Ashanti Washington ⚡️
@byashanti.bsky.social
Communicator • Strategist • Consultant Energy, power, people & policy Tennessean. Grid geek. Fourth estate fan! Priors: FERC, CELI, UCS, ORNL
FOIAed records show the DOJ accused prominent journals of being “partisans in various scientific debates” & demanded explanations of their editorial processes. www.aip.org/fyi/doj-offi... by @danvergano.bsky.social
DOJ Official Queried a Dozen Journals on 'Partisan' Views in 2025
The Justice Department fulfilled the public records request for the letters just as their author departed the agency.
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What happens when expertise links with collective action? “History gives us plenty of reminders that the trajectory of science isn’t always predetermined. Policies can change. Funding can be restored.” Words to remember c/o @tosinfadeyi.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/tosin-fadeyi...
Dear Early-Career Expert: You Are Still Valued
Early-career scientists and experts are launching their careers in an unprecedented time for US science.
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“So long as we fail to find political will, we will be marching past every target we put out there,” said Michael Mann of UPenn. Even at current warming levels, “dangerous and catastrophic climate change is here,” referencing last week’s deadly glacial collapse and flood in Nepal.
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target (Gift Article)
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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i feel like the actual fun part of being a senator or any statewide elected official would be just showing off all the cool stuff in the state
Senator Andy Kim@kim.senate.gov · 2w agoCome with me on my tour of the Bayonne Dry Dock – a vital part of our country's shipbuilding capabilities.
Not my girl, Dolly. 💔 Loved that woman my whole life. May she rest well.
You know y’all complain about the kids not knowing how to read, but Dolly was trying to teach them. She was mailing books to the children. She was working on it.
BREAKING NEWS: Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her singular performing career spanned seven decades and only grew in prominence over all of that time.
Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80
The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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“Raydia Martin, assistant director of the Flourish Community Hub at Flourish Church in Gary, said the "silver lining" has been the response from volunteers and community groups.”
Ashanti Washington ⚡️@byashanti.bsky.social · 3w ago“It's not OK for us to continually be in survival mode, doing the best that we can.” 💔
“It's not OK for us to continually be in survival mode, doing the best that we can.” 💔
Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · 3w ago
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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“Maddening as the power grid can be, it has three advantages: It is the cheapest source of electricity; it is not perfect but still remarkably reliable; and it already exists.” A must read in today’s @opinion.bloomberg.com ⬇️
Liam Denning@liamdenning.bsky.social · 3w agoData centers won’t win hearts by going off-grid @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Thousands in Northwest Indiana remain without power, more than a week after deadly storms leveled trees and knocked down power lines across the region. Latest on restoration efforts: https://wgntv.com/news/indiana/ap-tens-of-thousands-in-indiana-are-still-without-power-a-week-after-deadly-storms/
A week after Aug. 11 storms brought 99-mph winds to Gary, Indiana, many residents are *still* without power. More than 300,000 NIPSCO customers have suffered in the utility’s largest ever blackout. NIPSCO states all power will be restored by Friday. Via #Essence: www.instagram.com/p/DcLz7-QlVO...
ESSENCE on Instagram: "Nearly a week after severe storms tore through Northwest Indiana, thousands of Gary residents are still waiting for the lights to come back on. The August 11 storm system broug...
essence on August 18, 2026: "Nearly a week after severe storms tore through Northwest Indiana, thousands of Gary residents are still waiting for the lights to come back on. The August 11 storm system...
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Three positions in scientific programming at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social focusing on ocean biogeochemistry, ocean physics, software engineering. 🌊 #sciencejobs
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 2mo ago🔊HIRING! SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMERS apply & join our Dept of Ocean Biosphere Dymanics 🌊 #Biogeochemical Model Development & Integration High-Performance #Computing & Software Engineering High-Res Ocean Physics & Numerical Experimentation mpi-bremen.de/en/Open-posi... #sciencejobs #ESM #PhD #PostDoc
"the agency, in total, has lost more than one-fifth of its staff. And because these cuts were broad, even FEMA can’t say what the impact might be should one or more natural disasters hit the United States in the coming months." www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Cuts leave FEMA ‘in the dark’
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Well, I missed this before, and am very sorry to share, but the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement have been merged and renamed... "the Marine Minerals Administration" The 'grand vision' is so pathetically limited. www.doi.gov/mma-reunific...
Transition to the Marine Minerals Administration | U.S. Department of the Interior
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Sign of the times? #HBCU Fisk University doubles down on efforts to build a data center in Nashville's historically Black community — despite local town halls and a 17,000-signature petition pushing back. abcnews.com/US/fisk-univ... #DataCenters
Fisk University president defends plan to build data center: 'Higher ed is in a different place right now'
Amid protests against data center development across the country, one historically Black university has placed it at the center of its plan for financial viability.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is under threat. Proposed changes to NSF’s grantmaking process would politicize NSF-backed science and threaten its integrity. Join our Aug. 18 workshop with @ucs.org's Kei Koizumi to learn how to take action. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Public Comment Workshop for NSF's Proposal to Politicize Grantmaking – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed policy changes that would politicize its grantmaking process and threaten the integrity of federally-backed research.
envirodatagov.org
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last mo.Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
You may as well stand in the smoke and wreckage of a burning building and debate whether the arsonists have truly succeeded.
the US federal government’s capacity and willingness to protect people’s health, safety, economic well-being and rights of self-determination are at a decades-long low and its capacity and willingness to carry out racist violence and reward politically-favored private interests are painfully high.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last mo.Something I think that underlies a lot of debates within the Democratic party and center-left right now is whether or not you think Trumpism has been successful as a political and ideological project. (Not, obviously, whether it's been good or not).
SCOOP: The US has intervened in the yen market, selling euros and buying yen for the first time since 1998 www.ft.com/content/0f9b...
US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market
New York Fed sells euros to buy yen following recent speculation that Tokyo intervened to support Japan’s currency
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