Pallone: Trump keeps saying, “Well, I don’t like the way solar panels look. I don’t like the way windmills look.” What the hell does that have to do with what we need to do in an energy crisis? The price of electricity keeps going up.

A great man has left us. Leo W. Gerard, union leader & BlueGreen Alliance co-founder, dies at 78. Gerard, former president of the United Steelworkers who helped link the labor movement with climate action, died Sunday in his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

It appears that RFK Jr.’s report on autism is expected today. It seems that it may not mention vaccines as a cause, and they are not a cause. Someone needs to ask him point blank if he still thinks they are. He’s been pivoting to other angles, suggesting he knows he can’t get away with it.

RFK Jr. Hit With Dismal Approval Ratings In Poll

Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan. Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

RFK Jr, who is causing unprecedented damage, is deeply unpopular with the public. Democrats absolutely need to demand his firing as a basic minimum for supporting any effort to fund the government.

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans—so Trump is acting to eliminate “improper partisan ideology” wielded against … Democrats?

One of countless ways that history will judge Trump harshly—justifiably. National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment. Removal come after Trump issued an executive order in March to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions. wapo.st/4nyQrWW

Jeanine Pirro’s Cases Keep Falling Apart, And The Judges Have Had Enough. www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...

Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive. “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” —Trump campaign promise, Aug. 9, 2024 www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/b...

Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]

The Trump EPA & Lee Zeldin’s anti-science campaign: EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say. Staff from EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week, told to pause publication of most research, pending review. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“Hit roadblocks”? Really?

Confirmation does bring some satisfaction.

Personally, I cannot wait for the robust, intellectually rigorous Federalist Society debate over this.

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

U.S. House Republicans need to reconvene the Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. But they won’t.

National Academies clap back at Trump team on climate. A report by some of the nation's top scientists rebuts the work of climate contrarians handpicked by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... ($)

The Trump administration's war on cheaper, cleaner renewable energy will fail. Love, the Texas Electricity Grid

A reckless, harmful, ungrammatical clown show at EPA: “The Trump EPA is implementing the largest deregulatory agenda in American history. In fact, we will accomplish more deregulation in one year than entire federal government has achieved across all agencies throughout entire presidencies.”

This is why they’re deleting studies

If Dems ever get a trifecta and don't do serious court reform -- including but not limited to venue reform -- it will be a remarkable failure.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

MTG’s weather mod hearing focused on an imaginary peanut while ignoring the elephant in the room: the intentional emission of billions of tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat-trapping pollutants each year. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

My interview with @keranews.org Texas Public Radio ahead of the release of our new book #scienceundersiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social www.keranews.org/health-welln...

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled. Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.” Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

The anti-health, unscientific, anti-vaccination movement expanding in Mississippi will only make things worse. An anti-vaxxer in the state praised RFK Jr. on NPR‘s Morning Edition for his devotion to their (harmful) campaign.

Administrator Zeldin has recklessly slashed hundreds of EPA grants that keep our air and water clean. The loss of these critical grants will undoubtedly accelerate the effects of climate change. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

What could possibly go wrong

Trump claims Chicago is "worse than Afghanistan"

“Most shaving waivers are for troops diagnosed w/ pseudofolliculitis barbae or PFB—a condition in which hair curls back into the skin after shaving and causes irritation. It is a condition that disproportionately affects Black men.” abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

U.S. House Republicans are holding a hearing today on FIVE bills to roll back the Clean Air Act, allow polluting industries to increase dangerous air pollution & worsen Americans' health, cut out the public, escape acountability & more. None of the bills will better cut pollution or protect you..

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Tell us Clemson’s lawyers skipped Constitutional Law without telling us.

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Summer 2025 heat waves cost France over €10 billion. Recent heat waves, droughts and floods are expected to slow economic activity in 2025 and beyond. The losses far exceed the damages reported by insurers. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

The environmentalists Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, administrator for the #EvironmentalProtectionAgency don't want you to know who the polluters are that are injuring and killing Americans #DV1 #ProudBlue www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” --Frank Wilhoit

US taxpayers will pay billions in new fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill. A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade. grist.org/politics/us-... #Climate #Policy #Politics

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

This is the Trump administration’s true Make America Healthy Again agenda in action—terminating already established drinking water limits on PFAS forever chemicals that contaminate U.S. drinking water & are found in all our bodies.

The Trump 2.0 EPA is the worst EPA in U.S. history, Exhibit 117: Trump EPA Asks D.C. Circuit To Vacate Drinking Water Limits on Four “Forever” PFAS Chemicals. ($) insideepa.com/daily-news/t...

“For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, however, the news is far worse. The end of enhanced federal subsidies for that program means their costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year….” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Cats kill an estimated 2.5 BILLION birds in the U.S. every year; wind turbines an estimated 234,000 birds. Trump says wind turbines “kill all the birds.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

The Trump admin. is a climate & clean energy horror show. ‘Interior & Energy secretaries urge Europeans to retreat from curbs on methane emissions & other climate action so they can buy more American natural gas.’ 1/ subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...