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🌊 Marine heatwaves and the carbon cycle

A new study shows that marine heatwaves can disrupt food webs and carbon transport in the NE Pacific.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪
Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Nature Communications
A decade of BGC-Argo and plankton records shows North Pacific heatwaves reshape food webs and trap small particles in midwater, slowing deep-ocean carbon export. Impacts vary by event, underscoring the need for sustained ocean monitoring.
www.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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This is an open invitation for MAGA to commit crimes and be pardoned for them.
May 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The Trump admin is pushing its "Make America Healthy Again" agenda.

And yet, it has ended a USDA program that tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, healthy, locally-produced food.

Such critical reporting @maryhudetz.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trib...
Trump Pledged to “Make America Healthy Again,” Then Cut a Program Many Tribes Rely on for Healthy Food
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.

By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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NEW: First, diplomats warned what will happen if we halt aid to the rest of world.

Now they are telling the Trump Administration what is actually happening: death, crime, sexual violence, trafficking.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

@brettmurpsych.bsky.social & @annamaria.bsky.social:
May 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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We need to talk about Trump’s politicized and corrupt pardons, but we also need to talk about the guy he’s put in charge of vetting them, Ed Martin. My rundown of the latest pardons and Martin’s involvement in today’s piece, link in the replies.
May 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Trump wants us to lose faith in the justice system by undermining it with pardons, even while denying others due process. But wrong is still wrong, and we must continue to fight him.
May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Ah yes, rugged individualism, American style.
May 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who joined with the GOP are NOT the Democratic Party. They are what is WRONG with it. To me the party is defined by these fighters from grassroots activists to members of Congress. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/chuck-schu...
Chuck Schumer surrendered but these Democratic fighters did not!
Our freedoms depend on us!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Terminated grants

Various folks (including yours truly) have been trying to figure out how to track terminated grants.

I recently discovered that HHS is bragging about them, posting them at taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

4/n
taggs.hhs.gov
March 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The math ain't mathin
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Scooplet from me at @rawstory.com:

Leo Terrell, the DOJ lawyer who heads Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, this week re-posted Patrick Casey, the former Identity Evropa leader, and the Hodgetwins, who regularly fawn over Hitler on their podcast.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
March 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government."

WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK
March 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Earth heats up because she absorbs more sunlight than she radiates heat to space.

Here are the monthly Outgoing Longwave and Absorbed Solar Radiation Anomalies and the climatology corrected Net flux values.

There's a lot going on here: Forcings, feedbacks, variability.

More soon.
March 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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And yet here we are, plunging cartoonishly downward already.
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Right now, the UK Government is considering cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget – the biggest pot of funding for nature.

Here’s why that would be a disaster for farmers, food security, and wildlife.

A thread. 🧵👇
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Deborah Rutter was fired this week after a decade as president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

She says the center worked hard to expand its audience by broadening the programming, inviting "all manner of arts and artists to our stages. ... I pray that that can be sustained."
Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its new chair.
www.npr.org
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Sea levels in Louisiana are projected to rise 1.3 meters—the highest rate in the world.
February 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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News you need to know… NOW
On this week’s recap of Let's Address This:
•7 actions to stop MAGA injustices
•Qasim Rashid Show Episode 157
•Ending legalized torture in the USA
•Stop the South African billionaire
•America’s ongoing blitzkrieg
•Countering media bias
•AG Bondi criminalizes DEIA
www.qasimrashid.com/p/lets-addre...
Let's Address This — Weekly Recap
Your recap on this week's content (plus a new Dad Joke)
www.qasimrashid.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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When Trump took office in 2017, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was projecting federal budget deficits would be 2% to 3% of our gross domestic product during Trump’s term.

Instead, the deficit reached nearly 4% of gross domestic product in 2018 and 4.6% in 2019. propub.li/3Q1Harz
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
propub.li
January 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is NUTZ.... they are going Banana Republic on us!
January 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Evidence of Treason
Back in August, when @propublica.org and @documented.net obtained these training videos, this is what Leavitt had to say about Trump and Project 2025:

“As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
They are going to flood the courts.....
Stephen Miller tried to bulldoze the Constitution using Trump’s new EOs on immigration, but Democratic attorneys general and the ACLU are stopping him dead in his tracks. Link to my write-up: https://buff.ly/40KKYnj
January 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This along with the rest of what is about to happen will drive the next pandemic....
January 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM