Trump, the climate president
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Slight fall in carbon emissions from fossil fuels as Iran war drives renewables push
David Ho
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Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
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I heard it was "completely and totally obliterated" in a "spectacular military success". $20 million please. 🫴
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Trump says Iran's key nuclear sites 'completely and totally obliterated' by US strikes
The amazing thing about the Cybertruck was how many men were willing to publicly declare, “don’t have sex with me.”
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Tesla Is Ending Production of Its Cybertruck and Refocusing on the Cybercab (Gift Article)
None of the damage that the Trump regime has done to science has been fixed just because of the midterm election, and a lot of it will be difficult or impossible to fix. We feel better because we can envision a way this ends, but there’s a lot of work to do to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Democrats should raise the federal minimum wage to $20/h.
Karma: Three years ago, Cindy Hyde-Smith opposed Joe Biden’s nomination of Scott Colom to serve as a US district court judge, a lifetime appointment. Now he's going to beat her in the US Senate race. Lol.
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Mississippi senator to face a prosecutor she blocked from the federal bench | CNN Politics
I don't love this framing. Science isn’t something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why the child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
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‘Revenge of the nerds’: US midterms deliver a win for science – and a rebuke of Maha
The fact that the midterm election went so smoothly is a testament to lawyers, voting rights advocates, and election officials who have been fighting the Trump regime’s efforts to rig the vote and to sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election.
We should talk about how the Democrats totally squandered a chance to defeat a Republican in the Montana Senate race by splitting the vote with an independent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hear me out: What if AOC for House Speaker?
This fucking guy lost to Lindsay James in Iowa's Second Congressional District. Maybe they do ride bicycles in Iowa after all.
American healthcare is so fucked up: 16-year-old Sara Yara was killed by an unlicensed driver with more than 160 traffic citations. Though Sara spent just half a day at the hospital before dying, her family faces a $60K bill sent to collections a year later after her insurer denied coverage.
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Family of teen killed in 2023 hit-and-run faces $60K hospital bill
I was at an event where Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI” who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for modern machine learning through artificial neural networks, was asked what truth was. He answered, “it’s the opposite of whatever Trump says.”
This goes away if Taiwan becomes part of China.
How the Trump regime is destroying America.
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How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (Gift Article)
Trump asked big oil to raise $$$ for his presidential campaign → Big oil complies → Trump buys oil stocks and starts a war → Oil prices spike → Trump and big oil cash in → The rest of us and the climate get screwed
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Big Oil is raking in huge profits. Shareholders like Trump are cashing in. You’re paying for it with high gas prices. | CNN Business
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences recently cut its funding by 80%. This is the part of the NSF that funds all atmospheric, ocean, Earth, and climate sciences. 😱😱😱
My father had a very successful academic career, wrote 29 books, and remains one of the smartest people I've ever met. He was never given a cognitive test until he was diagnosed with dementia. There's a reason they're testing Trump. It's bonkers that he's been given so much power over us.
Cities with protected and separated bike lanes have 44% fewer deaths than the average city. Physical barriers separating bikes from cars significantly lower fatalities, whereas painted bike lanes and shared roadways provide no improvement in road safety.
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
War and climate destruction are profitable endeavors.
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Shell profits double to $10.8bn as Iran war pushes up margin on oil