Alexandria Herr
@alexandriah13.bsky.social
Climate researcher and writer. Words and illustrations @The Guardian, Nature Climate Change, Grist, the Washington Post, Atmos, and elsewhere.
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The federal website for the national climate reports and other climate change information went dark Monday afternoon, the latest ripple of the shutdown of the legislatively mandated Global Change Research Program.
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National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The federal website for the national climate reports and other climate change information went dark Monday afternoon, the latest ripple of the shutdown of the legislatively mandated Global Change Research Program.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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Hurricane season is here, but FEMA and NOAA are short on staff, training, and resources. Experts say the country might not be ready for a major storm.
Full AP story:
apnews.com/article/hurr...
#HurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse #FEMA #NOAA #ClimateRisk
Full AP story:
apnews.com/article/hurr...
#HurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse #FEMA #NOAA #ClimateRisk
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hurricane season is here, but FEMA and NOAA are short on staff, training, and resources. Experts say the country might not be ready for a major storm.
Full AP story:
apnews.com/article/hurr...
#HurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse #FEMA #NOAA #ClimateRisk
Full AP story:
apnews.com/article/hurr...
#HurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse #FEMA #NOAA #ClimateRisk
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Joni Ernst’s casually cruel remark is actually a bedrock of Republican politics. Death does not matter for certain people, if it means a supposed economic boost to the few.
Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on Ernst's "Well, we all are going to die."
Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on Ernst's "Well, we all are going to die."
"Well, we’re all going to die," says Joni Ernst in defense of Medicaid cuts
Joni Ernst's casual cruelty is an accidental bedrock of GOP politics: Death does not matter, for certain people.
www.motherjones.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Joni Ernst’s casually cruel remark is actually a bedrock of Republican politics. Death does not matter for certain people, if it means a supposed economic boost to the few.
Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on Ernst's "Well, we all are going to die."
Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on Ernst's "Well, we all are going to die."
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Hurricane season has begun amid chaos at the federal agencies that forecast and respond to disasters. Experts say the country’s ability to deal with extreme weather is eroding - but the biggest impacts may not hit immediately or manifest in the most obvious places. 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/cha...
Chaos at FEMA, NOAA as hurricane season starts
Faltering forecasts, fired experts and whipsawing policy changes are raising questions about how the Trump administration will respond to disasters this
www.eenews.net
June 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hurricane season has begun amid chaos at the federal agencies that forecast and respond to disasters. Experts say the country’s ability to deal with extreme weather is eroding - but the biggest impacts may not hit immediately or manifest in the most obvious places. 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/cha...
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
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In case you didn’t know, a LOOOOT of industrial solar is sited on agriculturally zoned lands,
because the land is in commonly in very sunny areas,
and often isn’t as economic to farm compared to the money from a solar lease.
Now Trump is joining the “No Solar on Farmland” brigade.
because the land is in commonly in very sunny areas,
and often isn’t as economic to farm compared to the money from a solar lease.
Now Trump is joining the “No Solar on Farmland” brigade.
May 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In case you didn’t know, a LOOOOT of industrial solar is sited on agriculturally zoned lands,
because the land is in commonly in very sunny areas,
and often isn’t as economic to farm compared to the money from a solar lease.
Now Trump is joining the “No Solar on Farmland” brigade.
because the land is in commonly in very sunny areas,
and often isn’t as economic to farm compared to the money from a solar lease.
Now Trump is joining the “No Solar on Farmland” brigade.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is now targeting the solar industry, cracking down against projects sited on farmland.
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
Trump Targets Solar on Farmland
Anti-solar activists in agricultural areas get a powerful new ally.
heatmap.news
May 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is now targeting the solar industry, cracking down against projects sited on farmland.
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
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this would undeniably kill an untold number of renewable energy projects already in progress
And somehow, the House GOP Budget bill got EVEN WORSE for clean electricity tax credits. Now requires commence construction 60 days after passage of law AND placed in service by end of 2028. Hard sunset, no phase-down. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R... 🔌💡
May 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
this would undeniably kill an untold number of renewable energy projects already in progress
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
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the next step is hyde amdt for trans care in appropriations
as i covered for @rollingstone.com, there’s only one way to stop that:
a democratic filibuster
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
as i covered for @rollingstone.com, there’s only one way to stop that:
a democratic filibuster
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
the next step is hyde amdt for trans care in appropriations
as i covered for @rollingstone.com, there’s only one way to stop that:
a democratic filibuster
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
as i covered for @rollingstone.com, there’s only one way to stop that:
a democratic filibuster
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is genuinely going to materially harm so many trans people and I don’t know what else to say. Hormones saved my life.
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is genuinely going to materially harm so many trans people and I don’t know what else to say. Hormones saved my life.
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In our latest #mihistoria💬, Nati Lopez reflects on life under DACA during Trump’s second term and the emotional and legal complexity faced by undocumented youth still awaiting a permanent solution.
www.eltimpano.org/mi-historia/...
www.eltimpano.org/mi-historia/...
“When will I feel at home here?”
A DACA recipient faces an uncertain future during Trump's second term.
www.eltimpano.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In our latest #mihistoria💬, Nati Lopez reflects on life under DACA during Trump’s second term and the emotional and legal complexity faced by undocumented youth still awaiting a permanent solution.
www.eltimpano.org/mi-historia/...
www.eltimpano.org/mi-historia/...
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Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.
May 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.
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also the fema employees really have a creative roster of nicknames for their current acting administrator
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
also the fema employees really have a creative roster of nicknames for their current acting administrator
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Scoop from me and @mollytaft.com: FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.
www.wired.com/story/fema-c...
Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.
www.wired.com/story/fema-c...
FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Scoop from me and @mollytaft.com: FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.
www.wired.com/story/fema-c...
Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.
www.wired.com/story/fema-c...
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I don't know why anyone bothers to write dystopian novels these days when you can just read the homepage of the New York Times.
May 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I don't know why anyone bothers to write dystopian novels these days when you can just read the homepage of the New York Times.
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SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
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This is how you lose the class war
Liberals' 'Abundance' Discourse Is Good for Trump and Musk -- and Bad for Dems
Ezra Klein’s new book, “Abundance,” and an oligarch-funded movement aims to kill off the Democratic Party’s populist uprising.
www.rollingstone.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is how you lose the class war
Hello bluesky! My position as a researcher at Rewiring America was recently eliminated in an org-wide restructure. As I’m looking for my next role, I’m hoping to pick up some freelance writing, illustration, or fact checking work. I’ve reported extensively on the climate and energy beat (thread)
May 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hello bluesky! My position as a researcher at Rewiring America was recently eliminated in an org-wide restructure. As I’m looking for my next role, I’m hoping to pick up some freelance writing, illustration, or fact checking work. I’ve reported extensively on the climate and energy beat (thread)
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From Aug. 1 to Dec. 13, 2024, an algorithm canceled at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings, deeming them ineligible.
One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”
“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”
With @veritenews.org
One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”
“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”
With @veritenews.org
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm…
www.propublica.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
From Aug. 1 to Dec. 13, 2024, an algorithm canceled at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings, deeming them ineligible.
One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”
“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”
With @veritenews.org
One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”
“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”
With @veritenews.org
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.