Rod Schoonover-Rey
@rodschoonover.bsky.social
Scientist. Professor. Former Senior Intelligence Official. Public Speaker. Passionate about redefining security in the face of planetary change. Proudly Native.
Clear-eyed about our trajectory. Focused on radically changing course. Anti-fascist.
Clear-eyed about our trajectory. Focused on radically changing course. Anti-fascist.
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U.S. officials have confirmed more than a dozen attacks on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific since September, resulting in at least 76 deaths.
Here’s a closer look at all the strikes:
Here’s a closer look at all the strikes:
Mapping U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific
An ongoing record of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
U.S. officials have confirmed more than a dozen attacks on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific since September, resulting in at least 76 deaths.
Here’s a closer look at all the strikes:
Here’s a closer look at all the strikes:
As a former U.S. intelligence official, I welcome this break. Such actions by the White House are likely illegal and definitely immoral. It is simply unacceptable, and more U.S. officials should be resigning in protest.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
As a former U.S. intelligence official, I welcome this break. Such actions by the White House are likely illegal and definitely immoral. It is simply unacceptable, and more U.S. officials should be resigning in protest.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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mods are out on the town: academics, don't ever send me an M D P I special issue invite or paper anything else, thank's, and students, if your advisor suggests this, run
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
mods are out on the town: academics, don't ever send me an M D P I special issue invite or paper anything else, thank's, and students, if your advisor suggests this, run
I think one of the hardest things for many to swallow is that maybe he has been shallow on this issue the whole time.
“Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists" | Article by @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists
Gates recently called for a ‘strategic pivot’ in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I think one of the hardest things for many to swallow is that maybe he has been shallow on this issue the whole time.
Such an easy thing to implement. We could make it happen if we had courage from the very same Congress that argues these same points.
You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS.
I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...
I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Such an easy thing to implement. We could make it happen if we had courage from the very same Congress that argues these same points.
I met Watson at a lunch when I was a Scripps Institute Visiting Professor in the late 1990s. Many of us were understandably mesmerized by meeting the legendary biologist, but his comments on women and race even then were uncomfortable to listen to.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I met Watson at a lunch when I was a Scripps Institute Visiting Professor in the late 1990s. Many of us were understandably mesmerized by meeting the legendary biologist, but his comments on women and race even then were uncomfortable to listen to.
Lots of people these days offering up “Project 2029” type remedies for US futures. Great. But if those plans don’t initiate a fundamental departure from 20th century policies/thinking, we won’t come close to achieving the necessary escape velocity to leave our incrementalist present behind.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Lots of people these days offering up “Project 2029” type remedies for US futures. Great. But if those plans don’t initiate a fundamental departure from 20th century policies/thinking, we won’t come close to achieving the necessary escape velocity to leave our incrementalist present behind.
Every musician loves and was affected by artists before (and after) them. I would love a YouTube/etc channel devoted to famous musicians geeking out about one of their favorite artists. (For example, I’d love to listen to the Flaming Lips expound about their love of Butthole Surfers or Nick Cave).
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Every musician loves and was affected by artists before (and after) them. I would love a YouTube/etc channel devoted to famous musicians geeking out about one of their favorite artists. (For example, I’d love to listen to the Flaming Lips expound about their love of Butthole Surfers or Nick Cave).
There is no US strategic interest served by bombing Venezuela. So what is this about?
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There is no US strategic interest served by bombing Venezuela. So what is this about?
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Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world | PNAS
Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the
thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs...
www.pnas.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
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this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
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Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
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I do copyediit over the phone from the manuscript rather than sit there and be insulted by the AI, or spend any time at all attempting to toggle it off. Nobody wanted this and nobody wants this
This morning’s hype anthem
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I do copyediit over the phone from the manuscript rather than sit there and be insulted by the AI, or spend any time at all attempting to toggle it off. Nobody wanted this and nobody wants this
This looks unbelievably bad. Wish we still had USAID expertise in the U.S. government.
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Hurricane Melissa begins lashing Jamaica as 'catastrophic' Category 5 storm
Hurricane Melissa began lashing Jamaica with violent gusts on Monday as the U.S. National Hurricane Center upgraded it to a Category 5 storm packing sustained winds of 165 mph, the largest on record to slam into the Caribbean island.
www.reuters.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This looks unbelievably bad. Wish we still had USAID expertise in the U.S. government.
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
In 2028, whoever runs on updating the FCC and FTC to halt the flood of unsolicited text messages will score major points.
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In 2028, whoever runs on updating the FCC and FTC to halt the flood of unsolicited text messages will score major points.
Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say
Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepare
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.
Governor Kathy Hochul is speaking on stage, but the crowd keeps interrupting to chant #TaxTheRich
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.
My highly irritating opinion on best decades for rock music:
— 80s (almost wholly bc of alt rock )
— 90s (indie heyday)
— 00s (great but fewer innovations)
— 70s (I grew up in this one)
— 60s (amazing counterbalanced by bad)
— 10s (somewhat underinformed tho)
— 80s (almost wholly bc of alt rock )
— 90s (indie heyday)
— 00s (great but fewer innovations)
— 70s (I grew up in this one)
— 60s (amazing counterbalanced by bad)
— 10s (somewhat underinformed tho)
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My highly irritating opinion on best decades for rock music:
— 80s (almost wholly bc of alt rock )
— 90s (indie heyday)
— 00s (great but fewer innovations)
— 70s (I grew up in this one)
— 60s (amazing counterbalanced by bad)
— 10s (somewhat underinformed tho)
— 80s (almost wholly bc of alt rock )
— 90s (indie heyday)
— 00s (great but fewer innovations)
— 70s (I grew up in this one)
— 60s (amazing counterbalanced by bad)
— 10s (somewhat underinformed tho)
Save this clip for the reckoning to come.
Q: Would the administration consider putting troops on the ground in any capacity in Venezuela?
STEPHEN MILLER: These are terrorists and they're gonna be killed
STEPHEN MILLER: These are terrorists and they're gonna be killed
October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Save this clip for the reckoning to come.
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Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
Multi-century global and regional sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades - Nature Climate Change
It is important to understand how much long-term sea-level rise is already committed due to historical and near-term emissions. Here the authors use a modelling framework to show how decisions on glob...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
At long last, those of us who have been demanding that the East Wing be destroyed have representation in government. Our prayers have been answered!
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
At long last, those of us who have been demanding that the East Wing be destroyed have representation in government. Our prayers have been answered!
As one who sees climate change as a security issue, I likewise view climate obstruction through the same lens. That’s why this momentous assessment is so important for our moment.
Climate obstruction is not about honest policy differences, but rather organized sabotage.
cssn.org/news-researc...
Climate obstruction is not about honest policy differences, but rather organized sabotage.
cssn.org/news-researc...
Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.
cssn.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As one who sees climate change as a security issue, I likewise view climate obstruction through the same lens. That’s why this momentous assessment is so important for our moment.
Climate obstruction is not about honest policy differences, but rather organized sabotage.
cssn.org/news-researc...
Climate obstruction is not about honest policy differences, but rather organized sabotage.
cssn.org/news-researc...