"All of this is a huge diversion of resources and deflection from the task at hand. As one of us likes to say, when you’re in a climate hole, stop digging … and burning fossil fuels. It really is, at some level, that simple."

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Hey so letting ICE detention centers operate without oversight because you have an 'agreement' with the private prison corp running them is not okay.

California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves - The American Prospect

McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim.

prospect.org

If you don't believe the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Rights Amendment are necessary and just, I don't have anything to talk to you about.

The companies and rich people who are extracting every last penny from you aren't even hiding how much they hate you anymore.

NONE OF OUR RIGHTS ARE SAFE UNTIL ALL OF OUR RIGHTS ARE SAFE.

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

blippy@blippy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

everyone else is already spying on me, why do i care if it's some chinese guy or some dickhead in silicon valley

And look at what's happened to the NSF/NIH, etc. in the months since Mark wrote this post. Our universities are in absolute fucking peril.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

There is no plan or budget model w/o foreign students There is no plan or budget model w/o NSF/NIH/Title VI/FLAS/etc. federal funding There is no plan or budget model with further state budget cuts There is no plan or budget model with further state government caps on tuition There is no plan

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

insidehighered.com

The difference between you and the billionaire class is greed. It's not hard work. It's not intelligence. It's not skill. It's not good ideas. It's just greed. Even if you had incredible luck, you would need greed at a level that is unfathomable to most of us to make it stick.

U.S. grid-battery production has gone from 0 in 2024 to 145 GWh/year by the end of 2026, enough to provide batteries to support all wind and solar in the U.S. www.electronicdesign.com/technologies...

U.S. Grid-Scale Battery Production to Support 100% of Renewable Generating Capacity

Domestic manufacturing of grid-scale battery storage systems now meets the needs of the nation’s ever-expanding wind and solar generating systems.

electronicdesign.com

Y'all, come to this @thecomedyresistance.com benefit show in San Diego on 4/24! We're raising $ to fight fascism via voter registration. @heathergtv.bsky.social is headlining! The night is co-hosted by Hera Hub & the Smith College Club of San Diego. 💥💪🎤 🎟️ www.thecomedyresistance.com/events/femin...

No one is owed the right to profit off of someone else's labor.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

projects.propublica.org

When it happens there will be more drunk people in the streets at 10am than there were in Boston in 2004 after the Sox won the World Series.

Ricardo Gutiérrez@icaito.bsky.social · 4mo ago

bro when it happens there will be entire highways closed down as block parties

Just wanted to note that certain small talk is made exponentially more difficult by my profession. Yes, dental hygienist, I am a volcanologist. No, I cannot answer all of the volcano questions you bottled and stored for a lifetime with my jaw practically unhinged while you abrade my mouth stones.

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

The death penalty is one of our society's most egregious failings, but this instance is one of the worst of the worst. Sonny Burton should not be killed.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey must stop it. Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row and his execution is scheduled to be carried out this week — unless Ivey grants clemency or courts intervene. Tonight, at Law Dork:

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

theguardian.com

The proletariat is in our "Fuck you, make me" Era and I love that for us.

Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!' you sent us a lot of your questions. we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.

How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More

boltsmag.org

Wag. The. Dog.

Disapproval isn't disloyalty, it's democracy at work. CC: Stephen Miller and MAGA cultists.

So apparently he didn't actually post this, but he has wanted to bomb hurricanes with nukes in the past so...🤷 Just thought I should clarify (and yes, both are extremely BAD ideas).

Jess Phoenix 🌋@volcanojess.com · 6mo ago

Every day I think we've plumbed the absolute depths of human stupidity, and somehow every day this sentient slime mold manages to move the bar closer to the planet'd nickel-iron core. 🤦 Volcanoes with plugs in the vent are how you get MOUNT ST. HELENS, you ignoramus.

Every day I think we've plumbed the absolute depths of human stupidity, and somehow every day this sentient slime mold manages to move the bar closer to the planet'd nickel-iron core. 🤦 Volcanoes with plugs in the vent are how you get MOUNT ST. HELENS, you ignoramus.

Cinnabar is red Apatite is blue Science needs champions So I'll fight fascism with you. #ScienceValentines 2026 edition

The FAFOcene.

As an air pollution guy this is straight up false. EPA called them "stationary sources" and you cannot operate one without a permit. It couldn't be more simple

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6mo ago

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

The Trump Administration believes they can reject science and damn the consequences. This period in US history will now be known as the FAFO Era. Signed, A Scientist