Matt Gonnerman

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.

They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

An earlier piece by @teorth.bsky.social about the US scientific ecosystem.

Pathetic and depressing how dishonest the framing is. The vast majority who oppose this aren’t NIMBYs? This definitionally isn’t our backyard? The problem is he’s tearing down a national symbol on an autocratic whim, building a palace overtop it, naming it for himself, and funding it with bribes.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

This is the third story in the past week detailing how natural carbon sinks are starting to falter. We don’t know nearly enough about how these tipping points could play out, but the potential for genuinely terrifying outcomes should be obvious by now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

We aren't on a slippery slope to a constitutional crisis. We are IN the crisis. Time for leaders - political leaders, business leaders, civic leaders - to pick a side: democracy or autocracy?

The Trump Murder Policy Let's call his strikes on Venezuelan boats for what they are.

New in PN: The Trump Murder Policy

"Trump has claimed Venezuelan boats are being attacked because they’re smuggling drugs, but his evidence doesn’t amount to much more than 'trust me, bro.'"

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Harris: No. In Texas, you get “reviewed” every six months, but it’s a kangaroo court. When we arrive for the review, the denial forms are already filled out; we just sign to acknowledge we were told “no.” They never tell you what you need to do to get out or when you might be released. Ask when you’re getting out and they’ll tell you, “When we say so.” I watched friends get denied year after year because they were trans or gay and refused to grow their hair to what the system deemed “feminine length.” The not knowing eats at you. The first few reviews, you’re excited: this is it, they’re letting me out. But slowly it dawns on you they have no intention of releasing you when you start meeting people who’ve been in the hole for decades. Eventually you stop going to your reviews because you refuse to participate in their sick game. (Editor’s note: Lawsuits by people subjected to years and decades of solitary confinement in Texas prisons claim these perfunctory reviews reinforce a system of indefinite isolation.)

People who are thrown in solitary confinement aren't told how long they'll spend there.

Some people end up there—for years. There are so few restrictions.

Read how this Texan who's experienced this describes it: boltsmag.org/designed-to-...

Spotify Alternatives: 9 Best Music Platforms in 2025 Looking for the best Spotify alternatives? Discover 9 top music platforms offering superior audio quality, affordable plans, and exclusive features tailored to your preferences.

FYI Spotify and ABC are owned by the same company fourthwall.com/blog/spotify...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

UMD-Led Study: Good Biosecurity Can Counter Bird Flu… | Maryland Today Researchers Identify Conditions That Influence Spread of Disease Endangering Poultry Industry

Avian Influenza is scary, but we have the tools to deal with it. Our research showed that current biosecurity options effectively reduce risk of outbreaks on farms. This is a wild to domestic disease, very difficult to anticipate, so having biosecurity in place before arrival in an area is crucial.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

“Democrats cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Democrats cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed & so are we”

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

HEHEHEHEHEHE!! I LOVE THESE WEIRDOS!! I FEAR THEM, BUT I LOVE THEM!!!

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

More Than 1,500 Sandhill Cranes Killed by Bird Flu in Indiana, Raising Concerns Among Biologists The tall, slender grey birds are making their annual spring migration to northern breeding grounds. Experts say the virus could become a larger problem if it gets passed to endangered whooping cranes

Similar potential with whooping cranes in US, huge number of sandhill crane interacting with them regularly. Probably should vaccinate www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

The only possible excuse for not slamming the brakes on emissions at this point is "fuck them grandkids" which, if you think about it, is not a very strong moral argument.

i think that people are conditioned by the absolutely tiny changes we have made over the past thirty years to believe that nothing is possible, but we built the administrative state in four years