JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
27.02.2026 22:35 — 👍 5707 🔁 1861 💬 47 📌 48
Scoop: The Climate Prediction Center is being folded into other agencies overseen by the National Weather Service
The change follows moves by the Trump administration to dismantle climate science programs
By @weathersullivan.bsky.social & @laurenthal.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump says he wants FEMA to get out of the business of preparing for natural disasters. His administration secretly dismantled a program that helped regular people do that.
26.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 80 🔁 65 💬 11 📌 10
Anyone used to be able to freely order print copies of FEMA preparedness material. When FEMA secretly closed the division behind that material, the backlog of copies were destroyed.
"Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars," said former FEMA chief Deanne Criswell
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including
It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,
BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.
"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"
Ultra-rich buyers are consolidating New York townhouse apartments into giant single-family homes. Some are buying two, even three adjacent townhomes to build a franken-house.
Step inside a Manhattan mega-mansion, the latest status symbol in this second Gilded Age:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Unlike the very public dismantling of FEMA's billion-dollar BRIC program (which a judge then ruled unlawful), the agency secretly shelved a much smaller resiliency program focused on the everyday Americans.
Here's the story, exclusively @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
SCOOP: How Trump's FEMA Secretly Dismantled Program to Prepare Americans For Disasters
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Larry Summers to resign from teaching appointments, relinquish university professorship over Jeffrey Epstein ties
25.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 1162 🔁 299 💬 104 📌 154
Following Trump's tariffs is like chasing a moving target. From I pitched this explainer on Friday to the time it got published around Tuesday noon, several rounds of rework were done to factor in what seemed like non-stop policy updates. This's what we know for now www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
25.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Can't stop thinking about how the Potomac River sewer spill sent more than 200 million gallons of raw (untreated) sewage into the rive -- an amount *larger* than the oil spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
While emergency repairs to DC Water's broken sewer line could be completed by mid-March, there’s *no timeline* for how long it will take to clean up the environmental damage caused by the spill.
My latest @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Between Heated Rivalry and the SOTU, men's hockey is really having a moment right now
25.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New from me: London’s offices are getting greener - and private equity is increasingly paying for it. Gift link:
24.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0The "boom" ranges on our snow map for this storm are rather large. Here's why:
22.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 109 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 2Is this still happening?
20.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Trump's MATS rule, EPA said that it didn't quantify the human health effects resulting from changes in emissions of PM2.5, NOx & VOCs. Biden's EPA had estimated its strengthened rules would yield $300M in health benefits & an additional $130M in climate benefits. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
20.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Another day, another rollback. The EPA on Friday rolled back rules limiting mercury & other toxic air pollution from power plants, the latest in a series of moves by Trump designed to boost the nation’s shrinking coal sector.
Story @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days. Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”
NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/metada...
BIG NEWS: The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, undercutting his signature economic policy and delivering his biggest legal defeat since he returned to the White House.
@bloomberg.com story by Greg Stohr (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Still thinking about how the Trump administration's approach to talking about the rollback of the endangerment finding + climate rules for cars is to talk only about estimated savings from its regulatory analysis -- while completely ignoring estimated costs.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Response to my question from FBI Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: FOIPAQUESTIONS (foipaquestions@fbi.gov) The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now. Please try resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly.
Hey FBI I have a question about one of my FOIA requests
19.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 107 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 0According to EPA, costs start at "hundreds of billions of dollars on the low end" and could go much, much higher. Read @zhirji.bsky.social's smart story for free:
19.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
President Trump said repealing climate standards for cars and the so-called endangerment finding would save Americans $1.3 trillion. EPA chief Zeldin repeated the stat.
But that's not actually what EPA's own math says. My story @bloomberg.com, with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI!
Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
New from me & fellow @bloomberg.com reporter Alastair Marsh - as the UK suffers through one of the soggiest-ever starts to the year, banks are taking a closer look at their mortgage liabilities, and in some cases starting to limit their exposure to flood risk. Gift link:
19.02.2026 10:36 — 👍 26 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”
18.02.2026 18:38 — 👍 28 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
15.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 41472 🔁 14050 💬 660 📌 594Announcements usually come *before* the official federal register notices. There is usually a draft report available before that point.
13.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
