🚨 BREAKING: @merkley.senate.gov is calling for mega-polluting gas company Venture Global to be investigated for potential insider trading after reporting from @theguardian.com uncovered suspiciously timed stock purchases by its billionaire Trump-friendly CEOs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
please check out the report about the loss of EPA grants this year. compilation and analysis by esteemed colleagues @christophercane.bsky.social , @ericnost.bsky.social and @manuelsalgado.bsky.social; moral support by yours truly. thanks to all who made this analysis happen!
You can see all of what we’ve archived to date at screening-tools.com and you can nominate datasets there too. Also you can sign up to get more involved
@altnoaa.bsky.social wondering if you’d be up for a little collab? Not sure how you message on here but lmk if you’re open to it
Data nerds against facism! ✊✊✊
MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place.
A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5
For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST
Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Sorry I’m so late seeing your note! Wild isn’t it?!
JFC they want to close Mauna Loa observatory??? 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Grimly fascinating read. Sadists R Us leading the US federal govt.
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
NEWS --> Dems fear a Defense Department IG review of Elon Musk's flouting of security protocol as a big recipient of Pentagon contracts is now dead under Trump. DOD launched the probe in 2024, but then Trump fired DOD's IG, so what happened to that probe?
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
That’s not true. Some red states are getting purple. Texas will someday be blue it’s just a matter of time.
As Trump points to fentanyl to justify huge tariffs on allies, former ICE official tells me his demand for high deportation quotas will redirect resources away from targeting fentanyl and toward apprehending migrants who aren't serious criminals:
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
Yep. Texas here. We’ve been battling fascist policies and officials for years, but this is a whole other level. If red state Rs can be pissed off enough to push back, that’s something. But we need progressives in red states so don’t say we all just “need to move”
Here's what current Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to say about USAID in the past.
Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day abcnews.go.com/US/federal-e...
Resistance artwork by @lightbulbnerd.bsky.social . Saving data one bit at a time 🛟
Since I was laid off from Vox a few weeks ago, I no longer cover public health for that outlet -- but I sure do stay in touch with my many sources at the CDC and in public health more broadly
The overwhelming msg they're getting this week is that this admin simply has no idea how anything works
Oops helps if I tell you how: 601-273-9577
Ok can you message me via text or signal? I’d love to collaborate.
I’m working with an archiving effort and we don’t have so much climate data
Hey Josh - could you let me know which datasets you prioritize for climate? Specific websites or ftp is best
DOE ETC Explorer
Graphic for a new episode of the Healthy Climate America podcast featuring host Lisa Patel, Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, and Laalitha Surapaneni, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The text reads: 'New Podcast Episode - The False Promise of Natural Gas: Exploring LNG Advocacy.' Listen now: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica.
LNG isn’t just warming our planet—it’s devastating communities. In a new episode of Healthy Climate America, Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni joins host @lisapatel.bsky.social to unpack LNG’s inequitable impacts, dispel industry myths, and share advocacy strategies.
🎧 bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica
