WTF are we even doing? 🫣

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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All of them are responsible for this huge failure in our gov't. It's scary how fast they caved. SCOTUS really did us in. We're screwed if nobody is gonna stop this lunatic!

"technology automates everything" is a story with two endings the utopian one where abundance allows everyone to live a life of leisure, and the dystopian one where all the benefits accrue to a small set of oligarchs and everyone else suffers the oligarchs are asking us to cheer for option B

Allowing a rogue state built on bullying, illegal invasions, and unprovoked war to host the FIFA World Cup smacks of pure fascism. A nation ruled by a corrupt crime syndicate can only deliver chaos and corruption on the world stage. FIFA has completely lost its mind.

I hate this for us.

Over 50% implemented.👇 And he’s only been in office for 16 months. 32 months to go! 😒 project2025.observer/en

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

Every state should pass Hawaii’s SB2471 bill that render Supreme Court citizen, United decision irrelevant in their state Don’t let billionaire Nazi musk and other billionaires and multimillionaires, steal your elections

The Trump administration is repealing a rule that prevents power plants from releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic mercury and arsenic into drinking water.

Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen ending campaign after redraw of his Memphis district apnews.com/article/stev...

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

"I am forever resisting the false binary that says we are either all-in or absent, either useful or useless. Fascism thrives on abandonment, but burnout also produces abandonment. So does untreated pain. So does loneliness."

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now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

🚨BREAKING: In a 4-3 ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court has OVERTURNED the redistricting referendum approved by voters last month. The court ruled the General Assembly violated the Virginia Constitution in advancing the amendment, nullifying the referendum entirely.

South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain Slams Supreme Court Decision Gutting the Voting Rights Act and Opening Door to Racially-Based Redistricting.

They just can't stop stealing.

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

President Trump and his allies are pursuing five tactics to undermine the midterms. But for each aggressive move, a countermove is in motion to defend our elections. bit.ly/41OHwrA

There are pundits in the US, the country behind the Manhattan Project, arguing that universities are fair game because science is used to make weapons. This attack is devastating in its own right. But the fact that this place of particular pride was targeted is an extra source of insult and pain.

How is bombing medical research centers helping? www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

📌Trump's surrendering because last week Iran used small, cheap weapons to attack energy complexes in Qatar, Kuwait & Saudi Arabia and there's not a fucking thing we can do about that. Never was. This was a senseless war, started by a sociopath & failure of a man, and we will pay for it for years.

Damn, Gerry Baker. 👀

More corruption in plain sight.

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

The running subplot that nobody is noticing right now is America’s allies gradually waking up east to west on Monday morning and announcing that they’re not coming to help Trump fix his problems

well at least they are making everyone drive to work again as gas prices soar

1 in 5 people think SCDM means that “taking the vaccine may not be a good idea for everyone but would benefit some.” It's exactly what we feared--it's presenting the vaccine schedule as an a-la-carte menu. www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/cdc-urges-sh...

An upside-down food pyramid. Anti-vaxxers. MAHA influencers. Infectious disease expert @jessicamalaty.bsky.social takes us inside the upended world of US health policy under RFK Jr. Listen to this week's More To The Story:

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.

Octavia Butler's Parable of The Talents. 1998.

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Tomorrow is rally day! We have an amazing lineup of speakers and fun activities at PacSci. We can't wait to see you! #sufs #standupforscience #science #eccc #monorail www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

NEW: An election denier who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election is taking credit for writing most of the SAVE America Act, a measure seeking to impose strict voter ID requirements. The claims come after the bill passed the House last night.

"Law mandates strict protections of the identities of taxpayers, including the sharing of data within the federal government. Undocumented immigrants have for years paid taxes with assurances...that doing so would not result in them being targeted." https://wapo.st/3O2v3gu

For my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com, wrote about FDA's disastrous decision--or, really, it seems Vinay Prasad's singular choice--to turn away Moderna's flu vaccine application without a review. The problem is much bigger than this one vaccine. (🎁 link):

"In his egoism, Trump exhibits an overarching desire to squeeze the nation dry, including by converting as much of America’s wealth to himself regardless of the consequences. What Trump can’t take with him, he would just as soon ruin."

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