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The muskrats are back and it's mating season! They are one of my favorite creatures. #muskrats #critters #wildlife #nature #photography

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Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

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They need to “fall in line” less and leak more. Come on. Learn how to do it securely, and then do it.

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“My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end.” — Dr. Peter Marks, hematologist oncologist and America's vaccine safety leader @wsj.com 🎁 link: www.wsj.com/politics/top...

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merit is back baby

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Many US coastal cities have combined sewer systems that overflow after heavy rain, sending raw sewage into nearby waters. Challenges like this are about to get worse with the recent San Francisco v. EPA #SCOTUS decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.

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Military commander tomb dating back to King Ramses III uncovered in Ismailia - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities - Ahram Online english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too | Smithsonian www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

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These 10 jailed journalists worked for U.S. outlets that Trump silenced www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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DOGE’s secrecy is alarming—but Country First is cutting through the darkness, exposing the truth, and demanding transparency. Www.country1st.com

submitted 56 days ago • 218 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

submitted 58 days ago • 64 comments

Tragic and infuriating read from @jesshamzelou.bsky.social

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I am excited to learn about Canada's first scientific expedition to Antarctica, which is being led by Tom James. Tom was my master's supervisor, and obviously had a big influence on what I do now! www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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Trump's EPA: "Who needs science anyway?" thehill.com/policy/energ... "A plan calls for the elimination of the Office of Research and Development as an EPA National Program Office. It called for the elimination of 50 percent to 75 percent of the office’s 1,540 staffers."

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I spoke with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social about his surprising obsession with tuberculosis—and why our inability to solve solvable crises like TB and climate change is an indictment of our species my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪

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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, “was once considered quite rare. But Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in New York City who wrote a history of measles, says data from outbreaks in the U.S. over the past several decades suggests that may not always be the case.”

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Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

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Shameful. Full gift article wapo.st/4bzcQPe

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Deep sigh aidsunited.org/action/polic...

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“I belong, I’m capable, my achievements are real” I should use this as a mantra 🧪👩‍🔬

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Trump said his presidency is the most successful since George Washington’s. If this is success, America might not survive much more of it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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10 years before the Covid pandemic, Big Bang Theory taught us the basics of airborne transmission of infectious diseases

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Numerous Teams Express Interest In Aaron Rodgers Playing Elsewhere

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Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services' 3/18/25 update on the measles outbreak. Look the case ages--many aren't small kids. Highlights how kindergarten/grade 7 vax stats for a particular year don't show how risk in a school/community grows over time as successive classes progress thru grades. 🛟

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ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.

submitted 58 days ago • 1406 comments

Green Heron, Henlopen, Delaware 📷🪶

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Dahlia with water droplets ✨ #photography #flowers #classicmono #bnw #b&w #monochrome #photographersUnited #photographersofbluesky

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🔬🌍The late-Quaternary #extinctions led to novel #herbivore assemblages worldwide🦏🦣 🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel 🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation

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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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It's a tight contest but this is truly one of the dumbest things DOGE wants to cut: www.eenews.net/articles/pus...

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Needed some desert #geology #stars 🧪⚒️

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#econsky. Add it to your feed

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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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My fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, has a creed you have to memorize and try to live up to called “The True Gentleman.” Curious if you think our current president is a “true gentleman”?

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(591) Warwick Classics' Society's 2025 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the Warwick Arts Centre - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ-...

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The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

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#Crocus #Flowers in my #garden the other day 💐✨ #mygarden 💗💐✨ #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #GardeningBluesky #gardening #flower #GardenersWorld #whatsinmyvase #gardeningfeed 🌱 #photography

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Having recently lost a friend to a chemo-resistant cancer, I'm deeply saddened to see scientific progress slowing down... This scientist's NIH-funded work on a new drug for chemo-resistant breast cancer is now on hold indefinitely. www.breastcancer.org/news/nih-fun...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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🤦🏽‍♂️ RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore — theonion.com/rfk-jr-vows-...

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No one ever said they were creative.

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Scoop: NOAA is suspending its long-running monthly media calls on climate stats and climate change, blaming lack of staff. Some other hints at why are in the story. The data, however, will still be released on schedule, NOAA says. www.axios.com/2025/03/13/n...

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