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Big new poll finds that ... are you sitting down? ... "a bipartisan majority supports raising taxes on high incomes and wealth, including restoring pre-2017 tax rates, taxing capital gains like regular income, and introducing new taxes on large fortunes."

Gargling the balls of a senescent grifter is not how I would want to spend my time in public service but I guess everyone is different.

There are very few people staying in MacArthur Park right now, so this does seem like it's just for show. But there's a summer camp at the rec center, one of the few affordable childcare options for LA families. Glad they could make their little propaganda video while traumatizing local kids

This is what they were saying in the 70 & 80s. Then Bill Clinton, taking them at face value, eviscerated the US social safety net, to the point that it is the weakest & most tattered among developed nations. And they're still saying it. It never had anything to do with reality.

Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…

Mamdani's agenda is not actually particularly radical if you take 5 fucking minutes to learn something about the details, which approximately 1% of political journalists have bothered to do.

100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. Note the long-term warming (climate change) and other patterns of variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña). Our oceans are accumulating a lot of excess heat! Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

this is really important. FEMA is effectively already being shut down.

I thought when Musk transformed Twitter into a playground for overt nazis & race scientists, it might prompt some kind of backlash from the US establishment. Instead it hasn't even prompted much comment! They didn't leave Twitter, Musk is still welcome in elite circles ... nothing. Amazing.

Not the America I spent my first seven decades in, will do what I can to help make it a temporary aberration @thirdactorg.bsky.social

I'll be on the Rachel Maddow show tonight in the second half of the 9pm ET hour talking about the Texas flooding and the connection to climate change. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This short video by @weatherwest.bsky.social provides a clear explanation of the meteorological factors contributing to this heartbreaking disaster and how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of heavy rain.

We don't have a NWS app thanks to the lobbying of Accuweather.

“According to sources within FEMA, “barely any staff” have been deployed, and the Acting Administrator David Richardson “is nowhere to be found.” Per one source, “if this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

It's a small thing, but a conservative relative who's been consistently climate dismissive just told me the Texas floods must be due to climate change, because heavy rain and flooding have clearly been worsening. I don't know why it took this to change their mind - I was too shocked to pry.

jfc, I got an email from a fact checker about whether cloud seeding could have caused the Texas floods. The answer: cloud seeding is (almost always) a scam. For many many many reasons, it is not responsible for the flooding.

New: Trump has issued a new executive order targeting the solar and wind industries, instructing the Treasury Department to limit how many renewable energy projects can still claim clean electricity credits under OBBA www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Please welcome @brittwray.bsky.social to Bluesky. She studies the rise of climate distress and how to channel it for action and resilience - and is the newest addition to my starter pack of folks who study, write and speak on the intersection of mental health and the climate crisis! More here:

it is so funny to imagine living in new england. are you guys like “whoops im in a different state!”? wakin’ up and driving over the border to get a muffin!

“After losing nearly 600 employees to layoffs and retirements as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal work force, the National Weather Service is planning to hire additional staff members to ‘stabilize’ the department.” 🙄

This (nearly 2 hour long!) livestream discussing the meteorology and broader context surrounding the Texas flood disaster was recorded live, and is now available in its entirety at link below. Journalists: as always, please feel free to pull any audio/video content from this recorded broadcast.

Here, for no particular reason, is a story about a WWII prisoner-of-war camp in Florida -- Liberty Point -- that was so unremittingly miserable that numerous people harmed or killed themselves to escape.

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...

“Everyone wants more warning time, and that’s why we’re working to upgrade the technology that’s been neglected for far too long to make sure families have as much advance notice as possible,” Noem said. The reality: Closing NOAA labs like NSSL, critical for flash flood forecasts & research.

It's frustrating, but all the fury on Bluesky only serves to confirm to these dipshits that they're doing it right. There's no way out of this shit cycle.

SunDay on Sept. 21 will be the chance to begin building public support for renewable energy again--and it will be easier this time than after Reagan, because it's now the cheapest power on earth. Please join us at sunday.earth

Oh, man, this is the coolest story! A Germans group called "Climate Connect Deutschland Marburg" held a big public event. They had a bunch of solar panels that had been discarded from big solar PV plants -- 20 years old, but still producing energy. At the event ...

Michigan utility DTE Energy was, it turns out, involved in the GOP-coordinated campaign to end Gov. Whitmer's Covid policies. After repeatedly & explicitly denying it supported the effort, records reveal a $100K donation to a dark superpac that subsequently referred to it as the "DTE donation."

me and my internet friends posting through it

Doomer Post Alert! Like most public-facing doomers, I get the question all the time, followed by "where's the best place to live?" In the US, we are lucky we live in a neo-fascist kakistocracy. Because it's going to get a whole lot worse. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/when-is-th...

¿Cómo se llama? 🦙

Here's good reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social on FEMA's response to the flooding in Texas. What exactly FEMA is and is not doing has been unclear, so this is helpful. www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-respo...

Who could have predicted that putting a vaccine denier in charge of health related issues would have consequences?

Proposed NOAA cuts would destroy the basic infrastructure for weather research–including hurricane and flash flood forecasting–and take decades to recover from. “It’s like blowing up a dam and trying to rebuild it by gluing the pieces back together. It won’t work. You have to start from scratch.”

This is not how competent, responsible adults talk.

The Meselson and Stahl experiment demonstrated in 1958 that DNA replicated semi-conservatively. Meaning, each of the two strands of DNA serves as a template for a new copy to made of the complementary strand. Foundational finding, elegant experimental design.

So glad they're getting $170 billion to do more of this all across the US.

My goober, hanging out at daycare with his goober friends.

This is an outrage, but also, look at all the citizens, with their cameras out both recording and shaming these secret military/police.

A look a trends in July temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... note that there are much greater regional differences when only evaluating one month at a time. Find the US warming hole (our paper on this feature doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...). Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

One more day: Mon flood risk just upgraded in central TX. NOAA/WPC: “Any storms that move across this extremely vulnerable region will rapidly cause flash flooding, some of which could be significant if cells repeat or stall over the already hard-hit regions.” www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/...

This is a pretty good article, with comments from @weatherwest.bsky.social and me. abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-w...

this is an excellent discussion of the July 4th Hill Country floods by @travisabc13.bsky.social, ABC13's chief meteorologist and a graduate of our program, @tamuatmo.bsky.social.

Spent a day in jury selection in TX & was reminded of the core values of my neighbors. Presented with Blackstone's ratio, asked to rate agreement from 1 to 5, most said "2". Asked why: "Well, sometimes you *have* to hurt innocent people to get to the bad ones." Sapped my faith in humanity. 😢

The magic of an Irish rainforest.

"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism." youtu.be/cFM4GVl-WqI

Isn’t driving by definition antisocial?

punishing the industries that are building out new electricity generation quickly while simultaneously warning of future blackouts is contradictory behavior. full stop. i wish i had even one small silver lining to point to

imagine being an adaptation planner in the UK and you are told, "well, the most likely thing that will happen is your country will get way hotter with a sharp increase in extreme temps... BUT there's a chance the AMOC could break in which case you'll get way way colder" So, prepare for that

to push back against his mom, a trump voter, he’s sharing her top secret cookie recipe with the internet.

“Some fruit was thrown, a lot of yelling” is how all protests should be.

Re-upping this piece by my colleague @megha.bsky.social "We live in the era of information; we can get weather alerts from Twitter, our smartphones and television. But it isn’t enough; as severe weather becomes more common, everyone in the U.S... should consider getting a ... weather radio." 🧪

Apparently, according to IFA on Morning Ireland just now, it’s an “Armageddon scenario” for agri sector if its licence to pollute, aka the Nitrates Derogation, is withdrawn. This is despite fact that EVERY other country in EU has scrapped this hugely damaging derogation.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, on how the Israeli army has been systematically murdering, abducting, torturing, and raping health care workers in order to break Palestinian society. Yet more *blatant* war crimes. An absolute must-watch, now free on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv3w...

laws, how do they work

So much of the media reporting on energy is unhelpful or misleading. Take the debate around coal in the UK - for years parts of the media reported a coal comeback which was due to seasonal fluctuations only. In September 2024 the last coal power plant went offline. Clear case for more nuance.

"Aimé Césaire talked about the 'imperial boomerang', the process by which violence that started against the colonies would be reimported to the colonised. Climate necropolitics is the ultimate imperial boomerang."

A new report: "Uncertainty and upward bias are inherent in data center electricity demand projections" Explores various reasons data centers won't grow as fast as predicted; among other things, there's no way global semiconductor-chip production can keep up with the inflated forecasts.

"My Uber driver was punctual and didn't bother with chit-chat. Five stars."

On The Climate Brink: What to know about the flooding in Texas? What's the connection to climate change? www.theclimatebrink.com/p/update-on-...

Senator Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding - Cruz was on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

100 years of changing July sea ice... Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p...

being upset with ann coulter feels so vintage

It's been 10 years since we first started delivering the weather forecast on WAMU 88.5! More details at cwg.live

The province of Alberta has nearly matched the entire United States' number of reported measles cases. www.dallasnews.com/business/hea...

Wow. Welcome to the streets of Trump's America. And is this a machine gun mounted on this armored car? (Photos by Mel Buer, I believe.)

Attacks on science are part of a 'concerted, programmatic effort to abolish democracy in the United States," says @lewan.bsky.social

This post was made by the Guardian's political editor over a month ago, and I am still reeling from the sheer credulousness. That anyone in a position of responsibility can observe this political moment and have this thought is, frankly, frightening.

This is not odd. Grok is a text generation engine that produces human-like sentences with zero coherence or sense, just the probabilistic outputs based on training data. It isn't "posting", it isn't "doubling down", in the same way Excel's random number formula isn't "backtracking" on a refresh

I was lucky* to get a bed in the ER pretty quickly after my arrival but I can still remember the feeling of pure relief the morning after my 11pm arrival at the ER when they finally were putting me to sleep in the OR to fix a bleed. *because my vitals were so unstable www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

if I have to come back here during my vacation can I at least post a hot selfie too

Better forecasting of flash floods is needed. NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory “is working to develop higher resolution modeling, but it's on the chopping block in the president's proposed budget.”

It is pretty amazing to see how much dumb shit people will believe to convince themselves climate change isn’t a thing.

This interview is a love letter to humanity.

This is bonkers and disqualifying for any position holding the public’s trust.

RIP to the days when we could trust the US Government to give us facts--even if selectively chosen. Now DOE is dishing straight fossil fuel industry propaganda and lies. www.energy.gov/articles/dep...

If you don’t grin while watching this, you should make sure you’re not dead.

The massive measles outbreak and other growing health crises aren't just a result of the last six months of RFK Jr. and MAGAs. They're the result of decades of RFK Jr. and MAGAs sowing doubts about science, vaccines and medicine, and the role of government. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

I've been paying no attention to the Epstein story because I've far too many other crises to deal with, but now that the Trump administration says there's nothing there, I'm convinced there's something there.

If you’re against ICE building concentration camps you should be against Israel building concentration camps.

6 day loop leading up to the Texas flood. You can see the moisture remnants of TS Barry merging w/ a developing meso low over W. Texas, stalling with pulsing convection over the Hill Country. A worst case scenario with a meteorological explanation. Not unprecedented but certainly a very rare event.

Let me once again remind everyone that emergency managers and disaster researchers warned Congress that FEMA would not be effective if it was moved under DHS and then within two years they spectacularly fucked up the Katrina response and then Congress still left FEMA in DHS.

Hope "doesn’t mean denying hard truths — it means holding them in one hand and doing the work with the other." Love this new definition by RAI Energy's Kristina Jansen wrote (on LI, so sharing here) after reflecting on what I write and say about this in my newsletter :)

an aside: about 15 years ago, I took an expert witness training course, and our final exercise was a mock trial. the case we argued was a city suing a cloud seeding company for causing a destructive flood. I remember thinking it was BS at time, and nothing's changed my view in the years since.

Yorkshire Water announces hosepipe ban after driest spring in 132 years… but who’s using it all? Some clues in this thread, including my investigation for the Guardian…

'These Deaths Are on Trump's Hands': Texas Flooding Spotlights Assault on Climate Science | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

If the Trump administration actually cared about the people of Texas, they wouldn't be firing climate scientists and shutting down the NOAA labs that make our weather forecasts possible.

morning exercise is doing wonders for my mental health. highly recommend

Your 'moment of doom' for July 8, 2025 ~ Feedback loop alert! "sustained eruptions would pump significant greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide and methane. This would further heat the planet and potentially create a vicious circle..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It really is not normal to live through all the shit we've lived through.

Scienticide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Smith, Ford's Pipeline Pact a National Betrayal I'm planting my flag on this hill, folks: the evidence says there is not enough global demand for AB's heavy crude to justify ONE pipeline, let alone more. Taxpayers are about to be fleeced. #ableg youtu.be/TWsUZAPpfC8

Going to Athens in July is known as a thucydides trap

A reminder that Trump/GOP have stopped updating the NOAA billion-dollar disaster dataset. Is it possible for someone else to adopt the NOAA methods and continue to update this? For example, is the Texas flooding a billion-dollar disaster? www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...

"A review of... communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the NWS showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so." www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

when will erin reed issue a correction?

Do they think any families of those who lost their lives will feel better thinking that the early warning system worked well? Especially when it’s a lie?

As more bodies are found and identified, Senate Republicans will push forward this week to gut climate science, install oil-industry lobbyists in key positions at the EPA and Department of Energy, and put Taylor “The Greatest Hoax” Jordan in charge of privatizing the National Weather Service.

insurance agent wants to know why I’m interested in supplemental flood even tho I’m not in a flood zone

Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps | @janrosenow.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3UluS0i