Meg Duff @megduff.com · 21/12/2025Would love a postmortem on what % of tonight's traffic delays are driverless car related! 2/2 023
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 21/12/2025In downtown SF right now. Dozens of cars backed up behind one Waymo idling at an intersection where the stoplight has no power. Two more similarly stuck eith cars piling up on our way from Montgovery to Castro. I did see one u-turn for the police line on Market! 1/2 101
Reposted by Meg DuffEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/12/2025*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities 4178291415
Reposted by Meg DuffMike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025CADC, 2-1, says Trump could illegally fire Wilcox and Harris. Trump judges in majority say Humphrey’s doesn’t apply to NLRB or MSPB, and so don’t have to wait for SCOTUS to overrule it. Biden judge in dissent says the ruling “paves the way to autocracy.” media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc... 25129
Reposted by Meg DuffPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/11/2025For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appsplendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appEpstein Document Search 17974633196
Reposted by Meg Duffterror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground 11441112
Reposted by Meg DuffAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 11/11/2025In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA. 140102692942
Reposted by Meg DuffJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars” 421761456
Reposted by Meg DuffGlenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 10/10/2025Have you filled a city kermit for this protest? 817024
Reposted by Meg DuffJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas... 297175106696
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 27/09/2025More cities, NGOs, even HOAs are getting disaster insurance. 'Parametric' plans pay out at key triggers: hurricane hits cat 5, wildfire crosses line, etc. Now, some of those plans are rewarding climate adaptation with big discounts. with @jojofoshosho.bsky.social for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social ! 054
Reposted by Meg DuffJoanna Thompson @jojofoshosho.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The insurance industry is broken, especially in wildfire-prone states like California that have been hit hard by climate change. Could a community-based risk reduction model be the solution? Proud to have gotten to co-write this story for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social with @megduff.com 🌎🧪kneedeeptimes.orgInsurance Innovations Reward Communities Reducing Climate RiskFires and floods are scaring insurance companies away from disaster zones, but communities are doing their part to improve outcomes. 2237
Reposted by Meg DuffJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 18/09/2025As global heating produces more wildfires, "Americans have increasingly been bombarded by toxic smoke." 41K people in the US now die from this smoke each year, "one of the most costly and important climate impacts.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comSee where wildfire smoke is getting worse in the U.S.The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans. 063
Reposted by Meg DuffRobert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 17/09/2025#ColorADay | #RedWed “Memories of Autumn Past” alternate title “Roll Out the Red Carpet” #Photography 📸 #WestCoastKin #PNW #Oregon #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyPhotography #ArtistsOfBluesky #BlueskyArt #Landscape #Nature 0303
Reposted by Meg DuffAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...deadline.com‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting NoticeJimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show 5164761654
Reposted by Meg DuffMary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025A bee is here 1931960
Reposted by Meg DuffDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.insideclimatenews.orgHuman-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate NewsPublic health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts. 310651
Reposted by Meg Duffali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 11/08/2025hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible 214567
Reposted by Meg DuffKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying 10307122
Reposted by Meg DuffBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"Putin appears to have gained the upper hand...[He] was treated as an equal on U.S. soil, managed to sidestep any potential American sanctions for now and announced no battlefield concessions. Trump, who vowed...to end the war on his first day in office, failed to secure even a temporary cease-fire" 38724263
Reposted by Meg DuffMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end— 20467892441
Reposted by Meg DuffAndrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Remarkably, NASA is looking for partners (wealthy individuals, philanthropic orgs, companies etc.) to keep crucial climate satellite missions like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory going. Whether they make such a deal before $$ runs out remains to be seen... www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...cnn.comThe perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry | CNNNASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside o... 36236
Reposted by Meg DuffI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2025"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...streetsensemedia.orgDonald Trump threatens to clear encampments in D.C.With D.C.’s MPD now under federal control and the National Guard coming to D.C., the fate of people in encampments remains up in the air. 5450761427
Reposted by Meg DuffChris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This is a wonderful read. 48711
Reposted by Meg Duffhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Once again, if you know anything about who is behind the DHS or ICE social media accounts, particularly on X, I'm very interested in talking to you. hannahgais@proton.me or 334-315-8634 on Signal. 16359136
Reposted by Meg DuffAndy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Good Peter Baker article ⤴️ on Trump's brutish abuse of power in service of narrative. But words matter. When is a behavior an "echo" of something in the past, and when is it that thing incarnate?... 1/2 1297
Reposted by Meg DuffKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 03/08/2025Well done, New York! The state's building code now requires most new buildings to be all-electric. This makes good economic sense: It's cheaper to install a two-way heat pump to both heat and cool, vs a one-way AC plus a one-way furnace. Outgrowing indoor combustion also benefits climate and health. 111934
Reposted by Meg DuffMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/07/2025In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment. I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:thehandbasket.coGaza is starvingPalestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough. 351950620
Reposted by Meg DuffDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/07/2025Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.” 18901489
Reposted by Meg DuffTony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 18/07/2025WGBH building in Boston today 7672092126
Reposted by Meg Duffcomfort foods @primpker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Pilot over the intercom: uhhhhhhh we are all just flesh. We exist so briefly. 433206746
Reposted by Meg DuffJacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 19534391993
Reposted by Meg DuffHarms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 18/06/2025"About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung." "And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died." "It comes down to how much is a life worth. You want more coal, but you don't care about the coal miners." #WestVirginia #USA #Healthcarecapitalandmain.comA Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ HealthSince 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. 1124
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025As Anita Wolfe told me: “It comes down to how much is a life worth. You want more coal, but you don’t care about the coal miners and what’s happening to them.” 7/7 031
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025In the meantime, compliance dates are looming for a new dust regulation, the MSHA silica rule, which lowers dust exposure limits in mines. NIOSH researchers were working on tools that would make it easier for mines to comply. But they've already lost six months of research time. 6/7 101
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025Most of that work has been paused since February due to travel and funding restrictions. It remains paused as researchers wait to hear if they will get their jobs back. That may be decided by the case AFGE v. Trump, which alleges that the DOGE layoffs are unconstitutional. 5/7 101
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025Those researchers had been working to get dust levels down in mines. They also work on massive mine cave-ins, lithium-ion battery explosions, gas well leaks, mine rescue training, and a whole host of other potentially life-saving projects. 4/7 101
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025The judge in Wiley v. Kennedy said research to prevent black lung is legally required, but she stopped short of saying which researchers to call back. Secretary Kennedy's response was to un-fire a director of mine research, but none of the hundreds of researchers who report to him. 3/7 101
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025Coal miners and their advocates notched a win in Wiley v. Kennedy, restoring (at least for now) time-sensitive programs for coal miners with black lung -- a disease that still impacts thousands of miners each year. But the researchers working to prevent the disease? They still face layoffs. 2/7 101
Meg Duff @megduff.com · 18/06/2025When I started reporting this story for @capitalandmain.bsky.social, 90% of NIOSH staff had received layoff notices. Now, the situation is more complicated. 🧵1/7 capitalandmain.com/a-coal-miner...capitalandmain.comA Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ HealthSince 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. 133
Reposted by Meg DuffMarcus Baram @marcusbaram.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Must-read by @megduff.com on @capitalandmain.bsky.social: “It comes down to how much is a life worth,” Wolfe said. “You want more coal, but you don’t care about the coal miners and what’s happening to them.” capitalandmain.com/a-coal-miner...capitalandmain.comA Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ HealthSince 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. 072
Reposted by Meg DuffApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA 580154005022
Reposted by Meg DuffMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I for one welcome our new orca overlords 630444
Reposted by Meg DuffBilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The next orca attack will be very different. 210421
Reposted by Meg DuffLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you. 112112873566
Reposted by Meg DuffDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I wrote to one of the best government climate scientists I know, and jokingly asked if he's been fired. The fact that our best scientists, even if they haven't been fired, cannot focus on work due to mental strain, hurts us all. 1247293
Reposted by Meg DuffPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash. The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere. 51046329
Reposted by Meg DuffLeah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 29/04/2025In @highcountrynews.org, @shaun505.bsky.social writes brilliantly about what trucks can do, and how they can bring people together, and how the Cybertruck is just a baking sheet on wheels for dysfunctional men. www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/...hcn.orgThe Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail - High Country NewsThe Cybertruck is nothing but a baking sheet on wheels that's riding to recall lane toward a dead end. 716739