Katharine Hudson

What Caused the 1918 Flu to Affect Young Adults Most? Explore the puzzling reasons why the 1918 flu disproportionately affected healthy young adults, delving into both biological and circumstantial factors.

"A significant biological explanation for high mortality among young adults in 1918 involves a “cytokine storm.” This occurs when the body’s immune system, in its effort to combat a pathogen, mounts an excessively strong and uncontrolled inflammatory response."

The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.

What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump.

"The interview had no evident legal purpose. It was a damage-control operation. Blanche was not so much investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes as attempting to exculpate President Donald Trump..."

At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains

“While it may be inconvenient to the current administration, the U.S. does have some of the leading climate scientists in the world, and they will continue to find a way to do and communicate the science regardless of the oppressive political regime.” - Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

Line graph time series of monthly global sea ice volume anomalies from January 1979 to July 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to the 1981-2010 climatology. There is a lot of interannual variability.

The size of the current global sea-ice volume departure is near record levels, with thinner than average ice found in both the #Arctic and #Antarctic.

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Her evidence is compelling. It has influenced my thinking enormously.

The bush lupines on the Marin Headlands. Ahhhhhh

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

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Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.

Expect Elon Musk, and now Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, to do what Trump promised he would do all along... eradicate Social Security and Medicare. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

At what point do we call this a constitutional crisis?!

Russell Vought is Trump’s path to authoritarianism.

“He was so clear to us that he believes that it’s a President’s power to ignore the laws as written, that it’s a President’s power to ignore the Constitution.” - @jeff-merkley.bsky.social

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

I've seen some wondering why a person married to a US citizen might not be documented.

It took me 4 years & over $1500 to get residency-and I'm a 🇨🇦 married to a 🇺🇸.

In my experience, it's incredibly hard for someone whose first language isn't English and can't spare the $$ to navigate this process.

Oy.

I deeply apologize for our country right now. Most of us have less-than-zero interest in "acquiring" Greenland.

If only CNN had a climate writer who could write about the Trump administration's assault on clean energy like the NPR does

Caltrain’s Electric Fleet More Efficient than Expected | Caltrain Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by...

Regenerative braking remains an extremely straightforward engineering marvel. Energy efficiency at its finest.

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Fast Fashion: Its Detrimental Effect on the Environment Fast fashion has a massive environmental impact. It is the second-biggest consumer of water and responsible for 10% of global CO2 emissions.

earth.org/fast-fashion... #atacamadesert #carbonemissions #childlabor #co2emissions #energy #environmentalimpact #fastfashion #forcedlabor #forever21 #lessismore #microplastics #pollution #shein #shitshow #slowfashion #textiledyeing #textiles #uniglo #waterconsumption #zara

'... a fundamental misunderstanding of how climate change works. It’s not a single factor to weigh against others. It’s an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions.'
#wildfire #climatechange

My kind of company! I’d like to see them work harder to reduce plastic packaging though.

I love Costco. I love their business model, their higher wages, their leadership development…the number of people who work there for years and years and years.

I love their gas prices and quality of their gas. I love their bakery, the efforts to maximize containers to increase sustainability…

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

Trump wants to upend California water policy. State officials say it could do harm President Trump has issued a directive calling for 'putting people over fish' in California water policy. State officials say it could prove harmful for water supplies and fish.

Peter Gleick says Trump’s order on California water policy "is what you get when you mix bluster, ignorance, and disinformation."

"If he cared about California water, which he doesn’t really, he would pay attention to climate change." @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

The White House climate page is now gone. Climate change is not. www.whitehouse.gov/climate

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

If you or someone you know has cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or one of many countless illnesses that needs a cure — this could have devastating effects.

Hello everyone, we are Warming Up Comedy. We make comedy sketches on the subject of the climate and ecological crises. Honestly they’re funny don’t worry.

YouTube video by Turtle Canyon Comedy Offsetting | Climate Change Comedy

We also make climate comedy sketches such as this as a collective at @warmingupcomedy.bsky.social and will have many more coming this year.

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YouTube video by Tony Lam 22 Minutes Sexy Climate Change Song - Official

And to round out this list, an honourable mention to the hallowed Canadian comedy program, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," and their music video featuring the one and only David Suzuki, Elizabeth May, and @cathmckenna.bsky.social 🇨🇦😂🇨🇦

In case you missed it: 2024 was the world's warmest year since @noaa.gov records began in 1850.

Global surface temperature was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade.