Mark Eaton
@muskbroketwitter.bsky.social
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lawless, criminal behavior
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
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New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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WELKER: The US doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in. Why should it be different at sea? Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
WELKER: The US doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in. Why should it be different at sea? Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
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Killed them because they might "stay in the fight"⬇️
Even if you buy all the legal falsehoods (that this is an 'armed conflict,' that drugs are war-sustaining objects), the 2 shipwrecked were in no way, shape or form engaged in "active combat activities" (the actual legal test).
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Even if you buy all the legal falsehoods (that this is an 'armed conflict,' that drugs are war-sustaining objects), the 2 shipwrecked were in no way, shape or form engaged in "active combat activities" (the actual legal test).
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December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Killed them because they might "stay in the fight"⬇️
Even if you buy all the legal falsehoods (that this is an 'armed conflict,' that drugs are war-sustaining objects), the 2 shipwrecked were in no way, shape or form engaged in "active combat activities" (the actual legal test).
1/
Even if you buy all the legal falsehoods (that this is an 'armed conflict,' that drugs are war-sustaining objects), the 2 shipwrecked were in no way, shape or form engaged in "active combat activities" (the actual legal test).
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Yeah. Drowning and not fighting to survive proves you are a non-combatant. Struggling to save your life shows you might be a threat at some point in the future. Possibly. Either way you die!
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yeah. Drowning and not fighting to survive proves you are a non-combatant. Struggling to save your life shows you might be a threat at some point in the future. Possibly. Either way you die!
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41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
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The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
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All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
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The monorail, owned by the City of Seattle, is going to stop accepting ORCA transfers? Boo.
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The monorail, owned by the City of Seattle, is going to stop accepting ORCA transfers? Boo.
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Secretary Talk Show Host may have been experiencing the "fog of war," but that doesn't change the fact that this was an extrajudicial killing amounting to murder or a war crime.
One thing is clear: Pete Hegseth is unfit to serve.
He must resign.
One thing is clear: Pete Hegseth is unfit to serve.
He must resign.
Hegseth cites 'fog of war' in defending follow-on strike on alleged drug boat
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Secretary Talk Show Host may have been experiencing the "fog of war," but that doesn't change the fact that this was an extrajudicial killing amounting to murder or a war crime.
One thing is clear: Pete Hegseth is unfit to serve.
He must resign.
One thing is clear: Pete Hegseth is unfit to serve.
He must resign.
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This evening, a resident was kidnapped by agents with face coverings. They disguised themselves in masks and as Uber drivers. They even left kids abandoned inside a car in the freezing cold. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This evening, a resident was kidnapped by agents with face coverings. They disguised themselves in masks and as Uber drivers. They even left kids abandoned inside a car in the freezing cold. 1/
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties