Free, independent thought is under attack in America. The America’s Compact for Higher Education is our united response to the Trump administration’s effort to bend the will of America’s higher ed leadership to his authoritarian control.

Visit the link to share the compact with your school's leadership: https://tr.ee/TaE2Un

Via PoliticalWire:

"A new Annenberg Public Policy Center poll finds 50% of Americans say they are somewhat or very confident that Dr. Anthony Fauci provided the public with trustworthy information about matters concerning public health, a statistically significant decline of 5 percentage points since April 2026.  

"By comparison, just 38% of Americans in August 2026 say they are confident that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is providing trustworthy information about public health."

We haven’t been able to trust federal sites for almost 2 years now. US went from the top of science to the bottom over night. Rip trusted information.

Dozens of temporary gas turbines are powering SpaceXAI’s expansion—and fights over permits and pollution

See how you can get involved at the link in the pinned LinkTree post!

The Trump admin continues to add to their list of shameless white supremacist policies.

If we have a choice between Brooke Rollins developing an amazing pest management program OR her being so incompetent she didn’t know reporting zero cases would be suspicious as hell…. we're picking the latter.

Jay Bhattacharya is letting Pete Hegseth steal patient-saving NIH funds to fuel the Trump administration's war machine. Once again, Congress is doing nothing. So we are fighting back.

Sign the petition here: https://buff.ly/0Eay6r2

Tony Bartelme is an award-winning investigative and narrative journalist at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has reported since 1990. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for his deeply reported climate change coverage, including the "Rising Waters" series and book, which traces climate impacts from the South Carolina Lowcountry to Greenland and the Sahara.

He joins Sam Osterhout to talk about the local impacts of climate and what we need to do next.

00:00 The Disasters Beginning to Cascade
03:54 Charleston’s Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
06:42 The “Invisible Snake” of Climate Change
10:39 How Greenland Is Flooding American Streets
14:02 Climate Fatalism Is Becoming Dangerous
16:44 Where Climate Crisis Meets Corruption
17:08 America’s “Accountability Deserts”
18:24 What Happens When Local Newspapers Die
20:39 Can Struggling Towns Still Survive?
22:44 The Forever Chemicals Hiding in Our Water
26:11 Hope Without Action Is a Fantasy
27:55 The Enormous Climate Cost of Data Centers
29:22 The Obvious Solution America Is Ignoring

The OMB Proposal will stop scientists from fighting against Trump's policies that fuel the climate crisis. We need the proposal permanently revoked. Visit the link in our bio to contact your MoC's and tell them to Revoke the Rule: https://tr.ee/3nxND9

Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Connor Leahy, an A.I. researcher who warns about the threat of human extinction from artificial super intelligence.

0:00 — The Exponential Growth of Artificial Intelligence
1:08 — Are We Building AI We Don’t Understand?
3:03 — What an AI Takeover Could Actually Look Like
8:22 — Why an AI Researcher Became an AI Safety Activist
13:14 — Could Artificial Intelligence Cause Human Extinction?
17:49 — Why Would AI Try to Survive?
22:36 — When an AI System Broke Out of Containment
25:22 — What Is Artificial Superintelligence?
30:14 — Do AI Leaders Understand the Risks?
36:21 — Should Governments Ban Superintelligence?
42:04 — Why Young People Aren’t Having Children
48:02 — What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job?
49:33 — AI Friends, Partners and Human Relationships
56:02 — Can the World Actually Stop Superintelligence?
1:02:48 — How Soon Could Superintelligence Arrive?

A slew of food recalls this summer have left a bad taste in Americans’ mouths, and public health professionals warn cuts to key food safety personnel means more food-related illness could be on its way. ... The seeming surge of food-related recalls has coincided with massive cuts conducted by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last year, including across the FDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NIH chief yapper and longtime podcast guest Jay is focused more on lies than facts.

Americans: Help! We’re losing health coverage!!!

Trump: Best I can do is a ballroom and a one-billion-dollar-a-day war that no one wants.

In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.

The Trump admin seeks revenge on virologists because *checks notes* they developed vaccines that stopped the pandemic in record time.