Phil Rabbat
@philrabbat.bsky.social
🇨🇦 in NJ. Cyclist, skier, cat dad, lapsed chemist
Mark Carney described the carbon budget in his book, published in 2021: “The carbon budget to limit temperature rises to below catastrophic levels is rapidly being exhausted. If we had started in 2000, we could have hit the 1.5 C objective by halving emissions every 30 years. Now, we ..
Excited to be headed to the @tortlawmuseum.bsky.social I already have the t-shirt, I think I need a mug. My twelve year-old son? Less excited.
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. (A previous post misspelled Tristan Tate's first name. The spelling has been corrected.)
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells AP
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.
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Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.
Need for speed? Driving above the speed limit costs you — and doesn't actually save much time
Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.
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This team at Brookings studied the impact of ICE raids in the first half of 2025 on local economies. On average, they find that a "surge" in ICE arrests results in a 1.48% drop in local employment over a 6-month period, far exceeding the number of arrests. (1/3) www.brookings.edu/articles/ice...
Shock, awe, and economic fallout | Brookings
Escobari, Seyal, and Beach find the 2025 ICE enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs across U.S. cities, including jobs held by American-born workers.
brookings.edu
This made me realize that there’s an amazing Best in Show / A Mighty Wind style movie to be made about these people and I would watch the hell out of it
Madeline Peltz@peltzmadeline.bsky.social · last mo.Just left the great American state fair where I watched Michael Knowles debate a ten year old girl about the Salem witch trials in front of DOZENS of people
Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳
The protections the Supreme Court shredded today were born from the moral imperative to not repeat the voyage of the St. Louis.
Voyage of the St. Louis | Holocaust Encyclopedia
In May 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Germany to Cuba. Most of the passengers were Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Learn more about the voyage.
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can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.
Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.
@mayor.nyc.gov's 🔥 Knicks speech was a message to all Americans: "Standing here before what feels like the entire city, there is a Jalen Brunson quote I can't stop thinking about: 'You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario — but you gotta go out there and do something about it.'"
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
NSF uses staffing cuts to strip Inspector General's office of its ability to investigate research misconduct www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF watchdog unit is no longer investigating research misconduct
New policy hands universities the reins in probing allegations against faculty
science.org
They should PNG him, just to see what happens.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2mo agoUS Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra retweets call to annex Canada
These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2mo agoImmigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:
I am both immune to and actively hold in contempt all the dumb arguments from people who are addicted to losing about how marketing and sales are somehow inherently evil or are practices equivalent to lying.
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.
the only person i know who is (correctly, imo) screaming that the joystick has snapped off in our hand and no one even *can* fly the plane anymore is will stancil
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3mo agoTHERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON HERE THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN. The economy is not in a recession. The economy is not worse than 2020 or 2008 or 1979. Whatever is happening here, it cannot be plausibly attributed to people’s real lived experiences. There is some other factor causing this collapse.
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Anas al-Tikriti, British-Iraqi founder of Cordoba, denied entry to Canada - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-iraqi-cordoba-founder-anas-tikriti-denied-entry-canada
Anas al-Tikriti, British-Iraqi founder of Cordoba, denied entry to Canada
Tikriti had planned to speak at a Muslim Association of Canada convention in Toronto
middleeasteye.net
Good article on a study examining whether college pays off (in Texas), incorporating the opportunity cost of lost workforce years & heterogeneity in type of degree, college, & major Answer: Payoff is v variable but strongly positive for BAs of all kinds, most AAs, & fairly few certificate programs
An Unusual New Study of Nearly a Million Students Details What College Does for Earnings
The study, focused on Texas, found that most higher-education credentials yield better salaries, even accounting for how much students spent on tuition and the wages they lost by enrolling.
chronicle.com
