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Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide. Renewable energy prices were unaffected. Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs? If not, you have options.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

submitted 5 days ago • 100 comments

Another timely Jesse Welles tune. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay engaged tomorrow, folks. We've got this. ✌️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWG0...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Thinking that this Israeli strike is suspiciously coincidental with stuff going on here. I'll offer (gladly) that I have no data that supports this hypothesis yet.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Two days from now. Make your voices heard. (...and don't be a jerk by throwing stuff or punching people...that goes for fed, state, and local law enforcement too.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Look, CNN can write good headlines if it wants to.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Regime is lying about the budget bill & very likely the prez's involvement w/ Epstein so they need to cover his lies w/ lies (and escalation) in L.A. I never thought I'd need to spend middle age worrying about this kind of crap My guess is neither did you. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay engaged. 🇺🇸

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

submitted 12 days ago • 1576 comments

Let's keep our focus on defeating the bill. Today's Donnie/Elon drama is a bright, shiny object, but we need to kill the bill---the whole bill.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Good news.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

submitted 14 days ago • 353 comments

🎵On the second day of hurricane season, my boneheaded administration gave to me...🎶 www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Now THIS is one hell of an idea. 🇺🇸🗽

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I think Harrison Ford said this line better in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1983) ... ...when he begged Kate Capshaw to deactivate the spiked ceiling smasher trap. youtu.be/Y7iGmwmHePI?...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant. Why? The government told them to move out.

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

Friday Ice Update - Both poles (Arctic and Antarctic) are about two standard deviations below average (1981-2010)... + More visuals: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Data from @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Some relatively good news about AMOC. phys.org/news/2025-05...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Images emerge of the destroyed village of Blatten, Switzerland. Much of the village was buried in a landscape yesterday when a glacier collapsed. Extraordinary before & after photos.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

submitted 22 days ago • 140 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 22 days ago • 228 comments

Please listen to Scott Pelley

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Fifty years after he was graduated from Princeton University, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered the baccalaureate address at his alma mater. This is how he ended the speech:

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

A satellite image shows Saharan #dust moving from Morocco over the Atlantic Ocean. Carried by strong winds, the dust affects #airquality and provides nutrients to marine ecosystems. It highlights the complex connections between deserts, the #atmosphere, and the sea, showing nature’s interdependence.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

June 14th. No Kings Day...is also Flag Day. In light of the threat to higher education... ...we should fly college and university alma mater flags alongside the American flag 🇺🇸... ...on the fronts of houses and at #protests #NoKings #FlagDay

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Another bullshit EO.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It's also amazing to me that everyone knows that Harvard puts out some of the best lawyers in the country (love em or hate em, of course)-- --and the regime thinks that the university will just roll over?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. But it has only become this way because of a bug (a prez who wants chaos) in the system. Easier said than done, of course, but fix the rules so this kind of chaos can't happen. We can't really do this now, but as things break down, there may be opportunities.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday NSF and thank you for all of the scientists and amazing research discoveries you have supported. The best people work at NSF! www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Know your insect antennae! #insects #bugs #antennae #entomology #education #art #SciArt

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

If Dems help where R's will not, there are significant benefits to be had at the voting booth.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"The NSF, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years." "The polar office has awarded 88 percent less money in grants this year." via @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Many of us who read Project 2025 have been saying from the start that The Regime has a unifying goal of destroying US scientific infrastructure and causing the collapse of Universities. We were called “hysterical”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

"in her more recent interview with New Scientist, Shapiro claims Colossal made it clear from the start that the animals are just gene-edited grey wolves." 😂 www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 400 comments

Ratner breaks down the math of the House bill that just passed. Call your Senators and let's make this bill go away.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It's #worldmetrologyday! 150 years ago today, a group of nations signed a treaty called The Metre Convention. It established the framework for the first global, unified measurement system & changed the world.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

submitted 31 days ago • 214 comments

Let's hope this not become a regular occurrence.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments