Peter Sinclair

Videographer, ClimateClean Energy Comms, . NCSE "Friend of the Planet" , Cat Dad

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

Data from MIT and Elsewhere is clear: Renewable Energy lowers costs. Iran Debacle is supercharging energy transition https://t.co/KLqyvBuBvA via @MDN

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Flashback: Last year, Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins assured Fox News viewers that the Trump administration had a plan to prevent a screwworm outbreak in the United States.

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

@kylascan you can see what's given us Trump

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump just repeated his lie that China only builds windmills to export them to "stupid people from the United States, the suckers."

Reality: China has installed by far the most wind turbines of any country and is installing more of them far faster than any other country.

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: Three counties in Texas have declared local state of disaster declarations on the New World Screwworm: Kinney, Jim Webb and Uvalde

Three others are pending: Webb, La Salle and Val Verde

The reasoning behind these declarations is because they feel they are not getting the federal nor state support needed to combat this crisis

Its long past due for the President to declare a National Emergency Declaration so local officials on the front lines are getting the support they need

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

DOGE cut 15K USDA jobs that included monitoring of screwworms in Mexico.

They also cut funding for a project, that released sterile flies, that helped maintain a buffer between Latin American cattle and our domestic cattle.

Make sure to thank a Republican.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

@BuffMikeRogers Now do yourself as Jesus. That seems to be popular with your base.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Agriculture Sec @BrookeLRollins in November: "We have screwworm under control south of the border. Beef prices will come down by spring 2026"

Beef prices continue to rise, and screwworm is now in the US.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Rep. Fletcher: The New World screwworm has been found in Texas. This flesh-eating parasite previously eradicated from the U.S. poses a huge threat to our cattle. Last March, the Trump administration fired more than 15,000 USDA employees and eliminated a program to contain the screwworm in Central America. The threat of New World screwworm is just one consequence of the Trump administration's reckless campaign to eliminate funding for government programs that Americans rely on.

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

@FoxNews This Plant is Coal's Golden Ballroom, kept alive by @SecretaryWright's Soviet style payoff to Coal cronies. https://t.co/wxn3O85oPd

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 TERRIFYING: The Trump administration openly admits to a massive government purge. Top officials confirm a new executive order designed to systematically fire any federal workers who resist their extreme agenda.

Washington is actively destroying all institutional oversight!

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

Small Town Special Deliveries will be Carried on this Electric Plane.
UPS has bought 150 of them.
https://t.co/C9lDCVEnLP

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M."
Government: "Totally reasonable."

You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival."
Government: "You owe taxes on $60K."
You: "That's not—"
Government: "File by May 15."

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hotez is right - Ebola won't spread like COVID. The transmission dynamics are fundamentally different. That's the good news and it's real.

The harder news: this is already one of the three largest Ebola outbreaks in history. Detected late because diagnostic tools weren't calibrated for the Bundibugyo strain. USAID gutted. WHO partnership ended. The early warning infrastructure that existed to catch exactly this kind of delayed-detection scenario wasn't there.

The gap between the response we had and the response we built for this exact moment - that gap has a cost. It's being counted in Congo right now.

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: National park entry fees are going towards the Trump administration's $1.6 million July Fourth fireworks display and towards a D.C. beautification project, while donations will fund a $5 million helipad at the White House.

Read more: https://t.co/OrBMzhTw9L

[Canada 4 Europe 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @Canada4Europe]

This 85-year-old protest song about Hitler is going viral because it is relevant again today.

This will be my ringtone and my wake-up alarm from now on.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

🚨🚨🚨

Bill Pulte was picked to join Blanche, Patel, Hegseth, and Mullin to be ready to help Trump stay in power no matter what. Do congressional Democrats appreciate that their #1 task is to confront this threat?

https://t.co/VMcLuc7SlQ

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Members of Congress don’t swear an oath to a political party.

They swear to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Two hundred seven Republicans betrayed their oath.

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

Trump Moves to Dismantle Key Ocean Sensors.
Science threatens Dictators - because physics does not obey a Tweet. This is #Project2025 in action.
https://t.co/do73LtM63A