Tara Golshan

@taragolshan.bsky.social

senior editor @notusreports.bsky.social

🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research. I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.

‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work

“Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.

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Seven of the cited sources in the MAHA report don’t appear to exist at all. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes told NOTUS via email. www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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Things lawmakers & admin do not appear on the same page on: - Whether FEMA should exist -Whether FEMA should have some disaster response capabilities -Whether Trump has tapped anyone to be on FEMA Review Council www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

What Are Trump’s Plans for FEMA? Depends Who You Ask.

DHS Secretary Noem said she’s going to “eliminate” the agency. The lawmakers who say they were tapped by Trump to review FEMA say they’re working on reforms.

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NEWS: Trade war with Canada is now risking electricity blackouts in New York, Michigan, Minnesota. In all the uproar over Ontario's 25% electricity tariff and Trump's angry response, we're missing the biggest risk — the stability of the grid itself. 🔌💡

Trump’s Trade War Risks Blackouts in the Northern United States

Ontario slapped a 25% tariff on electricity in response to Trump’s trade war, an escalation that could eventually lead to blackouts across Michigan, Minnesota, New York and other northern states.

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NEW: Trump admin has reversed course and will no longer be closing the office that oversees one of the country's most important nuclear waste sites, the world's only deep geologic repository. I reviewed the letter revoking the termination 👇

Trump Administration Backtracks on Closing the Field Office That Oversees a Nuclear Waste Site

The General Services Administration is now revoking its request to terminate the lease for the building set up to manage emergencies at a New Mexico nuclear waste repository.

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Several of the Trump teams' grudges inspiring the "prosecute the prosecutors" rhetoric are that DOJ prosecutors were ambitious and on top of it... More on the feuds and gripes that Trumpworld is fixated on. www.notus.org/trump-transi...

The Feuds Fueling Trump’s Quest for Vengeance Against Jack Smith

Trump’s team is fixated on specific interactions it had with DOJ prosecutors that could inform who they may go after first, sources tell NOTUS.

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SCOOP: Several senior career White House budget officials are planning to leave as Trump admin begins, including Mark Sandy -- the OMB official who testified in Trump's first impeachment hearing, sources familiar with the matter say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Federal employees scramble to insulate themselves from Trump’s purge

Career civil servants are scrubbing social media, changing job titles and looking for private sector work over fear that Trump may fire them.

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Donald Trump will not be prosecuted for interfering in the 2020 election — for now. Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to immediately dismiss the pending criminal indictment against the next American president before he takes office. www.notus.org/courts/jack-...

Jack Smith Has Dropped the Jan. 6 Case Against Trump. He Stands By the Charges.

“The government’s position on the merits of the defendant’s prosecution has not changed,” Smith wrote.

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NEW: Almost two decades after the first bill to cut funding for Planned Parenthood was introduced, Republicans hope that under a GOP trifecta they’ll finally be able to get it done It’s “one of the biggest things” Republicans can do, Rep. Kevin Hern told me www.notus.org/congress/pla...

Republicans’ First Anti-Abortion Agenda Item: Defunding Planned Parenthood

Almost two decades after the first bill to cut funding for the organization was introduced, Republicans hope they’ll finally be able to get it done.

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NEW from @caseyrmurray.bsky.social on what Trump's "mass deportation" actually looks like if Republicans don't agree on who should be targeted, have very little to say on how they would fund it, and local law enforcement says it can't do more than it's already doing. www.notus.org/trump-transi...

One Major Obstacle to Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise: Local Law Enforcement

“I’m not gonna let the government tell me what to do in my job,” one Trump-supporting sheriff told NOTUS.

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