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Recalls a conversation with a friend who worked in the Biden White House. When I asked how much Biden’s age explained U.S. Gaza policy, they very diplomatically explained that Biden simply didn’t understand Palestinians to be equal human beings.

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The US scientific enterprise is about to collapse unless we do something about it.

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Brilliant graphic!

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What's so shocking here for me isn't even that he does drugs, it's that his judgment is so warped he apparently does these heroic doses of a powerful psychedelic before a life-altering presidential press event. Like, you couldn't pay me to go to a Wawa in a state like this. I would be petrified

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Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

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This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

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They want to kill the "engine for social mobility" because they believe denying people college education helps keep them in power while the wealthiest among us have decided wealth is a zero sum game. Education brings income gains, which means you’re taking money that belongs to Trump, a real no no.

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SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

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I worked at NOAA and FEMA. I've had long, exhaustive conversations in recent months with those inside at high levels. Staffing is depleted, resources are critically low, and morale is rock bottom. Our hurricane defenses are down, and it's only a matter of time before we take an uppercut to the chin.

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Suddenly, powerful and influential people are condemning Israel. It's taken them 19 months of daily genocidal depravity. But Israel's genocide was obvious from the start - and I warned you then what the cheerleaders and the silent would do.

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Immigration court arrests continued across the nation yesterday (and are likely ongoing today). Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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Worst timeline.

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die. "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.” www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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This new paper, which documents why 1.5 degrees is too high for polar ice sheets to survive, should focus all of our our attention on the immediate consequences of our warming world. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...

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Deporting migrants from Vietnam and Myanmar to South Sudan? What kind of sick individuals came up with this scheme? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

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"Massive explosions shook the Gaza Strip in the first hours of Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes launched intensive airstrikes on north, south, and central Gaza, in what the Israeli army called “preparations to expand operations” in the Strip."

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Massive congratulations to @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for launching the legal action against EnergyAustralia and securing a landmark result: an apology for greenwashing and a commitment to direct emission reduction. Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well. Have a read:

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Israel and the West have escalated the genocide, so what do anti-genocide folks in the West do? The same easy and ineffective weekend performance they did last year. Where is the courage to really disrupt the Zionist-imperialist death machine via sustained civil disobedience? 18 May 2025, The Hague

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Dr Assal Rad— “War criminals with prostrate cancer are still war criminals. Biden isn’t a “decent” man, he’s the man who aided the total destruction of Gaza, the mass slaughter of children, normalized starvation as a weapon and shred international law. “His legacy is and will always be genocide”

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Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters. Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result. DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage

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This is so evil, it's beyond comprehension. Ethnic cleansing and genocide happening in plain sight.

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"This is a concerted and thoughtful effort on the part of fossil fuel companies to make sure that society is addicted to plastics... It's not by chance that this is happening..." - @janevandis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCb...

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Simply incredible satellite imagery of a dust storm hitting Chicago this evening.

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No amount of gotchas is going to work to counter the right wing freak out over "8647" because they genuinely don't care. It's about power for them to openly incite violence against their political enemies while persecuting anyone who opposes Trump. You can't shame them because they are shameless.

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It's sad to know US scientists invented the most sophisticated weather forecasting models in the world, the satellites and instruments to measure atmospheric conditions, and an advanced alert system to warn the public of coming disasters, and the Trump administration is destroying it all.

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"A private workshop took place on 11 March 2025 in Washington DC, hosted by the Heritage Foundation, to discuss proposals by European right-wing lobby groups to dismantle the European Union and the European Court of Justice."

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The Spanish prime minister has accused Israel of being a 'genocidal state', saying that his country does not do business with it

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1. Far right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has just vacated all EEOC protections for gay and trans people in the work place. He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII. I cover this insane ruling here. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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When NOT to speak up, according to Liberal supporters: 1. During an election when voters have leverage and platforms are being set. 2. Immediately after an election when the direction of governance is being set. 3. During the term because the other guy would have been worse. 4. Any other time.

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