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"Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, have not been able to hold a private conversation with their client since his arrest." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

“Nobody can protect you. These are dangerous times.” - Jelani Cobb, the dean of Columbia Journalism School to students.

“The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis — which kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease — has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze on Jan. 20” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

The Trump administration's moves have surprised some climate advocates in their speed and scale.

John Podesta, a senior climate adviser in the Biden admin: “We followed the law, and they’re breaking the law. It remains to be seen whether they’ll be allowed to get away with it.”

In a matter of just weeks, Trump has begun to cripple American climate policy, in moves that have stretched the limits of presidential power (and limits of the law) and which could have long-lasting implications for the planet.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

The billionaires who have become some of the biggest climate action funders have suddenly gone silent since inauguration, as Trump dismantles US climate policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/c...

"Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children."

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to demote career employees who oversee scientific research, the enforcement of pollution laws, hazardous waste cleanup and the agency’s human resources department and replace them with political appointees..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/c...

"At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...

“We have one woman in her 80s who lives alone, and if she does not get her roof fixed, well, we’re going to have a senior in her late 80s who is homeless” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/c...

More about the new era of climate disasters

How the climate crisis is supercharging disasters like the LA fires.

Read David Gelles and Austyn Gaffney on the new era of massive, unpredictable disasters driven by climate change

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...

Read this story www.propublica.org/article/unit...

I was among the 1,000+ people stuck underground on an F train without power in Brooklyn for 2 hours. Had to evacuate near Bergen. People were understandably freaking the hell out.

“These charges are patently absurd.”

My @niemanfdn colleague, widely respected journalist Yuyu Dong, was sentenced tonight to 7 yrs in prison in China for “espionage.”

Some of the evidence: He spoke with the Japanese ambassador to China.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

“I would prefer to live in a world where the recent news that more than 146,000 New York City schoolchildren experienced homelessness during the last school year was regarded as a crisis demanding immediate changes in public policy”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

If your product can’t even accurately attribute sources, should it really be called “artificial intelligence”?

Media orgs signed these deals knowing full well OpenAI products, like all Gen AI, had serious accuracy and plagiarism problems.

Letting the accuracy of your journalists’ work get tarnished like this seems like malpractice.

And who ensures these systems are accurate? Is that on publishers too?

TIL you can be a plastics industry influencer www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...

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“Those seeking to curry favor with the incoming administration now have the opportunity to donate directly to the winning candidate without their names or potential conflicts ever entering the public sphere.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

Some stunning details on Saudi efforts to derail climate talks at COP29:

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/c...