Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org

The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/

#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange

This is exactly what Trump plans to do to our national parks, forests, wilderness area.

Trump bulldozes the White House Rose Garden.

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/06/20/white-house-rose-garden-renovation-photos/84292209007/

From my Nature World View article just released:

"There have always been risks to scientists for speaking out, but in the spring of 2025 in the USA, those risks have never been so high. Perhaps for this very reason, the risks of remaining silent are even greater, which makes it urgent that those of us who are capable and able to speak out do so. If we allow the destruction of US science by this administration, then massive local and global environmental threats will not be identified and addressed; medicines that could save lives and reduce suffering will not be discovered or produced or delivered; and technologies that advance industries and provide jobs and economic growth will not be invented and built. In short, the dismantling of US science now underway will make us poorer, sicker and blind to developing problems.

History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time."

https://rdcu.be/eo3Hb

NEWSFLASH: At least 41 Russian aircraft are burning after a covert Ukrainian #drone strike deep inside #Russia.

The attack, planned over 18 months by Ukraine's Security Service, hit four airfields and targeted Russia’s strategic aviation used to bomb Ukrainian cities.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-russian-airfields-burning

Ukraine attacks Russian targets in far-reaching drone strikes

“According to a Ukrainian intelligence official… Kyiv conducted a “special operation” that destroyed 41 “Russian strategic aircraft” stationed at four airfields. The official said drones were concealed inside trucks and beneath the roofs of houses, which were remotely opened, allowing the drones to fly up and attack their targets.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/01/ukraine-russia-war-drone-attack-siberia/

Regular readers of my threads will recall this one, where I discussed the extreme bonkers of the Trump regime filing seeking a stay of Judge Murphy's preliminary injunction in D.V.D. v. DHS. That thread is at https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114561031034280710. Today, Judge Murphy issued his opinion denying a stay, and it is a doozy! Murphy is incredulous over the point I emphasized: the Trump regime's complaints are all about a problem of its own making. Here's today's opinion in full. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.135.0.pdf #LawFedi 1/

The entire Trump regime is a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, but Hegseth stands out for his illegal and blatantly deliberate up-yours to even basic security practices.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans/index.html

The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the US Global Change Research Program, responsible for producing the US National Climate Assessments every four years. These reports are the state-of-the-art science on the threats of #climate change to the US and they are required by Congress in a law signed by President Bush in 1990. Trump can't legally stop producing these reports but he can cripple the ability to produce them, and get pseudo-scientists to produce a bad one.

An unexpected benefit of Trump's insanity?
It may be helping Canada and Australia to realize they don't want a version of Trump ruining their countries.

How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation Over One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17042025/trump-administration-endangered-species-protections-harm-definition/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest News @latest-news-InsideClimate

Trump administration is likely in criminal contempt in deportation case, judge rules
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366721/trump-administration-is-likely-in-criminal-contempt-in-deportation-case-judge-rules?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr

Update: Trump administration pauses $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts to Harvard over its decision earlier today to reject the White House’s demands. https://www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/4/15/harvard-will-fight-demands-live/

"The only ethical principle which has made #science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime"
— C.P. Snow, In The Search (1934)

HHS layoffs put Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors, disabled at risk
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-npr

“Naval operations in the coming half century may be drastically affected by the impact of global climate change. For the Navy to be fully prepared for operations in this future climate environment, resources of both mind and money must be committed to the problem."

Source. 1990: Global #Climate Change: Implications for the United States: U.S. Navy War College, Newport, RI

https://www.gleick.com/blog/a-history-of-u-s-defense-intelligence-and-security-assessments-of-climate

"Environmental threats do not heed national borders and can pose long-term dangers to our security and well-being. Natural resource scarcities often trigger and exacerbate conflict. Environmental threats such as #climate change, ozone depletion and the transnational movement of dangerous chemicals directly threaten the health of U.S. citizens. We must work closely with other countries to respond aggressively to these and other environmental threats."

Source. May 1997: A National Security Strategy for a New Century. The White House, Washington, D.C.

https://www.gleick.com/blog/a-history-of-u-s-defense-intelligence-and-security-assessments-of-climate

NEW: Trump fired FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub in January.

She and others say it's illegal.

But the FEC is moving ahead as if it isn't, and last week issued several rulings with out her.

me, for @Forbes

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#news #law #USPol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/03/27/trump-fec-ellen-weintraub-firing/

“My top priority now (and filing this amicus brief is part of it) is to continue to raise my voice about threats to our democratic system and constitutional order,” Weintraub told Forbes. “Turns out one doesn’t need a dot.gov email address to do that.”

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"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism

https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t