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The absolute scum bags Alaska gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways Cook Inlet's belugas are already teetering on the brink of extinction. Once 1,300 strong, the population has crashed to 331 www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

16 Democrats joined Republicans to advance crypto regulation that's been rubber stamped by the industry — as Trump profits off his own memecoin. Why? Crypto corporations have shelled out huge campaign contributions to both parties. Big Money has corrupted the system.

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

They survived every extinction event so far but not humans World’s insect population collapsing,with more than 40% of all insect species facing extinction Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction cause of large population declines in wild bees www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The climate deniers running the state and the nation are ghouls.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

After-tax income under the Trump/GOP budget: -People making less than $17/k year: LOSE $1000 -People making between $17k and $51k/yr: LOSE $700 -People making over $4.3M/year: GAIN $389,000 This is what class warfare looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

FERC: Solar + wind made up 98% of new US power generating capacity in Q1 2025 Trump is outraged and his new laws plan a massive boost for fossil fuels and to destroy renewables electrek.co/2025/05/14/f...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjU

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Since we’re in a relatively safe space…this post is terrible messaging and I am baffled that it gets likes. Its root message is “who cares about the truth, just do the stuff /I/ think is right!!”

submitted 5 days ago • 241 comments

Another runaway feedback loop of warming Rising temperatures lead to unexpectedly rapid carbon release from soils which will accelerate with further global warming and further increase atmospheric CO2 concentration via a previously underestimated feedback. phys.org/news/2025-05...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

According to @oxfaminternational.bsky.social, the richest 1% have accumulated $42 trillion over the past decade—and have more wealth than the lowest 95% combined. Two-thirds of global warming is caused by the world’s richest 10%. We say #TaxTheirBillions. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump to target nonprofits -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage The oligarchy's wishlist.

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

For clarity, this decision was during the previous Admin. The ruling revolves around timeframes for climate change to impact species. This outcome signals lawsuits make a difference. I don’t like dealing with legal issues at work, but if courts uphold the law then they may be needed, a lot more.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Just in case you weren't aware of how shady the Qataris are, despite the fact their country hosts the largest US military air base in the Middle East.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the EPA under Trump failed to release the U.S.’s annual greenhouse gas emissions report. So a nonprofit did it instead. Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them. Read their findings below ⬇️ www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The Earth doesn’t “go around the Sun” the Earth goes in a straight line through an area of spacetime that bends around the Sun and I think that’s neat.

submitted 10 days ago • 287 comments

Staffers at the Energy Information Administration said they believe changes were made to their Energy Outlook report out of fear that spotlighting unwelcome findings would make the agency a Trump target. “There was a concern that any narrative we put out would be seen as ideological.”

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: the U.S. Army and military posted a net loss of $1.99 trillion in fiscal year 2024, mainly due to the fact the military and defense are a “public good” that benefit all Americans, according to economists everywhere and federal government numbers.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

🦬 Remember when I said some land sales (“disposal”) can be used for good? 🚨🚨🚨 WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW IS NOT IT! 🚨🚨🚨 House Republicans moved to allow the sale of public lands for TAX CUTS in the budget reconciliation bill.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

submitted 12 days ago • 244 comments

DOGE was never about "efficiency."

submitted 13 days ago • 259 comments

🍊 💩 🐒 's nominee for Surgeon General doesn't even have the minimum required professional credentials to be Commissioned as an entry-level O-3 Medical Officer, let alone the top Officer in the USPHS Commissioned Corps. Complete disgrace and a slap in the face to my Corps!

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

The Great Algal Bloom Lakes: Illegal and unconstitutional DOGE cutbacks have gutted the staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could worsen climate change and ozone depletion Releasing 10,000 tonnes of aluminium oxide annually by 2040 from satellite re-entries, reduced wind speeds, and ozone depletion. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Its almost like appointing an alcoholic Fox News talking head as SecDef wasn't a good idea. 🤔

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 138 comments

Hochul, legislature reach late New York budget deal with billions in new spending https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/new-york-budget-agreement-a-month-late

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated? That wasn’t funny. It was scary.

submitted 22 days ago • 645 comments

It’s. A. Coup.

submitted 22 days ago • 82 comments

Humans will not stop until every trace of nature is destroyed A once pristine Indonesian mountainous island of forests, was sacrificed for global battery supply chains and nickel boom www.dw.com/en/leaked-do...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

submitted 22 days ago • 194 comments

Just incredible

submitted 22 days ago • 1469 comments

The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Why I stay. Because I work in the department that is making the rich folks/businesses pay their fair share. And I go after tax evaders that owe over 1 million in taxes. I have broad support for my job. #whywestay.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

submitted 23 days ago • 416 comments

This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

submitted 23 days ago • 360 comments

You must watch the John Oliver show from last night about NIH. Oliver rarely breaks his comedy routine but he did about NIH, RFK, and HHS. Oliver stared the camera down after 30 minutes and just said with a grimace: “RFK needs to go, now. By impeachment if necessary.” 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments