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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 14h

I give it about two months before drone strikes on American citizens is celebrated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 1d

Updated a classic.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 1d

Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…

Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias

The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.

www.wsj.com

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 2d

The acting administrator of NASA in 2025

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 3d

As we enter the second week of the Republican shutdown of the government, we shouldn't be cowed by Trump's threats to use the shutdown as an excuse to dismantle parts of the government he dislikes. He's shown that he needs no excuse to do that. He's been doing it all along, legal or not, and

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Monday, there’s no government and the second civil war is beginning.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 6d

Make no mistake that citizens will also get wrapped up in this, as they have been.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 7d

The fascism and Project 2025 game is now wide out in the open as was transparent to anyone playing attention.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 7d

A great primate has left our habitat. Jane Goodall -hero of our biosphere. A peak experience was reading from Earth in Human Hands for her and her board. She was kind, humble, great hugger, inspiring, brilliant. Let’s try to live her vision of a world where we care properly for all living creatures.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 8d

With Trump's "enemy within" language, they are about a month away from just being able to do whatever they want and skip the whole DEI/foreign invaders/whatever talking points.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

Did our president just declare war on us? 🥺

Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’

Cuts to military leaders and a shift in strategy to the Western Hemisphere form the backdrop of the short-notice meeting.

www.wsj.com

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 8d

Fascinating line in new Hülse & Ridgwell paper about how our gigantic pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere--after tens of thousands of years of warming--could kick off an overcorrection of organic carbon burial in the oceans and hasten the descent into an ice age www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 8d

too much of a dilute thing can hurt you....

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 8d

Just wait until the termination shock in stratification after discontinuing SRM for a century (I wonder to what extent this happens in abrupt 2x/4xCO2 vs. transient runs)

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 9d

"Ocean stratification in a warming climate" | Our ( Lijing Cheng et al) new review article in @nature.com Reviews Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Ocean stratification in a warming climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Ocean stratification — density-related layering of seawater — influences oceanographic and climatic processes. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in stratification, noting a 0.8% dec−1 increase in 0–2,000 m stratification from 1960–2024, and a further 1.4% dec−1 increase by 2100 under SSP2-4.5.

www.nature.com

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 10d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 10d

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency

New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.

NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭

www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 10d

So I guess in this regime (theres an “f” word they are telling us we aren’t allowed to use) global greening is no longer mentionable?

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 13d

This is a good intro but the popular notion that diatomics can’t be good greenhouse gases applies to a molecule in isolation, not at high enough pressures where collisions can absorb radiation and excite into higher rotation states. H2 is the most important greenhouse gas in the whole Universe.

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 13d

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 14d

On The Climate Brink, Kevin Trenberth writes about the undeniable science of extreme weather

The undeniable science of extreme weather

Dr. Kevin Trenberth explains how global warming is supercharging droughts, floods, and storms

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 15d

Honest question - does Kash Patel know about court?

FBI Director Kash Patel

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This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.

While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.” More updates will be forthcoming.

These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prarieland Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead the these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.

Thankfully, no law enforcement personnel were injured. Please pray for the injured and deceased.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 15d

12/ this isn’t to say climate science doesn’t get things wrong. That is often a feature of cutting edge research, and the same happens in every other field. But there’s no systematic problem and the things that are elevated to consensus/high confidence territory just don’t have a bad track record.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 15d

11/ the appeal to talking points was very clear in the now-disbanded DOE group, who work backwards to create doubt by throwing mud all over the place, but ultimately get very little correct and explain/predict nothing of substance to shake the foundations of modern climate dynamics.

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