Michael Corey

Tax Credits Are Gone But Cheaper EVs Are Coming This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at using virtual power plants to curb blackouts and Jane Goodall’s call to action on protecting the natural environment.

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at using virtual power plants to curb blackouts and Jane Goodall’s call to action on protecting the natural environment.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program A new policy change will significantly cut funding used to place people experiencing homelessness in permanent housing.

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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the June to August 2025. Most all areas are warmer than average, except for parts of the southern Ocean and Antarctica. Anomalies are relative to 1951-1980 from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 data.

This map shows temperature departures averaged over the last 3 months. What's it like in your area?

🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average

Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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To the 9News anchor who just said today's shooting at my kid's is "something we have to accept in our world" — it is not.

I do not accept that my children have to live in fear. I do not accept that any child should ever be shot, at school or anywhere else.

Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

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Pittsburgh City Council advances bill allowing construction of “tiny homes” Pittsburgh City Council advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the construction of “interim housing” – residential units that house homeless people while they transition to more permanent housing,...

Pittsburgh City Council advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the construction of “interim housing” — residential units that house homeless people while they transition to more permanent housing, in certain areas of the city.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

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Healthy Air in Schools Air pollution in the classroom affects how children learn and harm their growing lungs. It also causes health problems for faculty and staff. Here's how help ensure healthy air in schools where childr

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Thank you for drawing attention to this inhumanity.

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These Ohioans Got a Deal on Solar Panels. Here’s Their Secret.

These Ohioans Got a Deal on Solar Panels. Here’s Their Secret. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

As I show in Holding It Together, women who get pushed out of the workforce because of childcare often later gravitate toward conservative ideologies. Because those ideologies (and the Christian moms' groups promoting them) validate their new roles. 2/
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

The Running Novelist If I wanted to have a long life as a writer, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.

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Why is Ohio’s Attorney General participating in an event led by a hate group, as designated by the SPLC?

Opinion | The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act

The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series Returning for the 13th year, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra's summer music series will offer free concerts in Westerville and Downtown.

Check out this article from The Columbus Dispatch:

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series

www.dispatch.com/story/entert...

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Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president accused of ‘firing the messenger’ as he makes claims without evidence about Erika McEntarfer

“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, including those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild. “When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot." --from Orwell's Roses

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Between this and the news that Vought has stopped the NIH from issuing any more grants this year — (illegally) refusing to spend money that Congress has allocated — we're getting a glimpse of what could be a really ugly future for higher ed and science / technology in the US. And it's coming fast.

Bove is genuinely still on the hook for possible criminal contempt charges. Which, if the DC Circuit ever gets off its ass and does something about its "administrative" stay (since APRIL), may require him to testify under oath, despite being a judge. Unprecedented situation.

YEA 50 NAY 49 Nomination of Emil J. Bove Ill, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit

BREAKING: The Senate Republicans just confirmed Emil Bove to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a man whose lawless actions should lead to his being disbarred — not confirmed to an appeals court.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...

The U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Boom Is Sputtering More than $30 billion of clean energy investments are now on ice since Trump took office, according to new data from Wellesley College’s Big Green Machine.

Devastating. heatmap.news/economy/trum...

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

Opinion | José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine

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