Seriously, maybe Trump is asking for help. “Someone please stop me.”

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

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Trump administration to pay French company $1B to drop U.S. offshore wind leases TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Departm...

The Trump administration is cutting a check for nearly $1 billion (your tax dollars) to a French energy company to walk away from offshore wind projects along the East Coast. The federal government is paying a foreign corporation to kill clean energy and keep fossil fuels flowing.

Well when you put it THAT way.

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Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through No...

The US Constitution gives Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” (Article I, Section 8), and requires that revenue-raising bills originate in the House of Representatives (Article I, Section 7). Tariffs are a form of duty, often experienced like a tax on imports.

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️
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"Pro life".

Is she in high school?

Opinion | The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe Repealing the Endangerment Finding will shape our clinical reality for years to come

The title of this Op-Ed by @lisapatel.bsky.social, ED of @docsforclimate.bsky.social sums things up nicely: The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe

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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Trump Administration’s Illegal Work Fatally Taints EPA’s Proposal to Repeal Endangerment Finding.

EDF & @ucs.org Call for Withdrawal of the Fundamentally Flawed Proposal

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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GMO Advocate Says Monsanto's Roundup Safe to Drink, Then Refuses Glass YouTube video by CBC News: The National

Further evidence of the nexus of denial, climate denier Patrick Moore famously "says Monsanto's Roundup safe to drink, then refuses glass", courtesy of CBC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_...

Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

Searching for the Goldilocks zone of climate anxiety Climate anxiety has both positive and negative potential. It can spur action or hinder it, while taxing mental health. The key lies in balance: a Gold…

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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.

It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Bar chart titled “Who’s Really Blocking California Development?” showing the share of CEQA lawsuits by plaintiff type. HOAs and NIMBY groups account for the majority at 54%. Business and commercial plaintiffs file 20% of cases, government entities 13%, environmental groups 8%, tribal or cultural groups 4%, and labor unions 2%. The chart notes the analysis is based on 1,234 CEQA court opinions from 1973–2025 using CourtListener data, with HOAs/NIMBYs defined as homeowner associations, neighborhood groups, and ad hoc project-opposition groups.

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales Site deletes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales

Ignorance is bliss, but extremely dangerous: Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales.

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This has gotten a good bit of traffic today but not a lot of newsletter signups! I don't bother you much, please sign up so I can convince myself I should keep doing stories like this!

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Weekly measles cases in the U.S. CDC data plotted by NBC News

The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
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Noem made decision not to turn around deportation flights bound for El Salvador after judge's order, DOJ says DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made the final decision to allow a group of deportees to be handed over to El Salvador after a judge said their flights must be returned to the U.S., the DOJ said.

The disclosure is the latest detail to emerge as the court reviews whether to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for ignoring a judge’s oral order. Accountability needs to come swiftly Kristi Noem knowingly broke the law, and the consequences should reflect that.

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

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An important post about the climate science-policy interface:
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A Spotify playlist called “Don’t Stream Fascism”: Dear Losers. Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE brutal by Olivia Rodrigo Secret Police by Fishbone Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up Propaganda by Muse Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova We Protest by Dave Carroll

Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky