The End of the Climate Watchers: How Trump Is Destroying Humanity's Most Important CO₂ Satellites – And Why the World Knows Nothing About It Eine investigative Recherche über die systematische Abschaltung der NASA-Missionen OCO-2 und OCO-3, das Schweigen der Mainstream-Medien und die katastrophalen Folgen für die Zukunft Wir bitten auch um...

“The president believes climate change is a hoax,” reports a former White House staffer who wishes to remain anonymous. “But he also knows the data say otherwise. His solution? Destroy the instruments that deliver the data.”
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Monday mornings are never too pleasant, but I hope your week starts well, unless you're pro-Russian.

Another of my daily threads begins right now, I've still never missed a single day during Russia's full invasion & I've posted about Ukraine since pre-Maidan.

This is Day 1265

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The Week Ahead August 10, 2025

Tomorrow, Newsom v. Trump goes to trial in a California court with Trump’s power to deploy National Guard troops nationwide despite the Posse Comitatus Act at issue. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump’s attempt to freeze UCLA grants is a billion dollar extortion scheme against one of the nation’s premier public universities.

And it will have real world consequences.
Breakthroughs in science stalled, talent lost, and cutting-edge innovation halted.

Real dictator stuff.

Background Briefing

My NPR interview with eminent Ian Masters about Trump's planned meeting with Putin in Alaska:
Trump is stabbing Ukraine in the back.
www.backgroundbriefing.org

European leaders rally behind Ukraine ahead of Trump-Putin meeting

European nations said peace in Ukraine can’t be resolved without Kyiv, ahead of an upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

So the president is now planning to deploy military forces in DC to handle ordinary civilian crimes?

Daily smile for today... 😊 #bluesky

India Cancels Planned Purchase of P-8I Anti-Submarine Warfare Jets Amid Rising Tensions with U.S. The Indian Defence Ministry has suspended negotiations for the procurement of six Boeing P-8I Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, in response to escalating tensions with

India has blocked the purchase of Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft because of the 50% Trump tariffs.

The order was valued at $2.42 billion.

NewWire tweets: "Americans set to pay more for cars, coffee, adn clothing as average U.S. tariff rate jumps to high not seen since Great Depression — WaPo"

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes

🚨BREAKING🚨: US military is preparing for the activation of the National Guard in Washington DC, according to Reuters report.

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A picture of me pointing to another large coral fossil that exceeds my height.

A picture of me pointing to a fossil Porites coral to my right.

I am in Kikaijima (southern Japan) right now. I found some huge fossil corals today!

Trump considering deploying up to 1,000 National Guard to D.C. The number of Guard who would be assigned is still in flux, the officials say, and most of the troops would likely be pulled from the D.C. National Guard.

Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. We’re far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

One First | Steve Vladeck | Substack A weekly newsletter aiming to make the Supreme Court’s rulings, procedures, and history more accessible to all. Click to read One First, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

I’m going to have a lot more about the history and law of “federalizing” D.C. in tomorrow’s newsletter:

www.stevevladeck.com

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

You're gonna see more of this.
Europe leading the way in science while the RFKs drag us back into caves.

Meteorite that hit home is older than Earth, scientists say Scientists who analysed fragments that crashed into a roof in Georgia, US, say it likely formed 4.56 billion years ago.

…we said Alaska!

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay 15% of their China chip sale revenues to the US to gain export licenses from the Trump administration, the FT reports.

Gangster shit.

Trump is considering E.J. Antoni, a Heritage Foundation economist, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, WSJ reports.

Propaganda hire.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

Free read for those without WaPo subscription
wapo.st/4m3PuFP

The picture of Trump and Putin from the Helsinki meeting, where Trump looks beaten.

Would Trump abandon Ukraine for $1.5B, the cost of the Trump Tower deal he lied to cover up in 2016?

How about $10B?

What is the price Trump would take to sell out Ukraine?

US Ambassador to NATO: ‘It’s possible’ Zelensky will attend Trump-Putin summit | CNN Politics US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker discusses the upcoming Alaska summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. CNN’s Dana Bash presses him on whether Trump can trust Putin.

Matt Whitaker, US ambassador to NATO, on a Ukraine land swap:

"in other contexts...to get a line that both sides can agree to, certain strategic pieces that benefit either side are exchanged [to] make sure that they can both defend their territory."

Both? What territory does Russia need to defend?

The Mysteries of Melania Trump: What Does the First Lady Know? The enigmatic FLOTUS has been with Donald for over 25 years. What was the nature of *her* relationship with Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell? And why is no one asking?

"Melania Trump & her husband were cavorting, for years, with the two most notorious child sex traffickers in recent history, who also have deep connections to foreign intelligence services. Their relationship w/Epstein & Maxwell is not just a matter of curiosity; it’s a matter of national security."

Donald Trump knows his agenda is unpopular, so he’s trying to rig the next congressional election to save his current razor-thin majority.

California will do all we can to stand up against this assault on election integrity and our democracy.

Newsom’s counter: The Insurrection Act criteria weren’t met:
- No rebellion
- No state request for help
- No breakdown in governance

California had control of the situation. Newsom says Trump’s order was an “outrageous overreach” to seize state military power. (🧵5/9)