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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 7m

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

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

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 15h

“Health-related absences from work continued to track COVID-19 circulation and were 12.9% higher in the postpandemic period compared with before the pandemic.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 16h

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 20h

This spring, the E.P.A announced it would roll back regulations limiting the amount of lead and mercury and PFAS in American drinking water. This fall, they’re trying to figure out how to surveil our water systems for evidence that women are taking abortion pills.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 22h

"Senior officials at the EPA directed a team of scientists over the summer to assess whether the government could develop methods for detecting traces of abortion pills in wastewater." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

www.kenklippenstein.com

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 22h

“A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 22h

Cameraman: "You guys gonna share your names, too, or ya just gonna cover your face?"

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 22h

"Senior officials at the EPA directed a team of scientists over the summer to assess whether the government could develop methods for detecting traces of abortion pills in wastewater." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

www.nytimes.com

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 1d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

Where ICE Has Taken The Most People | On The Grid | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 1d

somewhere along the line mass transit was bad faithed into luxury rides for the privileged versus the way anyone - generally middle and working class - gets around a city by neccessity, and it sucks!

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 1d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“The creation of the ‘Biden Censorship Regime’ meme was an intentional process. The Twitter Files, the Murthy lawsuit, and the Weaponization Committee all drew from the same well of allegations, often recycled without verification.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...

Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime

Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

A partner to this similarly jaw-dropping chart...

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 2d

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social · 2d

“Students of political theory sometimes define the state as the entity that exercises a monopoly on violence; under Trump, the state seems to want to claim a monopoly on anonymity, too.”

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“‘We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,’ said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School. ‘We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.” jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling pro...

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

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The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 5d

“The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year. And some analysts believe that estimate doesn’t fully capture the AI spend, so the real share could be even higher.” www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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