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The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪
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“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as ‘scouts’, in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
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Today is the court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to withdraw California National Guard troops from Los Angeles.
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today is the court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to withdraw California National Guard troops from Los Angeles.
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NEWSMAX: Your goal is 5,000 arrests in New Orleans. How did you come up with that figure?
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NEWSMAX: Your goal is 5,000 arrests in New Orleans. How did you come up with that figure?
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
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Glad the good folks at @merriam-webster.com are helping lead the AI resistance
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Glad the good folks at @merriam-webster.com are helping lead the AI resistance
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NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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New Weather West post: As warm atmospheric rivers slide gradually southward along Pacific Coast, a return to rain and end to tule fog in NorCal later this week–but don’t expect much mountain snow (at least initially).
As warm atmospheric rivers slide gradually southward along Pacific Coast, a return to rain and end to tule fog in NorCal later this week–but don’t expect much mountain snow - Weather West
An exceptional temperature inversion: Weeks of tule fog and damp chill in the Central Valley amid a record-warm airmass more broadly across American West and California Well, it sure has been another dramatic couple of weeks when it comes to Western U.S. weather! But exactly what the drama has been varies widely from place to
weatherwest.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New Weather West post: As warm atmospheric rivers slide gradually southward along Pacific Coast, a return to rain and end to tule fog in NorCal later this week–but don’t expect much mountain snow (at least initially).
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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In this thread @kevinmkruse.bsky.social digs up an amazing example of the bigotry wielded against people like Stephen Miller's ancestors. Similar to the stuff you see in the Department of Homeland Security's official twitter feed.
Must read piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In this thread @kevinmkruse.bsky.social digs up an amazing example of the bigotry wielded against people like Stephen Miller's ancestors. Similar to the stuff you see in the Department of Homeland Security's official twitter feed.
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The Supreme Court grants one new case this morning, a case about racial discrimination in jury selection.
Here is the full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Here is the full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Supreme Court grants one new case this morning, a case about racial discrimination in jury selection.
Here is the full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Here is the full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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If Bezos is going to run the Post into the ground I'm just glad he's doing it in such a ham-handed, incompetent way that nobody will lend its carcass any credibility.
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If Bezos is going to run the Post into the ground I'm just glad he's doing it in such a ham-handed, incompetent way that nobody will lend its carcass any credibility.
What..?!
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What..?!
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
With @chronicle.com
With @chronicle.com
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
With @chronicle.com
With @chronicle.com
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
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"In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets."
"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."
Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son: (Exclusive Sources)
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found after first responders were called to the couple's Brentwood home at 3:30 p.m.
people.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets."
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Shameful. Every single so-called liberal natsec professional in DC who has found something positive to write about the recently released National Security Strategy without mentioning the horrific racism that is leading to action like this should also be ashamed.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Shameful. Every single so-called liberal natsec professional in DC who has found something positive to write about the recently released National Security Strategy without mentioning the horrific racism that is leading to action like this should also be ashamed.
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I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.
I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.
December 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Feel free to boost this if you'd like.
I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.
I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.
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I hate posting to the daily fail , but. She's not the only one. There was that shooting in california awhile back where some of the people were survivors of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay/Festival shooting. People are experiencing more than one mass shooting.
Parkland survivor describes sheltering in dorm at Brown to escape
A Brown University sophomore who survived the 2018 Parkland school shooting said she feared history was repeating itself as reports of gunfire spread across campus on Saturday.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I hate posting to the daily fail , but. She's not the only one. There was that shooting in california awhile back where some of the people were survivors of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay/Festival shooting. People are experiencing more than one mass shooting.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — At least 2 people have been killed and several others injured in shooting at Brown University, AP source says.
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — At least 2 people have been killed and several others injured in shooting at Brown University, AP source says.
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A recording of the Reask-hosted webinar on hurricane Intensification in a warming climate is now available (click "watch on demand" at bottom of page). Steve Bowen & I discuss science involved, parallels w/wildfire risk, & insurance industry implications.
Hurricane intensification: a changing reality | Reask
Join climate expert Dr. Daniel Swain and Gallagher Re’s Steve Bowen for a deep dive into hurricane intensification, modelling approaches, and (re)insurance risk.
reask.earth
December 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A recording of the Reask-hosted webinar on hurricane Intensification in a warming climate is now available (click "watch on demand" at bottom of page). Steve Bowen & I discuss science involved, parallels w/wildfire risk, & insurance industry implications.
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This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.
In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.