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Maya Golden-Krasner
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Deputy Climate Director & senior attorney @ Center for Biological Diversity. Altadena (Los Angeles). Sometimes lecturer on California environmental law @ UCLA Law School. Surviving 2025 with lawsuits, cats, mysteries, and gallows humor. All posts my own.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 26d
I want to live in a country where we put flags half mast for Jane Goodall.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Sep 27
Great story by @fieseler.bsky.social tying together climate comedy, attacks on free expression and Samuel L. Jackson's fantastic TV ad for offshore wind power: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cul...
Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.
The satirical video starring Samuel L. Jackson pokes fun at offshore wind disinformation right as the Trump administration is targeting both comedy and…
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Sep 27
This footage of unquestionable abuse of power and assault has haunted me all day.

The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.

He should be under arrest.
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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · Sep 10
Hearings are scheduled next week in Lighthiser v. Trump, a challenge to Trump's energy executive orders brought by 22 youth. The 120-page complaint is a sweeping narrative that weaves together personal stories, global energy trends, and Beltway politics. legal-planet.org/2025/09/10/y...
Young Climate Plaintiffs Won Big in Montana. Can They Again? - Legal Planet
A youth climate redux in Montana? The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 1
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... )

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A graph comparing COVID incidence after the Pfizer vaccine compared to placebo
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Neuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · Aug 15
Here’s @kareemabduljabaar.bsky.social talking about the importance of UCLA research to human health. Groundbreaking research at UCLA leads to new discoveries and saves lives. Go Bruins! #researchpowersprogress
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UCLA (@ucla) on Threads
Bruin legend @kareemabduljabbar_33 speaks from the heart about UCLA’s impact on his life, career, and health. His story illustrates how UCLA ResearchPowersProgress. Share your UCLA research impact st...
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George Chen @gtchen.bsky.social · Aug 19
Story out today from @uclahealth.org on one of my projects in lab studying rare neurodevelopmental disorders using patient stem cells and brain organoids. UCLA #ResearchPowersProgress 🧪 www.uclahealth.org/news/article...
Rare mutation in autism risk gene connects family with researcher
An email to renowned autism investigator Dr. Daniel Geschwind is leading to new science.
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Jeff Bailey @hellojeffbailey.bsky.social · Aug 19
www.ucla.edu/research?utm... #ResearchPowersProgress #ucla #research Trump administration is trying to halt more than $500 million in research funds to UCLA. I work there. I'm incredibly proud to be at one of the world's great public universities. UCLA researchers save lives and improve the world.
UCLA Research | Real-World Breakthroughs Start Here
From predicting wildfires to treating disease, UCLA research solves real-world problems that impact your family, job, and future.
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California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA @cnsiatucla.bsky.social · Aug 11
CNSI member Steven J. Jonas (@uclahealth.org) has received a $400K @hyundaiusa.com grant to develop nanotech “liquid biopsy” tools for more precise, less invasive childhood cancer care. Nearly $2.8M awarded to @ucla.edu to date. #ResearchPowersProgress

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August 7, 2025 | Pediatric cancer researcher receives $400,000 grant for nanotech-based liquid biopsy technologies - California NanoSystems Institute
Steven J. Jonas, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, has been awarded a $400,000 Hyundai Scholar Hope grant from Hyundai Hope on Wheels, a nonprofit organization dedicat...
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · Aug 15
#ResearchPowersProgress #StandUpforUC
domucla.bsky.social UCLA Department of Medicine @domucla.bsky.social · Aug 12
Research is central to our department's mission. This week, Dr. Abel spotlights studies ranging from reducing endocrine side effects in cancer immunotherapy to the impact of GLP-1RAs on dementia risk. Read the full newsletter here: uclahs.fyi/4mfULu0
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · Aug 20
At a moment when environmental regulations, public television, and research universities like UCLA are all under attack, this new documentary on LA‘s smog, and how it helped create modern environmental regulations and agencies, seems especially timely.
uclalawemmett.bsky.social UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · Aug 20
At a time when we need reminders of what motivates environmental regulation, here comes a great new PBS documentary "Clearing the Air: The War on Smog." Our @law.ucla.edu faculty help tell the tale of how LA’s noxious smog led to the creation of the EPA and Clean Air Act

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Clearing the Air: The War on Smog: Trailer | American Experience | PBS
The story of L.A.’s devastating smog problem and the creation of the EPA and the Clean Air Act.
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agentschmoop.bsky.social @agentschmoop.bsky.social · Aug 16
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Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · Aug 17
A lung cancer patient’s survival hinges on breakthrough research now gutted by Trump’s funding cuts. UCLA scientists lose critical support as MAGA’s war on science strips hope from families fighting for their lives.
No President Tried to Lose the War on Cancer … Until Trump
The story of a cancer patient, a researcher, and MAGA’s assault on science.
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Jewish Dems @jewishdems.bsky.social · Aug 21
Jewish faculty at UCLA have come together to condemn Trump’s demand for a $1 billion fine to settle claims over alleged campus antisemitism.

“Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world.”
UCLA's Jewish community unites against Trump's $1-billion demand: 'Misguided and punitive'
UCLA's Jewish faculty united around a letter conveying anger over a potential $1-billion settlement between the university and the Trump administration over alleged campus antisemitism.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 18
"David Shackelford is at UCLA. And Donald Trump just cut off the school’s federal funding." The fact that Shackelford is working on pioneering cancer treatment research? Eh.

@citizencohn.bsky.social on Trump's surrender in the war on cancer: www.thebulwark.com/p/research-t...
No President Tried to Lose the War on Cancer … Until Trump
The story of a cancer patient, a researcher, and MAGA’s assault on science.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Aug 19
Jewish faculty at UCLA condemn trump attacks on the university: "Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world."
UCLA's Jewish community unites against Trump's $1-billion demand: 'misguided and punitive'
UCLA's Jewish faculty united around a letter conveying anger over a potential $1-billion settlement between the university and the Trump administration over alleged campus antisemitism.
www.latimes.com
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Maya Golden-Krasner @climatecattorney.bsky.social · Aug 22
In the immortal words of Justice Jackson, Republicans are playing Calvinball.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22
Warren: "We can't live in a world anymore where we pretend that everybody is playing by the same set of rules ... Republicans are determined to rig every rule they can, to break laws in order to seize power and to hang on to it. As Democrats, we have a responsibility to fight back & fight back hard"
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · Aug 22
BREAKING: Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center
“This injunction is a huge relief for millions of people who love the Everglades”
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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Aug 18
Trump officials may soon hold public climate science debates, recruit more denialists to attack research and go through every line of the National Climate Assessments to highlight doubt, a DOE report author told me.

“We will have to enlist other scientists," he said. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science
The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.
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Christina Scaringe @natureishome.bsky.social · Aug 22
Amazing work — cheers to the Florida team at @biologicaldiversity.org, the Miccosukee Tribe, & all those fighting fascist destruction. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact
The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Aug 21
No way around it: California is starting to backslide on climate. And it’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault.

My column today looks at Newsom’s failures on rooftop solar, oil industry accountability, home electrification and more: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Commentary: California is backsliding on climate progress. It's (mostly) Gavin Newsom's fault
From rooftop solar to oil drilling, the Golden State governor is failing to live up to his soaring rhetoric.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 20
“Critics call it extortion”

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Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 20
In this Ohio diner, UC is a common misspelling of UFC. But they do know this: The best way to fight antisemitism is to cut off funding to globalist researchers in the University of California system.
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · Aug 19
NEW:

Records show extensive pollution under the Phillips 66 oil refinery in Los Angeles—almost 500 Olympic pools’ worth.

Yet the company is giving limited assurances it will clean its mess after closing the plant this year, and state oversight is limited.

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There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up?
Climate policies could lead to future refinery closures as Californians transition to electric vehicles.
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