This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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California's ocean is not a sacrifice zone for Big Oil.
With Donald Trump plotting to sell off our beaches to his fossil fuel industry donors, we're celebrating California Ocean Day by reaffirming our commitment to protect every inch of it.
@MLP_officiel Circulez, il n’y a rien à voir.
Et certains vont continuer à nous expliquer que le RN a changé, et que ce n’est plus un parti pro-russe.
Venir soutenir un voleur soutenu par l’argent russe, qui tient en otage la survie économique de l’Ukraine - c’est une honte sans nom.
NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN
Géorgie 🇬🇪
Pendant que le monde a les yeux rivés sur l'Ukraine et l'Iran, la répression continue en Géorgie. Les journalistes sont arrêtés et les opposants politiques sont arrêtés et frappés.
Even Donald Trump’s Supreme Court agrees:
His tax on the American people is illegal.
A huge win for families and small businesses across the country who have been suffering under this man’s ego.
Dear Minister Sa'ar,
Belgium is home to one of Europe's oldest Jewish communities. We are proud of that. And we will do everything to keep it that way.
When a synagogue is targeted, we are outraged. When graves are desecrated, we are disgusted. When Jewish students face harassment, we want consequences.
And we act, every day. A national antisemitism coordinator leads an interfederal mechanism where Jewish community leaders sit as permanent partners. Our prosecutors work under explicit zero-tolerance instructions for hate crimes. Courts convict those who spread hatred and Holocaust denial, under laws that go beyond European minimum standards. Our new Criminal Code, entering into force in April 2026, makes discriminatory motive an aggravating circumstance for every single crime.
When the threat demands it, we protect. Since October 7, 2023, every Jewish school, synagogue and community centre operates under reinforced police surveillance.
But Belgium's approach goes far beyond repression and protection. We invest in prevention, education and resilience, because that is how you root out hatred for good. Our schools teach about the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism with dedicated IHRA-aligned programmes. The Jewish Museum of Belgium runs a project bringing Jewish life, culture and identity into classrooms across the country. Football fans caught chanting antisemitic slurs are sent to Kazerne Dossin - the memorial site from which Jews were deported - for mandatory education programmes, with intake, guided visits and supervised reflection. The federal government has commissioned dedicated research into online antisemitism, mapping hate speech patterns, platforms and policy responses. And since April 2024, police register antisemitic incidents under a dedicated indicator, because you cannot fight what you do not measure.
Is it enough? As long as one Jewish Belgian feels unsafe walking to shul, we have work to do. We carry that responsibility every single day.
Now, Minister Sa'ar, let's be honest with each other.
You mention the case of mohels in Antwerp. The judicial investigation was initiated following a complaint by a member of the Jewish community itself, concerning a specific medical practice. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of ritual circumcisions are performed legally in Belgium every year, without any interference. Presenting this as persecution of Jewish life is a distortion of the facts.
And it is part of a pattern. You have taken the real fears of real people and turned them into an argument against Belgium's foreign policy. Jewish Belgians deserve our full protection. They do not deserve to be used as leverage in a dispute about international law.
Let me be precise. We suspended consular services for Belgian citizens established in settlements that the International Court of Justice has declared illegal. This applies regardless of religion, nationality or background. It is an application of international law, nothing more, nothing less.
And let us not be naive about what is really happening here. Ever since Belgium chose to firmly condemn all violations of international law, some Israeli leaders have pursued a campaign of amalgamation, deliberately conflating our principled legal positions with antisemitism. That narrative is false.
International and Israeli studies confirm this. The 2026 Annual Report of Tel Aviv University warns explicitly that the inflationary use of the term antisemitism undermines the fight against real anti-Jewish hatred. The same report finds no evidence of broad societal antisemitic sentiment in Belgium, nor of political parties that support or normalise antisemitism. It highlights that Jewish representatives in Antwerp describe their cooperation with police and authorities as effective and reliable.
We will protect our Jewish community with everything Belgium has. We will always listen to their concerns. And we will keep calling out violations of international law, by anyone.