Gregory Randazzo

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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Oral exams

I think that curve represents the deindustrialization of Europe combined with the outsourcing of its production to former colonies. Is that “progress?” When Europe profoundly relies on third world labor and emissions, isn’t this framing obtuse?

Material conditions and class structures determine the bounds of political discourse. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas- you don’t need to be a Marxist to see the truth in that.

Bastards

This guy is engaging in whataboutism, Mamdani obviously doesn’t support LGBT oppression in Uganda. Uganda is a far-right dictatorship (that his family fled!!!) with the death penalty for LGBT people.

Glad you’re getting more mainstream attention

Birds of a feather…

We’re not in Kansas anymore

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

Thanks everyone, it’s been fun being a scientist in the US. 👋

Diva down

These ideas deserve further technical elaboration, ideally by an interdisciplinary research team. Lots of open questions on the stability of geopolitical/economic/social structures and their coupling to the natural world.

Sophie Scholl - Wikipedia

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We will stand together and win or remain confused, concerned, and ineffective as the golden age of American science is laid to rest, 1945-2025

Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people.

You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...

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Brad “The Mensch” Lander

Mamdani will win the general. Eric Adams is almost universally hated. He’s a collaborator with trump, a sellout, and an idiot. 100 million dollars wouldn’t make a difference.

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Mass murderer.

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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein endorses Cuomo

Make China great again! another way the U.S. is giving away the 21st century

The Trump administration's attempts to cut the overhead rates of grants awarded to universities from NIH, NSF, DOE, DoD, etc. have gone largely unnoticed outside of academia, but this move is a crucial aspect of the assault on American research universities. @andrewdessler.com wrote about it. 🧪

🚨 BREAKING: “They tried to run over our people” - Cudahy Mayor Liz

Live video from Atlantic & Brompton in Bell shows Cudahy Mayor and community members tear-gassed by what appears to be law enforcement, with unmarked law enforcement vehicle charging at crowd…

Noting that the Trump 1.0 decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is a major contributing failure to the crisis, the Nobel-prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a statement—a good script for us all:

peaceandhealthblog.com/2025/06/13/i...

Variation of lightning-ignited wildfire patterns under climate change - Nature Communications This study shows that climate change is expected to result in a 41% increase in the frequency of lightning worldwide. This increase has the potential to amplify the risk of lightning-induced wildfires...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Romps et al 2018 shows that CAPE x P does a pretty good job at reproducing seasonal lightning maps… Given that convection generates the charge separation necessary for lightning, I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss this connection. Many have found that lightning increases 12%/ deg C of warming

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