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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great to see hopeful progress in Israel-Palestine and hostage releases. And no, Twitter, that does not make Trump a god. It’s the first week of scarce details and an uncertain future.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just a clown show of traitors.

Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 1d

I'm so glad Duffy has time to focus on this now that he has solved the NASA mission funding crisis and hired the several thousand air traffic controllers we need to cover retirements.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 4d

Just went to look something up. My mistake.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 4d

New climate target: 666 ppm

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 5d

Hey kids, this is the new scientific method.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 6d

I give it about two months before drone strikes on American citizens is celebrated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 6d

Updated a classic.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 7d

Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…

Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias

The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 7d

The acting administrator of NASA in 2025

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 8d

As we enter the second week of the Republican shutdown of the government, we shouldn't be cowed by Trump's threats to use the shutdown as an excuse to dismantle parts of the government he dislikes. He's shown that he needs no excuse to do that. He's been doing it all along, legal or not, and

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Monday, there’s no government and the second civil war is beginning.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 11d

Make no mistake that citizens will also get wrapped up in this, as they have been.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 12d

The fascism and Project 2025 game is now wide out in the open as was transparent to anyone playing attention.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 13d

A great primate has left our habitat. Jane Goodall -hero of our biosphere. A peak experience was reading from Earth in Human Hands for her and her board. She was kind, humble, great hugger, inspiring, brilliant. Let’s try to live her vision of a world where we care properly for all living creatures.

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 13d

With Trump's "enemy within" language, they are about a month away from just being able to do whatever they want and skip the whole DEI/foreign invaders/whatever talking points.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14d

Did our president just declare war on us? 🥺

Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’

Cuts to military leaders and a shift in strategy to the Western Hemisphere form the backdrop of the short-notice meeting.

www.wsj.com

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 14d

Fascinating line in new Hülse & Ridgwell paper about how our gigantic pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere--after tens of thousands of years of warming--could kick off an overcorrection of organic carbon burial in the oceans and hasten the descent into an ice age www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 14d

too much of a dilute thing can hurt you....

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 14d

Just wait until the termination shock in stratification after discontinuing SRM for a century (I wonder to what extent this happens in abrupt 2x/4xCO2 vs. transient runs)

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14d

"Ocean stratification in a warming climate" | Our ( Lijing Cheng et al) new review article in @nature.com Reviews Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Ocean stratification in a warming climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Ocean stratification — density-related layering of seawater — influences oceanographic and climatic processes. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in stratification, noting a 0.8% dec−1 increase in 0–2,000 m stratification from 1960–2024, and a further 1.4% dec−1 increase by 2100 under SSP2-4.5.

www.nature.com

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 15d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 15d

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency

New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.

NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
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www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Chris Colose @ccolose.bsky.social · 16d

So I guess in this regime (theres an “f” word they are telling us we aren’t allowed to use) global greening is no longer mentionable?

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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