Daniel Melling
danielmelling.bsky.social
Daniel Melling
@danielmelling.bsky.social
Who dares, wins. Los Angeles
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Tryin to imagine a Waymo merging onto the Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena in heavy traffic.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Great to see attention to this from @sammyroth.bsky.social. We surveyed 610 LA Times stories from Jan-Feb and found that only 13-15% of stories included a mention of “climate change” or “global warming” during those two months. Full survey is here: law.ucla.edu/news/missed-...
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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None of NYT, WaPo, LAT, and WSJ have a story about the fire at this South Carolina judge's home yet. time.com/7323442/sout...
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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every word of erwin's oped is 🎯 - a must read. and good for @governor.ca.gov in taking such immediate action. gift link --> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The University of California, the jewel of American public education, is going to lose so much talent and dignity if it keeps down this path.
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.
www.latimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Protesters flood Hollywood over 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' suspension, calling for an end to censorship
Protesters flood Hollywood over 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' suspension, calling for an end to censorship
More than 100 locals and visitors took to Hollywood Boulevard outside of El Capitan Theatre — where 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!" is filmed — to protest what they see as the Trump administration's role in the indefinite suspension of the program.
www.latimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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When Karl Rove is more ready to call bullshit than ABC is
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I simply cannot believe that in the year 2025 we're tearing out 41 mature shade trees to build a brand-new palm-lined freeway overpass
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Telling, learning, and sharing American history is a form of dissent: @evanlgeorge.bsky.social. The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news.

legal-planet.org/2025/08/28/h...
How to Dissent? Learn American History - Legal Planet
Telling, learning, and sharing American history is a form of dissent: The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news.
legal-planet.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Trump actions are threatening the greatest public university system in the country. All Americans should see this for the impending disaster it is. www.latimes.com/california/n...
The 'death knell' of America's top public university?
Your morning catch-up: UC fights the Trump administration, voters in deep-red NorCal are fuming about Newsom’s maps, and more big stories.
www.latimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Carpet at Oceanside Surf Bowl
August 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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🚨 150 University of California law professors (and counting) have now signed this open letter to the UC Regents and other officials, explaining the flagrant illegality of the Trump Administration’s UCLA funding cut offs, and urging the UC to fight back. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...
August 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Breaking: A federal judge ordered the Trump admin. to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement buff.ly/cJKbdTY

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📸 Jules Hotz
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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university presidents think they're cutting deals to restore their funding. i get their pressures. but this is what's happening: ramping up the extortion, creating homogeneous zones of government-directed curricula, shutting down campus speech.
UC says Trump demand for $1-billion fine would 'completely devastate' university system
The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding at UCLA.
www.latimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists
August 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Trump canceled the research grant for America’s — perhaps the world’s? — top mathematician (via @weakinstrument.bsky.social)
August 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I'm extremely emotional to be the 1st Brazilian to win the John B Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social! Thanks to @mongabay.com @pulitzercenter.bsky.social for the support & thanks to the Guardians of the Forest for the trust! @sejorg.bsky.social
🏆 Congratulations to Karla Mendes and @mongabay.com for winning the 2025 #OakesAward!

Their reporting uncovers illegal cattle ranching and violence threatening Indigenous lands in the Amazon, exposing urgent environmental and human rights crises.
July 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
5 months since I first got my “No Musk Coup” sign out the Tesla Diner is opening in Hollywood this weekend and will be the site of protests from 5-7pm on both Sat and Sun
July 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Democratic leadership is going to suddenly remember it cares about immigrant rights when public opinion turns sharply against Trump’s brutal enforcement policy, and not before. They are habitually unable to take the initiative and shape the narrative.
July 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM