Leslie Street

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Thank God I Didn’t Vote for Hope and Joy Several months ago, in the lead-up to the most recent Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, I wondered out loud whether we should choose the unc...

"Last fall, I cast my vote for despair, and I got exactly what I was told I would receive: a chaotic hellscape completely empty of warmth, empathy, and sunshine."

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...

"At press time, the celebrity gossip mill was sent into overdrive after Bloom was spotted dancing in the crowd at a reading to promote Merkel’s memoir." theonion.com/orlando-bloo...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

The President seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. The Commissioner does not determine what the numbers are but simply reports on what the data show. The process of obtaining the numbers is decentralized by design to avoid opportunities for interference. The BLS uses the same proven, transparent, reliable process to produce estimates every month. Every month, BLS revises the prior two months' employment estimates to reflect slower-arriving, more-accurate information.

The “Friends of the BLS” which is made up of former BLS Commissioners and economic data experts debunked Trump’s claims about rigged data pretty quickly.

Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.

This of course is very different.

In the short term Dems need to do everything they can to resist the regime and we need to vote the Rs out in 2026

But, the question for long term - beyond stopping Trump/fascism - what vision can Dems (candidate) to repair/rebuild this gutted republic w/ measures of real accountability?

Best fictional political character of all time.

Oligarchy at its finest!

You were a great governor of NC and you will be a great senator. I know how much you love North Carolina, and this is good news for the state!

Every Trump trade "deal" is a defeat for the US. They all cost US consumers money unnecessarily. None will bring real benefits to the US. All will slow our economic growth and undercut our competitiveness. All weaken the global trading system. Many include impossible promises. Economic malpractice.

The USOPC’s Transgender Ruling Is Not a Win for Women. It’s Another Trump Distraction. The U.S. Olympic committee updated its policy to comply with the President's executive order on the matter. The decision is not a victory for U.S. athletes.

Pretty sure I've never said this before, but this Sports Illustrated piece is 🔥: www.si.com/olympics/us-...

100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill.

They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.

Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.

I cover the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump and Republicans’ massive new #tax and #immigration law.

And even I lose track of what’s in it and when certain cuts to #Medicaid and #SNAP kick in.

So here’s a breakdown — complete with a list you can screenshot.

‘Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself.’

The details here are particularly harrowing, especially the stories of other people who were not so lucky. I don't understand why anyone would take the risk of visiting the U.S. under these circumstances.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

After today's CPSC ruling, and with the major caveat that these are only the cases in which the Department of Justice has *chosen* to seek emergency relief from #SCOTUS (which is a small minority of the cases it's losing in the lower courts), here's the updated tally of Trump applications to date:

I can either watch my kids tennis matches or check Bluesky. I cannot check Bluesky while watching my kids tennis matches without risking a heart attack because the compounded anxiety is too much.

this is the most run out of strip mall ass country

Bluebook student editors don't understand state statutory publication, and thus their rules for citation never make sense. Also, I make my students still give me dates for the US Code. It is the only way to know what they are looking at. Law students don't understand statutory publication.

No worries, chronically ill people on Medicaid are going to take over for deported farm workers! This is what the Trump administration has told us. And I am sure that next bird flu outbreak won't be a problem at all, especially since we have stopped support for developing new vaccines!

In other words, support public libraries, because they are the last indoor spaces in America where people from all classes and their children can mingle together.

These things are all grotesque. No one believes in true public spaces anymore because the wealthy can just wall themselves off in private clubs with amenities. No need for their kids to play with the plebes even in supposedly "liberal" or "leftist" places. Everyone's a hypocrite.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

the commonwealth of virginia in the 21st century is a diverse, cosmopolitan place where some of the best of the old and the new mix to form something exciting, and these people hate it.

How can anyone’s sense of morality countenance this?