Michael E. Mann

This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.

Carl warned us

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

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We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

"24/7 renewables could happen sooner than you think | Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds"
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

24/7 renewables could happen sooner than you think

Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges

Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

"Obama gets star-studded performer list for presidential center opening"
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Obama gets star-studded performer list for presidential center opening

Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera and John Legend will sing at the opening of President Barack Obama's new Chicago campus.

I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful.
The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action.

The truth is bad enough!

Just for the record, these were Sean Duffy's stated priorities:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

It's not that hard folks. Putin ordered Trump to destroy the U.S. from the inside. And that is precisely what he is doing.

We have reached the point where any statement made by a Trump administration official must be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer

Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

"‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist" | My full interview today with #Channel4News UK: www.channel4.com/news/__trash...

‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist

We spoke to Michael Mann, a climate scientist from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Well...
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The peer-reviewed science shows that the primary factor behind the increase in wildfire extent in the western U.S. is increased aridity and fuel load due to human-caused warming.

Via #AAAS #SciLine: www.sciline.org/climate/clim...

"Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison" (h/t @arkancrow.bsky.social):
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers in 2010

Photos from a 2010 dinner party at the home of David and Julia Koch obtained by DailyMail.com show Jeffrey Epstein as he chats with guests after a screening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Short snippet of my speech today at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC, with the Lincoln Memorial behind me (courtesy of @ianlivingston.bsky.social)

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History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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