Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

I don't know what else to say anymore. This is where we are at as a country. And people need to say it out loud: ICE is kidnapping children.

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Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

Beavers are awesome

A PSA to federal employees working on climate and environmental science/policy If you're witnessing political and/or industry interference in your work now that Big Oil has effectively captured the government, you don't have to let it slide. Contact me securely: heated.world/p/a-tipline-...

This is it, we've had enough. Join me outside of the US EPA headquarters. I'll be speaking alongside @markey.senate.gov and @actonclimateus.bsky.social leaders to defend EPA programs and people. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

I can’t agree with this more. Throwing your hands up and assuming illegality implicitly accepts the illegality — it makes it OK.

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

If you’ve ever complained about free speech on college campuses but aren’t upset about this, you’re not serious. Can’t even do mainstream economics while avoiding this list.

There is a pervasive sentiment that marches that don’t disrupt your target are “performative” That is 100% wrong The most important thing about a protest is that it gives people hope 🧵 1/x

Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire. He should not have access to or control over trillions in Treasury payments. From Social Security, to Medicare, and even tax refunds, this is the American people’s money.

putting this call out again: are you a climate or enviro scientist whose work has been paused due to the change in admin? is your job impacted by the IRA/BIL freeze? do you work in decarb and have concerns about your job stability? hit my line: [email protected] i’m on signal too, dm for info.

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

this is completely insane. like, literally insane. that water is supposed to be stored for the summer.

89% of the world’s population want their govts to “do more” to fix climate change. However, those 89% don’t know that they are the overwhelming majority — that most other people on Earth also want govts to take stronger climate action #ClimateAction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Confirmation that distribution of already contracted funds have been frozen: "EPA cuts off IRA solar money already under contract. Recipients of the $7 billion Solar For All program were locked out of an online portal that’s used to distribute federal funding."

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights

Yes. My husband is an NIH-funded scientist studying infectious diseases such as whooping cough, covid, & influenza. The current grant funding his salary runs out of money this summer; a delay in grant reviews means he won’t get a new grant funded before then. He’ll lose his job.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

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Disasters move on from the headlines, but the effects linger. 12,000 Western NC residents remain displaced after Hurricane Helene. This article tells of folks using pine needles as insulation under their camper carpets as winter cold set in. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

“When they heard that an atmospheric river was in the forecast, #Vancouver city staff knew their NEW RAINWAY was about to be put to the test. The green stormwater system, the 1st of its kind to be designed by the city, was to be hit with a volume of water that would break records…” Via @thetyee.ca

The NYT could have explored interesting questions (Why do some investors stay committed to this idea even when there’s no clear market? Why are we relying on VC and charity to drive innovation, and what would the alternatives be? What does the broader decrease in $$ for climatetech portend?)

This is fascinating and surprising. GPT4 got people to rethink their conspiracy theories purely based on evidence

Read our social cost of carbon meta-review machine-learning something something open access in @pnas.org here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lovely stuff. People making a difference for nature, all over the country. ‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It *is* weird that some species of sharks lay eggs while some give live birth! And it's even weirder than that- there are even more modes of reproduction among sharks, including some *only found in sharks*. How did that happen?I don't know. It's a surprisingly biodiverse group, and an ancient one

Perhaps the least encouraging words in the English language: "The President has been watching right-wing Youtube".

3-3 Due to painful experiences and a high level of civic education, Koreans knew exactly what dictators would do first in a coup. They rushed to the National Assembly before the dictator’s forces could seize it and prevent a vote to lift martial law. In doing so, they saved our democracy.

Here's a list of seven nature- and climate-positive U.S. state ballot measures that were passed in yesterday's federal election -- in California, Washington, Rhode Island, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana and Colorado.

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

We are literally doing that!!! Please answer your phone!

Did somebody call for cute?! (Piping Plover) #birds 🌿

You can register to vote on Election Day in: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, ID, IL, IA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MT, NV, NH, NM, RI, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY; get a say in: - open primaries and ranked choice elections - reproductive rights - swing districts to determine control of Congress! learn more: votemaximizer.org

I keep seeing posts with "states where I think you can register on election day" that include states where you absolutely cannot register on election day, so please don't get your info from Bluesky, check your state's info directly.

Michiganders: if you still have a ballot at home, you need to drop it in a dropbox or go to an early voting site and stick it in the tabulator. DO NOT mail it back, it likely will not make it in time. Go to mvic.sos.state.mi.us to see where to vote and what's on your ballot.

Dressed up last night as a 7% discount rate and ate all my kid's candy before we got home from trick-or-treating.

Another Texas miscarriage horror story: doctors turned her away three times before she died in agony. www.propublica.org/article/neva...

Facebook is running ads right now saying the election may be postponed, or that Harris may drop out. The ads appear to violate the company’s misinfo rules, but they’re still live. FB has taken >$1M from the advertisers, including >$350k this week. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

A blitz of Facebook ads by what purports to be a pro-Harris group, but is secretly a front for a pro-Trump dark money group funded by Elon Musk to lie about Harris's platform, does not violate Meta's ad transparency policies, we report in today's Tech Brief. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Important note from one of the lawyers representing the nonprofit organizations that sued: There is same-day registration in Virginia, so, know what you need to bring with you, but even purged legal voters should be able to vote if they realize they were improperly purged.

Ballot drop off box in Clark County, Washington was set on fire last night and hundreds of ballots were lost.

New study finds that gas cooking may cause approximately 36,000 premature deaths and 367,000 cases of childhood asthma in Europe every year. The economic burden of these preventable deaths is estimated at €143 billion. Read more: epha.org/health-impac...