Walrus Butter
@walrusbutter.bsky.social
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Today Trump is dismissing as a "hoax" the existential threat posed by climate change. Yesterday he promoted the myth that vaccines cause autism. It's almost as if he's out there trying to underscore the central thesis of our ( @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and my) new book #ScienceUnderSiege:
September 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today Trump is dismissing as a "hoax" the existential threat posed by climate change. Yesterday he promoted the myth that vaccines cause autism. It's almost as if he's out there trying to underscore the central thesis of our ( @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and my) new book #ScienceUnderSiege:
let’s hear it for Bubble Protest Dude on the National Mall for pushing back against the MAHA banners, giant Trump heads, and National Guard kids with rifles
September 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
let’s hear it for Bubble Protest Dude on the National Mall for pushing back against the MAHA banners, giant Trump heads, and National Guard kids with rifles
first monarch in my 5yo’s butterfly garden (Arlington, VA)
September 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
first monarch in my 5yo’s butterfly garden (Arlington, VA)
I take my 3yo and 5yo to the Smithsonian, National Gallery, and/or Botanical Gardens most weekends to expose them to culture and to teach them to comport themselves publicwise
the new National Guard presence presents an exciting opportunity to show them encroaching fascism
#DCOccupation
the new National Guard presence presents an exciting opportunity to show them encroaching fascism
#DCOccupation
August 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I take my 3yo and 5yo to the Smithsonian, National Gallery, and/or Botanical Gardens most weekends to expose them to culture and to teach them to comport themselves publicwise
the new National Guard presence presents an exciting opportunity to show them encroaching fascism
#DCOccupation
the new National Guard presence presents an exciting opportunity to show them encroaching fascism
#DCOccupation
I want huge protest kites flying over the National Mall
huge swaths of fabric flying in the public sky next to the Washington Monument, Capitol, WW2/Vietnam/Lincoln Memorials
it’s free speech, it’s free space, it’s visible from gov’t offices, it’ll show up in tourist photos
huge swaths of fabric flying in the public sky next to the Washington Monument, Capitol, WW2/Vietnam/Lincoln Memorials
it’s free speech, it’s free space, it’s visible from gov’t offices, it’ll show up in tourist photos
August 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I want huge protest kites flying over the National Mall
huge swaths of fabric flying in the public sky next to the Washington Monument, Capitol, WW2/Vietnam/Lincoln Memorials
it’s free speech, it’s free space, it’s visible from gov’t offices, it’ll show up in tourist photos
huge swaths of fabric flying in the public sky next to the Washington Monument, Capitol, WW2/Vietnam/Lincoln Memorials
it’s free speech, it’s free space, it’s visible from gov’t offices, it’ll show up in tourist photos
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
TOMEX+ seen from Arlington, VA
August 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
TOMEX+ seen from Arlington, VA
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Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
n.pr
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
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A. It was George W. Bush's Republican EPA Secretary Christine Todd Whitman who first declared CO2 a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
B. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points: granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/19/c...
B. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points: granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/19/c...
July 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A. It was George W. Bush's Republican EPA Secretary Christine Todd Whitman who first declared CO2 a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
B. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points: granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/19/c...
B. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points: granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/19/c...
Raise ‘Em Right #1
I gave my daughter the “I❤️U” sign and asked if she knew what it meant. She said, “Nanoo nanoo?”
I gave my daughter the “I❤️U” sign and asked if she knew what it meant. She said, “Nanoo nanoo?”
August 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Raise ‘Em Right #1
I gave my daughter the “I❤️U” sign and asked if she knew what it meant. She said, “Nanoo nanoo?”
I gave my daughter the “I❤️U” sign and asked if she knew what it meant. She said, “Nanoo nanoo?”
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“If you have seen one graph on the subject of climate change, the chances are that it is the one that bears my family name.”
In a guest essay, Ralph Keeling warns about Donald Trump’s war on science, and the implications for our warming planet
In a guest essay, Ralph Keeling warns about Donald Trump’s war on science, and the implications for our warming planet
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
econ.st
July 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“If you have seen one graph on the subject of climate change, the chances are that it is the one that bears my family name.”
In a guest essay, Ralph Keeling warns about Donald Trump’s war on science, and the implications for our warming planet
In a guest essay, Ralph Keeling warns about Donald Trump’s war on science, and the implications for our warming planet
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Latest on Money Trail: Key EPA climate study based on discredited science. "There is nothing scientific about this report whatsoever... what you would get if you asked an AI chatbot to write a fake climate report trained on climate denial propaganda" @michaelemann.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
EPA Rationale for Ending Climate Regs Under the Clean Air Act Based on Discredited Science
Authors of the study EPA used to justify its decision are climate science deniers
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Latest on Money Trail: Key EPA climate study based on discredited science. "There is nothing scientific about this report whatsoever... what you would get if you asked an AI chatbot to write a fake climate report trained on climate denial propaganda" @michaelemann.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
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The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.
Trump's EPA wants to eliminate regulation for greenhouse gases
The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.
n.pr
July 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.
this is how everyone in Texas looks at me when I say I don’t eat meat
July 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
this is how everyone in Texas looks at me when I say I don’t eat meat
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The Senate voted to pull all funding for PBS and NPR.
Congress must vote by Friday 7/18.
Please. Call your representatives.
It costs $1.68/ YEAR for countless activities and resources, nationally and locally.
Public media returns $7 in services for every $1 spent.
202-224-3121
Congress must vote by Friday 7/18.
Please. Call your representatives.
It costs $1.68/ YEAR for countless activities and resources, nationally and locally.
Public media returns $7 in services for every $1 spent.
202-224-3121
Protect My Public Media
Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.
Www.protectmypublicmedia.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Senate voted to pull all funding for PBS and NPR.
Congress must vote by Friday 7/18.
Please. Call your representatives.
It costs $1.68/ YEAR for countless activities and resources, nationally and locally.
Public media returns $7 in services for every $1 spent.
202-224-3121
Congress must vote by Friday 7/18.
Please. Call your representatives.
It costs $1.68/ YEAR for countless activities and resources, nationally and locally.
Public media returns $7 in services for every $1 spent.
202-224-3121
ffs people
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human efforts to control the weather are again spreading on social media. It’s not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
Weather Modification Played No Role in Texas Floods - FactCheck.org
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caus...
www.factcheck.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ffs people
kids’ trip to Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum turned into a lesson about invasive species when we saw our first adult spotted lantern fly in Virginia
July 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
kids’ trip to Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum turned into a lesson about invasive species when we saw our first adult spotted lantern fly in Virginia
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"Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change" by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social for The @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change" by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social for The @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
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Arlington VA, No Kings Protest from the border of DC through the whole county
June 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Arlington VA, No Kings Protest from the border of DC through the whole county
who wore it better
June 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
who wore it better
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May 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
Where does your weather forecast come from?
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social