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Sneak peak at all of America tomorrow for “No Kings Day” 🍊🦅🇺🇸

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"Victorian era pigeon breeders were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." -- Alternative Ian Malcom #NationalPigeonDay 🪶

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Maybe when reality sets in that white folks are going to have to pitch in to work in the fields because of our self-inflicted labor shortage — Republicans will finally get on board with raising the national minimum wage.

submitted 1 hour ago • 108 comments

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

submitted 2 hours ago • 63 comments

It's #WorldPigeonDay. Catesby's "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands" (1729-1747) is the 1st fully illustrated book on North American flora & fauna. It features the 1st published #SciArt of the passenger pigeon ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40753186

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 1 day ago • 2206 comments

Time for security details for elected officials at risk of violence from the administration's thugs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

submitted 22 hours ago • 161 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 22 hours ago • 176 comments

Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

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i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a rescission package that will instantly gut all federal funding for public media. All of it, gone. Here’s more information: protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_source=n...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Please don’t stop making art because you feel guilt about doing so in these times. It’s your life raft that helps you hold on and I promise you it’s helping other people hold on too. Don’t ignore and look away from what’s happening but don’t let it paralyze you either

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

🔥 It's happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and Gary Marcus' work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET'S GO! 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 2 days ago • 596 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 8 days ago • 318 comments

Biomass and abundance trends diverge as the North American avifauna undergoes widespread demographic declines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶

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It is RIF separation day at NEH. More than 100 of us lose our jobs today. Our hearts are heavy and broken. None of this had to happen. Fellow NEHers, we cross this threshold together. One we hoped would never appear. We will continue to stand as tall as we can. 🤍 #NEH #Resist

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 10 days ago • 134 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Ray of hope if you need one today: New Mexico just earmarked $50 million for new wildlife crossings, the most a state has ever appropriated for safe animal passage. #roadecology www.forbes.com/sites/noelfl...

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BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

I don't know what ones they're using in America, but these are some of the plastic bullets the British used on their own citizens in Northern Ireland.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The fires are so extensive across Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Ontario currently that there are not enough air crafts to rescue remote Native Canadians. I am sending an SOS to every nation to help save the lives of people who are going to burn alive. Literally. Canada needs evacuation assistance.

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

#Blitz4Birds It’s that time again! The Piping Hot Plovers are running our big day this Wednesday, raising money for bird conservation in PA while atlasing as many species as possible in our county! We had a record 130 species last year. Donate at: www.breedingbirdblitz.org/piping-hot-p...

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Anna's Hummingbirds have expanded their range northward due to feeders & gardens with exotic flowers providing a year-round food source. Climate change may also play a role. They are currently very common across their range. They adapt well to suburban areas and should continue to thrive.

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Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 420 comments

This post, which I wrote in the context of the Trump/Musk bromance meltdown also applies to what is happening in Los Angeles. I hope you’ll take a moment to read and share. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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At the United Nations One Ocean Science Congress this week, we're discussing the huge cost of non-selective fisheries for marine biodiversity. Check out the poster we created in collaboration with the IUCN SSC @sscmarine.bsky.social and visit their website. www.iucn-sscmarine.org/bycatch

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Speak up. It’s easy.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

80 years old and bagging groceries isnt the feel good story this thinks it is. local12.com/news/nation-...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

The kind of good news I’m grateful for. TY @hwahl16.bsky.social for sending this my way 💚

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

A curatorial colleague today lamented (and enumerated) the number of (aquatic) mammal taxa that have gone extinct since he started at the museum 30 years ago. It's pretty sobering to put it in that context.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The time has come to build bananas on Heard Island.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

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Tom Schultz, the head of the U.S. Forest Service, is calling for wildfires to be extinguished “as swiftly as possible this season.” But aggressive suppression policies are widely believed to be one of the key culprits in the current wildfire crisis.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

“At the Interior Department, the National Park Service is planning to cut about 27% of its employees, Fish and Wildlife Service would cut 19% and U.S. Geological Survey would cut 32%.” @altdoi.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info @altwasonps.bsky.social @altmtrainier.com @altacadia.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

submitted 35 days ago • 63 comments

a PSA A balaclava is what ICE agents wear to hide their identities as they engage in shameful Gestapo-like activities for which they should, in fact, be shunned from society A baklava is a delicious layered pastry treat Confusing one for the other could lead to comical misunderstandings

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

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