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More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB

Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

Four years ago today, @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social opened its doors. Since then, we have represented thousands of clients – helping them win hundreds of elections and scores of court cases.

To our clients, thank you for your trust.

To our people, thank you for being a part of this team.

"If you are a media executive, and you have Stephen Colbert, and you cannot find a way to make Stephen Colbert profitable, that says a lot more about you than it does about him."

Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism.

When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless.

Understand what's going on.

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Yes, we'll be draining precious groundwater from the world's driest places, but at least we'll have fewer jobs and even stupider people

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

The Week Trump Crashed You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week.

Saturday newsletter: The Week Trump Crashed

You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week. But I will anyway.

By the COB Friday — after the worst 2-day wipeout in history — the stock market had lost $11 trillion since Inauguration Day.
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Of Musk and Morons Elon, let me introduce you to your other colleagues.

Even through the cloud of hubris and ketamine that surrounds him, Musk sees that. Navarro is, indeed, a moron
But, Mr. Musk, let me introduce you to the man who has empowered him, models his policies on his advice, and who grabbed the world economy by the pussy.
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The Social Security Administration is now wrongly informing some SSI recipients they are no longer receiving benefits.

This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines. 

This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.

“I feel much better now.”
—nobody

US farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump trade war. They don't deserve another bailout and should not get one

2019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. 

You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

That the human ego can screw up even the world of endangered species conservation during the Anthropocene, by putting resources into species whose niche existed during the Holocene or earlier, is obscene. How about we save the ones going extinct right now?
#science #conservation

Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution

A much better, scientifically centered article on Scientific American:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...

This is not de-extinction. And we should not resurrect an animal that would throw off ecology for very distantly related, struggling modern animals. This is not science. It’s show biz.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Just to give you a sense of the political breadth of today’s #HandsOff event in DC today, I would like to note that there were people carrying the flag of Greenland there today.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

The latest defense of the Trump tariffs is that the impending Trump recession will build character. What are a few months or years of unemployment compared to a glorious someday-soon future manufacturing hinges and knobs -or stitching t-shirts and athletic shoes?

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I’m working with the American Federation of Teachers - one of the nation’s largest unions - to ensure everyone has easily accessible and clear health information.

We are doing this to fill the clear void. It’s free and open to anyone.

Hope you find it useful!!

Vital Lessons: A Town Hall on the Measles Outbreak and What You Need to Know With measles cases on the rise, schools, healthcare facilities and communities are once again on the frontlines of a preventable public health crisis. Join Dr. Vin Gupta, a leading public health exper...

One of the most effective ways to protect ourselves from measles is by getting vaccinated. Learn more about how to stay safe from our Vital Lessons town hall with @VinGuptaMD.bsky.social. sharemylesson.com/webinars/vit...

Introducing Meidas Health with Dr. Vin Gupta, Episode 1 Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · 03/30/2025 · 22m

MeidasTouch Network keeps growing! We are excited to launch Meidas Health, led by Dr. @vinguptamd.bsky.social, to keep you updated on health risks caused by the Trump regime. Our first episode is available now on the MeidasTouch Podcast.

I’m honored to reach millions more by partnering with @meidastouch.com - the nation’s #1 podcast - to provide regular evidenced-based medical and health updates to all of you.

This has never been more important and I’m grateful for the trust!

Why I Left the Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...

This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...