RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

Join @csldf.org Executive Director Lauren Kurtz & other legal experts this Wednesday, 4/22, for the 7th Earth Day Climate Change Symposium! This event is presented by the NYS Bar Association & will consider multiple legal developments relating to climate change.

www.csldf.org/event/sevent...

Gosh, I’m starting to think RFK Jr’s MAHA movement—which is doing all it can to roll back vaccination, drive up childhood infectious disease, curtail abortion rights, persuade people to ingest beef tallow, raw milk, & saturated fats, & push nicotine pouches on kids—might not be good for the US 🧐

The newest influencer health hack? Nicotine The influencers claim that products such as patches, gums and pouches utilize the ‘natural’ product and that it has been unfairly condemned by the medical establishment

Here’s related non-paywalled piece on nicotine:
www.the-independent.com/news/health/...
Philip Morris must be ecstatic to have new source of addicted adolescent brains, as they own Zyns.

Philip Morris device knows a lot about your smoking habit Philip Morris' iQOS device can collect user data. A teardown analysis shows this could give the tobacco giant remarkable insight into people's smoking habits.

Following in footsteps of Philip Morris iQOS.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
(I helped Duff Wilson with this, looked at the relevant patents, suggested company to tear one down.)

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science A review of Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez, “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World” (Public Affairs, 2025)

"From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science" | A very nice, thoughtful review of #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly) by Wendy Wagner for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

HITT Unveils Visionary Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, Sets Stage for a Sustainable Future - HITT Contracting New net-zero-ready headquarters building will create more space and community for HITT Contracting team members and a collaborative educational hub for the built environment FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Novembe...

wild stuff. a construction company hq being built near my grocery store outside DC is going full solar - a 100,000 sq ft solar voltaic canopy will shade the 6 story building - www.hitt.com/news-hub/hit...
local news really is dead, i guess. hadn't heard this until i drove by and saw a poster

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Obviously good thing you ignored that voice, AJ was very good.

Speakers 2019 — SkeptiCal Conference

Yes, @elisabethbik.bsky.social has done terrific work, requiring expertise and dedication, much thankless, so great to see her getting more recognition.
I was lucky to hear her talk at www.skepticalcon.com/speakers-2019
& even get chance for quick chat.👍
(bsky display algorithm? Link is to 2019)

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

Dr. Dustin Mulvaney - The Big Fire in the Big Basin: The long history and short memory of wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Dr. Dustin Mulvaney, Professor in School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies, San Jose State UniversityThe Big Fire in the Big Basin: The long history and short memory of wildfire in the Sa...

@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Looking forward to your May 5 event at (nearby) Jasper Ridge:
jrbp.stanford.edu/events/dr-du...

A line graph of GISTEMP annual temperature anomalies, with a jagged bright red line growing from left to right across the page. The Y axis is labeled Temperature Anomaly in degrees Celsius, running from -.5 to 1. The X axis is labeled Year, running from 1880 to past 2000, with the plotted data extending to 2025. Although there is year to year variability, from around 1950 there is a clear upward trend. The highest values are for 2024, 2023, and 2025 respectively.

Climate change is the older & more commonly used term (vs. global warming).

Yet it has become a pervasive myth that scientists "used to call it" global warming but then changed to climate change, ostensibly because the planet stopped warming.

It is of course still warming.

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Wikipedia

Agreed. As you know, formed in 1988, the IPCC wasn’t called the IPGW.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergo...

The real heroes of the Epstein story The four women who were the first to go public

The real heroes of the Epstein story
The four women who were the first to go public
- by Julie k Brown jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-real-h...
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

Mount Shasta looms over the iron gateway to Weed, California.

Another EV road trip on the books: 1,750 mi round trip from Seattle to Santa Cruz.

Noticeably more fast chargers out there since last time we did this trip a few years ago - we never had to wait for one to open up, which wasn’t the case several years ago.

Prize for most scenic charger: Weed, CA.

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

4/ But even w/o X account, people can follow link to any single post, but not be able to follow threads or zoom in on attached images I often used for long texts,
so I'm trying to create a sensible bsky summary.
Thread P 06/04/2018:
x.com/JohnMashey/s...
Thread S 02/23/21
x.com/JohnMashey/s...

3/ Sorry, still working, this week turned crazy w/ meetings & Internet problems, & harder than expected.
In 2018, I'd posted a summary thread (P) with ~dozen subthreads totaling 600+ tweets, then in 2021 (after Jane's article), another ~100 (S). It's taking time to extract something readable.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan.

It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

Let’s not forget the Kennedy Chair in Miasma Epidemiology and Environmental Health.

Seven data sets all agreeing on the overall surface temperature trends from 1850 to 2025.

Apropos of nothing here’s a picture of global cooling (it’s that tiny little dip at the end).

So there's a really important debate on civil liberties and national security going on on the House floor right now. It is shameful that it's taking place at this late hour of the night / morning. But I'm going to at least do something productive & try to explain here:

Trump to Nominate Doctor Who Has Publicly Supported Vaccines as C.D.C. Director Dr. Erica Schwartz is seen as a highly qualified traditional choice and tapping her is the strongest signal yet that the administration is veering away from vaccine skepticism this election year.

Breaking News: President Trump selected Dr. Erica Schwartz, a vaccine supporter, as CDC director, a shift in messaging before the midterms.