Mark Iredell

I retired from NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC in 2020. But I am wearing my old NWSEO shirt today in solidarity with nine excellent colleagues from the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) who were arbitrarily let go yesterday with almost no notice. The community is behind you so please stay strong!

You know it’s working when the South African welfare queen is losing his Russian bots.

when the drones strike bot farms and the trolls are disarmed that's amore

Eight years ago today, the Saudi government directed the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and journalist dedicated to shining a light on the truth. As we honor his memory and courage, we must fight for accountability and defend press freedom worldwide.

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

While displaying a callous, sneering disregard for international law, as of today, the Trump regime has murdered at least 234 people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming without a shred of evidence that they were drug smugglers. Not the only killing the regime is doing, of course.

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. But two states have a plan to take on Big Money. Watch.

He has the gift of the stank eye

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

New from me: How a Quattrone Center criminologist got ChatGPT to falsely confess to a crime. theintercept.com/2026/04/23/c...

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

VA ICU Nurse, #AlexPretti reading his patient his FINAL SALUTE with his loved ones. Alex was one of America's best. www.instagram.com/reels/DT6wOF...

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

All of this horror, murder, trump’s popularity, is based on the irrational (racist) notion that immigrants are bad, criminals and need to be purged from the nation. This must be challenged. We need new pragmatic understanding of citizenship and human mobility. #NomadCentury

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

At the Powderhorn Art Sled Rally in Minneapolis, bowling pins with the names of politicians (Erdogan, Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, etc.) sledded down then were demolished by a big, slow-moving ball.

Can’t dominante in science if you’re run by climate deniers, the original anti-science meatheads.

I have watched the video of the horrible ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis over & over. It is grotesque to hear Kristi Noem justify her killing as a response to "domestic terrorism” & for Trump to spread further lies on social media. [1/2]

Joseph Goebbels would have been embarrassed if anybody who worked for him had presented such pitiful.fabrications as Homeland Security and our Outlaw Prez came up with in their lies about the ICE murder in Minnesota. Rebuilding a democracy when these thugs are ousted will take many years.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours. There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds. Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Elon Musk is now worth over $500 billion. That means his net worth has gone up by $100 billion in less than a year. Tax. The. Damn. Rich.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse. Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

Photo of Poindexter weaseling with Lurch looming behind.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider. The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok). Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries. And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Indeed. Canceling Jimmy Kimmel, going after universities, and occupying DC were all about consolidating power through naked authoritarianism. It's the tried and true fascist playbook.

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Chris Van Hollen. The Senator with tenacity and determination who had the guts to go down to CECOT and see Kilmar Abregu.

"Never again is now." share.inquirer.com/iWO2P6

Those who learned nothing from their own people's holocaust are condemned to repeat it against other peoples.

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Donald Trump has spent most of his presidency sucking up to Putin, following a sexual past out of a Nabokov novel. Are Vladimirs having a moment?

Timeline of weather warnings for Texas Flooding

Kudos for a real Olenna Tyrell move by @rosie.com

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse. I wish you were my senator.