Meredith AB Hoffman
@mhoff8.bsky.social
Writer, wanderer, wonderer
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More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB
nyti.ms
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB
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Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
September 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
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Four years ago today, @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social opened its doors. Since then, we have represented thousands of clients – helping them win hundreds of elections and scores of court cases.
To our clients, thank you for your trust.
To our people, thank you for being a part of this team.
To our clients, thank you for your trust.
To our people, thank you for being a part of this team.
September 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Four years ago today, @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social opened its doors. Since then, we have represented thousands of clients – helping them win hundreds of elections and scores of court cases.
To our clients, thank you for your trust.
To our people, thank you for being a part of this team.
To our clients, thank you for your trust.
To our people, thank you for being a part of this team.
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"If you are a media executive, and you have Stephen Colbert, and you cannot find a way to make Stephen Colbert profitable, that says a lot more about you than it does about him."
July 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"If you are a media executive, and you have Stephen Colbert, and you cannot find a way to make Stephen Colbert profitable, that says a lot more about you than it does about him."
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Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism.
When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless.
Understand what's going on.
When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless.
Understand what's going on.
June 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism.
When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless.
Understand what's going on.
When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless.
Understand what's going on.
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Yes, we'll be draining precious groundwater from the world's driest places, but at least we'll have fewer jobs and even stupider people
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yes, we'll be draining precious groundwater from the world's driest places, but at least we'll have fewer jobs and even stupider people
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.
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Saturday newsletter: The Week Trump Crashed
You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week. But I will anyway.
By the COB Friday — after the worst 2-day wipeout in history — the stock market had lost $11 trillion since Inauguration Day.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week. But I will anyway.
By the COB Friday — after the worst 2-day wipeout in history — the stock market had lost $11 trillion since Inauguration Day.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The Week Trump Crashed
You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week.
open.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Saturday newsletter: The Week Trump Crashed
You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week. But I will anyway.
By the COB Friday — after the worst 2-day wipeout in history — the stock market had lost $11 trillion since Inauguration Day.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
You don’t need me to tell you that Donald Trump had a ghastly week. But I will anyway.
By the COB Friday — after the worst 2-day wipeout in history — the stock market had lost $11 trillion since Inauguration Day.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Even through the cloud of hubris and ketamine that surrounds him, Musk sees that. Navarro is, indeed, a moron
But, Mr. Musk, let me introduce you to the man who has empowered him, models his policies on his advice, and who grabbed the world economy by the pussy.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
But, Mr. Musk, let me introduce you to the man who has empowered him, models his policies on his advice, and who grabbed the world economy by the pussy.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Of Musk and Morons
Elon, let me introduce you to your other colleagues.
open.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Even through the cloud of hubris and ketamine that surrounds him, Musk sees that. Navarro is, indeed, a moron
But, Mr. Musk, let me introduce you to the man who has empowered him, models his policies on his advice, and who grabbed the world economy by the pussy.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
But, Mr. Musk, let me introduce you to the man who has empowered him, models his policies on his advice, and who grabbed the world economy by the pussy.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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The Social Security Administration is now wrongly informing some SSI recipients they are no longer receiving benefits.
This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines.
This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.
This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines.
This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.
April 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Social Security Administration is now wrongly informing some SSI recipients they are no longer receiving benefits.
This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines.
This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.
This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines.
This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.
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“I feel much better now.”
—nobody
—nobody
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“I feel much better now.”
—nobody
—nobody
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US farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump trade war. They don't deserve another bailout and should not get one
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-tariff-carveout-farmers/682260/
t.co
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
US farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump trade war. They don't deserve another bailout and should not get one
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2019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen
April 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
2019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen
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Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
April 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
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If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking
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That the human ego can screw up even the world of endangered species conservation during the Anthropocene, by putting resources into species whose niche existed during the Holocene or earlier, is obscene. How about we save the ones going extinct right now?
#science #conservation
#science #conservation
April 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
That the human ego can screw up even the world of endangered species conservation during the Anthropocene, by putting resources into species whose niche existed during the Holocene or earlier, is obscene. How about we save the ones going extinct right now?
#science #conservation
#science #conservation
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A much better, scientifically centered article on Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A much better, scientifically centered article on Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
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This is not de-extinction. And we should not resurrect an animal that would throw off ecology for very distantly related, struggling modern animals. This is not science. It’s show biz.
April 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is not de-extinction. And we should not resurrect an animal that would throw off ecology for very distantly related, struggling modern animals. This is not science. It’s show biz.
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I do think it's worth marking and remembering that these people were willing to tolerate everything we've experienced since January and more provided it didn't disrupt the economy.
“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I do think it's worth marking and remembering that these people were willing to tolerate everything we've experienced since January and more provided it didn't disrupt the economy.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Just to give you a sense of the political breadth of today’s #HandsOff event in DC today, I would like to note that there were people carrying the flag of Greenland there today.
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just to give you a sense of the political breadth of today’s #HandsOff event in DC today, I would like to note that there were people carrying the flag of Greenland there today.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
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The latest defense of the Trump tariffs is that the impending Trump recession will build character. What are a few months or years of unemployment compared to a glorious someday-soon future manufacturing hinges and knobs -or stitching t-shirts and athletic shoes?
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The latest defense of the Trump tariffs is that the impending Trump recession will build character. What are a few months or years of unemployment compared to a glorious someday-soon future manufacturing hinges and knobs -or stitching t-shirts and athletic shoes?