David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
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Pam Bondi is so transparent, you can see right through her
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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RFK Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (the institute led by Anthony Fauci for 38 years), after she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump regime had undermined vaccine research and defied court orders.
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
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How did someone as weird and creepy as Stephen Miller become president?
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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If we look at 20th-century China and Germany as examples, it actually takes a few decades to recover from the type of self-harm that the US is currently inflicting on itself.
And he called US President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape American science and health policy -- including mass firings to government scientists and steep slashes to research budgets  -- an "immensely serious problem."

"This will cripple much of United States science research," he told AFP, adding that he knew people who have taken enormous funding hits.

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues," Clarke said. "Assuming that the present administration finally comes to an end, it may take a decade to get back to where we were, say, half a year ago."

"It's a huge problem" that's "entirely beyond any understanding of anyone who is a scientist," he said.
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I like Citymapper for cycling where it's available.
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Jaguar with gunshot wounds rescued from river in Brazil.

A wounded jaguar, reportedly injured by gunfire, is rescued by Brazilian military police and members of SEPET — the Animal Protection Secretariat for the Amazonas, in the waters of Rio Negro, Brazil
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NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...
Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana
A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.
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The rest of us are going to lose our minds if he does.
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We all need to be prepared this week for when on Friday Donald Trump — much to his complete and total surprise — doesn’t actually get the Nobel Peace Prize and he loses his mind.
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Are carbon suckers the ones who buy carbon credits, or the ones who suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere? Listen to make your own judgment. Allegedly, I say some things in this episode.
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Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

Who’s going to clean up the mess?

We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...

Listen to episode 2 now:

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Episode 2: Carbon Suckers
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How can we reduce transportation-related emissions?

🛫Reduce avoidable travel
🚇Shift to shared & public transit
🚘Adopt zero-carbon vehicles
🚢Decarbonize shipping & aviation

More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/4lLR3rt
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An inconsiderate former iPhone owner used the Find My app to prevent the repatriation of over 2,000 mobile phones from the UK to their native China. 🙃
One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China
BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.
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Find the People over Papers map here: iceout.org/en/
Screenshot of the “People Over Papers” website (iceout.org), which tracks and reports ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity across the United States. The screen is divided into two main sections: a report list panel on the left and an interactive map on the right.

Left Panel (Report List):

Titled “47 Reports,” the panel displays user-submitted ICE sightings, each with a risk level, location, date, and time of submission and occurrence.

Risk levels are color-coded:

Critical Risk (red)

High Risk (orange)

Low Risk (green)

The top report is a Critical Risk, unconfirmed sighting at "800 East Devon Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL," submitted at 2:29 PM.

Below it is a Low Risk report at "Devon Avenue & Lively Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL," submitted at the same time.

Other reports shown include:

A Critical Risk at Brandywine Town Homes Association, Villa Park, IL (submitted at 2:24 PM)

A Critical Risk at Missouri Avenue NW & 14th St NW, Washington, DC (submitted at 2:23 PM)

Right Panel (Map):

A U.S. map shows pins indicating the locations of ICE activity reports.

Pin colors match the risk levels (Green for Low, Yellow for High, Red for Critical).

Clusters of reports are visible in the Northeast (New York City area), Midwest (Chicago area), and Washington, DC.

Other isolated reports appear in Texas, Nebraska, and California.

A map key in the top-right corner explains the pin colors.

The map also includes standard navigation tools (zoom in/out buttons and a location marker).

The header includes a banner that says: “Fuel the Mission — Support Us Now” and the site logo “People Over Papers.”
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Cute cat!
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This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.
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