U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
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Big Oil companies are going all-out to avoid taking responsibility for the harm caused to communities and for driving the climate crisis. They are using an age-old strategy: delay, distort, and deny. But we won’t let them off the hook.

Bessent Questions the Cause of Climate Change and Its Economic Toll

Ironic how one of the biggest elitists in Washington is calling climate change an "elite belief." Multimillionaire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feigns ignorance about the science while working for an administration whose policies are setting the planet on fire.🔥🛢️
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The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Pentagon violated court order to restore press access, judge rules Senior U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman also admonished the Trump administration, saying suppressing political speech is the “mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.”

"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...”

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Surprise inspection finds ICE stuffing migrants 'like sardines' into a facility with no bed, showers Three lawmakers visited a Mesa ICE facility unannounced and found overcrowding, with 250 detainees packed into rooms "like sardines"

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said, fighting back tears. The Tucson Democrat described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “It is frightening in there,” Grijalva said. “It is disgusting.”

Bombshell Report Reveals Trump Was Begging for Iran to Join Ceasefire This contradicts everything the president has said about the war.

All that time Trump was insisting that Iran was begging to make a deal, it was, in fact, Trump who wanted a ceasefire and was begging for a deal, while counting on Pakistan to make it happen.

Strongman was so happy to get a deal that he didn't look at what was in it.
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No way that was written by Trump.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Remember the spontaneous street celebrations when Trump lost in 2020? They will be no match for the jubilance to come.

Say it with your whole chest 📢

[10 FWY Santa Monica]

Record Hot, Dry March Wipes Out California Snowpack, Leaving No Measurable Snow for April Survey DWR today conducted the critical April snow survey at Phillips Station and found no measurable snow, a stark indicator of how record hot March temperatures and high elevation rain have erased the Sier...

A survey of California’s Sierra Nevada today found 18% of average statewide snowpack, with no measurable snow at Lake Tahoe, during what should be the peak season for the “frozen reservoir” that provides almost 1/3rd of the state’s annual water supply. (water.ca.gov/News/News-Re...) 🧵⬇️

Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.

There's a lot of incumbent money floating around trying to suppress this message, but yes, a war over fossil fuels is having exactly the effect you'd think it would:

Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research | Arctic Focus Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research

The decline of Arctic sea ice is due primarily to climate change caused by heat-trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, with studies showing the Arctic is warming nearly 4 times faster than the rest of the world.

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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find - NASA Science For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979.

As human-caused climate change continues to drive up global average temperatures, scientists say this winter’s Arctic sea ice is at a record low for the 2nd consecutive year, continuing a concerning long-term trend. 🧵⬇️
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Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act would require voters to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, but 21 million American citizens don’t have those documents readily available. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

Bannon: Trump’s ICE airport deployment is ‘test run’ for ICE at polls “We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms."

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MAGA’s Mueller Myths The 7 lies that Trumpists still cling to.

Some of the criticisms of the investigation seem specious when one remembers what was at stake: an adversarial foreign power trying to influence an American presidential election. Never forget that.

It’s caused by one man’s insatiable desire for “chaos, drama and turmoil.”

UCS' @carlonimbus.bsky.social provides the latest on the Trump Administration's dismantlement of NCAR, and how we can use our voices to save it, together.

Learn more: act.ucsusa.org/3Pk1He5

Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year

A new @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid attribution analysis of the record-breaking extreme heat gripping much of the western US this week finds that climate change--driven by the burning of fossil fuels--has played a clear role in causing these unprecedented March temperatures.

two images describing the March heat wave, left a map showing temperature anomalies, right, the seasonal cycle and the anomalies this year

March in Western North America is deadly hot, completely above temperatures that would have been possible without climate change from burning oil, coal and gas. New record shatteringly rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

Electricity Bills Are High. Trump Administration Policies are Set to Make them Soar. On average, households are paying more than 5% than they did just one year ago, and in some states, 20 to 30% or more.

"In particular, the Trump administration is increasing demand for electricity at the exact same time as it’s constraining the availability of new electricity supply, resulting in a surging—and costly—supply-demand mismatch. But that’s not all..."

Learn more in UCS's Julie McNamara's blog:

"A summer-like heat wave… in March? 🌡️📈

As we watch record-shattering temperatures hit the Western US for this time of year, UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social explains the direct relationship between these extreme heat events and fossil-fueled climate change."

If Confirmed, Will Senator Markwayne Mullin Will Be DHS’s Next Disaster? Senator Markwayne Mullin is unqualified to run DHS and its nine agencies, including diminished FEMA

Tomorrow, the Senate Homeland Security and Gov. Affairs Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s nominee for DHS Secretary. @ucsshana.bsky.social explains why UCS opposes this nomination, and why it’s critical that senators closely examine his qualifications:

U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

“The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals”

Extractive, colonial, & depraved

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This Texas City Shows How Not to Manage Water Corpus Christi, Texas, is about to run dangerously short of water, a development nobody saw coming aside from all the people who have seen it coming for decades.

Corpus Christi was already low on water when it invited water-guzzling fossil-fuel industries to take whatever it had left. It’s a familiar example of exactly how not to prepare for a hotter world

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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Quote by Dr. Carlos Martinez, Senior Scientist at UCS:“UCS strongly urges NSF to preserve NCAR as an intact national research center...recognizing that dismantling or fragmenting this proven model would undermine one of the nation’s most important scientific institutions."

The NSF has provided no evidence to justify dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Doing so would undermine one of the nation’s most vital scientific institutions. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social

Read the letter UCS submitted today:

🔗 act.ucsusa.org/3NeWZh1