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Carlos Martín

@carlosonhousing.bsky.social
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All roads lead to home, inc climate paths. Mine from Jalostotitlán to El Cerrito to DC. Now VP for Research & Policy @RFF.org

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A Mainer, one of her constituents, was killed by an ICE agent with a history of violence and domestic abuse There was already an ugly pattern of ICE abuses and murders. Yet, seeing all that, in June, Collins voted to give ICE and CBP another $70 billion And this is all she can mumble. Feckless
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Marcela Garcia @marcelagarcia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW @globeopinion.bsky.social column from me: In which I explain why I'm not rooting for Argentina in the World Cup final www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/o...
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Sorry, Messi: Why Latinos are rooting against Argentina - The Boston Globe
Messi may be the greatest player alive, but for many Latino fans, old rivalries and questions of identity still matter more.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2026
“We’re getting very close to meeting our objectives as we move toward winding down humanity’s presence on planet Earth,” Trump said during a press conference meant to address concerns over the world’s duration
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Trump Indicates Desire For Speedy End To World
WASHINGTON—Stating that he hoped action in the region would draw to a close in the coming weeks, President Donald Trump made comments Wednesday indicating his desire for a speedy end to the entire wor...
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very interesting paper teasing out the nuances of flood risk distribution in the US using an incredible individual-level dataset. Documents a huge concentration of flood risk among the very highest income group - lots of wealthy people enjoying the coast and river views from their second homes.
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 08/05/2026
In just over a year, the Trump administration has rolled back dozens of vital safeguards for public health, giving some of the nation’s most toxic industries a free pass to pollute.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A frozen labor market characterized by low hiring and low firing is creating further uncertainty for unemployed workers as well as businesses feeling the effects of current federal policies. CBPP’s @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social weighs in with more insights from the April jobs report.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The final paper from a fantastic interdisciplinary collaboration between ecologists and economists to better understand climate change impacts on natural capital and implications for policy. Also produced bangers from @bbastien.bsky.social's dissertation, such as: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital - Nature
Country-level changes in economic production and the value of non-market ecosystem benefits show unequal impacts on the global values of natural capital resulting from climate-change-induced shifts in...
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Flying in the face of everything we know about good disaster recovery, federal preemptions and local takeovers. Thanks for the scoop @liamjdillon.com
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Waited a long time to take a break and crack this baby open. Brilliance from @kashana.blacksky.app again
Image of “The Payback” by Kashana Cauley, the author’s second successful book
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I'm a big fan of the @rff.org Resources Radio podcast - lots of great interviews with researchers talking about their work so the archive is a real gold mine. We ended up discussing this excellent episode with @catiehausman.bsky.social going through her work on electricity transmission.
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Power Flows: Understanding the Barriers to Electricity Transmission, with Catherine Hausman
Catherine Hausman discusses the benefits of building new electricity transmission lines, the costs of not building new transmission, and why more transmission is not being built in the United States.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/01/2026
Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 7, 2025, deadly wildfires erupted in California. Two writers, who survived the fires, share the biggest lessons they’ve learned from the past year—and what they can teach you about how to prepare for a disaster. nyti.ms/4qcBBY7
A photo shows Gregory Han, whose home was damaged in the 2025 Los Angeles fires. A quote from him: "There's a level investment that you need to make within your own immediate community that will become very, very valuable."
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Resources for the Future @rff.org · 06/11/2025
Now reading: “Advancing Research on Financial Stability and Climate-Related Financial Risk.” 📰🔍 This @ScienceMagazine editorial by @billypizer.bsky.social and Jim Stock (@harvardsalata.bsky.social) argues we need research on the financial risks of #ClimateChange. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
There's a #NoKings protest in my DC neigbhorhood before the big event. Several hundred people on Conn Ave, cars honking. Great energy. I did love the resisting bitch face sign and the woman who made it was taking pics of other protesters - including me!
photo of me with a signg that reads"This is my resisting bitch face"photo of No Kings protest on Conn Ave in DC, people lined up on both sides of the street
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2025
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
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MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Carrying my passport on the daily
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Global warming is a "hoax." But it's killing everyone.
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."
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First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 10/09/2025
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · 08/09/2025
Now, this decision practically forces Latinos to carry their passports every day — as if being Latino in this country were a crime.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Housing affordability was a problem in New Orleans before Katrina. That hasn’t changed.
Uneven investment has worsened the city’s housing affordability crisis in the two decades since the storm, housing advocates say.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Man, the italics they use in "no one thinks that speaking Spanish or working in construction **always** creates reasonable suspicion" is doing a lot of racism here.
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Resources for the Future @rff.org · 04/08/2025
The EPA recently announced its plans to repeal the “endangerment finding,” which asserts that greenhouse gases harm human health and the environment. In this In Focus video, RFF President & CEO Billy Pizer breaks down the implications of this major move. ⬇️
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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The craziest discovery about our global water crisis -- besides the fact that the continents are drying -- is that groundwater pumping is now driving sea level rise. @hrishikeshac.bsky.social @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Y'all this was the chance to reverse decades of land loss and save the Louisiana coast. It took years of work to set up and today the GOP pulled the plug.
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ACEEE @aceee.org · 15/07/2025
A new analysis finds significant differences in how households and the construction industry view energy upgrades. Join @beccconference.bsky.social for a webinar on July 29 at 2:30pm ET to learn how understanding their different priorities can help us drive greater benefits for all involved.
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Improving Home Energy Upgrades: Insights from Households and Industry
Join us for a webinar on the perspectives of households and the construction industry on energy retrofits
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/07/2025
Our research confirms this. Climate change increases the need for air conditioning for people to not die in heat waves. We need clean energy. We need efficient buildings. We need green infrastructure. We need more of this that most folks can imagine. We should start building it all right now.
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ACEEE @aceee.org · 26/06/2025
The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) helps income-eligible households reduce energy costs by improving home energy efficiency. A new study looking at the program found that nearly ⅕ of homes audited for WAP are deferred because needed repairs. More⬇️
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Weatherization Blocked by Repair Needs in a Fifth of Eligible Homes
New research finds 7,000 homes a year are denied from federally funded weatherization program that cuts energy bills
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
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Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Since fall, 2022, I've been trying to figure out why Newtok's relocation is riddled with problems - the same kind this move was supposed to solve. Newtok’s residents are Americans - not a “they,” but an “us,” and that’s why I chased this story for so long. www.propublica.org/article/newt...
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Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.
The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:
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FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo
The agency in charge of mitigating disasters is in the midst of its own.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/05/2025
Staffers at the Energy Information Administration said they believe changes were made to their Energy Outlook report out of fear that spotlighting unwelcome findings would make the agency a Trump target. “There was a concern that any narrative we put out would be seen as ideological.”
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The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data
The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled…
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
8 years ago this weekend w Peter Meyer. We weren’t prescient, just principled. Now, w federal, academic, civil separations, I see our humble act in new light. Maybe an omen. But if omens foretell gloom, our vindication suggests there will be light. Stick to truth. The light will come. Someday.
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Two experts resign from EPA posts to protest the agency’s science committee shake-up
The researchers said they were concerned about the "watering down of credible science, engineering, and methodological rigor."
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Geez… I guess too cute or too honest for DHS subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: FEMA chief is fired
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
FEMA will stop matching 100% of Helene recovery money in North Carolina ncnewsline.com/2025/04/12/f...
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FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
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U.S. Climate Alliance @usclimate.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Today, the President issued an executive order targeting states’ authority to tackle the climate crisis. Our statement from Alliance co-chairs @governor.ny.gov & @govmlg.bsky.social ➡️ usclimatealliance.org/press-releases/alliance-statement-on-executive-order-targeting-state-authority-apr-2025/
Our statement from Alliance co-chairs New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: “The federal government cannot unilaterally strip states’ independent constitutional authority. We are a nation of states — and laws — and we will not be deterred. We will keep advancing solutions to the climate crisis that safeguard Americans’ fundamental right to clean air and water, create good-paying jobs, grow the clean energy economy, and make our future healthier and safer.”
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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...
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FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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E&E News: FEMA halts grant program that spent billions on disaster protection
An internal memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants that help states and tribes prepare for floods, tornadoes and other natural disasters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/03/2025
HUD concluded a Texas state agency had steered $1B in disaster funding away from Houston and nearby communities of color after Hurricane Harvey. On Jan. 15, HUD referred the case to the DOJ. On Feb. 13, it rescinded that referral with no explanation.
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Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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E&E News: FEMA blocks $10B in disaster aid over immigration concerns
The move is part of a wholesale review of 56 FEMA programs to ensure they meet President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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E&E News: Noem outlined major restructuring of FEMA in private meeting
The Homeland Security secretary expressed support for eliminating long-term disaster recovery efforts under the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/03/2025
NEW: The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Good on @mmadisons.bsky.social @noahpatton.bsky.social @eyesrsmiling.bsky.social
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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E&E News: FEMA memo targets disaster aid that ‘indirectly’ helps migrants
The previously undisclosed review could block assistance to millions of undocumented people and deter legal immigrants from seeking help in extreme weather.
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Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Except states have largely paid for most disaster mitigation historically. The new EO does not clarify whether FEMA’s role before disasters will shrink, but suggests that the federal role after a disaster could be subject to judgments about states subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Trump backs away from his threat to abolish FEMA
A new executive order to create a national resilience plan signals that the president wants to overhaul disaster response while maintaining a federal role.
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Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
NEW: After the California fires, we wanted to know this: How can people shop for a climate-safe home? Turns out there were more than 65 questions nested under that first one. @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social and I got to work on all of them, and here's the result. nyti.ms/3DREtXd
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How to Shop for a Home That Won’t Be Upended by Climate Change (Gift Article)
Deciding where to live has always been a high-stakes financial decision, but a changing climate makes it even more critical. This guide will get you started.
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