NIKHIL NEELAKANTAN

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

War-ravaged Portland

Evaluating how the Trump administration will affect health outcomes Discussions about how a government's policies affect health often focus on health ministries or agencies responsible for medical or public health services. This is certainly true in the USA, where con...

"At breathtaking speed, the Trump administration is
enacting policies that will be difficult to reverse and
could disrupt population health for years or decades
to come. Time is running out to intervene."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

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Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

So very sad, so very wrong.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

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A Danish TV series about managed retreat. #CliFi

It starts out following elites with their wealth locked up in real estate, and what happens when your monopoly land rents become very negative overnight. 🔰

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAP...

The best news!!! 😍

Trump’s Total War on Wind Power Since July 4, the federal government has escalated its assault on wind development to previously unimaginable heights.

Scoop: The Trump administration is now pushing for national mandatory land use restrictions on all wind projects — including those on private land — by claiming they present a risk to critical communications infrastructure.

American climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.

I’m adopted.

So I wrote about how an attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship could affect adoptees. It’s also about family, community, and what it means to belong.

Read it at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

Most likely: things are moving so fast related to this bill; and people inside NOAA are trying to stay focused on keeping the science going despite huge #s of staff lost and tons of contracts delayed. Inside the agencies, people are bailing water as fast as they can and can’t look up.

For those who think evacuating Tehran is possible based on #Israel’s warnings, which are nothing but a performative act. It would take weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran. What’s represented here doesn’t even come close to capturing the full size of #Iran’s capital city.

As U.S. troops left Iraq, their combat gear went to police. This graph compares the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and the value of Pentagon property acquired by police through the 1033 program. As troop levels fell, the value of matériel transferred to police increased. Data: DLA, LESO, CRS.

Imperial boomerang: when tactics of colonial rule exported abroad are imported back home

At #OOSC in Nice this week & am constantly hearing people say there is a global moratorium on #mCDR (or some specific approach like ocean fertilization). I heard the same last week at the Liege colloquium. It’s simply wrong. 🧵

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Unfortunately, the list of projects cancelled includes a "whos who" of US industrial decarbonization projects: Sublime (cement), Brimstone (cement), Exxon's H2 crackers, Heidelberg (cement), National/Lebec in CA (cement), etc,. Kraft (zero GHG food processing). A disaster. @rebeccawdell.bsky.social

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The Trump administration has now ordered her and her parents to leave the country. Her says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

Many people think solar and wind won't be able to keep the grid stable because they lack "inertia".

I think solar, wind and batteries will do a BETTER job and I think you can explain it thus:
- the old grid is a record player
- the new grid a digital player
🧵

Three days ago:

theonion.com/sean-combs-a...

IRA Programs at Risk under the Budget Reconciliation Bill - Climate Law Blog The reconciliation process for the fiscal year 2025 federal budget is underway and, unsurprisingly, various provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) are at risk. On May 11, 2025, the Ho...

What does the House Energy & Commerce Committee's draft reconciliation bill mean for IRA funding programs? We @sabincenter.bsky.social estimate that $10 billion in IRA funding (and perhaps much more) is at risk of rescission. Our latest blog has more info: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Our government is full of dedicated people doing amazing work to make our lives better, and most of the time we don’t hear about them.

With the current administration, we unfortunately hear about them when they’re gone.

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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As far as I can tell, Saudi Arabia appears to be the most active external mediator (as far as is publicly discernible) between India and Pakistan (and is well-positioned to do so, for a variety of reasons). Saudi FM has been to both countries. x.com/KSAmofaEN/st...

Trump and people like Rubio who enabled him fundamentally thought that the world that wasn't on TV wasn't real, and we're all going to rue living through their education on that point.

And if you're an American taxpayer interested in reading some of their taxpayer-supported work and analysis published prior to April 2025, this is what you'll see at usip.org.