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“I don’t even recognize you, Secretary Rubio.” This is so well done. Respectfully calling out a colleague who so pathetically sold his soul. Take a moment, listen, and share.👇

submitted 14 hours ago • 150 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 7-2 to further enjoin the government from summarily deporting alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. The government didn’t give enough notice and the 5th Circuit erred in refusing to provide relief, the justices concluded.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

Whoa! 100% and well said! Is AGI an existential threat to the culture of being human? We’d best figure this out. And soon.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Love. Compassion. Kindness. Let’s start Thursday off on a different foot. Do something nice for another. Say kinder words. Be patient with those who communicate differently than we do.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

My painting BLUEBONNETS

submitted 13 days ago • 296 comments

He’s right.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 16 days ago • 398 comments

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

When we leave this world, all that will be left of who we once were is how we live on in others. Whether with kindness or enmity, we get to choose the energy we share. Whichever choice, that energy lives on within us too.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has proven very good at electing liberals. Just not in the United States www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 17 days ago • 48 comments

“If we don’t understand what’s happening and why it’s happening, you can’t be adapting. … You’re just going to suffer,” said a member of NOAA’s scientific advisory board. “We’re going to see huge impacts on infrastructure and lives lost in the U.S.” By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

Excellent article on the potential of unanticipated impacts of massively increasing orbital reentries from new satellite constellations www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that were part of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — a bill passed in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

The ability of federal judges to hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying their orders could be undermined by legislation approved by a House Republican-led committee late Wednesday in a bill that may be impossible for Senate Democrats to filibuster.

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

With just 16 Red Wolves known to remain in the wild, every wolf is essential + worth protecting. #SaveRedWolves

submitted 21 days ago • 255 comments

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

submitted 20 days ago • 658 comments

The American people deserve so much better.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 20 days ago • 780 comments

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

submitted 20 days ago • 311 comments

And while you’re at it, just go ahead and love everybody. Seriously, once you realize the power and the grace of unconditional love, the world shows up as a marvelous place, despite the disappointments, hurts and set backs. Most won’t love you back, but so what? Love is its own reward.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I have been very disappointed, although not really surprised, to see commentators attempt to blame renewables for yesterday's blackout in Spain and Portugal. Let me explain what they've said and why it is wrong. /1

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair

submitted 21 days ago • 73 comments

Breaking News: The Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on the government’s premiere report on the effects of climate change in the U.S.

submitted 22 days ago • 123 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, North Carolina settles with voting rights groups and DNC to permanently block part of SB 747. The law required officials to reject some voters' ballots due to address verification issues and offered no remedy to fix the problem. Paige and I explain.

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

Trump and his cronies are gutting the Department of Justice division charged with enforcing and protecting voting rights. This is a direct attack on the right to vote and threatens decades of civil rights and voting rights progress. It cannot stand.

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

Touché!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet." - Thich Nhat Hanh

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

The modestly priced EV pickup goes 150 miles on a charge and is infinitely customizable. Deliveries start next year. www.wired.com/story/slate-...

submitted 26 days ago • 111 comments

Who Speaks for Earth? - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

submitted 25 days ago • 98 comments

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!

submitted 26 days ago • 127 comments

The partisan difference in belief in false or unsubstantiated claims about health. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

submitted 26 days ago • 76 comments

FFS, RFK. Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline wapo.st/42pXdGS

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

If only all legalese could be this dramatically insightful.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I will confess, I did not have a make-up studio installation at the Pentagon for the Secretary of Defense on my Trump round 2 bingo card.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The malevolence is the point. Don’t become numb to it.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

At least 500 Awajún Indigenous community Earth Defenders stormed and seized Station 5 of the Norperuvian Pipeline in protest of repeated oil spills by state-run Petroperú. The rivers and land are being poisoned. They demand urgent aid and justice. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

U.S. scientists submitted 32% more applications for overseas jobs in Q1 2025 than they did a year earlier. Huh, wonder why? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Accurate

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Integrity generates courage. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Despite a court order, Donald Trump is still refusing to allow journalists from the Associated Press into the White House press pool. This is a direct assault on the First Amendment, free speech, and freedom of the press.

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

Sagan: Prescient, incredible. Brian Williams’ reading is quite good.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

submitted 31 days ago • 1040 comments

Because nothing says efficiency like firing volunteers helping to rebuild homes🤔

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

submitted 34 days ago • 1584 comments

This Hubble image shows massive stars in Gum 29, which are unleashing ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds that etch away the enveloping gas cloud. The result? Pillars, ridges, and filaments of gas and dust! Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

submitted 34 days ago • 42 comments

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

submitted 34 days ago • 2926 comments