Donald Trump’s net approval rating is the lowest it has ever been, at -18%. See how Americans are feeling about their president with our tracker

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

💥 A group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint in July against the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The team's website continues to display its commitment to DEI. Congratulations, Dodgers! #Dodgers #WorldSeries

My latest on the Administration's wildly unlawful shutdown of SNAP. To buy their argument, you must ignore the interpretation they took Sept. 30 and repeatedly in the first Trump Administration. Shamelesly and gratuitously cruel. Balkinization share.google/yaVtx89DJsIR...

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at using virtual power plants to curb blackouts and Jane Goodall’s call to action on protecting the natural environment.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

This map shows temperature departures averaged over the last 3 months. What's it like in your area? 🟥 warmer than average 🟦 colder than average Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

To the 9News anchor who just said today's shooting at my kid's is "something we have to accept in our world" — it is not. I do not accept that my children have to live in fear. I do not accept that any child should ever be shot, at school or anywhere else.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

Pittsburgh City Council advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the construction of “interim housing” — residential units that house homeless people while they transition to more permanent housing, in certain areas of the city.

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These Ohioans Got a Deal on Solar Panels. Here’s Their Secret. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

As I show in Holding It Together, women who get pushed out of the workforce because of childcare often later gravitate toward conservative ideologies. Because those ideologies (and the Christian moms' groups promoting them) validate their new roles. 2/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

Why is Ohio’s Attorney General participating in an event led by a hate group, as designated by the SPLC?

The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

Check out this article from The Columbus Dispatch: ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series www.dispatch.com/story/entert...

“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, including those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild. “When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot." --from Orwell's Roses

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Between this and the news that Vought has stopped the NIH from issuing any more grants this year — (illegally) refusing to spend money that Congress has allocated — we're getting a glimpse of what could be a really ugly future for higher ed and science / technology in the US. And it's coming fast.

Bove is genuinely still on the hook for possible criminal contempt charges. Which, if the DC Circuit ever gets off its ass and does something about its "administrative" stay (since APRIL), may require him to testify under oath, despite being a judge. Unprecedented situation.

BREAKING: The Senate Republicans just confirmed Emil Bove to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a man whose lawless actions should lead to his being disbarred — not confirmed to an appeals court. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...

Devastating. heatmap.news/economy/trum...

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

Crew acquire striker Wessam Abou Ali as DP reut.rs/45lyzbL

Yes we are.

Check out this article from The Columbus Dispatch: Garden: Deadheading is important during the summer www.dispatch.com/story/lifest...

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health. "Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."

It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Graphic by zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

NYT: "Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small % of vaccines, that has been falsely linked to autism." I'm appalled by what HHS has become in just a few months. It can't be trusted. Saying so breaks my heart. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

U.S. Homes Are Not Selling, and Prices Continue to Rise www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/r...

Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Did you think he'd go quietly? Unannounced guests on Colbert tonight included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, and Weird Al Yankovic, and Colbert said "Go fuck yourself" to Trump and did a bunch of Trump/Epstein material.