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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

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Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

submitted 11 hours ago • 68 comments

Watership Down messed me up as a kid.

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Another day, and yet another thing many people rely on being broken and diminished by some of the worst people on earth.

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The ancient scrolls teach us that pissing off Pikachu is a bad long-term strategy.

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NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

I sent my mom flowers for Mother’s Day, and absolutely no one was more thrilled than the individual who got the delivery box. #CatsofBluesky #Caturday

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights. Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 159 comments

Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

A striking Shimpaku juniper at the Huntington Japanese garden #Bonsai

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"Oh I don't need NOAA weather stuff, I have an app!" Where does that data come from? People rely on federal scientific data. For food recalls, disease updates. Weather. Even when they think they don't. And the people who make that data are losing their jobs. www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Daisy has taken to attempting yoga moves with my mom, but when you are shaped like a baby seal it can be challenging. #CatsofBluesky

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Russia‘s war is ideological and academic production on Eastern Europe suffered from buying into Russian colonial narratives on the region. How to teach Eastern Europe today? Read these important insights curated by brilliant @oksanadudko.bsky.social and @ankahajkova.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

It’s #roses o’clock at the Huntington gardens right now.

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Cosmo always looks like he’s slightly pissed off about being asleep. #Caturday

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Do you use newspapers for your #genealogy research? Help save the California Digital Newspaper Collection! 🧵 More information in the following posts. This link is for donations. 👇 www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I returned to the Huntington today, and lots of beautiful flowers were in bloom. Also some bonsai that weren’t on display last time, including this cool pomegranate. #bonsai

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot believe this film brings together so many of my interests.

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 13 days ago • 553 comments

And they can't stop whining that the US gave 70bln to Ukraine over 3 yrs.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: in the First 100 Days we gutted America’s capacity to respond to foreign interference. Rubio, whose own campaign was targeted by Russia, chose fealty to the fiction of a “stolen” election & the myth of a “censorship complex” over 🇺🇸 interests. thenextmove.substack.com/p/americas-i...

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RFK Jr. is ending the federal Narcan distribution program credited with the recent steep decline in overdose deaths. This despite his own past heroin addiction and his own brother dying of a drug overdose in 1984.

submitted 14 days ago • 211 comments

🚨 Amnesty International says Russia is escalating war crimes in Ukraine, targeting civilians, hospitals, and using banned weapons.

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NE Minneapolis' legendary Kramarczuk's is being threatened by the Federal immigration nonsense. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

submitted 15 days ago • 97 comments

🚩The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issues a red flag alert for the United States in response to the proposed autism registry. #ActuallyAutistic www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Black-owned bookstores are spaces not just for books but for promoting and reclaiming culture and community. We talked to the owners of some of our favorite bookstores across the country. Hear their stories, and if one is near you, go check them out this #IndieBookstoreDay: pen.org/black-owned-...

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Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam. Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.

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ERICA to the Rescue! Read about our volunteer efforts to rescue & revive ERIC, Dept of Ed's research repository. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... Thanks to crizzo, @archive.org & @safeguardingdata.bsky.social for all of the hard work. Check out more rescued data on our Data Rescue Tracker!

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And, just like that, the top journal in the field of Environmental Health, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a part of the NIH, goes dark...

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Kash Patel has deleted this post on X, but arrest is confirmed: www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 112 comments

NO

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Latest in @theatlantic.com . Trump's plan is a no win for Ukraine. Whether Ukraine agrees or not, Trump will end sanctions on Russia and get back to business with Putin. Can we finally hear the end of the arguments that Trump is anything but Russia's ally? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

Brought the golden #Godzilla into the office to menace the plants and book cases. I did give him a formalwear bow tie, for that Oscars flair.

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🚨 BREAKING: Death toll in Kyiv climbs to 9 after massive Russian strike—63 injured, including 6 kids, according to Ukraine’s emergency service. Search operations for people under the rubble are still ongoing.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Oh, he has a favorite. Is it the one who gave him a portrait of himself? The other kleptocratic autocracy?

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This happened in my hometown, at a daycare center run by people I’ve known my whole life. Luckily no one was harmed, but it could have been another nightmare fuel outcome that barely stays in the news for an hour. www.wvlt.tv/app/2025/04/...

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🏡 Russia isn’t just stealing land—it’s stealing homes. In occupied territories, the Kremlin is rewriting laws to seize Ukrainian real estate and hand it over to collaborators and Russian settlers. We investigated how property theft has become another front of the war. Full story ⬇️ #UkrainianView

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Daisy doing her morning routine, which consists entirely of looking cute on the bed and successfully getting pets. #CatsofBluesky

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

submitted 21 days ago • 3269 comments

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added. www.governing.com/policy/major...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

submitted 22 days ago • 193 comments

This site is used by countless students, researchers and professors, but it's now scheduled to run out of money on Wednesday. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

submitted 22 days ago • 1317 comments

Working this evening on trimming one of my jades. This one is about 5 years old. #Bonsai

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

it's easy to observe this in the increasingly homogenous "rural" culture and identity becoming unmoored from region or geography. regions that were once totally distinct, applachia, the lowland south, the great plains, the interior west, now all have a shared faux-redneck culture

submitted 24 days ago • 78 comments