Rob FortyNorth

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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My successful public service loan forgiveness earlier this year feels more and more like it was the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Highly pathogenic H5N5 avian flu has mostly been detected in wild birds and transmitted from Europe to N. America by pelagic seabirds. Mammals (seals, walrus, cats) have been infected, but this is the 1st documented human case. Some have a PB2-E627K mutation known to facilitate mammalian adaptation.

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"In April, he welcomed Witkoff to the St. Petersburg presidential library for another three-hour meeting with Putin. Witkoff took his own notes, relying on a Kremlin translator..."

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US manufacturing stuck in doldrums as tariff headwinds persist U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted.

"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..."

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Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.

Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.

Shameful.

Foliage underperformed in SEPA. We are running 5” below normal. The one exception was the oaks. It was a Fall for the earthy tobacco/leather palette to take center stage.

When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅

Hair gel, Botox, makeup and push ups do not make transform an addict with probable comorbidities into a leader. Addicts in active, professional recovery work a million times harder than Pete Hegseth. Shame on his handlers who have failed the personnel under his direction and our nation, too.

Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers If the United States chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice.

2/2 Part of the pain in watching that response is knowing how the reported patently illegal orders will affect US servicemembers.

I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):

The Judge Advocate General’s Corps is busy. Does each branch of the US military have a JAG Corps?

There is the opinion that Russian troops should return home and a select set of the leadership and propagandists should apply for free flights to The Hague with appropriate accommodations. Start there and make reservations early. It’s going to be an in-demand destination, so book it now.

Let’s talk about THIS redaction in a newly uncovered FBI email regarding the project to redact the Epstein files. Today at noon PT / 3 PM ET. Link to the show: youtube.com/live/hM52u3X...

Freakonmics podcast tackled the Macy’s TDP legacy topic which comes down to real estate holdings, tradition and sponsors. Its future is a struggle with little upside in a fractured political, financial and moral hellscape.

Self-dealing is legal and the lede in small print gets buried.

PR consultants train people to smile as they talk as a generally proven way to project confidence, candor and honesty. Mr. Hasset continually oversells with false information. Gosh, I still want to like the guy and maybe applaud him if he ever tells me the truth.

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Biden fumbled the USPS reorganization, and Trump2.0 is picking up from Trump1.0 to gut USPS in time for the 2026 midterm election.

DOGE, which once officially included Musk, Majorie Taylor Greene and Russell Vought, was the battering ram that broke and gutted governmental entities. It’s assigned minions to siphon our info into “data lakes”, leaked $$ to who knows where. People died (USAID recipients among them). MTG, we have ?s

Care to place odds on Bovino being issued a subpoena to appear again in court where he has already lost before?

Protesters took to the streets early in the morning in Gießen, Germany to demonstrate against the revival of the Hitler Jugend.

This is the golden age of pedos, traffickers and eugenics.

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One word comes to mind — Leavenworth.

Such wording in a poll is intentionally a means to an end and flawed. How about using billionaire capitalism versus Constitutional capitalism? Not perfect but more to the point.

A graph of US monthly solar generation

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Once #Ukraine has terrain maps of Russia,the Flamingo missile will fly at an altitude of 30-40 meters,no one will be able to see it from the ground,Denys Shtilerman,co-owner &chief designer of Fire Point company,said.

COP30 Adaptation Wins & Fails, EPA to Limit Wetlands Protections, and More PLUS: G20 declaration's call for adaptation, JP Morgan's Kapnick highlights climate resilience-security nexus, MaRS AdapTech Accelerator

🌊 Dutch central bank sounds alarm: floods pose major threat to Netherlands’ financial system. Physical risk is rising. More insights →

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Here's a timelapse from Garbage Eve.

Derby experiences so many beautiful auroras!