OK, @mayorbowser.bsky.social just spoke for almost an hour on Trump's order, and was fairly level-headed. She said that Chief Pamela Smith remains in charge of MPD, reiterated that crime levels are down (but she always wants them lower), and that this is happening because D.C. is not a state.

Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard City leaders have called the move a "manufactured intrusion on local authority."

In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly

www.desmog.com/2025/08/06/r...

Promising Technologies Need a Bigger Push to Cut Manure Emissions in the US Livestock manure contributes over 1% of the United States' total GHG emissions. Promising solutions to curb the potent gas need more support and funding.

New research: our team looked at all the ways to reduce emissions from manure management in the US.

While biogas digesters receive the most funding, other options like solid-liquid separation, acidification, and aeration are more promising & cost-effective.

These emissions are also undercounted.

What the F are we doing, people????

Land sector ones

C: “burning biomass is carbon neutral because the plant already absorbed the carbon”
R: you just burned it though, which emits relative to not burning

C: “biogenic CO2 and methane are ‘better’ than fossil CO2 and methane”
R: these sources warm the climate just like fossil-based 1/

Rejoice! ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Is Finally Getting a Sequel Those still reeling from the Lionesses’ historic victory have even more news to celebrate.

Someone just alerted me to this news by being snarky about it and friends, I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE I WAS PREGNANT WITH THE DAUGHTER WHO JUST GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE FOR A SEQUEL TO BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.

Snark however much you want, internet stranger, I am choosing joy!

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

I’ve seen groundhog poops like that!

major job losses in the neo nazi industry, as publications replace writers with Grok

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

GOP reconciliation bill's effects:

—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Note to self: don't hang out on a rooftop during a heatwave

With plenty of moving testimonials and charming talking heads, Heightened Scrutiny draws damning lines between the “just asking questions” opinion pieces published in respected mainstream media publications like The Atlantic and the New York Times and the legal arguments made in our judicial system. The damaging rhetoric in these outlets is directly and immediately echoed by lawyers, judges, and “experts” brought into court—and because of how clicky transphobic stories have historically been, this vicious cycle has recently ramped up. Add in the targeted bigotry of the increasingly radical right, and the legal, cultural, and medical fight for acceptance now waged by trans folks has gotten all the tougher as public awareness has grown.

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

Big service improvements are coming to #YourMetro this Sunday!

⌚️Longer weekend hours on rail
🔴⚪️ More frequent Red and Silver Line service during peak times
🚇 New split Silver Line service

Here’s everything you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/M...

WMATA | Service Changes Effective June 2025 Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

More service and new weekend hours are coming for wmata.com!

Starting 6/22:
• Stations open at 6 a.m. Saturday & Sunday
• Stations close at 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday
• More frequent service on the Red & Silver Lines during peak hours

Learn more: wmata.com/changes

Join WRI for a webinar with best-selling author Michael Grunwald on July 1st, the day Simon & Shuster is releasing his new book - We Are Eating the Earth. Register here: www.wri.org/events/2025/...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.

(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old?

He said "I'm just beginning!"

Biofuels aren’t worth it

No Kings includes No Cuomo

A Food Reckoning Is Coming Our diets are awful for the planet. But we can’t quit food.

2 of every 5 acres of the planet are cropped or grazed.

We lose a soccer field of forest every 6 seconds.

Agricultural sprawl has overrun 30 times more of the global landscape than urban sprawl.

WE ARE EATING THE EARTH.

First excerpt in @theatlantic.com:

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

A post on X from Councilmember Vickie Paladino that reads: “Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about. Deport.”

Death threats. Islamophobic bigotry. Now a sitting Councilmember calling for my deportation.

Enough. This is what Trump and his sycophants have wrought. It’s an assault on the values of our city and our Constitution. Will Cuomo condemn this or will that upset his MAGA donors?

Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

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Yep.

We haven’t been tracking it explicitly, but I have heard anecdotally about food service companies that are implementing blended products as part of their emissions reduction strategy, and generally seeing positive responses from consumers! So think it’s very much on the table still as a tool

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

“The Nation” Endorses Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander in the New York City Democratic Primary New Yorkers deserve better than Andrew Cuomo.

I am so proud to receive the #1 endorsment of @thenation.com.

“Mamdani’s disciplined focus on cost-of-living issues demonstrates a commitment to making New York a city that all its residents can thrive in, afford, and even enjoy.”

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...