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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In case you were wondering how the relationship between OpenAI and mathematicians is going...

According to the notes, Bubeck also seemed to suggest that Buckmaster would be ruining his career when Buckmaster threatened to tell the press about his belief that OpenAI had stolen his work. If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice, Bubeck said, according to the meeting notes.

Nestor Guillen, a visiting math professor at NYU, tells WIRED that “there's a perception of mobster behavior” from the AI companies among mathematicians.

Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Becoming increasingly convinced we’re not ready for what El Niño has in store this fall and winter, especially layered on top of global warming www.wired.com/story/2026-s...

“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events—aside from long-term warming, which really isn't a singular event—that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing,” he says. “That's a very big deal. And I think there’s certainly going to be dramatic outcomes from this.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today in unexpected climate change impacts... www.reuters.com/business/env...

A totally normal headline that reads “Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The company also has a track record of safety and health violations, including at least 21 OSHA violations since the start of 2025. The Labor Department also fined one of its facilities $1.1 million after an employee died from injuries sustained while cleaning a blancher

In 2013, the FDA named Taylor Farms as a source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened hundreds. In 2015, the company voluntarily recalled multiple products containing celery because they may have been contaminated with E. coli. And in 2024, the company recalled certain yellow onions as part of an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Following the outbreak, CBS News reported that FDA inspectors found dozens of violations at the Colorado Taylor Farms facility linked to the Quarter Pounder outbreak, including minimal handwashing and dirty equipment.

Since 2025, the FDA has inspected 18 American plants affiliated with Taylor Farms. Three resulted in “voluntary action indicated,” which means that while violations were found, they weren’t severe enough to warrant mandatory enforcement.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited at least 21 violations in Taylor Farms facilities across the US since the start of 2025. In one particularly gruesome case, the Department of Labor fined a New Jersey facility $1.1 million due to violations. The May 2025 inspection came after an employee died after sustaining injuries cleaning an industrial blancher at the facility.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In case you were wondering how people living in the shadows of xAI's gas-powered data centers feel about the SpaceX IPO that could make Elon a trillionaire... www.wired.com/story/spacex...

“We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world,” says Justin Pearson, who represents portions of Memphis in the Tennessee House of Representatives. “People are going to die because of this pollution.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

totally normal Energy Department post

A screenshot of an Energy Department tweet featuring a poster in the style of Love Island. Except it says "coal island" and features a piece of coal wearing aviators that say "mine, baby, mine" on one of the lenses. The coal is sitting ("sitting") inside a heart on a beach

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

wake up babe, new solar conspiracy theory dropped www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

In January, Michigan Republican state Rep. Cam Cavitt posted a 51-second clip to Facebook labeled “Solar Farm SECRET.” In the segment, he claimed that farmers in his district couldn’t grow potatoes on land where solar developments were sited.

“Frito [Frito-Lay] did the same with the potato growers up by us,” fellow Michigan Republican Rep. Dave Prestin told Cavitt in the clip. “Any field that had solar panels installed on it will never be allowed to grow potatoes for human consumption due to the leaching.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

well that's certainly one way to answer a question about how much you relied on AI to write your book about how AI impacts the truth... www.wired.com/story/future...

Screenshot of text that reads: I called Rosenbaum and asked for a more detailed description of how he’d used AI to write the book, and whether he disputed Pangram’s results. (BenBella Books, whose imprint published The Future of Truth, did not return requests for comment. Simon & Schuster, which distributes BenBella’s books in the United States, declined to comment.)

Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is the most Bay Area real estate thing I have ever read

“Sellers typically aren’t going to do anything on that BESO list unless it’s related to being able to get insurance as they’re thinking about aesthetic improvements,” said broker Jen Wolan as she stood in the foyer of the home. “BESO is well-intentioned, but the people it affects the most are the people with the least amount of money.”

She noted that potential purchasers of her nearly million-dollar listing would be “one of the more budget buyers in Berkeley” and unlikely to have extra funds to electrify the house. So the sellers are considering spending as much as $9,000 to replace some older wiring to increase the home’s BESO score.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

personal nerd achievement unlocked: including a reference to Milankovitch cycles in the Bloomberg Green newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“The natural habitat of the Earth is actually water,” Bessent said during a discussion on Tuesday with Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish political science known for his climate skepticism. “Ice was probably — it’s a very long cycle — but ice was an unusual cycle. We are going through cycles, and I believe that it is very difficult to deconstruct the reasons around why anything changes.”

However, the causes of climate change are well-documented. That includes natural variations in the tilt and wobble of the Earth as well as its path around the Sun, which ensure the planet goes through periodic Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years. There’s even a term for it: Milankovitch cycles, which have been known about for more than a century.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Chat is it bad when its 106 degrees in February? weather.com/news/weather...

A Texas weather station just recorded a temperature hotter than any other previous winter temperature on record in the U.S.

The Falcon Dam cooperative weather station, along the Rio Grande River about 70 miles south-southeast of Laredo, reported a high temperature of 106 degrees Thursday.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not the just White House. Also extremely unclear what penguins and MAHA have to do with each other

An animated video of RFK Jr. walking with a penguin in a snowy landscape in the dark with a penguin

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The fossil fuel industry has a long history of mascots. One of my favs is Captain Coal, who is featured in coloring books and other materials the Lignite Council gives out for free to teachers

An illustration of "Captain Coal." He's a coal miner wearing a mask and cape and a hard hat with "Captain Coal" on it

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Trump: "All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far they're not able to find any." China:

A line graph showing the top 10 countries by wind capacity through 2024. It shows China has more than triple the installed capacity of the US, the country with the second-highest capacity

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The climate stuff is all really notable but also don't want it to get lost that these are some of the other institutions that were deemed "contrary to the interests of the United States"

Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;

Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;

Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

Peacebuilding Commission;

Peacebuilding Fund;

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The National Climate Assessment is the US gold standard report that takes years and hundreds of researchers to put together. The next version will be brought to you by a handful of people who downplay climate change and Grok www.eenews.net/articles/its...

Screenshotted text: Maue did not respond to requests for comment from E&E News. But he wrote on X that he was enlisting artificial intelligence to help with the latest National Climate Assessment. He cited the Gemini 3 Pro program as well as Grok, an AI chatbot developed by xAI, the artificial intelligence company led by tech tycoon Elon Musk.

Grok in the past has downplayed the danger of global warming when compared with other AI programs.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

we’re just doing stock market madlibs at this point i guess

(Bloomberg) -- Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the company behind Truth Social, is getting into nuclear fusion.

The company said Thursday it will merge with TAE Technologies Inc., a closely held fusion developer founded in 1998, in a transaction valued at more than $6 billion.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This story also includes a fossil fuel-funded group comparing calls for it to publicly share its donor list to the NAACP being attacked by white supremacists

An SPN spokesperson told Businessweek there is a right to privacy for donors: “History has shown how precious that right is. During the Civil Rights era, white supremacists attempted to force the NAACP to disclose their donor lists in an effort to intimidate those who supported the organization.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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 · 12/09/2025

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 · 28/08/2025

This has to be the understatement of the year

A screenshot of text that reads: It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Is Smoking Truly Bad for You? We Break Down the Debate

A screenshot of a WEJ headline:
Is CO2 Truly a
Pollutant? We Break Down the Debate
The Trump administration moves to change EPA rules, asserting that carbon dioxide isn't a threat to public health

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

just checking in on what the Energy Department is up to on twitter...

A tweet from the Energy Department showing a piece of coal and the text "she is the moment." There's a sparkle effect on the coal

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Ran the economics chapter summary through ChatGPT to assess it's accuracy. The model was not impressed

Text from ChatGPT assessing the accuracy of the new DOE report's chapter summary on climate change's impact on the US economy. It reads:
📌 Overall Judgment
This chapter summary does not accurately reflect the best available climate economics science. It:

Relies on outdated interpretations of early IAMs while ignoring modern empirical advances.

Downplays strong evidence of climate damages to economic growth, especially in vulnerable countries.

Misrepresents the function and credibility of SCC estimates, which are used by governments and endorsed by major institutions.

Fails to acknowledge new consensus insights from IPCC AR6 and NCA5 on economic inequality, sectoral damages, and risk amplification.

✅ Accurate Alternatives Would Acknowledge:
Climate change is already affecting economic growth in multiple regions.

Future damages grow nonlinearly with warming and will be most severe for poor and low-latitude countries.

Mitigation delivers net long-term economic benefits.

The SCC is an indispensable, though uncertain, policy tool—improved through ensemble modeling, probabilistic frameworks, and transparent assumptions.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

And then there's the classic CO2 is good for plants. The report notes that certain crops die at levels below 140 ppm...despite nobody is advocating we get CO2 down to those levels?

Text from the Energy Department report that reads: Elevated concentrations of CO2 directly enhance plant growth, globally contributing to “greening” the planet and increasing agricultural productivity [Section 2.1, Chapter 9]. They also make the oceans less alkaline (lower the pH). That is possibly detrimental to coral reefs, although the recent rebound of the Great Barrier Reef suggests otherwise [Section 2.2].

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Then there's the claim while heavy precipitation has increased, it's all natural. That's the opposite of what the National Climate Assessment found

Text from a DOE report that reads: In summary, some U.S. regions show short-duration increases in extreme precipitation events, consistent with natural variability. But analysis of long term, nationwide historical records that considers the autocorrelation properties of precipitation data does not support the claim that extreme short-duration rainfall events are becoming more frequent or intense.

Text from the most recent National Climate Assessment that reads:
The Frequency and Severity of Heavy Precipitation Increases with the Global Warming Level

Extreme precipitation–producing weather systems ranging from tropical cyclones to atmospheric rivers are very likely to produce heavier precipitation at higher global warming levels. Recent increases in the frequency, severity, and amount of extreme precipitation are expected to continue across the US even if global warming is limited to Paris Agreement targets

A showing how extreme precipitation has changed in the US over the period of 1958-2021 from the most recent National Climate Assessment

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The report says it relies on literature published since 2020 "as much as possible" yet opens its attribution chapter citing two old IPCC. It takes 13 pages to get to the most recent IPCC and it omits the sentence in bold from that report www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

A screenshot from a DOE report showing two definitions of climate attribution science from old IPCC reports

Text from the most recent IPCC that reads: It is an established fact that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions have led to an increased frequency and/or intensity of some weather and climate extremes since pre-industrial time, in particular for temperature extremes. Evidence of observed changes in extremes and their attribution to human influence (including greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions and land-use changes) has strengthened since AR5, in particular for extreme precipitation, droughts, tropical cyclones and compound extremes (including dry/hot events and fire weather). Some recent hot extreme events would have been extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The executive summary highlights how sunspots may have had a material impact on the climate in the late 20th century. Let's check on how accurate that is in this story from [checks notes] 10 years ago www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

A screenshot from a new DOE report that reads: Attribution of climate change or extreme weather events to human CO2 emissions is challenged by natural climate variability, data limitations, and inherent model deficiencies [Chapter 8]. Moreover, solar activity's contribution to the late 20th century warming might be underestimated [Section 8.3.1].

A chart showing the global average temperature from 1880-2005 and the influence of the sun (it's minimal)

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

There's also no way philanthropy will be able to step in to fill all the gaps (and there are signs some funders may not even want to due to the chilling effect of Trump's attacks on universities, law firms and other sectors)

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The MacArthur Foundation announced in March that it plans to increase its giving over the next two years in response to Trump’s attempts to cut budgets, going from 5% of its endowment to 6%. However, the extra cash will be spread across multiple focus areas, says Deborah Philbrick, a senior program officer within climate solutions at the MacArthur Foundation.

“It’s not the role of philanthropy to backfill for the government in all cases. It’s a balancing act,” Philbrick says. Some organizations she oversees are reporting funding gaps in the millions, she added.

The Kresge Foundation, which provides about $20 million in grants to environmental organizations a year, says it is simplifying its processes to help nonprofits spend “time and energy where it is needed most,” according to a letter President and CEO Rip Rapson sent out to more than 900 grantees on June 3.

Kresge anticipates spending more this year to help grantees survive the federal funding pullback, says Rapson, noting nonprofits don’t have the cash reserves needed to get through a year or 18 months.

“There’s no way that philanthropy over the next two or three or four years can fill in where the federal government has pulled back,” he says. “A foundation like Kresge is a mid-sized foundation, and yet we could deplete our annual grantmaking easily with just a handful of grants to people who are in vulnerable positions.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

How to spread a conspiracy: 1. Twitter users including HustleBitch (...), Wall Street Apes (......) Beef Initiative (.........) etc. post about cloud seeding that happened a few days prior 2. Tweets rise to top of search since they're verified 3. Mike Flynn chimes in just asking questions ...

A screenshot of a conspiracy tweet from user HustleBitch that reads:

HOLY SH*T! TEXAS CLOUD SEEDING CEO FUNDED BY PETER THIEL, CONNECTED TO PALANTIR

Meet AUGUSTUS DORICKO, a 25-YEAR-OLD TECH BRO and THIEL FELLOW, who founded the weather modification startup RAINMAKER.

According to publicly available info, Doricko’s company was reportedly cloud seeding over parts of Texas just 2 DAYS before historic flooding hit those same regions.

He received $100,000 through Peter Thiel’s Fellowship, the same Thiel who co-founded PALANTIR, the surveillance and defense tech giant tracking everything from troop movements to civilian behavior.

Let that sink in.

Why is a Palantir-connected billionaire funding private weather experiments in Texas?
Why is a 25-year-old with no public oversight allowed to modify the sky?

They called it “stewarding the natural world.”
Texas got biblical flooding instead.

This isn’t a theory.
It’s documented, privately funded, and totally unregulated.

No vote. No consent. No accountability.
Just Thiel money, weather manipulation, and a flooded state left asking questions.

Sources: celiafarber.substack, Thiel Fellowship, Scientific American

Screenshot of a debunked conspiracy tweet from user Wall Street Apes that reads:

WOAH 🚨 What amazing ‘coincidences’

- The Kerrville City Council just approved a $175 million dollar power plant project RIGHT WHERE THE FLOODING IS HAPPENING in Texas
- Texas Cloud Seeding Weather Modification Programs ARE IN THE SAME AREA
- The flooding was so bad, The Guadalupe River that flooded during the storm “rose 42 feet in just 1-3 hours, unimaginable water flow,” this is very indicative of cloud seeing disasters

“Wouldn't it be crazy if the map of rain enhancement projects in Texas seems pretty heavy loaded on the area which had flooding?” …. It was and he provides the maps to prove it

I mean what are the odds????

Land Grab

A conspiracy tweet by user Beef Initiative that reads: 🚨BREAKING: Federal agencies paid a private cloud seeding company to spray Texas skies—just 2 days before deadly floods killed 60+. No public comment. No oversight. No accountability.

Call it weather modification. Call it a conspiracy. But it’s happening.

A quote tweet from General Mike Flynn that reads: "I'd love to see the response." The quoted tweet contains a NOAA document about weather modification undertaken by Rainmaker, a startup that does cloud seeding.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A very normal way to describe the world’s largest economy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Screenshot of text that reads: "It is all about the economy right now, but no one has any insight as to what will or could happen," said Brad Conger, chief investment officer at Hirtle Callaghan. "There is a big fear of making any big moves, just a sense that in a dark room with a lot of sharp glass on the floor, the best thing to do is stand still and hope the lights come back on."

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In case you were wondering how much the US solar installer industry relies on Southeast Asia...

A pie chart showing share of US imports of solar products in 2024 by country. It shows 29.8% came from Vietnam, 22.9% came from Thailand, 17.6% came from Malaysia, and 7.2% came from Cambodia. Just 22.5% of panels were imported from other parts of the world.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Lotta things to unpack but the idea that Greenland, a place with some of the harshest conditions on the planet covered in rapidly melting ice and with a population of 56,000 people, is an ideal to build high-speed rail and launch rockets is truly the poster child for Silicon Valley ideas

Screenshot of text that reads: The vision for Greenland, one of the people said, could include a hub for artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro nuclear reactors and high-speed rail.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"In my case, I would like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

You know who manufactures the vast majority of the world's LFP batteries? China, which is set to have 125% tariffs. It's also by far the biggest source of batteries the US imports

A bar chart showing the share of battery imports to the US by country. China is far and away the biggest source of batteries, with $14 billion imports last year. The totals for the other countries:

Japan: $2 billion
South Korea: $1 billion
Hungary: $891 million
Canada: $654 million
Poland: $505 million
Malaysia: $303 million
Germany: $255 million
Vietnam: $254 million
Taiwan: $231 million

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This graph and this quote are from the same story about nearly $8 billion in clean manufacturing projects being canceled www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A graph showing quarterly clean manufacturing projects canceled in billions of dollars. The amounts in 2023 and 2024 are all well below $2 billion while Q1 2025 is $7.7 billion

Screenshot of text that reads:

Taylor Rogers, the White House assistant press secretary, said in an email that the administration’s approach would benefit Americans.

“The President’s brilliant economic agenda is an all-encompassing plan to revive our economy by unleashing American energy, implementing tariffs to level the playing field, and bringing billions of dollars in historic investments to America’s manufacturing sector,” Rogers said.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

today in subject lines that should've stayed in drafts

Screenshot of a subject line that says "Vanguard is monitoring the unfolding trade situation"

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Restoration Hardware was doing an earnings call when the tariffs hit and I have never related harder to a CEO www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A screenshot of text from a Bloomberg article that reads:

He was trying to persuade investors that the retailer — which operates the Restoration Hardware chain — was “well-positioned,” when he looked at the company’s share price. “I guess the stock went down based on some of the numbers we reported and then it got killed because of a — oh really, oh sh-t,” Friedman blurted out.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Pretty bleak assessment of what would happen if staffing cuts to the HHS energy assistance program for low income folks create issues getting funding getting out the door www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...

Screenshot of text from a New York Times article that reads:

“When home heating is less affordable, more people die each winter,” Seema Jayachandran, an economist at Princeton and one of the authors of the study, wrote on Monday. “That’s what our analysis found for a period when LIHEAP was in place. Without LIHEAP, the effect would presumably much larger.”

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The CDC environmental health program is "slated to be eliminated in its entirety" under RFK Jr. www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

A screenshot of text from a Wired article that reads:

An email from the CDC’s DEHSP center director states that the division is “slated to be eliminated in its entirety.” The division includes the Asthma and Air Quality Branch, the Climate and Health Activity, the Emerging Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Branch, the Environmental Public Health Tracking Branch, the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch, and the Water, Food, and Environmental Health Services Branch. All of these branches provide key services, and hundreds of employees received RIFs.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

No seriously, this is very alarming

Screenshot of text that reads:

The U.S. beekeeping industry is in crisis over the shocking and unexplained deaths of hundreds of millions of bees over the last eight months.

It's an unfolding disaster for the industry. Blake Shook, one of the nation's top beekeepers, has found tens of thousands of dead insects at his businesses. He said that he's never seen losses like this.

"The data is showing us this is the worst bee loss in recorded history," Shook told "CBS Saturday Morning."

Researchers are struggling to understand what's causing the deaths.

Juliana Rangel, an entomologist at Texas A&M University, has been studying bee hives in her lab. There are a few potential explanations, she said, including changing habitats and weather patterns. But there's no certain answer, she said.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One of the things I've been thinking about is how climate programs being cut are a sliver of a sliver of the US economy/government spending

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This means that, while it is the fourth-biggest national provider of international climate finance, its overall share is low relative to the nation’s wealth and responsibility for climate change. As a result, the US has long been seen as a laggard in this area.

The US provides 0.24% of its gross national income (GNI) as aid for developing countries, which includes some climate funding. This is the same share as the Czech Republic, a nation with a per-capita GNI three times smaller.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Lots of folks mentioning the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire, which yeah that one too. The EPA was created a year later bsky.app/profile/cybe...

A black and white historic photo of the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire shows billowing black smoke coming off a fire in the river amid industrial sites

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