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Notice of Availability: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) seeks public comment on the draft report produced by DOE's Climate Working Group (CWG), titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emi...

If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below.

Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.

Trump is invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which authorizes him to seize control of the entire DC police department for a maximum of 30 days.

This is insane stuff. D.C. is not in the grip of a crime wave. Crime has been falling for three years now. Violent crime is at a 30-year low.

Lest we forget.

This is exactly right.

Would it be so bad if we delayed the singularity by a few years, and cut back on new gas powered data centers?

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Emiliano's: Agents left behind 'trail of destruction' | 16 people detained by ICE The restaurant posted on their social media platforms that federal agents "stormed our restaurant in a show of force that went far beyond anything reasonable or humane.

This disgusting action makes our communities less safe. Think it can’t happen here? This happened in two suburban towns outside of Pittsburgh. We’re going to get food from Emiliano’s this week. www.wtae.com/article/emil...

A family's fishing trip ends with the dad at 'Alligator Alcatraz.' Here's their story Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.

Landscaper family goes fishing on the weekend, Dad ends up in Alligator Alcatraz. Why? Because cruelty is funny? It's not that funny.

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Tweets: Operation Trojan Horse @CMDROpAtLa... • 18m g ... Matt Finno @MattFinnFNC • 26ml Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they're carrying out the…

The claim that MS 13 has a chokehold on this area is a straight up lie. And the notion that day laborers in the Home Depot parking lot are gang members is sheer comedy.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Is there a legal group who could do a similar study of the "novel" legal basis of the endangerment finding?

ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.

Nobody's saying explicitly that he was fired for trying to protect the privacy of IRS data, but when he fired the BLS director last week for failing to knuckle under, how much doubt could there be?

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Pete Hegseth shares video that says women should submit to their husbands and shouldn’t be able to vote or serve in combat:

“He is the head of our household and I do submit to him.”

I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs.

Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin reportedly plans to terminate $7 billion in grants obligated to states, tribes, and territories meant to help over 900,000 low-income and disadvantaged households access solar energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...

This is really interesting and new.

In terms of sea level rise, how is depletion of groundwater balanced by less river water making it to the sea (eg. the Colorado)?

David J. Bair at the CATO institute is doing great statistical work on this!

There is no legal penalty for getting it wrong. They just get released. As long as that is true, I can see this ramping up, not down. People are going to get detained for the offense of being not white.

Last week:

P&G CFO: "We see consumption trends consistently deteriorating." $PG

This week:

McDonalds CEO: ".. traffic in the US remained challenging as visits across the industry by low income consumers once again declined by double digits versus the prior year period." $MCD

And here's a selection of former USAID projects that could use help.

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Check them out.

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Give Directly provides cash to very poor people. There is good evidence that this works. USAID no longer helps.

Cash aid helped him build a barbershop. Now that kind of aid is under fire : Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

He lied????

Meanwhile on X, Energy Sec. Chris Wright is claiming that climate change doesn't cause severe weather, despite the scientific consensus

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