@philfrei.bsky.social
So frustrating!
If I were a comic-book author, I'd consider writing into existence a "League of Angry Scientists"--maybe as a rogue splinter of the legit "Concerned Scientists" but underground.
Not sure what mischief I'd have them commit.
Could resonate on many levels.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
If I were a comic-book author, I'd consider writing into existence a "League of Angry Scientists"--maybe as a rogue splinter of the legit "Concerned Scientists" but underground.
Not sure what mischief I'd have them commit.
Could resonate on many levels.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So frustrating!
If I were a comic-book author, I'd consider writing into existence a "League of Angry Scientists"--maybe as a rogue splinter of the legit "Concerned Scientists" but underground.
Not sure what mischief I'd have them commit.
Could resonate on many levels.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
If I were a comic-book author, I'd consider writing into existence a "League of Angry Scientists"--maybe as a rogue splinter of the legit "Concerned Scientists" but underground.
Not sure what mischief I'd have them commit.
Could resonate on many levels.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
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DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Q: "Trump authorized military strikes...in the Caribbean. 20 people have been killed in six different strikes. Do you believe these strikes are legal?"
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Q: "Trump authorized military strikes...in the Caribbean. 20 people have been killed in six different strikes. Do you believe these strikes are legal?"
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
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"Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate" | Our (Hong et al) new article in @aaas.org #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate
Chlorophyll a is declining in low- to mid-latitude oceans, indicating reduced ocean productivity and fewer phytoplankton blooms.
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate" | Our (Hong et al) new article in @aaas.org #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Germany’s parliament met only 20 times during the Nazis’ 12-year reign, and didn’t meet at all in the last 3 years. MAGA Mike Johnson is going after that record.
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.
Epstein Shutdown.
Epstein Shutdown.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Germany’s parliament met only 20 times during the Nazis’ 12-year reign, and didn’t meet at all in the last 3 years. MAGA Mike Johnson is going after that record.
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Russian asset doing what Russian assets do.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Russian asset doing what Russian assets do.
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Voting yes on this crypto bill is Democrats' declaration of corruption. There is no non-corrupt reason to support crypto.
the Trump crypto bill a critical mass of Senate Dems are set to sign off on is getting even worse. foreign stablecoins from companies *refusing to comply with US legal orders regarding terrorism or drug trafficking* will be allowed to circulate domestically: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
Senate Democrats Poised to Enable Trump’s Crypto Corruption
Today on TAP: They would also massively destabilize the financial system.
prospect.org
May 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Voting yes on this crypto bill is Democrats' declaration of corruption. There is no non-corrupt reason to support crypto.
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Democrats need to be on offense all day long about the things that Trump is doing that are going to cause people economic pain. because if they do that, they put a knife right through the central mythology of Donald Trump."
May 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Democrats need to be on offense all day long about the things that Trump is doing that are going to cause people economic pain. because if they do that, they put a knife right through the central mythology of Donald Trump."
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NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
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On pg 380 of the Republican House budget is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to designate any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” and strip it of its tax-exempt status.
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill Into the Tail End of Trump’s 389-Page Tax Plan
It would give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.”
theintercept.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On pg 380 of the Republican House budget is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to designate any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” and strip it of its tax-exempt status.
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
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Trump says: "We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.”
This is the same guy who's complaining about trade deficits.
Makes no sense.
This is the same guy who's complaining about trade deficits.
Makes no sense.
‘We Don’t Have to Sign Deals’: Trump Backs Off Big Promises About Tariffs
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Trump says: "We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.”
This is the same guy who's complaining about trade deficits.
Makes no sense.
This is the same guy who's complaining about trade deficits.
Makes no sense.
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Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
May 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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This is what the Trump administration is arguing: Congress was wrong to pass laws creating independent agencies; presidents of both parties were wrong to sign those bills into law and then to follow them; and the Supreme Court was wrong to uphold them.
The Conservative Case Against Trump’s Latest Power Grab
He wants to be able to fire commission members at will.
www.thebulwark.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is what the Trump administration is arguing: Congress was wrong to pass laws creating independent agencies; presidents of both parties were wrong to sign those bills into law and then to follow them; and the Supreme Court was wrong to uphold them.
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This is correct. Specific Trump immigration policies poll terribly. We need to make those specifics the focus of the immigration narrative.
Dear Dems: Polling shows only *generalized* approval of Trump on immigration, but broad opposition to the lawless specifics. If you don't engage on Abrego Garcia and other illegal kidnappings, you only *help* Trump subsume all that under "keeping out illegals."
newrepublic.com/article/1941...
newrepublic.com/article/1941...
April 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is correct. Specific Trump immigration policies poll terribly. We need to make those specifics the focus of the immigration narrative.
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Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
April 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
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An example of a hidden subsidy to the fossil fuel industry, which loves to socialize costs and privatize profits. Stop them!
Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1504202...
Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That - Inside Climate News
House Bill 4572 would introduce new requirements for pits where drillers bury oil and gas waste. Supporters of the bill gave testimony this week at the state capitol.
insideclimatenews.org
April 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
An example of a hidden subsidy to the fossil fuel industry, which loves to socialize costs and privatize profits. Stop them!
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Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is remov...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump r
kottke.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...
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Shhh…that’s the quiet part.
February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Shhh…that’s the quiet part.
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And @nieuws.nos.nl public TV news presents it as Mexico bowing to Trump's pressure. No mention of his concession to Sheinbaum.
February 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And @nieuws.nos.nl public TV news presents it as Mexico bowing to Trump's pressure. No mention of his concession to Sheinbaum.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump each announce their agreement to pause tariffs for a month.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump each announce their agreement to pause tariffs for a month.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
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Levels of #microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
- Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Levels of #microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
- Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yes. The next two years looks like we are going to experience the results of the leadership acumen shown in Mao's "Great Leap Forward."
I often hear voters say they wanted Trump to be President because he’s a businessman and will run our country like a business. What people still don’t realize is he was such a lousy businessman he bankrupted casinos. Casinos! That business acumen currently on full display.
February 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yes. The next two years looks like we are going to experience the results of the leadership acumen shown in Mao's "Great Leap Forward."