You don't see what you don't look for. Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity. Stops collecting data on climate change as it worsens. Stops reporting economic data as the economy weakens. Information is the enemy of lies. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Nothing says laws are for other people, not for us more than this MAGA attitude.

'Fast and furious': H-1B workers abroad race to US as Trump order sparks dismay, confusion reut.rs/3VYOKq1

New #USCIS memo on #H1B visas clarifies that the proclamation is prospective i.e.: it applies only to petitions filed after the effective date. So the panic instilled in all current holders was just out of cruelty and incompetence to provide clear guidance.

Wall Street banks and tech companies big and small were scrambling on Saturday to figure out how their tens of thousands of employees would be affected by President Trump’s proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee for visas granted to skilled foreign workers.

The warnings, communicated in messages to affected employees, are a sign of the chaos created by Trump’s snap announcement Friday about the new rules, which take effect on Sunday

“Flattery Economics” 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social

Sure feels great to approach a USCIS officer with a tweet as rationale not to detain you

Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet!

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

In the words of David Letterman: "it's managed media"

RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.

Remind me, what day is the national general strike?

Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

"For the period from June 1 through Aug. 31, solar met 15.2% of all demand in the ERCOT system, more than coal’s 12.5% market share. It also covered 26.9% of peak-hour demand." ieefa.org/resources/su... via @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social 🔌💡

🌎🇺🇸 El Mes de la Herencia Hispana, que se celebra del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre en Estados Unidos, está empañado este año por la presencia en las calles de los agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas dozz.es/g636w6

🕯️ A 40 años del terremoto de 1985, Gabino Lezama, arquitecto y testigo, recuerda: “Más que los edificios caídos, los gritos aterrorizados de la gente”. Su memoria y fotos capturan el drama que vivió la CDMX. Vía: BBC Mundo

Fans, celebrities and Democratic politicians expressed anger and disappointment after ABC announced that it was pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from the air indefinitely, saying that the move amounted to censorship and was an attack on free speech.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors. Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

seems pretty hard to argue with

And still waiting for DOE to withdraw the report... They dissolved the group to avoid a lawsuit from the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund for violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act. But the report can still cause a lot of damage

"Again and again, this administration is trying to hide the data to hide the harms. If we can't say what a facility is doing, we can't hold that facility accountable," said UCS's Julie McNamara, warning that the lack of verifiable emissions data would undermine climate action.

And oh, three of the key people currently leading the EPA’s chemical work have extensive ties to the chemicals and pesticides industry.

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As a reminder: the DOE report was an attempt by the fossil fuel lobby to deceive the public about climate science and the detrimental impacts of fossil fuel use. Carbon Brief had this overview of false and misleading claims in the report: interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.

This is what's up. Shahid King Bolsen speaks absolute truth here, and it's 12 minutes you won't regret. youtu.be/XMFwj30seEg?...

What a rough week for environmental policy. The #EPA proposed to permanently end the GHGRP program under which large #GHG emitters report #emissions at facility level. AND It also filed a motion in federal court to rescind enforceable standards for 4 types of #PFAS (forever chemicals)

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

During the day yesterday in California, >75%of all electricity was produced by renewable #energy, including solar. After the sun went down, half of all electricity STILL came from renewables, including wind batteries, hydro, geothermal, etc.

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

🔴El Valle de México se hunde a una velocidad de hasta 30 centímetros por año, un fenómeno impulsado por la extracción desmedida de agua subterránea y su pasado lacustre, que empeora el riesgo de encharcamientos en el centro y oriente dozz.es/hjc6_6

Multiple FEMA staff who signed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration's budget cuts to disaster preparedness were placed on leave today.

Breaking News: FEMA suspended about 30 employees who had told Congress that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s emergency preparedness.

International students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared.

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The White House is launching a review of Smithsonian museums to ensure alignment with President Trump’s view of American history. Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.  Be warned.

Take your ass to Cracker Barrel.

Trump’s EPA has: -Killed $15 million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands -Attempted to roll back forever chemical limits in drinking water -Delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage How does this “make America healthy again”?

The second Trump administration has removed more climate and environmental data from websites in the first 100 days than the first administration, according to a new report.

This was recorded in a parallel universe where Fox Business exists but batteries do not.