Whitley Saumweber
@wsaumweber.bsky.social
Oceanographer, ocean policy wonk, Director @CSIS.org Ocean Security Project, Professor of Marine Affairs @universityofri.bsky.social, past @barackobama.bsky.social White House CEQ Ocean Policy Director, US Senate, @NOAA.gov, etc. etc.
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If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize profits, then we might do things like boycotts which aim to change their behavior.
If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize power, our goal should be to entirely discredit the outlets and platforms they own.
If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize power, our goal should be to entirely discredit the outlets and platforms they own.
January 2, 2026 at 11:03 PM
If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize profits, then we might do things like boycotts which aim to change their behavior.
If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize power, our goal should be to entirely discredit the outlets and platforms they own.
If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize power, our goal should be to entirely discredit the outlets and platforms they own.
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It is all of our responsibility to work toward making what’s cruelly viewed as impossible a reality.
This is not a hard message.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
January 2, 2026 at 5:09 AM
It is all of our responsibility to work toward making what’s cruelly viewed as impossible a reality.
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The CCC underwater observatory has been serving up great marine astronomy in recent weeks with Jupiter rising overhead. It’s light traveled from the Sun, bounced off Jupiter back to Earth, refracted thru the surface of the sea & into the #coralcitycamera lens where its processed & transmitted live
December 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The CCC underwater observatory has been serving up great marine astronomy in recent weeks with Jupiter rising overhead. It’s light traveled from the Sun, bounced off Jupiter back to Earth, refracted thru the surface of the sea & into the #coralcitycamera lens where its processed & transmitted live
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In 2026: Take care of each other. Stand up for each other.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
In 2026: Take care of each other. Stand up for each other.
This is a helluva thread
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is a helluva thread
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Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
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Just kinda shocked that they just said, f-it, and did the Eurobonds.
It will hardly be covered but that’s hugely important for the EU and Ukraine. EU crossed joint borrowing rubicon. They can just do it again, and again. There aren’t enough Euros in debt markets.
It will hardly be covered but that’s hugely important for the EU and Ukraine. EU crossed joint borrowing rubicon. They can just do it again, and again. There aren’t enough Euros in debt markets.
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Just kinda shocked that they just said, f-it, and did the Eurobonds.
It will hardly be covered but that’s hugely important for the EU and Ukraine. EU crossed joint borrowing rubicon. They can just do it again, and again. There aren’t enough Euros in debt markets.
It will hardly be covered but that’s hugely important for the EU and Ukraine. EU crossed joint borrowing rubicon. They can just do it again, and again. There aren’t enough Euros in debt markets.
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I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
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Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
scienceforeveryone.science
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
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🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
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China is now doing in the West Sea what it did in the South China Sea. And no one is paying attention — here is a quick explainer.
China has been building structures in and around the Korea-China Provisional Measures Zone.
@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social observes these activities mirror Beijing's "creeping sovereignty" grey zone tactics previously used.
🎥10-minute explainer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3A...
@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social observes these activities mirror Beijing's "creeping sovereignty" grey zone tactics previously used.
🎥10-minute explainer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3A...
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
China is now doing in the West Sea what it did in the South China Sea. And no one is paying attention — here is a quick explainer.
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The new National Security Strategy marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy, as the administration defines a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that is deeply pragmatic, and perhaps short-sighted, Emily Harding writes.
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
The National Security Strategy: The Good, the Not So Great, and the Alarm Bells
This NSS marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy, as the administration defines a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that is deeply pragmatic, and perhaps short-sighted. This is a truly pivotal moment in the way the world works.
www.csis.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The new National Security Strategy marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy, as the administration defines a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that is deeply pragmatic, and perhaps short-sighted, Emily Harding writes.
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
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I don't think the administration's murder of folks that happen to be on "drug-boat"-ish vessels will lead to much in the way of legal consequences but everyone who objects should still expend every effort to make that happen. Giving up would be as big a betrayal of the rule of law.
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't think the administration's murder of folks that happen to be on "drug-boat"-ish vessels will lead to much in the way of legal consequences but everyone who objects should still expend every effort to make that happen. Giving up would be as big a betrayal of the rule of law.
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The NSS signals 2 big shifts for Europe
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The NSS signals 2 big shifts for Europe
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
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This article is from @markhertling.bsky.social - a retired three-star Army general - and everyone should read it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This article is from @markhertling.bsky.social - a retired three-star Army general - and everyone should read it.
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
This is an absolutely brilliant OpEd - a must read for both strategic and practical reasons
electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
Electricity is about to become the new base currency and China figured it out
As we accelerate into an all-electric, all-digital age, the ultimate representation of productive capacity becomes the kilowatt-hour (kWh).
electrek.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is an absolutely brilliant OpEd - a must read for both strategic and practical reasons
electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...
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While we were complaining about windmills. 🤡
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
While we were complaining about windmills. 🤡
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So the Dem formula is clearly male female centrist progressive Democratic Socialist CIA military ex-rapper suburban urban white black brown pro-democracy pro-affordability anti-corruption anti-fascist multigenerational compassionate public service oriented authentic optimism. Clear as day.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
So the Dem formula is clearly male female centrist progressive Democratic Socialist CIA military ex-rapper suburban urban white black brown pro-democracy pro-affordability anti-corruption anti-fascist multigenerational compassionate public service oriented authentic optimism. Clear as day.
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They blame another group. Maybe the Irish. Or Italians. Maybe eventually it’s everyone with brown eyes. You blame and persecute to avoid responsibility. The logical conclusion of Fascism is one angry bigot, alone on the planet Earth, screaming at the dirt to grow something.
So here is my question. Let’s assume Miller & Co. are successful, i.e., they deport, jail, kill, all of the “undesirables.” What do they think society is like then? Like, what happens when they realize there’s still crime, drugs, and no one around to do half the jobs, from manual to skilled labor?1/
October 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
They blame another group. Maybe the Irish. Or Italians. Maybe eventually it’s everyone with brown eyes. You blame and persecute to avoid responsibility. The logical conclusion of Fascism is one angry bigot, alone on the planet Earth, screaming at the dirt to grow something.