Martha Dorow

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Yes, but unfortunately I cannot go. These town halls are too often during the workday and I cannot go then.

This makes me so, so angry. Ashley Hinson voted for this and had the gall to say on a video that it does NOT disenfranchise legal voters, but only prevents illegal aliens from voting. She is delusional or something.
bsky.app/profile/vote... .

This is disappointing and illuminating.

Find Food - Food Bank of Iowa Food Bank of Iowa is dedicated to providing enough food for every Iowan in our service area to live a healthy, active life. We distribute more than 18 million meals each year through 700 partner agenc...

I continue to see references to rising food insecurity in Iowa. 345,000 Iowans currently face food insecurity, and many rely on food pantries. I found a great website this evening that shows where such help is available across the state. Please share.
foodbankiowa.org/find-food/

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies?

Yes, we can.

The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The USDA recently canceled 16 truckloads of food to Food Bank of Iowa. This creates a shortfall of nearly 400,000 pounds of food from April until July — food meant for seniors on fixed incomes, hardworking families and growing children."
foodbankiowa.org/usda-cuts/

$1 Trillion of Wealth Was Created for the 19 Richest U.S. Households Last Year Total household wealth for the richest 19 U.S. households jumped to about $2.6 trillion in 2024, after the biggest one-year increase on record.

Maybe there should be a wealth tax.

"A household in the top 0.1%—roughly 133,000 households each worth at least $46.3 million—accumulated an average $3.4 million a year since the third quarter of 1990, in 2024 dollars."

“Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals”

The Trump Administration’s War on Children The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

YouTube video by The Bulwark Trump’s BIGGEST Grift Yet—We Have RECEIPTS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwCG...

My neighbor has a son who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the past when he's come south to visit family there has always been a long line of cars at the border waiting to cross. Not anymore.

More women view climate change as their number one political issue A new report shows a growing gender gap among people who vote with environmental issues in mind.

More women than men are viewing climate change as their top political issue.

While this trend has been true for a while the gender gap grew significantly in recent years according to a new report by the Environmental Voter Project.

19thnews.org/2025/04/wome...

RELIGIONLESS CHRISTIANITY “Loving your neighbor is more important than religion.” (Mark 12:33) Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who opposed the state-controlled German Evan…

I've been reading Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He describes religionless Christianity, which was previously unfamiliar to me. However, I am keenly drawn to this idea in today's world.

It's always good to pause and take a moment to remember the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - especially now when we so desperately need more people with her selfless mindset in our government and politics.

Good Friday Now The cross of imperial violence

Empire always leads to this.

Good Friday Now open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

In Apr 13 Des Moines Register, two letters to the editor complained about media bias of that newspaper and NPR. Iowa Legislature thinks students need to pass a civics test for graduation. I think they should pass a media literacy test. Too many people are media illiterate.

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.

CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.

The FDA's communications and web office were cut.

"The FDA as we know it is gone."

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Combat America’s ‘Hot Mess of Division’ The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.

"It is very clear that, if there is a middle of all of this hot mess of division, Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle.

Who teaches media literacy in K-12 schools? I don't have kids, so I really don't know. When I was in library science grad school, many classes emphasized how to teach media literacy skills to the public and help library patrons discern the best media sources. Do public librarians do this at all?

New meta-analysis shows media literacy & psychological inoculation interventions signifcantly & substantially improve (a) misinformation resilience (d = 0.60), (b) misinformation discernment (d = 0.76) and decrease sharing (d = 1.04).

Great news for science!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast.

But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info.

Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.

I totally respect this rebuke. Someone had to do it.

Joni Ernst ad: 'Squeal' Joni Ernst ad: 'Squeal'

Remember when newcomer Joni Ernst promised she’d go to DC to castrate some hogs?

And now…she thinks Pete Hegseth is a great guy.

Guess she like rolling in the mud these days.

I wonder if she even remembers who she once was.

www.politico.com/video/2014/0...

Hard lessons the opposition has learned in defeat Retreat is not an option: "Now is the time for moral courage"

We would not wish to emulate MAGA's most craven tactics, but we could learn something from their strategic resolve. I spoke with @chaunceydevega @Salon
www.salon.com/2025/01/07/h...