“We’re on this escalator towards warmer and warmer and warmer temperatures, and world leaders are not doing anything about it.”
The Trump administration's dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative will "tear out the eyes and ears of science in the ocean."
A trans basketball fan who attended a Knicks game was tracked "second by second" as she moved about the arena, solely for "the crime of being trans," says journalist Noah Shachtman, who reported on the pervasive surveillance at Madison Square Garden.
“Every night, there are lots of peoples chanting all around the street against Trump." Analyst Mohammad Eslami speaks to Democracy Now! from Tehran following the latest U.S. attacks.
Watch our full interview:
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The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis. Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years.
Ahead of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, journalist @noahshachtman.bsky.social details the surveillance machine that billionaire Knicks owner James Dolan has built at Madison Square Garden.
"No venue in the country deploys facial recognition so widely and weaponizes it in the way that James Dolan does."
We're speaking with @climatehuman.bsky.social about his resignation on today's broadcast.
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"We are in extreme danger," says climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social. He warns that this summer "could be the hottest summer we've ever experienced in our lives, but it could also be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives."
James Dolan, the billionaire owner of New York City’s Madison Square Garden and its affiliated sports teams, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, is under fire after a bombshell investigation...
We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forc...
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We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forc...
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After the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, the United States and Iran have begun trading missile and drone strikes in the most serious escalation of hostilities since the Apr...
We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’...
Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deep...
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I'm on @democracynow.org tomorrow talking about this + other reasons the IPO has been called "hallucinogenic":
💫key person risk with no deputy or successor
💫claim that xAI—lost $5b last year—has total addressable market of $26 TRILLION based on fairytale tech
💫the ways laws could block this all
This administration would love for science to just go away
