@korinnet.bsky.social
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It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
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Rep. Joe Neguse also thinks this is payback over Tina Peters. It's attempted extortion by Trump: pardon his friends or your institutions will be cut. Same threat he made to Indiana: redistrict or he slashes your funding. If Congress wants to keep the power of the purse they need to push back, hard.
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.
We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Rep. Joe Neguse also thinks this is payback over Tina Peters. It's attempted extortion by Trump: pardon his friends or your institutions will be cut. Same threat he made to Indiana: redistrict or he slashes your funding. If Congress wants to keep the power of the purse they need to push back, hard.
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Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says:
Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling."
Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons.
Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.”
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling."
Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons.
Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.”
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says:
Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling."
Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons.
Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.”
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling."
Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons.
Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.”
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
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Pledging to address the escalating cost of home insurance is a way Dems can demonstrate that they’re willing to challenge the profiteers making life more expensive, while addressing the impacts & causes of climate change, @aaronregunberg.bsky.social & I write newrepublic.com/article/2044...
Here’s the Climate Message That Can Help Democrats Win Big in 2026
Rising home insurance costs are making life unaffordable for both homeowners and renters. Robust climate policy and public disaster insurance could save many households’ finances.
newrepublic.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Pledging to address the escalating cost of home insurance is a way Dems can demonstrate that they’re willing to challenge the profiteers making life more expensive, while addressing the impacts & causes of climate change, @aaronregunberg.bsky.social & I write newrepublic.com/article/2044...
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"In their opposition to crypto firms getting banking licences, America’s biggest lenders find themselves in bed with trade unions and centre-left think-tanks."
Our financial system is in grave danger.
Banks lend money to productive enterprises. They are regulated. The Fed acts through banks to correct the economy. Crypto is a speculative, unproductive asset. But Trump’s Treasury favors crypto—& soon will bail it out.
Gift:
economist.com/finance-and-...
Banks lend money to productive enterprises. They are regulated. The Fed acts through banks to correct the economy. Crypto is a speculative, unproductive asset. But Trump’s Treasury favors crypto—& soon will bail it out.
Gift:
economist.com/finance-and-...
Crypto’s real threat to banks
The industry is supplanting Wall Street’s privileged position on the American right
economist.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"In their opposition to crypto firms getting banking licences, America’s biggest lenders find themselves in bed with trade unions and centre-left think-tanks."
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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PLEASE read this important update to my earlier post about the state of the NWS. Media reports this evening make clear that rather than having a poor forecast for the Skagit River in WA, the NWS played a key role in enabling mitigation efforts to reduce flooding impacts. tinyurl.com/488jvp33
Updated BalancedWx Special: Evaluating NWS staffing and operational posture at the end of 2025
Important new story from the western Washington flooding demonstrates the importance of the NWS and why it needs our support
tinyurl.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
PLEASE read this important update to my earlier post about the state of the NWS. Media reports this evening make clear that rather than having a poor forecast for the Skagit River in WA, the NWS played a key role in enabling mitigation efforts to reduce flooding impacts. tinyurl.com/488jvp33
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"It’s never a good sign when the United States’ national security plan is praised by Russia as being 'largely consistent with our vision.'
"But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
Read @johnavlon.bsky.social's commentary: bit.ly/3KCfQRY
"But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
Read @johnavlon.bsky.social's commentary: bit.ly/3KCfQRY
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"It’s never a good sign when the United States’ national security plan is praised by Russia as being 'largely consistent with our vision.'
"But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
Read @johnavlon.bsky.social's commentary: bit.ly/3KCfQRY
"But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
Read @johnavlon.bsky.social's commentary: bit.ly/3KCfQRY
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Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.
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I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.
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More Americans got measles this week than Olivia Nuzzi’s book. Guess which got more press coverage.
1. Measles is ravaging South Carolina.
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
As measles ravages South Carolina, RFK Jr. undermines the vaccine
There is a massive measles outbreak spreading rapidly in Upstate South Carolina.
popular.info
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
More Americans got measles this week than Olivia Nuzzi’s book. Guess which got more press coverage.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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Rob Reiner was involved with @glaad.bsky.social as well and helped further progress on LGBTQ representation in media. He said of his work on behalf of LGBTQ rights:
“Each one of these steps makes us more one country, and reminds us we are all part of the family of man.”
“Each one of these steps makes us more one country, and reminds us we are all part of the family of man.”
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Rob Reiner was involved with @glaad.bsky.social as well and helped further progress on LGBTQ representation in media. He said of his work on behalf of LGBTQ rights:
“Each one of these steps makes us more one country, and reminds us we are all part of the family of man.”
“Each one of these steps makes us more one country, and reminds us we are all part of the family of man.”
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Well, fuck.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
BREAKING: Person of interest in Brown University shooting being released by police, mayor says. Gunman is still at large
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well, fuck.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
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Rob Reiner had one of the greatest movie runs in history.
Look at these classics.
5 in a row.
Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie.
Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.
Look at these classics.
5 in a row.
Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie.
Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Rob Reiner had one of the greatest movie runs in history.
Look at these classics.
5 in a row.
Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie.
Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.
Look at these classics.
5 in a row.
Doesn't even include This is Spinal Tap. The Sure Thing was between Spinal Tap and Stand By Me, and was a fine movie.
Huge talent. And now it's appearing to be a homicide.
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Remember, Trump is just a mindless mouthpiece for every special interest that owns the right. In this case the NRA. They write the talking points, he clumsily and mindlessly regurgitates them.
A mass shooting at my alma mater Brown University hit hard, proving no community is safe from senseless violence in a land with more guns than people
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Mass shooting at Brown U.: When gun heartbreak comes home | Will Bunch
A mass shooting at my alma mater is a gutting reminder that no one is safe until we tackle America's gun crisis.
www.inquirer.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Remember, Trump is just a mindless mouthpiece for every special interest that owns the right. In this case the NRA. They write the talking points, he clumsily and mindlessly regurgitates them.
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But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times.
If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.
If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times.
If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.
If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.
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Here’s a sense of where priorities lie.
The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here’s a sense of where priorities lie.
The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The White House is “effectively positioning the president to operate [Washington DC’s] public golf properties.” 🤡
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...