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Howard Lee

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Geologist and Science Writer: If you want to see what climate change can do to the planet just look at Earth's past! https://h-lee.com/

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

My latest article 👇 gets into how hard it is to date stuff in some of the oldest rocks on the planet, and why it matters ⚒️🧪
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 11h

Glassy skin on a rope of pahoehoe basalt lava ⚒️

A shiny glassy skin on a rope of solidified pahoehoe basalt lava glistening blues and rust hues, silvery and dark brown.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

Concord is well known as the home of Walden Pond, made famous by the writer Henry David Throreau, but the small town’s wider geography was crucial to the origins of the American Revolution, Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson argue: https://theatln.tc/7IM93J1s

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 12h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 12h

Baltic states plan for mass evacuations in case of a Russian attack - @reuters.com
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Baltic states plan for mass evacuations in case of a Russian attack

The three Baltic states are drawing up contingency plans to deal with the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a troop buildup or attack.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

We’re in a health care crisis.

Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.

15 million people will lose their health care.

Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.

Democrats are fighting to stop this.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12h

Guess that Qatari jet wasn’t a “gift” to Trump after all.

Screenshot of tweets. Mike Madrid writes: “Joe Biden was criticized for a Chinese balloon flying over our airspace. They’re giving Qatar an entire f’ing air base.”
Below, Aaron Rupar’s tweet quotes Pete Hegseth saying on Fox News: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.”

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 1d

The 25% cut "would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

Next step is No Kings 10/18.

Do NOT be intimidated. No FEAR either.

There are over 2000 rallies planned. Let’s go for 10 million people plus.

SHOW UP!!!

Skip Montanaro @smontanaro.net · 2d

www.nokings.org October 18th.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 1d

They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are unitin...

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1d

This is very very bad.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to reshare our new Annual Review paper, which explores what it really means to exceed and return to 1.5 °C.

For many in the Global South, overshoot isn’t a temporary “phase” but an existential condition.

This piece asks what it means for justice, recovery & resilience in a world above 1.5 °C

Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 1d

📣 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Environment and Science is online! Most read article is "Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C" arevie.ws/3IF0OKf @andyreisinger.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social @chrisd-jones.bsky.social

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 1d

We took the freedom of speech away

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1d

“They’re eating the dogs they’re eating the cats”

They just lie and lie and lie

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 1d

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 1d

This is the right decision, President Sally Kornbluth is showing leadership. Makes me proud to be an MIT alumn (PhD, 1979)
apnews.com/article/mit-...

MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to feder...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 1d

Just went to look something up. My mistake.

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Dan Rather @thedanrather.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News is the latest victim of the corporatization of the media. But it is the American people who will pay the price.

MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News

A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

steady.substack.com

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 7d

The D2282 partial cranium from Dmanisi, Georgia, found in 1999, is attributed to Homo erectus and is approximately 1.77 million years old. This specimen, now associated with the D211 mandible, is one of five individuals known from the site, the earliest fossil hominins outside of Africa. #inktober

Line drawing of fossil skull with missing nasal area and some distortion to frontal bone, seen from front

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gregjarboe.bsky.social @gregjarboe.bsky.social · 2d

Orwell’s relevance: He’s more important now than ever, says documentarian Raoul Peck.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/a...

Documentarian Raoul Peck on why George Orwell’s work is more timely than ever - The Boston Globe

The director's latest movie is "George Orwell: 2+2=5."

www.bostonglobe.com

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