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I write about science for journalism outlets and institutions and teach science journalism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stories at na-narratives.com. Words in SciAm, Environmental Health Perspectives, The Nation, Sierra and more.
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I’m not trying to be judgmental, but I feel that the people who now say they regret voting for Trump should have had a decent idea what he was all about before Nov 2024.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I’m not trying to be judgmental, but I feel that the people who now say they regret voting for Trump should have had a decent idea what he was all about before Nov 2024.
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Now all we need is a political party that believes this
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
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December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Now all we need is a political party that believes this
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Commentary: If an Ohio farmer finds that it is more profitable to install solar panels than to use land for soybeans, why can their neighbors go to state boards and argue against that use of their land? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/15/w...
What is stopping development of solar and wind energy in Ohio? • Ohio Capital Journal
If an Ohio farmer finds it is more profitable to install solar panels than to use land for soybeans, why can their neighbors go to state boards and argue against that use of their land?
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December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Commentary: If an Ohio farmer finds that it is more profitable to install solar panels than to use land for soybeans, why can their neighbors go to state boards and argue against that use of their land? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/15/w...
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Ohio named among 30 states making major clean energy progress. HB 15 ended $90M/year in coal bailouts and created new reliability standards. Next up: Community solar legislation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ohio-advances-clean-energy-as-prices-rise-nationwide/ar-AA1S2Nyn
December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ohio named among 30 states making major clean energy progress. HB 15 ended $90M/year in coal bailouts and created new reliability standards. Next up: Community solar legislation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ohio-advances-clean-energy-as-prices-rise-nationwide/ar-AA1S2Nyn
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SULLIVAN: While large news organizations “are doing great reporting .. government coverage often feels like business as usual. Journalism should be communicating the .. five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose ..”
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December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
SULLIVAN: While large news organizations “are doing great reporting .. government coverage often feels like business as usual. Journalism should be communicating the .. five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose ..”
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Every American should feel daily shame that we have allowed ourselves to not only be represented by these people, but that they are using this position to destabilize the world, kill innocent people, and act as a rogue state.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
DOOCY: Is Operation Southern Spear about drugs or oil?
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every American should feel daily shame that we have allowed ourselves to not only be represented by these people, but that they are using this position to destabilize the world, kill innocent people, and act as a rogue state.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
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Republicans gave $132 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% in 2027.
With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.
With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Republicans gave $132 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% in 2027.
With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.
With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.
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Today I’m at the NYS state capitol to support the campaign to end the practice of forcing ratepayers to subsidize the construction of last 100 feet of fracked gas pipelines for new buildings.
I’ll be speaking at the press conference on the health and climate issues.
Science belongs here.
I’ll be speaking at the press conference on the health and climate issues.
Science belongs here.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today I’m at the NYS state capitol to support the campaign to end the practice of forcing ratepayers to subsidize the construction of last 100 feet of fracked gas pipelines for new buildings.
I’ll be speaking at the press conference on the health and climate issues.
Science belongs here.
I’ll be speaking at the press conference on the health and climate issues.
Science belongs here.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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This seems rather, uh, dictatorial.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This seems rather, uh, dictatorial.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
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Judge Emil Bove is attending this rally - and presumably in the crowd.
(… is he chanting?)
(… is he chanting?)
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Judge Emil Bove is attending this rally - and presumably in the crowd.
(… is he chanting?)
(… is he chanting?)
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Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
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My people, I know you can't afford hamburger, but I bring you the gift of racism!
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
My people, I know you can't afford hamburger, but I bring you the gift of racism!
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just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
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In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
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In this Tom Cotton speculates that one of the shipwrecked men “taking off his tshirt” was a hostile act that required his execution by missile from miles away.
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In this Tom Cotton speculates that one of the shipwrecked men “taking off his tshirt” was a hostile act that required his execution by missile from miles away.
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
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we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues
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Tom Cotton is inhuman
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tom Cotton is inhuman
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Irony is dead
BARTIROMO: How is it possible that the Democrats have been able to rally around 'affordability' and make people think that's what they're focused on and not what Republicans are focused on?
HASSETT: It's just what happens sometimes when one political party has the media echoing what they're saying
HASSETT: It's just what happens sometimes when one political party has the media echoing what they're saying
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Irony is dead