Rebecca Smith

🧵This is a terrifyingly real concern and I want people to understand that fully uniformed cops sexually assault women and girls all the time.

ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."

Skunk 2, Beagle 0

WPPSS!

Bah hahahaha!

I'm usually trying to take the train from Salem to Seattle and have been burned so many times by cancellations and delays. I WANT TO LOVE YOU, AMTRAK!

It has truly been an honor of a lifetime to be a part of and to lead the… | Dr. Sunita Satyapal | 113 comments It has truly been an honor of a lifetime to be a part of and to lead the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) for nearly 22 years (Director for close to 16...

THE END OF AN ERA.

Sunita out at US DOE.

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From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done

Poor Marty Weitzman out here catching strays!

Critters taking climate action Beavers are saving the day, but amphibians can’t take the heat—and how bird watching is a climate action

A new dam on the Klabava River south of Prague to protect critical habitat hit bureaucratic delays…but a colony of beavers took things into their own paws, building a series of dams in the same locations the engineers had planned, creating a wetland that saved the Czech govt 1.2M euros.

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Hearing yet again that EERE and OCED at US DOE being shut down. While OCED was fairly new and created to implement BIL and IRA, EERE was formed in 1981 as the Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy.

Ugh, I'm sorry - for you and for all of us.

Reminds me of having to remove discussions of the Clean Power Plan from meeting agendas following the 2016 election.

We are at DEFCON FUCK!

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Only a ghoul like JKR could hear this and suggest John is a sell out arguing in bad faith.

"But the one thing I would ask of you is that you recognize the ugliness of how this issue gets discussed, and how it’s being cynically used by some to advance the eradication of trans people generally."

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

NO ON CLOTURE!

I am gutted to hear of Rep. Raúl Grijalva's passing today. He was a real one and gave no quarter to fascists or corporate oligarchs. May he rest in power. 👊

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

I feel a bit silly, after the fact, that I didn't see this admin criminalizing Habit for Humanity coming. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

If Congress were to pass a law doing what DOGE is now doing, (1) the head of DOGE would have to be Senate confirmed; (2) by extension, that person would be eligible for impeachment; (3) its actions would have to undergo congressional oversight, including that related to annual appropriations; ...

I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)

🚨 Remember how we all downloaded and saved as many federal data sets and reports that we could last time around? You want to do that again - hearing from energy folks that things are already dropping off DOE websites. 🚨

Still processing all the terrible news from yesterday, but on the bright side, my new glasses came super fast and my Moo Deng figure.

Article I says Congress makes laws and has power of the purse.

Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.

Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.

A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

Congress approved the funding for clean energy and J40 in BIL and IRA! This is not how this works!
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

Look, it has been a long four-plus years of Trump being president and ten-plus years of him dominating American politics, but in terms of the breadth of immediate policy impact, I think this might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever done

Fed worker rumors on reddit that Black History month (next month) is effectively being shut down - events cancelled, webpages taken down, social media posts throttled.

Why Project 2025-shaped if not Project 2025?