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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 3d

wait now I actually want to do this

Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 3d

it's an area I need to brush up tbh

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 4d

going back to school to get my BA in Posting

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is planning to cancel billions in funding for clean hydrogen hub projects — but mostly in blue states

Trump Set to Cancel West Coast Hydrogen Hubs Amid Shutdown Fight

The Trump administration is planning to cancel billions of dollars earmarked for hydrogen projects in California and the Pacific Northwest as part of its first tranche of funding cuts following the go...

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 15d

Fun fact: "carbon footprint" is a term coined by the oil industry

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "The 'carbon footprint' is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction."

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 19d

Anyways here's what's actually happening with Arctic sea ice per last year's Arctic Report Card

Sea ice extent, defined as the total area covered by ice of at least 15% concentration, is one of the most commonly used indicators of long-term Arctic sea ice conditions. The primary source of extent observations is the 46-year record (starting in 1979) derived from satellite-borne passive microwave sensors.

This satellite record tracks long-term trends, variability, and seasonal changes from the annual extent maximum in late February or March to the annual extent minimum in September. In recent years, minimum extents are ~50% of the values in the 1980s.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 19d

Climate science denial talking points bingo:
🔴 "Al Gore"
🔴 "Arctic was gonna have no ice anymore 10 years ago"
🔴 Highlighting a single year as irrefutable evidence

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Al Gore's nonsense is exactly what got us in this position. He started peddled climate nonsense 20 years ago -- the arctic was gonna have no ice anymore 10 years ago! Well, this year we had well more ice than we had 10 years ago in the arctic."

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 20d

New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials.

Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract From Hurricane Response

Internal documents show how online conspiracies and personal attacks disrupted FEMA during back-to-back hurricanes last year.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 25d

Once again tapping the sign www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Screenshot of text: These and dozens of other actions taken since Jan. 20 paint a clear picture: The Trump administration is going to war with established climate science. Mass firings, regulatory rollbacks, program closures, and funding cuts across agencies have compromised the nation’s ability to gather and assess data on climate change, reducing the amount of high-quality information that policymakers and business leaders can use to guide their decisions, potentially for years to come.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 25d

Can't set limits on emissions if you don't know how much polluters are emitting... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 27d

heck yeah congrats doc!!

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 28d

Big scoop from @eroston.bsky.social and @lorengrush.bsky.social : NASA has barred Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs. That includes university scientists, grad students and contractors

NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens With US Visas From Working on Space Programs

NASA has blocked Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs, people familiar with the matter said, as Washington escalates anti-Beijing rhetoric with both nations racing to the moo...

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 28d

Big scoop from @eroston.bsky.social and @lorengrush.bsky.social : NASA has barred Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs. That includes university scientists, grad students and contractors

NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens With US Visas From Working on Space Programs

NASA has blocked Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs, people familiar with the matter said, as Washington escalates anti-Beijing rhetoric with both nations racing to the moo...

www.bloomberg.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 28d

"The Trump administration aims to increase..oil and gas production, a major source of..emissions contributing to more intense disasters.. Meanwhile, the impacts of #ClimateChange are piling up, from intense #heatwaves to massive #wildfires to deadly #floods. Last year was the hottest ever recorded."

Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 28d

The Trump administration is taking a "cluster bomb approach" to rolling back climate science and environmental policy and undertaken rouhgly 400 anti-science actions since January. It could take the US decades to recover what is being lost, and some things may be be permanently gone

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 28d

The Trump administration is taking a "cluster bomb approach" to rolling back climate science and environmental policy and undertaken rouhgly 400 anti-science actions since January. It could take the US decades to recover what is being lost, and some things may be be permanently gone

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 29d

"At this time last year, the US was issuing gold-standard climate science and enacting a fitful policy to speed the energy transition. Now, the government is memory-holing some of that science and outright blocking wind and solar power." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... by @blkahn.bsky.social 🔌💡

Trump's Policies Cut US Clean Energy Outlook by 23%. Source: BloombergNEF

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 29d

NEW: i took a look at new research from @oilchange.bsky.social which finds that taxpayers are on the hook for an additional $4 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the one big beautiful bill:

US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.

www.wired.com

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 29d

“They’re doing away with science. That, to me, is enormously troubling,” said Bush's EPA head Christine Todd Whitman.

“We have basically an EPA that’s totally been defanged of its mission,” said Obama's EPA chief Gina McCarthy.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29d

no need to rub it for those of us with 3000 word features that dropped just after! [stares into middle distance]

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29d

At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk.

Read The Big Take ⬇️

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

bloom.bg

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 29d

🚨Hot off the press🔥
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US

A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29d

I know there's a lot of news rn but @eroston.bsky.social, @zhirji.bsky.social and I wrote a full accounting of the Trump administration's war on climate science and clean energy. Putting it all in one place was a lot!

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace

The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Sep 8

“The projects Trump points to as proof of his reshoring success now risk being paralyzed by US enforcement actions that target the very workforce building them”

Trump’s Made-in-USA Push Undermined by Hyundai Raid, Visa Flaws

President Donald Trump has built his economic pitch on forcing foreign companies to bring jobs and production to the US. Last week’s shock immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor Co.-LG Energy Solution Lt...

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Hyundai raid comes as "Chairman Euisun Chung is scheduled to speak next week at an auto industry conference in Detroit"

US Detains Hundreds of Workers After Immigration Raid at Hyundai’s Georgia Site

Federal agents detained 475 people at Hyundai Motor Co.’s $7.6 billion manufacturing complex in Georgia this week, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Homeland Security...

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICE raided a $7.6 billion EV plant and under-construction battery facility in Georgia that the state's Republican governor has touted as the largest economic development project in Georgia history apnews.com/article/immi...

US immigration officers raid Georgia site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles

Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in southeast Georgia. U.S.

apnews.com

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