Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

5 months ago

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Didn’t mean it as a contest - it’s a cool little thing to hold! Speaking of, do you go to AGU? A few yrs ago a research group had a piece of 800k yo ice core you could touch!

I have a chip of a meteorite that is 7 billion years old!

“The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation. He said that the U.S. will “run the country” until a proper transition can take place and went right into how U.S. oil companies will benefit from this takeover. He doesn’t understand the risks and costs involved with these poorly thought-out decisions that don’t make Americans any safer today than they were yesterday. “Nicolás Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator who deserves to face justice. I want the people of Venezuela to be free to choose their own future, but if we learned anything from the Iraq war, it’s that dropping bombs or toppling a leader doesn’t guarantee democracy, stability, or make Americans safer. More often, it leads to chaos or drags the U.S. into a war and lengthy occupation. I don’t trust that this administration has a plan, timeline, or price tag for what comes next. “Over the past year, Trump’s foreign policy has been reckless, chaotic, self-serving, and unconstitutional. Congress should vote this week to reassert its authority on behalf of the American people before he oversteps again. I also want to recognize the professionalism and skill of the American service members involved in this operation. While I don’t agree with the administration’s justification for this, I’m thankful that no service members were killed or seriously injured.”

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

It is NOT too late to stop the worst impacts of climate change.

At Project Drawdown, we’re never giving up.

Neither should you.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years.

We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved.

www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...

dhsgov Deliver justice to criminal illegal aliens. Become a deportation judge. Save your country.

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Let’s see the IRB

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.

The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

The evil that men do lives after them

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

It will also kill a lot of people.

if you doubt the anger of scientists...read and circulate this piece.

eos.org/opinions/sen...

A science-based list of the most effective ways an individual can catalyze action.

The most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with …

what we eat

what we drive

what we wear

or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint.

Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world.

That’s why …

Wrapping up the semester in "Science, fiction, and our environmental future" with a discussion of the hope/solar punk of Becky Chambers and some synthesis on their thoughts on the next 10-20 years.

“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”

Opinion | Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward. (Gift Article) When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

This would be a major setback! Do you know if there’s any opportunity to reorganize like the National Nature Assessment has? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

Trump makes sweeping move to undercut state climate laws, including California's 'These State laws and policies are fundamentally irreconcilable with my Administration's objective to unleash American energy,' the president wrote. 'They should not stand.'

Another garbage, unconstitutional executive order from the President. Now he claims that states can't set their own environmental laws, like California's carbon trading program, which by the way, has existed since... 2006.
www.latimes.com/environment/...

10/10 Onion headline

A picture of two sea cucumbers, which instead of being normal dark colours are a pale orange. The main sea cucumber is extended out from the wall of an aquarium tank into the water column, its feeding appendages extended, and a set of plastic vampire fangs are poorly photoshopped approximately near to where its mouth is.

BREAKING NEWS: DIRE SEA CUCUMBER OFFICIALLY DE-EXTINCTED! These incredible predators were once feared throughout the Pleistocene landscape by even the mightiest of slowly falling marine detritus particles

What if the Government later determines that it sent one of these detainees to CECOT in error? Or a court eventually decides that the President lacked authority under the Alien Enemies Act to declare that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating or attempting an “invasion” against the territory of the United States? The Government takes the position that, even when it makes a mistake, it cannot retrieve individuals from the Salvadoran prisons to which it has sent them. See Defendant’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition in Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25–cv–951 (D Md., Mar. 31, 2025), ECF Doc. 11, at 7–9. The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.

Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review.

"History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but
this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."

FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.

The 2024 US annual national security threat assessment from the Office of the Director of National Security mentions #climate threats ~20 times.
Trump's 2025 report? Not once.

The 2024 assessment mentions Greenland zero times.
The 2025 Trump report? 4 times.

www.dni.gov