hate EVs is more boring: they all mainline fox news and talk radio and facebook all day and sincerely believe false negative things about EVs that oil companies have propogated through those channels.

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Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

Did you know that a majority of what we know about how to reduce structure loss in wildfires came from Forest Service research that was at the time pretty controversial and not being done elsewhere?

My USDA-Forest Service-funded project with scientists there was about water in the western United States. I guess that’s not a concern anymore.

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

I can see the arc of msm treatment of public interest and pro-civil rights activism over my career. When I started, a typical MSMer’s news story - at least in NY - was more sympathetic to protesters opposing monied forces & facing long odds. Now they often try to make fun of that type of protest.

Geophysicists say there is an increased risks of destructive floods and wild fires due to climate change. A guy who thinks he was teleported to a Waffle House says there's nothing to worry about. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.

National Parks in trouble. Proposed cut of $736 mn from $3.2 billion budget or 20%. Money for reckless war but not our parks or anything else except immigration control. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

We cannot stand by and let this hapoen

Looks like they're systematically ending all #ClimateRisk research www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Dr. Howard is absolutely correct. When I made my post about the Pfizer vaccine trial I had assumed they were doing a head-to-head with an another vaccine. I assumed incorrectly. The placebo-controlled trial of Pfizer’s COVID19 vaccine was unethical and forced upon them by Vinay Prasad.

Depressing. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026... Via Pew: "With rising energy costs and increased demand, Americans are still more likely to say that renewable energy should be prioritized over fossil fuels. But that share continues to drop: 57% say this today, down from 79% in 2020."

They are proposing cuts to clean water, education, housing and more. To spend even MORE money on war. Let that sink in. The administration in Washington does not care about you.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

fyi this isnt a one-off. the new york times CONSTANTLY does this. it is on purpose. citation -> www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

If California Democrats don't find a way to consolidate Democratic support around one candidate, they're going to disappear from the primaries, and Porter, Steyer, and Swalwell are all the sort of strong-willed person who does not strike me as willing to step aside to put the state over their ego.

Ask me a question about reducing climate pollution and saving money. If @npr.org chooses your submission, you'll be part of the reporting process. More information and a short form are in the link below. www.npr.org/2026/04/03/n...

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

Pod listeners have probably picked up from Mike that something went wrong at SPLC, which abruptly kicked him to the curb. He sued and won a settlement. Here, Mike explains what happened. His story feels familiar to me and many others on the beat. michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-happe...