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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

There's probably the most famous picture of Poland documenting subsidence in the san joaquin valley. www.usgs.gov/media/images...

Photo: A man stands next to a large telephone pole next to an agricultural field. Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977, a difference of about 9 meters from 1925 to 1977

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today's story, republished in SciAm: Most AI weather models aren't very good yet at predicting local extreme weather. But they're showing promise - and experts say NOAA needs more investment in these tools, which Trump cuts threaten to stymie. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

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AI Weather Forecasts Missed the Texas Floods. Cuts to Weather Research Won’t Help

The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, eliminating research that might help advance AI weather models

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Flood forecasting being cut: “Promising NOAA research-to-operations efforts that would actually help with some of the challenges I discuss above, including Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats, Warn-on-Forecast, and FLASH would be terminated under the current FY26 presidential budget.”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

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Tom Weber @tweber.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Texas officials now are busy trying to blame the National Weather Service. Beyond that misguided reaction, a few important points - a quick 🧵

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In Texas Flooding, the Most Urgent Alerts Came in the Middle of the Night

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California. Even the documented workers are not showing up. And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones. This isn’t border security. It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.

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Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Let's check in and see how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Gulf of Mexico have looked like during the peak of hurricane season since 1940. 🔥

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

NOAA official statement on the discontinuation of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data that includes the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or SSMIS. The full statement reads:
"The DMSP is a single dataset in a robust suite of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools in the NWS portfolio. The current models continue to include data from:

·         GOES and other geostationary Earth-observing satellites
·         Polar-orbiting satellites, including Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and EUMETSAT MetOp
·         Hurricane Hunter aircraft reconnaissance missions and other aircraft-based observations
·         Observations on the ground and from buoys
·         Radiosondes and supplemental upper air soundings
·         Ground-based weather radar sites in the U.S. and neighboring countries

In particular, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), currently flying on NOAA’s JPSS, provides the richest, most accurate satellite weather observations available. NOAA’s data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve.

For more information regarding DSMP, please reach out to the Department of Defense."

Comparison of microwave imagery for Hurricane Erick last Wednesday, June 18th, from the Department of Defense Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or SSMIS (top) and NOAA Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder or ATMS (bottom). SSMIS gives a strikingly detailed look of Erick's inner core, including its inner relic eyewall and outer eyewall. Because the ATMS scan degrades prominently on the edge of its swath, the ATMS shows only a collection of pixelated colors not useful for positioning the storm or estimating intensity.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 25/06/2025

New paper: NOAA research flights are important for improving hurricane forecasts. Wind data from NOAA flights improved forecasts of a storm’s path by up to 24% on average, found Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social & Ryan Torn. Read more in AMS journal #WeaForecasting: doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...

Eyewall of Hurricane Isabel. Photo credit: Dr. Sim Aberson, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Please take heat warnings and advisories seriously. Drink as much water as you can stomach. Stay out of the sun as much as you possibly can. Demand that cooling needs be prioritized on the electrical grid - it matters more than so-called "data centers." www.scientificamerican.com/article/extr...

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Extreme Heat Is Deadlier Than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined

When dangerous heat waves hit cities, better risk communication could save lives

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 23/06/2025

You can't get 85% of people to agree on whether eating ice cream is better than being stuck in traffic

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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 21/06/2025

Important reminder that fatal wet bulb temperature doesn’t care about your body composition, or resting heart rate… or shade, or airflow

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

mRNA vax is one of the greatest public health achievements of all time-right up there with Salk polio vax & smallpox eradication. There is a massive amount of hi quality data showing safety & effectiveness. People will die if we abandon mRNA due to misinformation & junk science 👇 wapo.st/3HEpBx3

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Celebrated, then disparaged: mRNA’s promise is tarnished under Trump

The promise of mRNA technology seemed boundless after the success of the coronavirus vaccines, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has singled it out for scrutiny, clouding its prospects.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 12/06/2025

“There’s no future I see that doesn’t have fire in it,” said CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch in a recent CPR news article. “What we really need to be thinking about is how we build our homes and how we build our communities to make sure that they're resistant to fire.” www.cpr.org/2025/06/10/w...

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Wildfires are reaching areas that never worried before. Here’s how to protect your home

A few fixes can help protect your home and neighborhood, and buy firefighters precious time.

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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Here's the White House's strategy for gutting science funding sooner rather than later. Freeze new spending and run out the clock until the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30), then claw back the unspent funds. It's being done under the cover of phone calls and other distractions.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

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Bryan Wood @bryanwx.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Most people lose sight of a major disaster after a few months. The reality is that many people have housing problems for years, especially in rural towns. Some areas will never completely rebuild and people will migrate to other parts of the state or country to make a living.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Atlantic #HurricaneSeason begins today, June 1. Since records began, the continental U.S. has experienced four Category 5 hurricane landfalls, and ALL four of them were only tropical storms just three days prior! Rapid intensification is terrifying when it occurs right before landfall.

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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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Bryan Wood @bryanwx.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

…and please use gloves if you happen to have any! This prevents the heat from your hand melting the stone.

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David Bonowitz @dbonowitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So important. The fact that he's leaving -- IF he's really leaving -- is not a win. DOGE remains, and the damage already done will take a generation to repair. Do not congratulate.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Austin metro area got hammered by an isolated supercell yesterday evening, I did a bit of a deep dive into it and how the "expanding bullseye" is resulting in more economic loss from storms like this. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

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Austin area hammered by isolated supercell

Large hail, flash flooding and 75 mph wind gusts cause significant damage

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"We haven't had a pre-June 1 named storm in the Atlantic. The season is already a bust!" No. There is little correlation with the first named storm date in the Satellite Era (1966-) to the number of seasonal hurricanes. FYI: The decadal average (2015-2024) for first Atlantic hurricane? August 3

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Bryan Wood @bryanwx.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So many awesome instruments on this mission. The most critical to bend the curve on rising hail losses, usually exceeding $30b/year, are the roof shingle panels being deployed & hit by hail. Having better roofing will lower losses - can’t wait to see all the data from this crucial part of research!

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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2025

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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Bryan Wood @bryanwx.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It was an incredible day for hail science yesterday here in Texas! First time handling/measuring/testing softball sized hail and larger. A big moment for advance our understanding of hail and its impacts yesterday for all involved! Lots of research forthcoming from this event.

Cross-section of a very large hailstone we collected yesterday in Patton Springs, TX. This research is funded by the US National Science Foundation.

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

🚨🧪🚨

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ICECHIP @nsficechip.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Teams had the most successful IOP yet today in Colorado, featuring > 70-80 mm hailstones (large apple sized) and an unexpected tornado near Akron! Well done everyone!

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s hard to overstate how important Unidata is to weather research & communication, but the program paused most of its operations this month due to a lapse in funding from the NSF freeze. Staff is furloughed & it is unclear when they will be able to resume operations thebulletin.org/2025/05/deco...

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Decommissioned, retired, paused: The weather, climate, and Earth science data the government doesn’t want you to see

The Trump administration is undermining the collection and distribution of essential weather and climate information, right before hurricane season.

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Bryan Wood @bryanwx.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We all know where this came from - Joel Myers is the king of twisting truths to make himself look good at the expense of others. He’s more than willing to throw the entire weather enterprise under the bus if he thinks it will make him look good.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/05/2025

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

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Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

NEW: The anti-clean energy provisions in Trump's budget bill “could result in nearly 300,000 current and future American jobs to be lost, including 86,000 in solar manufacturing,” according to the Solar Energy Industries Association Household energy costs could also rise as much as 7% by 2035

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Trump's big, oily bill

The anti-clean energy provisions in Trump's budget bill could raise household energy costs by as much as 7 percent.

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“To even land on Lutnick’s desk, NOAA contracts must first go through an approval process led in part by Keegan McLaughlin, a former Temple University student who worked as a food hall monitor last year...” I’m sure this means all NOAA’s contracts are being thoughtfully considered.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20/05/2025

"The impasse has forced NOAA to furlough employees, and it has created a work environment where NOAA staffers spend much of their time trying to justify their work — rather than doing it, they say." Backlog of unsigned contracts paralyzes NOAA: www.eenews.net/articles/bac...

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Backlog of unsigned contracts paralyzes NOAA

An agency official said “everything has ground to a halt,” waiting for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to review more than 200 agreements.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Impact of global warming on the critical ocean current AMOC has already led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast and found differences ranging from 20% to 50%. along the U.S. Northeast Coast (USNEC). phys.org/news/2025-05...

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Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast

A team of geophysicists and atmospheric scientists at Princeton's NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has found evidence that a w...

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Suz Tolwinski-Ward @suztw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is hella cool!

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

We are officially in the Twitchification era of weather. Bro-like streamers that are cosplaying as meteorologists and think that issuing weather warnings is some kind of video game. It’s worse than it has ever been.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

New study: The risk of flooding events along the U.S. Northeast coast has doubled since 2005. Now, scientists have discovered that up to 50% of these events occurred because key Atlantic ocean currents are slowing down. #AMOC 🌊 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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The decline of key Atlantic currents is underway, and it's been flooding parts of the US for 20 years

New research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the breakdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

IMHO, the real story about 5/16 warning performance should be how NWS warned sometimes with 30+ Min of lead time, even with multiple potentially tornadic storms in some CWAs, and forecasters from different offices backing each other up. wapo.st/4j6UTtu

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How a tornado tested a Kentucky weather office that cut overnight staff

The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of a growing number of forecast offices unable to cover an overnight shift since the Trump administration cut staffing levels through buyouts and firings.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/05/2025

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

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Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust

Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The St. Louis storm yesterday declared an EF-3 TORNADO (140MPH+); and was more than ONE MILE WIDE. I just returned from trying to donate goods at the O'Fallon Y. I can tell the devastation is the worst I've ever seen. Broke my heart. Homes destroyed, people w/ no power, water Trees severed in half

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Michael @gzvenus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Scar From last night's #tornado outside London,KY go.nasa.gov/3Ff1Ydy

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