Sean Sublette
@subletteweather.com
Multimedia Science Communicator and Consultant | Weather - Climate - Energy - Environment | AMS Certified Digital Meteorologist
Richmond, Virginia
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2 minutes on the National Center for Atmospheric Research, what they do, why it matters, and why the people there are being baselessly attacked.
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We are NOT out of the woods!
We’ve put a little bit of pressure on, but now it’s time to crank it up. Get ready to yell at your members of Congress.
We are NOT out of the woods!
We’ve put a little bit of pressure on, but now it’s time to crank it up. Get ready to yell at your members of Congress.
ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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We are NOT out of the woods!
We’ve put a little bit of pressure on, but now it’s time to crank it up. Get ready to yell at your members of Congress.
We are NOT out of the woods!
We’ve put a little bit of pressure on, but now it’s time to crank it up. Get ready to yell at your members of Congress.
Gregg is correct.
And AGAIN, the NYT is providing a reassuring headline but burying the lede.
And AGAIN, the NYT is providing a reassuring headline but burying the lede.
ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Gregg is correct.
And AGAIN, the NYT is providing a reassuring headline but burying the lede.
And AGAIN, the NYT is providing a reassuring headline but burying the lede.
"Don't Drink The Water" - 1998.
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 11, 2026 at 11:45 AM
"Don't Drink The Water" - 1998.
Windy and colder today, Virginia. Be safe out there.
People, we need you in the streets today. Really, we do. We need to show them we won’t accept a regime that kills its own citizens. They do not have the consent of the governed.
January 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Windy and colder today, Virginia. Be safe out there.
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Science is not doing OK.
Regardless of the bipartisan minibus that should be going through, science is under attack.
We’ve seen how congressional budgets are being treated.
Scientists are being sidelined, ignored, and fired.
We need to restore society’s respect for science and scientists.
Regardless of the bipartisan minibus that should be going through, science is under attack.
We’ve seen how congressional budgets are being treated.
Scientists are being sidelined, ignored, and fired.
We need to restore society’s respect for science and scientists.
January 11, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Science is not doing OK.
Regardless of the bipartisan minibus that should be going through, science is under attack.
We’ve seen how congressional budgets are being treated.
Scientists are being sidelined, ignored, and fired.
We need to restore society’s respect for science and scientists.
Regardless of the bipartisan minibus that should be going through, science is under attack.
We’ve seen how congressional budgets are being treated.
Scientists are being sidelined, ignored, and fired.
We need to restore society’s respect for science and scientists.
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"They have tried to distract" him. Every article sounds like parenting techniques for a toddler, and I am not even exaggerating in the least.
NEW: U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, Daily Mail claims, citing sources.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
"They have tried to distract" him. Every article sounds like parenting techniques for a toddler, and I am not even exaggerating in the least.
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That this message didn't hit is kind wild when you look at the time stamp on it
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 10, 2026 at 9:13 PM
That this message didn't hit is kind wild when you look at the time stamp on it
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Note: the tank did not run him over or shoot him in the face three times and call him a “fucking bitch”.
We rarely get to see the full "Tank Man" video of the brave Chinese citizen who did his best to prevent the continuing massacre of his neighbors at Tiananmen Square, June 5, 1989.
January 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Note: the tank did not run him over or shoot him in the face three times and call him a “fucking bitch”.
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i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
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Bannon hinting that he'll pursue the presidency is just an example of him throwing shit at the fan in order to rile people up in order to distract from other more important stuff.
Dude who helped organize all-out attack on our democracy and refused to talk to Congress about it, and helped Epstein even after what he did was known. thinks he can be president. 🇺🇸 🤷🏼
USA!
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
USA!
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Bannon hinting that he'll pursue the presidency is just an example of him throwing shit at the fan in order to rile people up in order to distract from other more important stuff.
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Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where everything is content
So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
We read thousands of internal ICE chats. They show how officials make raids go viral
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where everything is content
More from RVA this afternoon.
I’m at a rally/vigil for Renee Good and other victims of Trump administration violence here in Richmond VA. Several hundred in attendance at Maggie L. Walker Plaza despite the nasty rain.
January 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
More from RVA this afternoon.
At Maggie Walker Memorial Plaza in Richmond this afternoon.
Real Americans from all walks of life protesting the horrific and barbaric killings by the goons in ICE.
Real Americans from all walks of life protesting the horrific and barbaric killings by the goons in ICE.
January 10, 2026 at 8:09 PM
At Maggie Walker Memorial Plaza in Richmond this afternoon.
Real Americans from all walks of life protesting the horrific and barbaric killings by the goons in ICE.
Real Americans from all walks of life protesting the horrific and barbaric killings by the goons in ICE.
At Maggie Walker Memorial Plaza in Richmond — to get ICE out of RVA.
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
At Maggie Walker Memorial Plaza in Richmond — to get ICE out of RVA.
Our new AG takes office in a week.
Dear (Democratic) state attorneys general, do you have a lawsuit on the shelf to file immediately? If not, please make it happen ASAP.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Our new AG takes office in a week.
What a tiny, cowardly, little man.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
What a tiny, cowardly, little man.
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This is the heart of it.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This is the heart of it.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
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If your business would go bust if you weren't allowed to contaminate local groundwater with arsenic, molybdenum, cobalt, and radium, then maybe, just maybe you don't have a viable business
Coal plants already got a free pass from Trump to keep dumping toxic waste into unlined pits. Now, the EPA wants to keep them polluting even longer.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
EPA plans to give 11 coal plants a free pass on toxic ash disposal
Under the proposal, the facilities would be able to flout federal coal ash rules until 2031. The polluting plants would likely shut down without the…
www.canarymedia.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
If your business would go bust if you weren't allowed to contaminate local groundwater with arsenic, molybdenum, cobalt, and radium, then maybe, just maybe you don't have a viable business
Snow Search Index for RVA is up one notch this morning.
Read about that, and when today's rain finally stops at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
Read about that, and when today's rain finally stops at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Snow Search Index for RVA is up one notch this morning.
Read about that, and when today's rain finally stops at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
Read about that, and when today's rain finally stops at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
I started working in legacy media in 1995.
John is correct.
John is correct.
The media is not equipped to deal with anything happening right now.
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
January 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I started working in legacy media in 1995.
John is correct.
John is correct.
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The ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ folks have really turned into the ‘Comply or Die’ folks.
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ folks have really turned into the ‘Comply or Die’ folks.
Impeach.
Convict.
Remove.
Convict.
Remove.
President Donald Trump continued his escalating threats towards Greenland, telling reporters that if he is not able to make a deal to acquire the Arctic territory "the easy way" then he will have to "do it the hard way."
https://cnn.it/45Affas
https://cnn.it/45Affas
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Impeach.
Convict.
Remove.
Convict.
Remove.
Tim is correct.
If you get in the way of the regime, you will be eliminated.
Then they will dehumanize you after you are gone.
Something something 1930s Germany something.
If you get in the way of the regime, you will be eliminated.
Then they will dehumanize you after you are gone.
Something something 1930s Germany something.
"I will not be f*cking gaslit by these people. I will not calm down the rhetoric and tone it down....Jonathan Ross murdered her."
@timmiller.bsky.social on the new footage of the Renee Good shooting:
@timmiller.bsky.social on the new footage of the Renee Good shooting:
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Tim is correct.
If you get in the way of the regime, you will be eliminated.
Then they will dehumanize you after you are gone.
Something something 1930s Germany something.
If you get in the way of the regime, you will be eliminated.
Then they will dehumanize you after you are gone.
Something something 1930s Germany something.
My new favorite meme.
If I start freaking out, you should definitely freak out. As someone sent to me on the other place long ago:
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
My new favorite meme.
Bobby Knight often scored less than that in a half.
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Bobby Knight often scored less than that in a half.