Clark Mindock
clarkmindock.bsky.social
Clark Mindock
@clarkmindock.bsky.social
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Climate law & insurance regs reporter. •Insurance writing is here: https://www.insuranceinsiderus.com/clark-mindock •My Substack “Landmark” covers climate law: www.landmark.earth Formerly Reuters, Law360, The Independent, etc.
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Earlier this year, the Trump administration killed NOAA's billion-dollar disaster database - one of many attempts to censor climate change in the federal gov

But the climatologist who compiled the program just revived it, launching just this morning with the folks
@climatecentral.org
The database - which shows the US had 14 separate billion-dollar disasters in the first half of 2025 - is available here: www.climatecentral.org

And my story can be found here for subscribers of Insurance Insider: www.insuranceinsiderus.com/article/2fhn...
Earlier this year, the Trump administration killed NOAA's billion-dollar disaster database - one of many attempts to censor climate change in the federal gov

But the climatologist who compiled the program just revived it, launching just this morning with the folks
@climatecentral.org
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Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx
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After this far-right propagandist put an inflammatory spotlight on vendors on Canal Street, ICE agents were spotted at the location making indiscriminate arrests of anyone they think looks like a delivery person or vendor (ie: not white)
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as someone who's seen the up-close video and deeply wishes she had not, really REALLY recommend doing this right now
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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My latest, analyzing the legal justification for the Trump admin’s latest attack on climate regs, just posted.

Featuring commentary from Joe Goffman, a former Biden EPA air & radiation office official:
I can vouch for the em-dash here. We’ve known each other for years.

I have photos with the em-dash from college in the early 2010s — it DJ’ed parties on an iPod. It played MGMT and The Blow (I think that was because the em-dash had a thing for Parentheses though).
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
www.mcsweeneys.net
My latest, analyzing the legal justification for the Trump admin’s latest attack on climate regs, just posted.

Featuring commentary from Joe Goffman, a former Biden EPA air & radiation office official:
I’m in Rwanda for the first time. Very surprised to see so many Uhauls with Arizona license plates tbh
I would NEVER draw a picture!
and another thing: i don't draw pictures. please dont put in the newspaper that i draw pictures.
“Also, I don’t draw pictures”
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I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.
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NEW: Our study in @theguardian.com shows that the new $1T Pentagon budget in Trump’s bill— paid for by cuts to education, food stamps, disaster management, etc—will raise its carbon emissions higher than the entire country of Ethiopia, and cause 47B in damages.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows
Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries
www.theguardian.com
Email filters may be the world's great equalizer.

Just switched to a new email at work and whether you're emailing me from an "@amazon1claimservices.freestuff.com" or "@harvard.edu" account... it's all junk now!
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NEW: A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration for illegally eliminating FEMA’s BRIC pre-disaster grant program.

Billions of dollars needed to fortify communities against hurricanes, floods and earthquakes (among other climate change risks) are at stake.
Here’s a link to the lawsuit filed by Massachusetts, Washington and other states today: www.mass.gov/doc/fema-bri...
www.mass.gov
Either way, the funds at issue are a big deal— every $1 spent in pre-disaster mitigation saves $6 down the road, studies show.

And insurers - and therefore the economy - see mitigation as a very important tool to fight climate change.

If not FEMA/the feds… where is the money going to come from?
The states argue that the admin’s move was illegal in a few ways:

Mainly: it violates the U.S. Constitution, which gives the power of the purse to Congress (not agencies).

Also: Cameron Hamilton, the former acting FEMA administrator, wasn’t nominated to run the agency (or confirmed by the Senate)
NEW: A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration for illegally eliminating FEMA’s BRIC pre-disaster grant program.

Billions of dollars needed to fortify communities against hurricanes, floods and earthquakes (among other climate change risks) are at stake.
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com