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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/08/2026

ICYMI - The newest data showing the number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. for the first half of 2026 was released last week. This includes 12 events costing nearly $32 billion in damages (5th highest for Jan-Jun event count). ➡️ Explore the data at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Map showing U.S. 2026 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, which is from https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters at Climate Central.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I post this not as a recrimination, but a warning: A place with a history of sudden flash floods could’ve installed a warning system, and chose not to. Whatever the cost of disaster planning and warning systems, it’s always cheaper than the disasters. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...

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Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System

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Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is what it looks like when institutions start caving to authoritarian regimes. If you went to Penn, you should make sure the president’s office hears from you: 215-898-7221. Then, send an email: president@upenn.edu.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 04/06/2025

Shameful

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

There's been lots of chatter, much of it uninformed, regarding the tornado warnings issued by NWS Jackson, KY Friday. The 2 sig tornadoes had lead times of 28 and 40 minutes respectively, pretty damn good for being short staffed, to their credit. Radar at issuance time. 1/2

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Joseph Trujillo-Falcón @latinwx.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

68,845,865. That's how many individuals in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Everyone deserves a chance to stay safe during disasters, and I will never stop advocating for that. Thinking of all the communities that are going to be affected by this change.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 20/03/2025

Two more radiosonde sites down for the foreseeable future, and in critical areas we need them at SPC 😑😔.

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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Reminder what tornado death rates looked like before improving forecasting, building codes, education, etc. Research matters. Back to 1875 we go! Figure credit: @hebrooks87.bsky.social

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In recent decades everyone has been real proud of how we’ve been able to lower disaster death tolls. At this rate, those days are over.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 25/02/2025

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/02/2025

A bunch of military spouses were probationary federal employees and have just been laid off by the deranged Trump/Musk effort to gut the U.S. government. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts | CNN Politics

The Trump administration’s swift, sweeping cuts to the federal workforce is set to derail the livelihoods of potentially thousands of military families.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/02/2025

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

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Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting

The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
• Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
• Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
• Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
• Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
• Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
• Average Federal Salary: $106,000
• Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
• A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
• Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
• Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
• Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A number of post-docs and other early career scientists working for the government on environment and health were summarily laid off today. Some given 30 minute notice to leave. This saves little money and devastates lives while making our communities less healthy. Cruel and wanton destruction.

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MORZZ @mmorzz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

That “HE GETS US” ad is funded by an extreme right wing org. Using Johnny Cash’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” - a scathing critique of right-wing televangelists preying on the unwary - is a spectacular self-own.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 08/02/2025

Why would the world's richest man want to shut down a consumer protection service that investigates and takes action on claims against his company like these? www.consumerfinance.gov/data-researc...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 31/01/2025

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

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Earthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freeze

Small nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money

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