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Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.

I'll just repeat what I said yesterday: This is wildly illegal and anti-constitutional.

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.

This is the most chilling thing to date…

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

The headline!

Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We know what’s going on here.

@schatz.bsky.social you are doing great at fighting for all of us!

This is a huge, huge "follow the money" tell. One of Rick Santorum's big issues when he was a Senator was privatizing NOAA - because Accuweather's CEO was a big donor.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

God, what a gut punch. This is the thing that lets me know I don’t live in the 20th century framework anymore.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.