It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Science journalists, science communicators, science folks of all stripes — if you read nothing else today, read this post by @chriscmooney.bsky.social : 🧪
My latest looking at this new AI-based wetlands detection tool being used by both agricultural and conservation interests in Washington in @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/2905202...
Tired: Crime is down because of Trump.
Wired: Crime is down because of Mamdani.
Inspired: Crime is down because of Brunson.
Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry
There is no legal recourse the Supreme Court will allow. It’s “white’s win always” and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
thehill.com/regulation/c...
i think it is really great that the civil rights division is now dedicated to rooting out any attempt to do outreach to nonwhites in education www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
So if I have this correct, since the end of 2024, the following news outlets have gutted their climate desks:
CBS
CNN
Hakai Magazine (folded into Biographic after losing its namesake funder, which also lost its major funder recently)
NPR
Washington Post
Have I missed anyone lol
Katie Mack
Chad Small
Elise Cutts
"Over time it became difficult to distinguish the policies of Black and white mayors, as both were beholden to the police and corporations in their cities and thereby unwilling (and often lacking any real power) to advance policies to help rank-and-file Black Americans."
Whew. That's Andre Dickens.
Philip Bump
Europeans are so much more enlightened than Americans, I’m sure their deportation camps will have fresher food
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to remove the state’s second majority-Black congressional district for the midterms, handing the party a pickup opportunity in a…
The Justice Department is investigating a program at City University of New York that offers support for men from underrepresented backgrounds for alleged racial discrimination.
The directive from Bari Weiss to make the protesters killed by ICE look “more violent” came after Scott Pelley voluntarily had already gone to great pains to make them look violent in the first place:
Dan Vergano
NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.
