Which will Trump be able to open sooner, the Reflecting Pool or the Strait of Hormuz?
Peter Gleick
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Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023). Also on Mastodon. @petergleick@fediscience.org. Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
Trump fires the women, Chapter Four. So far, his cabinet has lost three women: Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Looks like Jeannine Pirro is next.
Check out the "Johnson" 1866 map of Turkey, Persia, Arabia. The region has been carved up, reordered, renamed, and remains the most contested land in the world.
Literally no one with a brain believes that Minnesota cyber hacked their own #water systems. At least seven states reported such attacks. Only Trump makes this mindless claim, and he's only doing it to do what he does best: punch down and lie. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | Small Towns Shouldn’t Have to Defend America’s Water Supply From Iran
Local communities need Washington’s help to fight foreign hackers.
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Wow, digital entertainment technology is so good now we can produce eight episodes per season of a TV show when decades ago we could only produce... 20 to 30.
Today is the deadline for calling a special election in Kentucky. Expect the announcement that McConnell is either dead or never returning to the Senate to happen after today.
But but but but cryptocurrency is so "safe." www.barrons.com/articles/bit...
Bitcoin Drops on Double Whammy From $89M Security Breach and Strategy Sale
The price of Bitcoin fell after Strategy disclosed that it sold more of the cryptocurrency, while a Coldcard wallet breach exposed flaws in the very technology designed to protect Bitcoin.
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The speed of #climate change has accelerated dramatically in the last decade, from 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015 to 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years. And politicians still fiddle while we burn. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C p...
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As RFK Jr and Trump desperately try to gaslight us about the #COVID pandemic, remember that 1.2 million Americans died-- one of every 300 people in the country. The COVID-19 vaccine SAVED 3.2 million lives, prevented 18 million hospitalizations, & averted more than $1.15 trillion in medical costs.
Residents of Puerto Rico, who are US citizens, are suffering severe #water crises from underinvestment, bad management, and insufficient maintenance. Some communities have had no safe running water for months. english.elpais.com/internationa...
More than 100 days without water: The crisis hitting thousands in Puerto Rico, on top of the blackouts
Years of underinvestment and inadequate maintenance of key infrastructure have been compounded by a drought that threatens to trigger partial rationing
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As RFK Jr and Trump desperately try to gaslight us about the #COVID pandemic, remember that 1.2 million Americans died-- one of every 300 people in the country. The COVID-19 vaccine SAVED 3.2 million lives, prevented 18 million hospitalizations, & averted more than $1.15 trillion in medical costs.
Wow, digital entertainment technology is so good now we can produce eight episodes per season of a TV show when decades ago we could only produce... 20 to 30.
Is it true that Trump called off the Iran strikes because he couldn't get ahold of his stock broker in time?
Interesting to watch a whole passel of MAGAs unraveling in real time today -- Miller, RFK Jr., Trump, Burgum...
Interior Secretary Burgum and Donald Trump continue to blatantly lie about the Reflecting Pool damage, despite clear statements from the DoI and Justice Dept that the damage was "not vandalism" but "botched" and "flawed" installation by Trump's handpicked contractor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro on decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case
The president maintained his claim that the pool had been vandalized after Pirro’s office said new evidence showed the damage resulted from a “botched installation.”
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Trump's insistence on lying, even when it's obvious to everyone, is deeply pathetic. He's still trying to insist Minnesota (not Iran, as the FBI and federal cybersecurity office say) hacked their own (!!) #water systems. Six other states also reported cyberattacks. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
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I've had half a dozen. DO NOT enter any password in order to open an evite. That's the simple scam. Real evites don't require you to enter a password.
Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 3w agoJust fyi I’ve gotten 2 scam “You’re Invited!” type emails in the last few days from the hacked gmail accounts of SFF folks with whom I’m acquainted but not in regular contact; these arrive with a paperless envelope link to click. idk if it’s the FB-style messages-your-contacts or more insidious
Is it good that CNN is calling out the multiple lies today from Trump? Yes. But they still can't get themselves to use the word "lies." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Fact check: Trump baselessly claims Walz is ‘behind’ cyberattack, repeats debunked claims at Cabinet meeting | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump rattled off some of his most common false claims about the economy, immigration and his foreign policy record at a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday. Trump also made an en...
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Is any news outlet going to frame it like this? The subtext of this DOJ filing is that Trump persistently and repeatedly lied about the damage/vandalism to the Reflecting Pool, leading to the false arrest of Hearn and others. It was, no surprise, "contractor error."
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5d agoBREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
Maybe Stephen A. Smith should stick to sports. Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment "more than 440 times" during the New York Attorney General's civil deposition. thehill.com/homenews/med...
Stephen A. Smith on Fauci: ‘You can’t show up on Capitol Hill and plead the Fifth 111 times’
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said Thursday that former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci should have answered lawmakers’ questions during the hostile Senate hearing earlier thi…
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Yup. Case dropped. Wonder if there's a case for false arrest...
Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 2w agoDuh.
By this twisted logic, victims are to blame, not attackers. For example, Texas, Florida, and many other states have also had water systems suffer cyberattacks. Are they also all to blame? And by this deeply twisted Trump logic, women who are raped are to blame, not their attackers. Think Epstein.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Crappy headline: of course cancer doesn't "care" but it does matters if Republicans follow MAHA pseudoscience suggestions for cancer care and don't get state-of-the-art medical treatment. Oh, and yes, RFK Jr and MAHA and Trump EPA failures to address #water contamination will worsen cancer rates.
Measles up. Explosive diarrhea worsening. Salmonella in millions of eggs Cancer research cut. Disease monitoring stopped. Vaccine efforts devastated. Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating. But Fauci.
Trump/GOP policies are SO unpopular you'd expect Republicans to start to distance themselves. But no. They're still in MAGA lockstep either because they think they have to get away now with as much as possible while they can; or they think they can stay in power by stealing elections.
Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 7d ago@quinnipiac.bsky.social poll: Trump at all-time low of 32% approval. 60% oppose war in Iran, vs 34% support. 55% expect it to last a year or longer. His approve-disapprove is 40%-57% on immigration and 34%-62% on both economy and foreign policy. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Measles up. Explosive diarrhea worsening. Salmonella in millions of eggs Cancer research cut. Disease monitoring stopped. Vaccine efforts devastated. Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating. But Fauci.
If Fauci is in contempt of Congress, he's not alone. Many of us have contempt of Congress now.
Hey Elon, go pick up your garbage floating in the Indian Ocean. Litterbug. www.space.com/space-explor...
SpaceX Starship still floating 5 days after flight | Space photo of the day for July 29, 2026
SpaceX continues to collect imagery of the vehicle as it floats in the Indian Ocean five days after its most recent flight test.
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The 2000 National Climate Assessment (now censored): “Outcomes include temperature-related illnesses & deaths, injuries or fatalities from extreme weather events...air pollution-related health effects, & diseases carried by water...mosquitoes, ticks, mites, & rodents.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How mosquitoes are conquering the world — in four charts
Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range.
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