Climate posts on BlueSky

Pope Francis spoke often about the importance of environmental stewardship in a way none of his predecessors had, connecting climate change to social inequities: cnn.it/4jnHRbX

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-04-27T15:40:35.315Z

#ResistanceEarth#BlueEarthUsually, when NOAA releases its annual report on CO2 levels, it publishes a web page with detailed analysis. Not this time. NOAA quietly put the data on social media without even mentioning the fact that CO2 levels jumped dramatically.www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c…

— Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T23:39:12.304Z

The Trump administration is rolling back landmark environmental protections that date to the early 1970s. Among the changes, Trump signed an order requiring the EPA and other agencies to eliminate, or “sunset,” an array of environmental rules. @hayleysmith.bsky.social http://www.latimes.com/environment/…

— Ian James (@ianjames.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T00:12:56.448Z

Climate change poses major security threat and armies must adapt, experts warnground.news/article/how-…

— LaResistance47 (@laresistance47.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T23:38:43.954Z

These actions also carry a heavy economic cost. Extreme weather events caused by climate change cost us over $180B in 2024 alone. And it drives up home insurance rates for Americans across the country.earth.org/costliest-cl…

— Congressman Don Beyer (@beyer.house.gov) 2025-04-22T23:08:19.521Z

Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-12T04:03:14.436Z

This is outrageous: Trump’s EPA plans to stop tracking greenhouse gas emissions from major polluters. It’s like ripping out the monitors on a critically ill patient—reckless, dangerous, and a direct threat to our future.

— Mike Levin (@mikelevin.org) 2025-04-11T22:42:30.601Z

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time…"www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c…

— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) 2025-04-11T20:02:29.078Z

ESPN’s poor coverage of the Ravens Mike Green pick

ESPN gave very little TV time to the Green pick and rushed on to the next one.

Their website had this without noting why Green fell to 59: “There was less than a 1% chance that Green would be available at the No. 59 spot, according to ESPN’s Draft Day Predictor.”

NFL Network and ESPN had notably different approaches in talking about the off-field issues of Mike Green, who was selected No. 59 overall by the Baltimore Ravens. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport discussed Green's two sexual assault allegations.

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T01:29:34.079Z

ESPN, meanwhile, made no reference to Mike Green's allegations – or any off-field concerns.

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T01:32:27.034Z

ESPN didn’t refer to it on their review of Ravens picks either:www.espn.com/nfl/draft202…

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T05:08:13.466Z

Even the Ravens official site covered the accusations

Trump’s poll rating is declining

Breaking News: A majority of voters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power, and they have deep doubts about some of the signature pieces of his agenda, a New York Times/Siena College poll found.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-25T19:32:34.111Z

AP-NORC and NYT polls out today just brutal for Trump. Negative on every issue. 60%+ say his first 100 days have been chaotic and scary. Net immigration opinion underwater by 25 points with independents, plurality saying he has "gone too far" with deportations… Not a popular POTUS

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-04-25T20:43:07.289Z

Reuters poll: Trump approval37% approve57% disapproveU.S. adults

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T21:35:38.086Z

Trump's job approval is 11 points underwater (44% approve, 55% disapprove) in a new Fox poll.On the issues: -15 on taxes (38% approve, 53% disapprove)-18 on the economy (38% to 56%)-25 on tariffs (33% to 58%)-26 on inflation (33% to 59%)

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T20:40:33.524Z

Last place. Loser.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-04-23T22:28:00.878Z

New CNN Poll: Trump's 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Eisenhower

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-04-27T12:16:26.648Z

New poll shows what voters think of Trump’s first 100 days in office

New polling on Trump's handling of inflation: 35% approve, 64% disapprove (CNN)38% approve, 62% disapprove (CBS)

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T14:15:08.376Z

Trump's approval rating hits a low of 39% in a new poll. That's down 6 points from a similar survey released mid-February.The lowest approval rating for any president at their 100-day mark going back to F.D. Roosevelt's 3rd. term.#MomSky#Voices4Victorywww.usatoday.com/story/news/p…

— Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@zen4ever2us.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T19:44:43.001Z

Polls show opposition to Trump’s terrible tariffs

Most Americans disapprove of Trump on tariffs, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds

CNN: *shows Jim Banks an image of a recent poll showing 61% of Americans disapprove of Trump's tariffs*CNN: Are Republicans on the wrong side of public opinion on tariffs?JIM BANKS: No

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-31T16:26:32.230Z

American CEOs largely AGAINST Trump tariffsThe poll, conducted by Chief Executive magazine, found that 67 of those surveyed did not agree with the president’s tariff agenda and 76% believe the sweeping import taxes will hurt their companies#MOG8#TrumpTaxes thehill.com/business/525…

— Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 (@mog7546.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T18:52:25.808Z

"74% of Americans believe that the wealthy will benefit from Trump's trade and tariff policies."Americans are seeing right through Republican lies about the economy and their budget.www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-tr…

— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@repescobar.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T17:53:40.541Z

The price isn’t right: 77% of Americans expect President Donald Trump’s tariff plan to raise your consumer prices, according to an AP-NORC poll.

— John Goodman (@johnlgood.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T14:41:36.832Z

CBS News poll: Americans see Trump’s tariff policies benefitting the wealthy and large corporations- not the working class or small businesses.

— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T14:42:59.332Z

Steady decline in tariff support over past few months…Nov '24: 52%Dec '24: 47%Jan '25: 46%Mar '25: 44%Apr '25: 42%(% favoring "U.S. placing new tariffs on goods imported from other countries" in CBS News/YouGov polling of U.S. adults)More from latest poll: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-tr…

— Kabir K. (@kabirkhanna.bsky.social) 2025-04-14T17:10:07.338Z

Reducing services is not savings

DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u…

— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T03:55:37.580Z

What DOGE did is not savings, it’s a reduction in services. Savings would be if you figured out a way to do something in 30 minutes that used to take an hour.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T03:59:40.462Z

For example, I don’t think of this as savings bsky.app/profile/cram…

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T15:26:46.685Z

another post and my reply

Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T19:30:08.936700Z

Are any of those real savings or are they just reductions in services to people?

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T02:53:42.392Z

more “savings”

This is profoundly illegal.“The administration is seeking to pull back money that is already out the door — cash that President Joe Biden’s agencies had awarded, and placed in accounts for the recipients at Citibank, before Trump took office.”www.politico.com/news/2025/04…

— Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T01:51:29.195Z

Student loan servicers are notorious for making mistakes, but Trump still eliminated the watchdog team that oversaw them. I think we need to do more – not less – to protect borrowers, which is why I introduced the Student Loan Servicers Accountability Act.

— Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (@sarajacobs.house.gov) 2025-04-23T01:55:14.646Z

For the nearly 7 million Americans afflicted with Alzheimer’s and their loved ones, federally-funded medical research represents hope that cherished memories will not fade and a family member will have many more years to celebrate birthdays, marriages & more.GOP funding cuts are ripping hope away.

— Rep. Lloyd Doggett (@doggett.house.gov) 2025-04-23T01:12:26.715Z

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com) 2025-04-22T21:43:00.990Z

“This disappearance of data undermines evidence-based assessments and policymaking and increases the authoritarian regime’s control as the public lacks facts to hold them accountable.” @markjacob.bsky.social http://www.americaamerica.news/p/trumps-dan…

— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T22:29:49.500Z

Last Friday, Trump's EPA shut down a Biden-era website mapping locations of dangerous chemical plants. The chemical industry, which gave over $1M to Trump's inauguration, heavily lobbied the Trump administration to scrap the website. See how this works?

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T22:01:07.261241Z

they want to crash the economy, cause bank runs and leave you destitute news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/…

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-04-22T15:16:51.654Z

Exposing dangers is part of the CDC Closing departments hides problems that could be fixed or preventedYes, they found tesla-selfdriving problems That's why dodgy boys want them gone!

— Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 (@lonsj.bsky.social) 2025-04-22T00:26:58.828Z

The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America, among other health issues, according to internal emails written by senior officials at the EPA.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-21T22:43:49.550Z

Among the impacts: The cuts will halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases. propub.li/3GeQOWv

— Dan Petty (@danielpetty.bsky.social) 2025-04-21T22:00:38.418Z

Trump just fired the HHS team responsible for calculating the Federal Poverty Line, which determines eligibility for programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and child care.Trump & DOGE are blocking hardworking Americans from getting the basic assistance they deserve.

— Rep. Kevin Mullin (@kevinmullin.house.gov) 2025-04-25T16:52:32.469Z

Trump Administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism

Much of the staff responsible for distributing information about foodborne illnesses has been terminated by the Trump administration as part of its efforts to shrink the government’s size.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-25T18:35:41.014Z

US Justice Department unit for drug and food safety cases being disbanded reut.rs/3EFhW0c

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-04-25T21:00:19.980Z

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-30T14:12:54.971Z

I wouldn’t call what DOGE did “savings”. They have cut costs by reducing services. Savings would be, for example, taking a process that takes an hour and modifying it so that it takes a half hour.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T17:22:26.605Z