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Gilead in FORT WORTH, TX #NoKingsDay

submitted 11 hours ago • 347 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 6 hours ago • 576 comments

As a PhD-level ornithologist, I am immensely relieved to know the geese are on our side. Huge win.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

A crowd of 700+ gathered in Sierra Vista, AZ for the No Kings event. SV is an Army town, and the crowd included many veterans, civilian retirees, and people with disabilities. Some wore masks for health and/or privacy reasons. No incidents with police or counter-protesters as far as I know. #NoKings

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

submitted 6 hours ago • 249 comments

Want more birds in your yard? One native plant can host hundreds of insects and feed generations of birds. Here's how to get started with your native garden. 👇 Get some habitat tips!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 635 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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 day ago • 259 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 1 day ago • 91 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 1 day 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 2 days ago • 2261 comments

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

submitted 2 days 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 2 days ago • 165 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 2 days ago • 183 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 2 days ago • 104 comments

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

submitted 3 days ago • 691 comments

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 3 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 2 days 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 3 days ago • 27 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 3 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 3 days ago • 595 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 9 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 🪶

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

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 4 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 11 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 5 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...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 6 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...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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 7 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 6 days ago • 421 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...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

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 8 days ago • 1 comment

Speak up. It’s easy.

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

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

submitted 8 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 8 days ago • 2 comments

The time has come to build bananas on Heard Island.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments