The federal website for the national climate reports and other climate change information went dark Monday afternoon, the latest ripple of the shutdown of the legislatively mandated Global Change Research Program.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
Hurricane season is here, but FEMA and NOAA are short on staff, training, and resources. Experts say the country might not be ready for a major storm.
Full AP story:
apnews.com/article/hurr...
#HurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse #FEMA #NOAA #ClimateRisk
Joni Ernst’s casually cruel remark is actually a bedrock of Republican politics. Death does not matter for certain people, if it means a supposed economic boost to the few.
Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on Ernst's "Well, we all are going to die."
Hurricane season has begun amid chaos at the federal agencies that forecast and respond to disasters. Experts say the country’s ability to deal with extreme weather is eroding - but the biggest impacts may not hit immediately or manifest in the most obvious places. 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/cha...
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
In case you didn’t know, a LOOOOT of industrial solar is sited on agriculturally zoned lands,
because the land is in commonly in very sunny areas,
and often isn’t as economic to farm compared to the money from a solar lease.
Now Trump is joining the “No Solar on Farmland” brigade.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is now targeting the solar industry, cracking down against projects sited on farmland.
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
this would undeniably kill an untold number of renewable energy projects already in progress
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
the next step is hyde amdt for trans care in appropriations
as i covered for @rollingstone.com, there’s only one way to stop that:
a democratic filibuster
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is genuinely going to materially harm so many trans people and I don’t know what else to say. Hormones saved my life.
In our latest #mihistoria💬, Nati Lopez reflects on life under DACA during Trump’s second term and the emotional and legal complexity faced by undocumented youth still awaiting a permanent solution.
www.eltimpano.org/mi-historia/...
Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.
also the fema employees really have a creative roster of nicknames for their current acting administrator
Scoop from me and @mollytaft.com: FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.
www.wired.com/story/fema-c...
I don't know why anyone bothers to write dystopian novels these days when you can just read the homepage of the New York Times.
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
A full portfolio of my work is available at www.alexandriaherr.com — don’t hesitate to reach out!
I was formerly a fellow at @grist.org, have reported on pipelines for @theguardian.com, written essays on COP for @atmosmag.bsky.social, explainers on sea ice for Nature Climate Change, illustrated essays for @washingtonpost.com , and more.
Hello bluesky! My position as a researcher at Rewiring America was recently eliminated in an org-wide restructure. As I’m looking for my next role, I’m hoping to pick up some freelance writing, illustration, or fact checking work. I’ve reported extensively on the climate and energy beat (thread)
From Aug. 1 to Dec. 13, 2024, an algorithm canceled at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings, deeming them ineligible.
One prisoner said he felt “betrayed.”
“People in jail have … lost hope in being able to do anything to reduce their time.”
With @veritenews.org
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
This appears to be a significant step forward for global climate litigation. One of Australia's main energy firms has been forced to make a whole series of clarifications about greenwashing claims.
The great @danzep.bsky.social on trains: "rather than investing in such infrastructure, America often opts to spend millions, if not billions, reinventing the wheel with unproven moonshot projects, niche urban merry-go-rounds or bijou supersonic passenger jets." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
Across the U.S., 19 states and Washington, D.C. allow all residents to get driver’s licenses. That right is being challenged.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
