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Henry Carnell
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 19d
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 19d
This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1h
Super grateful to the numerous smart people I spoke to when researching this, including @derekberes.bsky.social who has a town of interesting writing on food, conspiracy theories, and lab grown meat.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1h
Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat has only been seen at a handful of restaurants. Some states have already banned it for reasons that include “global elites” and “bugs.”

Why? Let's dig in 🍔
Did MAGA conspiracy theories doom the lab-grown burger?
Some states have banned cultured meat for reasons that include “global elites” and “bugs.”
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h
KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...
With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term
The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 20h
Full story ⬇️
With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term
The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 20h
Very good rundown of the Chiles v Salazar oral arguments today from @mjsdc.bsky.social
Midway through Tuesday’s arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked a question that stripped away the veneer of constitutional principle from the Supreme Court’s latest blatant culture war. Last term, she noted, the court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Now, in Chiles, the same court seemed poised to strike down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors. Both regulations “work in basically the same way,” she noted, prohibiting treatments designed to change a child’s gender expression. The difference is that Tennessee aims to erase transgender identity, while Colorado seeks to affirm it. “I’m just, from a very broad perspective, concerned,” Jackson said, “about making sure that we have equivalence with respect to these things.” Does the Constitution really take sides in this battle, blessing states that discriminate against transgender youth while condemning those that protect them? As interpreted by this Supreme Court, the short answer is yes: The Constitution does little to protect LGBTQ+ rights and much to subvert them. There is little doubt that the Republican-appointed justices will use Chiles to weaken or destroy protections against conversion therapy for minors. In the process, they may insist that they are simply following neutral principles wherever they lead and will safeguard pro-LGBTQ+ speech in the future too. Don’t believe it. As this case lays bare, the court’s feints at evenhanded justice merely obscure its weaponization of constitutional liberties in service of the religious right’s agenda.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 1d
Anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy is ineffective and dangerous, leading to suicidality and depression.

Today, the Supreme Court will consider bringing this torturous practice back from the dustbin of history where it belonged. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
Trump’s aid package to soybean farmers is expected to be in the billions of dollars. But to some farmers, that misses the point.

“The American farmer, especially myself included—we don’t want any payments. We want to work."
A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers
Here’s the geopolitical beans.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 1d
A year and a half ago, @hencarnell.bsky.social and I investigated the movement to resurrect conversion therapy

Now, oral arguments are about to begin in a Supreme Court case, Chiles v. Salazar, that could overturn bans in 23 states.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d
“It is psychologically manipulative."

"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”

“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears a challenge of a Colorado law that forbids licensed mental health professionals from attempting to change minors’ gender identity or sexual orientation. Experts say the practice is "can be harmful, and should not be part of behavioral health treatment.”
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: the anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
www.motherjones.com
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Nature and the great outdoors are not partisan. They shouldn't be, anyway. They are a gift to all that requires good stewardship and protection. Didn't the Bible say something like that, too?
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 1d
The national parks are in deep shit—perhaps literally.

Read our latest dispatch from Climate Desk Weekly, recapping what the shutdown means for National Parks: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS The federal government is shut down and National Park employees are bracing for another disaster. The last Trump shutdown, which began in late December 2018 and lasted 35 days, was a period of “chaos and destruction” for America's national parks. “Prehistoric petroglyphs were vandalized at Big Bend,” recalls the Guardian’s Gabrielle Canon, and “Joshua trees, some more than a century old, were chopped down at Joshua Tree.” Animals were illegally killed, trash was strewn across the landscape, park toilets overflowed with feces, and fights broke out over campsites. The administration’s plan is similar this time around, our Climate Desk partners report. The parks will use recreation fees to keep basic services like bathrooms open, even though tens of thousands of employees are furloughed—a move found unlawful by the Government Accountability Office in a 2019 opinion.
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 1d
The national parks are in deep shit—perhaps literally.

Read our latest dispatch from Climate Desk Weekly, recapping what the shutdown means for National Parks: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS The federal government is shut down and National Park employees are bracing for another disaster. The last Trump shutdown, which began in late December 2018 and lasted 35 days, was a period of “chaos and destruction” for America's national parks. “Prehistoric petroglyphs were vandalized at Big Bend,” recalls the Guardian’s Gabrielle Canon, and “Joshua trees, some more than a century old, were chopped down at Joshua Tree.” Animals were illegally killed, trash was strewn across the landscape, park toilets overflowed with feces, and fights broke out over campsites. The administration’s plan is similar this time around, our Climate Desk partners report. The parks will use recreation fees to keep basic services like bathrooms open, even though tens of thousands of employees are furloughed—a move found unlawful by the Government Accountability Office in a 2019 opinion.
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O. Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 2d
Tremendous reporting from @katiepalmer.bsky.social about how telehealth companies transformed from helping patients access doctors to helping companies sell drugs.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...
From erectile dysfunction to weight loss, how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking
Marketing of on-demand telehealth prescriptions has rapidly become a constant presence for American consumers
www.statnews.com
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Theresa Gaffney @theresagaff.bsky.social · 2d
The Supreme Court hears arguments on a conversion therapy law tomorrow. "What you have is competing visions of how states regulate medicine and whether regulation of medicine should be solely evidence-based or not,” one expert said. More here on the potential impact: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/s...
How this week’s Supreme Court case on conversion therapy could impact the regulation of medicine
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Colorado law banning mental health practitioners from performing conversion therapy
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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 3d
I am OUTRAGED that Netflix has a kids show with a “nonbinary” cow.

Back in my day, we had normal looking cows (boys) and cows with a tiny waist, a big long ponytail, lipstick, blush, eyelashes, a big bow in its hair and two hoop earrings (girls).

Why do they keep forcing this gender stuff on us?
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 7d
Day after day, the desire to understand the planet compels people all over the world to don their snowsuits, wet suits and business suits in the service of climate science. Explore their efforts in Quanta’s photo gallery:
Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine
Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.
www.quantamagazine.org
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 4d
whenever a national media outlet writes (sweeping stories) on a city or state politics, my first move is to go to reporters from that area and see what they reported.

anyways, here is local Portland reporting on the DSA council people:
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 4d
I’ll end this by actually sharing the Mercury article, lol.
With Newfound Sway in City Hall, Portland’s Democratic Socialists Hope to Redefine the City’s Priorities
How do you solve a problem like an unprecedented city budget deficit? Over the last few months of budget planning, Portland leaders suggested a host of ways to close the roughly $93 million gap, from ...
www.portlandmercury.com
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d
“War-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.

Check out my video in Mother Jones to learn about the federal crackdown nobody asked for.
The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.
My video report paints a very Portland scene of defiance—and dance.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 4d
"The Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the laws and traditions governing federal communications—rules that most employees follow dutifully throughout their careers—has left some workers with a bad taste in their mouth."

From @jollyette.bsky.social
For furloughed workers, Trump's partisan shutdown jabs are just the latest slight
“Not only is it insulting to the standards we’re all supposed to abide by, but it’s also insulting to our intelligence.”
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 5d
Read our exclusive interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social with the ex-CDC director - Susan Monarez -
In which she talks about the importance of the job and the reasons why she was fired

🧪 #CDC #MedSky
@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 6d
The possibility of a shutdown has become routine in recent years (near misses in December and March). Now, the government has actually shut down, and the administration has threatened to use the opportunity for massive permanent layoffs.

Our story on the potential impacts for science:
This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.
www.nature.com
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
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Grist @grist.org · 7d
After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors.

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#Climate #Arctic #Research #Science #Funding
After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 6d
"He said, 'Well, it's always been considered that man is the only toolmaking animal. So we now have to redefine tool, redefine man, or include chimpanzees with humans,' " she recalled

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Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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