Peter Yolles (Echo River Capital)

Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

Follow @booker.senate.gov - Still going on the Senate floor at almost 24 hours.
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
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Critics warn staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams could put public safety at risk Experts are warning that Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect...

AP Exclusive: Trump administration workforce cuts at the federal agencies that oversee the nation's dams are jeopardizing their ability to provide reliable electricity, provide water for irrigation and control flooding, workers and dam-safety experts warn. apnews.com/article/dams...

"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon

Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
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"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872

🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

photo at protest in front of Tesla store. One sign says "DOGE: Diabolical Oligarch Grifting Empire"

protest sign: "Elon. Go Raise Your Kids and Leave Mine Alone."

photo of protest in front of Tesla showroom

California embraced electric vehicles early on, Tesla's Fremont factory employs thousands of people, and the Model Y and 3 were the best selling EVs in the state in Q4. I swung by the protest at the showroom in Berkeley today and had lots of long conversations with folks

Their messaging strategy is to appropriate and twist the language of climate science, economics, and morality, and it seems that their market strategy is to appropriate and then suppress climate tech, too.

At least 200,000 protesters rally in Munich against far-right AfD ahead of German election More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election.

The world in 2025.

Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.

The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.

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Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

Democracy Is Not for Sale | Impact Entrepreneur T oday marks the dawn of a new regime in Washington, DC — one led by a president, party, and political establishment who seem not merely indifferent but act ...

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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

Big national media outlet still failing.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Climate Change to Wipe Away $1.5 Trillion in U.S. Home Values, Study Says Rising home-insurance costs and more homeowners spurning some risky neighborhoods will drive these declines, according to First Street.

In other news: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Column: The Los Angeles fires are no excuse to slow down on clean energy — Los Angeles Times State and local officials seem to be rushing to rethink climate policies. It's a terrible idea.

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Follow some of those organizations and others here!

More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

Many congratulations to these grant winners! All are doing great and important work covering climate change: www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality Us and them is all the rage.

“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion,” John Adams wrote in 1798. “Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

He lies daily

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#science

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Unbelievable. Is this a real post? If so, it's the ravings of a lunatic, some hallucinatory BS.
Has the US military invaded California? Where's this totally imaginary water (we have no connection to Pacific Northwest water). WTAF?

H/T bsky.app/profile/doct...

Every new building should be all-electric and fossil-fuel free.

Opinion | China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy President Trump seems poised to roll back the very incentives that are reviving American manufacturing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...