David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
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Oh, so now these sociopaths trust science and our ability to measure trace amounts of chemicals.
Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater
www.nytimes.com
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
"Thursday’s incident marked the second traffic death of an MCPS student in less than three weeks. On the night of Sept. 21, James Evert Anderson, 16, of Kensington died after he was struck by an SUV in the 3500 block of University Boulevard West."
Girl, 11, on bicycle dies after collision with MCPS school bus in Rockville
Roads near crash site closed to traffic Thursday evening, police say
bethesdamagazine.com
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
"Influencer embeds are now fixtures of the administration’s media strategy–a content mill for consensus, flooding social media feeds with state-sanctioned clips and patriotic spectacle."
Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It
The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.
www.wired.com
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propublica.org
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
davidho.bsky.social
Any academic willing and able to leave the US would do it in the Trump era. There aren’t that many places that pay academics as well as the US but Switzerland is definitely one that does (in fact it pays way more).
florianscheuer.bsky.social
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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willnorman.co.uk
Well done to all the brilliant local councillors who have lowered the speed limits their roads to 20mph - often in the face of much hostility.

There is now irrefutable evidence to show your bold decisions are saving lives.

Thank you!
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adamvaughan.bsky.social
🌊I caught up with veteran oceanographer Sylvia Earle, who recently turned 90.

"What really caught my imagination, even as a child, was the extraordinary diversity of life in the sea. Creatures that have no counterpart on the land, like starfish".

📺Watch here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsb...
Sylvia Earle at 90 – The ocean pioneer on a lifetime of discovery and Hope Spots
YouTube video by Times Radio
www.youtube.com
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jael.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
davidho.bsky.social
Imagine if you decide not to make music anymore (please don’t) and insist on confiscating everyone’s albums.
davidho.bsky.social
These are electric motorcycles.
hawaiinewsnow.com
Sales of e-bikes has been rising, but so have the injuries. And doctors say those injuries are becoming more severe.
Hawaii seeing increase in number and severity of e-bike injuries
A pediatric surgeon calls the increase "an epidemic."
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
davidho.bsky.social
I wish they focused their obsession on plant genitals (i.e., flowers) instead.
pflax1.bsky.social
When enough time elapses for historians to take measure of this truly batshit era, one theme that will become oddly clear is how the American right was obsessed with other peoples' genitalia.
justinbaragona.bsky.social
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
davidho.bsky.social
@theonion.com is now indistinguishable from real life.
A man in a suit is speaking at a lectern, looking derranged. The text is about autism being linked to circumcision, attributed to RFK Jr.
davidho.bsky.social
because it's an ebike
davidho.bsky.social
Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats
An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.
apnews.com