“Students of political theory sometimes define the state as the entity that exercises a monopoly on violence; under Trump, the state seems to want to claim a monopoly on anonymity, too.”

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Every word, every sentence with every dot. Greta not only speaks the important truth and has the courage to act throughout. She shows us. “This genocide is being enabled and fuelled by our own governments, our institutions, our media and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity.”

“How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The logic of killing civilians by declaring them terrorists is not new. The Wehrmacht taught its officers during Operation Barbarossa „Wherever the partisan is, there is the Jew and wherever the Jew is there is the Partisan.“ thereby justifying extermination campaigns as anti-Partisan operations.

This ebike fights fascists

“Their demise is unconnected to a possible federal shutdown: Instead, employees say, Interior Department officials have not approved paperwork that would help fund them for another five years.”

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

15 MINUTES until former CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies in front of Congress about her firing and turmoil in the agency under RFK Jr. We will be watching LIVE and giving updates and reactions! www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

There are hundreds of reasons to decry the impact of social media on journalism, but something that's really been irking me lately is what I call (in my head) influencer solutionism -- the idea that there is no benefit to documenting or revealing a problem unless you also have the solution ready...🧵

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

“We can now point to specific heatwaves and say, ‘Saudi Aramco did this. ExxonMobil did this.’“ Study links oil giants' emissions directly to dozens of deadly heatwaves [via @theguardian.com]

Can’t say I’ve ever seen an Ocean Heat Blob this intense & vast, over the entirety of the Pacific basin - the marine heatwave is literally from coast to coast. It’s remarkable. Since May the record heat has now migrated to US West Coast. Note: the Tropical Pacific is cooling (La Nina forming)

We Take Clouds for Granted #cawater www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“On the front line, all crews take orders from the same command structure and breathe the same smoke. But the laws that cover government workers do not extend to contractors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

425.39 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 03-Sep-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Three of nine regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) across the country will shut down by October if OMB continues to withhold funds to renew their 5-year cooperative agreements - which includes funds already appropriated to the CASCs by Congress for Fiscal Year 2025.

We need an epipocalypse card for fascism

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

How to recognize shoddy studies that claim to link vaccines and autism. Essay by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3UUNrIp

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Any research that threatens powerful interests or creates facts that challenge the fascist project are under assault. This should be glaringly obvious in August 2025. blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Motherfucking wind farms…

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Right of Return www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

My first two Bhattacharya email day... This one is coming in hot... 1/n

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

I’m pretty sure George Orwell and Groucho Marx co-wrote a book about this

A period of notable--and possibly record-breaking--heat is now expected across much of northern CA, southern OR, and portions of northern Fri-Sat. Temps could reach ~110F in portions of Central Valley, and some all-time May records may be at risk. #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Bluetorial: The Kent State killings This is the 55th anniversary of the killings of four students at Kent State in 1970s. This event hit me hard when I was 12. In a tumultuous time, this stood out to me as next-level insanity. The possibility of a sequel these days scares me deeply.

Direct inverse correlation

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

apnews.com/article/clim... world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates

Why was the first Earth Day in 1970? In 1969, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District recorded 65 days out of compliance with the ozone health standard, a record that still stands today. Santa Clara County was regularly blanketed in smog and breathing for many was a daily struggle.

76% of all the CO2 released by humans has been released since the first earth day in 1970.

“A single year of ghg emissions from tankers carrying LNG from the US more than cancels out the annual reductions achieved through driving all the electric vehicles currently on U.S. roads.” The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...