John Mashey

The wall is crumbling

Trump-class battleship - Wikipedia

Ahh, maybe "Trump-class battlehsips" could be required to use coal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump-c...

The "care" typo threw me for a bit.

Using the military to prop up coal is a real petromasculinity two-fer.

House Republicans revolt over GOP’s attempt to hand Trump Congress’ tariff authority In a rare defeat, three House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress’ ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs.

Breaking MS NOW:

In a major defeat for Mike Johnson, 3 House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress' ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs.

The final tally was 214-217, with 3 Republicans joining Democrats in opposition.

WaPo is now indistinguishable from WSJ Editorial on climate.👎

Opinion | EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law.

A week after The Washington Post purges its environmental reporting, its ed board reaches an ignorant, humiliating new low in editorials:

The Trump EPA is right not to uphold the Clean Air Act because it should ask Congress to pass a new Clean Air Act. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/

This is, of course, the point. RFK Jr. wants to eliminate all vaccines, but in particular he wants to eliminate mRNA-based vaccines.

I can't repost this enough. Incredible outrage. This is a good article.

Consistent with Project 2025, the Trump administration has managed to capture, commandeer, or corrupt every important social institution -- every important social institution except juries, that is. Project 2025 didn't have a plan for juries.

Vinay Prasad will defend your right to drink raw milk. That's freedom.

With vaccines, he decides for the entire country. He controls our health.

"unseemly" is too polite ... this is just destructive, and seems part of plan to inhibitfuture vaccine development, ncluding changing the rules in mdle of process.

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine

Moderna's approval app for its mRNA flu vax was dismissed by FDA with a "refuse to file" letter that did not cite any specific concerns about the vaccine's safety/effectiveness. Moderna's large clinical trial concluded it was safe and generated strong immune responses against A & B flu strains.

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Where have I heard this argument before? 😇

Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it. For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.

Killing off the endangerment finding could endanger the fossil fuels industry in court. open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Black history is American history.

Why teach (and learn) about evolution? | National Center for Science Education Why teach evolution? A school administrator might answer simply that the district teaches evolution because it a required part of the science curriculum. Evolution is in the standards and a school would be derelict in its educational duty if its textbooks and curriculum failed to include it.

As we count down to #DarwinDay, we're re-visiting some great pieces on why we teach evolution! "Let us also ask the question from a student’s point of view: Why learn evolution?" https://ncse.ngo/why-teach-and-learn-about-evolution

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine, which could raise concerns about the agency’s posture toward vaccines and drug approvals more generally.

Yet another bizarre and worrisome vaccine decision by RFK Jr's "health" gang...

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f... @matthewherper.bsky.social via @statnews.com

That should sell a few more books! 😀

Good advice. I did this months ago, luckily high.

@galesinatra.bsky.social Congrats on forthcoming @ncse.bsky.social Board membership! That’s great.

Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

States can step in to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and automakers will likely keep trying to reduce emissions to remain competitive in the global market. In the meantime, more Americans will die from air pollution and climate change because of the Trump regime.

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

The National Labs are part of the foundation of U.S. science and innovation. They should be strengthened, not gutted.

Table A.6.1 from 2010 report https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/crescendo%20climategate%20cacophony%20v1%200.pdf Shows funding of climate-denialist think tanks, highlighting Reason.

2/ Why was Reason one of those I looked at?
A: because it also had long history of funding from Exxon, Scaife, Koch, etc & climate change downplay.
p.95 in 2010 report:
www.desmog.com/wp-content/u...
Google: site:https://reason.org climate
Google: site:https://reason.org tobacco
So, no surprise.

p/39 of 2012 report Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax 2 Shows 1991-2001 Philip Morris funding of thinktanks also known for climate denialism, extracted from UCSF's Industry Documents Library. ROy Marden was Philip Morris executive on Heartland Institute's Board and was in charge of doling money to think tanks each year and his spreadsheets turned up among documents PM had to provide.

1/ No surprise, for 11 years where internal data from Philip Morris is available, Reason regularly took $... from company that exists only by addicting adolescent-brained folks and eventually causing many to die, p.39-41 of 2012 report:
www.desmog.com/wp-content/u...
p.39 below, but see p.40 & ALT:

Yep. And that’s not all. A corrupt $300M contract for Puerto Rico’s grid was mysteriously awarded to Ryan Zinke in 2017 after Hurricane Maria.

Here's a piece about @drljv.bsky.social et al's work on glaciers theconversation.com/nzs-glaciers...

I’ve been lucky to see NZ glaciers … in 1990s.