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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

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If there's one legacy of the War in Iraq that Democrats should have internalized, it's the fact that those who lined up behind the war drums all came to regret that decision while those who wisely refused to go along were soon vindicated. One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!

submitted 3 hours ago • 43 comments

This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil

submitted 2 hours ago • 45 comments

HIV protection with just two shots a year: FDA approves Gilead drug www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/f... via @statnews.com

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 11 hours ago • 164 comments

Skrmetti SCOTUS ruling claims that the Tennessee is not barring treatments based on sex, but that they are banning based on purpose plus age. But they are banning based on sex. Teenage cis boys can still get top surgery for gynecomastia but those assigned female are barred from accessing the same.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

I’m not an economist but $1 trillion sounds like a lot.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

Can someone help Thumper and @phillypaws.bsky.social? We adopted our Talulah from there a dozen years ago. They’re a wonderful shelter.

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NEWS: Federal judge finds Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for telling law enforcement they could enforce Florida's criminal immigration law despite the court's TRO barring its enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top! Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

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NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions. This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.

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This is one of the main reasons they wanted Trump to win in 2024. The bosses were desperate to get workers back into a situation where they are desperate and easy to exploit, and away from the tight Biden labor market, where low wage workers were getting double digit % raises. Promises kept!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Statement from the two children of Melissa and Mark Hortman. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together.”

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Nailed it, Google AI

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Things continue to go great. (Killer scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

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At least 15 people, including an American citizen, were killed and 114 were injured in a massive overnight attack on Kyiv, marking the deadliest strike on the Ukrainian capital this year. wapo.st/4408pJO

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

Incredibly revealing quote from some 19 year old asshole NPR found at the Trump parade. Basically, "sure his policies suck, but he's evil, which I think is great"

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

I still don't get why Cuomos nursing home deaths - and the cover up- aren't bigger deals

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Again, I will just say that literally every person I have ever met would do better than this

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Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

New York City did not defund the police. This is not a thing that happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 231 comments

I gotta say, Mamdani's ability to make deals with other candidates has me feeling more optimistic about his ability to run the city NYC is a rat's nest of interest groups and you need someone who can actually get them to work together "fuck Andrew Cuomo" is a good starting point

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

The EPA cancels regulations to limit PFAS, rolls back asbestos limits, stops regulation of fossil fuel emissions... Can rethinking laws on tobacco be far behind? Unbelievable and inexcusable. ☠️☠️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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The Senate bill would cut Medicaid "far more aggressively" than the House bill: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

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Judge William G. Young, a Reagan appointee, delivered a damning assessment of the Trump administrations’ motives in targeting hundreds of NIH grants: “This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community.”

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Lest it be said I only share bad news, here’s something good. An immigration judge in NYC has reopened the case of a 20-year-old Bronx high school student, a Venezuelan migrant that ICE detained and planned to subject to expedited removal. Her decision halts that. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

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Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars.

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Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

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BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

submitted 2 days ago • 223 comments