Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world)

The story of Trump’s secret plan to make everyone a vegan.

https://apnews.com/article/poultry-salmonella-food-poisoning-usda-081dafd3c8a75c3ef2203d260584a893

If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record

I tell my students that the best things they can do for climate are to stop eating cow and dairy, stop buying so much stuff, and vote for politicians who will do something about climate change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/earth-day-what-to-do.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap&smid=url-share&unlocked_article_code=1.Bk8.uquP.VW4STu8KpBOb

This will make the streets of China safer.

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-ford-halts-shipment-3cb51285?st=zKesZf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Tried to speak Mandarin with them but they seemed confused.

Or we could fight climate change and stop voting for sociopaths so we don’t have to hide in bunkers.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/10/magazine/bunkers-prepping.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4._ZXs.W_GWouVH-YIN&smid=url-share

Cars ruin cities in more ways than just running people over.

Paris has reduced air pollution by 50-55% over the past 20 years through policies limiting traffic and banning polluting vehicles.

https://wapo.st/4cu5s8j

Every day, it's something dumber. NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) brings us the ocean and atmospheric CO₂ measurements, among many other things.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/climate/trump-noaa-budget-cuts/index.html

Climate deniers in Trump administration be like.

Essential reading to know your rights. One thing to know is that no matter who you are, immigration officers can search your phone upon entry to the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/09/us/immigrant-rights-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U4.MynV.Yh3ykr8bOjcO&smid=url-share

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-04-04/national-endowment-humanities-neh-doge-trump-funding-cuts-museums

Yes, bring back manufacturing jobs to the US, but also this. What a bunch of evil clowns.

https://wapo.st/4lCvWbZ

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

Trump announces a massive tax increase on ordinary American consumers to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-protectionism-82d0aa3a?st=5wxupn

That's $100,000 per human per month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E4.VTsQ.o3UHGymiC55f&smid=url-share

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/26/extreme-weather-risk-tool-fema-trump

In the last few days, I've had many European colleagues tell me that they're not coming to the US for work, and I don't blame them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/travel/foreign-travel-to-united-states-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.1TBt.CLn31_glWsIl&smid=nytcore-android-share

Parisians voted on a proposal to block 500 streets to traffic and replace asphalt with plants and trees. 😍

https://wapo.st/4iUN1vu

It’s probably not a good sign when your closest ally issues a travel warning against you.

https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878

Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/climate/global-temperatures-wmo-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.mcnK.87j5cpht6uwX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare