Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction
Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.
Dave Levitan
Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter
It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.
The (Rest of the) World is Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity globally than coal. We're not going back.
What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library?
That's what the "library" will be in this case: a legal-on-its-face way for a lifetime scam artist to continue scamming the American public even after he, hopefully, leaves office.
Breaking: HHS, Commerce, Probably Other Agencies Send Entire Staff Email Blaming Democrats for Shutdown
A Commerce Department employee called it a "wild" message to come from agency leadership. "It's crazy."
What Do These Ghouls Even Want
Every week there is some cabinet member or other official or striving red state governor laying bare their grotesque yearnings to the world, or more likely to the television they hope the big guy is currently watching.
"Shut It All Down": Largely Kept in the Dark, Many Federal Employees Are Itching For a Fight
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! On Thursday morning, one part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration held an "emergency" all-hands meeting. The gist, according to a source who attended, was more or less that leadership had
A Collection of Responses to the "Dangerously Irresponsible" White House Press Conference on Tylenol and Autism
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It was genuinely hard to watch without starting to smash things. The press conference delivered on Monday by the president, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and various other walking Dunning-Kruger demonstrations was so filled
Companies Keep Buying Future Fusion Power That Definitely, For Sure, Absolutely Will Exist
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The Italian oil and gas giant Eni announced an agreement on Monday to buy electricity "worth more than $1 billion" from a power plant that has not been built but totally, definitely, no-question-about-it
Why Is the DOJ Telling NIH Staff They Can't Attend a Public Health Conference?
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone On Wednesday, employees at various parts of the National Institutes of Health received an odd email. Shared with me by multiple sources, the messages informed them that they should not
Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone Robert Redford died on Tuesday, at 89. You can head literally anywhere else to read full obituaries about one of Hollywood's best and most beautiful leading men — we&