Chris Leece

El Niño is everywhere in the headlines, but ultimately human-caused climate change is the key reason for the record global warmth. 📈 Curious about how these two climate stories relate? Learn more in our latest report: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Classic JD. Full essay on my Substack

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Please remove Columbus Day from your vocabulary.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Say happy birthday to Charlotte in the best way, by making sure you are registered to vote!

Friends, I'm turning 40 tomorrow. I can't celebrate now because I'm too damn busy with the election. I'll celebrate afterward. So, to help me celebrate now, please--oh, please--check your voter registration. It takes a few moments. It's easy. Do it for me: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/...

reminder:

This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Georgia, Today is the deadline to register to vote. If you're already registered, check to make sure you haven't been purged. You may need to re-register today. Iwillvote.com

What. A. Game.

🧵 on climate change

I attended NY Climate Week w/ @standupforscience.net. I have some THOUGHTS. 1/ Climate change is an existential threat. Addressing it means confronting unequal harms, powerful political & financial interests, & an uncomfortable reality: good intentions do not necessarily produce adequate action.

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

It's jaw-dropping how often Republicans rationalize the toddler president's tantrums with "well, our special little boy felt like people were being mean to him, so it's certainly understandable that he set the room on fire"

It won’t be long until these lists pop up in communities around the nation. In Central NY (and everywhere else) they will show nothing of value.

It is that time of year when Boston Magazine releases its annual "Wealthiest Public High Schools in Greater Boston" list. Please don't read these type of lists. Do more harm than good. They are not thoughtfully assessing teaching or learning and are just created to get clicks.

Can the media please stop using the word “skeptic” to describe cult members and science deniers?

I hate it here.

Numerous “good” tipping point are happening — and could help propel us into a better world. But we have to make wise choices. www.euronews.com/2026/09/12/r...

That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.

Top medical groups bypass federal health agencies to issue independent fall vaccination guidelines. Recommending updated flu and COVID-19 shots for most Americans, the organizations state the move aims to counter confusing guidance from the Trump administration.

New from @covingtonedu.bsky.social — Every Dandelion is a Triumph: Thinking ecologically about classrooms and schools can help us evaluate and intentionally cultivate biodiversity in the learning environments we create for young people. 🏵️

“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”

We live in a culture obsessed with individual action. Because of that - and fossil fuel companies promoting carbon calculators - we’re convinced the most important thing we can do is to watch what we eat, how we travel, or what we use. Yes, those things do matter. But this is what matters MORE ⬇️

This Mets game was fun…good baseball. #MetsSky 🟠🔵

"If had to reduce all of educational psychology to just one principle, I would say this: The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly." - David Ausubel, Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View, 1968

“Teachers as technicians” is something I think about a lot. Exclusively following the script in a given curriculum material means that some students inevitably get left behind. Teachers have to be able to learn about and respond to student needs.

Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/

Holy fucking shit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

Teachers don't get laid off in the summer, their salaries are year round, Kevin. That's as dumb as "solar power doesn't work at night". Idiotic and willfully ignorant.

Wait...we're supposed to count all the jobs?

You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...