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Scientists in N. Zealand have discovered a native fungus that can break down plastic in just 140 days. Researchers at the University of Canterbury have now found that Daldinia concentrica can digest common plastics like polypropylene & polyethylene, which make up a huge portion of global waste.

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Someone ask Gillibrand why she’s ignoring the serious charges against Andrew Cuomo when she insisted the comparatively minor allegations about Al Franken required him to step down

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If you want to understand why this country is in the state it’s in, and why we have no real functioning opposition party, consider this: Rubio has been the most dangerous and dictatorial member of the Trump cabinet. And yet every single Senate Democrat voted Yes to confirm him.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. This is fascism, plain and simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 635 comments

ICE is now detaining high school students with no criminal records, who are here legally to seek asylum. But this isn’t just impacting immigrants. These officials show up hiding their identities, showing no IDs, offering no transparency, stealing ppl away. This is a safety issue for all of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Marco Rubio literally had a student kidnapped off the street for co-authoring an oped criticizing her university. And now he's complaining about censorship?

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 1223 comments

new jake tapper book when

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

An Australian and a military wife are detained, strip searched and deported. One packed too much. The other not enough. The reasons are absolutely absurd and sounds made up. It just keeps getting worse. The US is set to lose approximately 12.5 billion in tourism alone. Don’t visit America!

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

@standupforscience.bsky.social has posted an open letter for EVERYONE to sign concerning the Trump administration's attack on research www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

elect rahm for president, for when you need someone to cover up the summary execution of a teenager by police www.wsj.com/politics/who...

submitted 4 days ago • 432 comments

Let's be clear: three of the four books flagged by the Alberta government today as containing "inappropriate content" feature queer and trans people. This is moral panic. This is the same blueprint of book bans in the US. And this is happening in Canada. calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Trump stole from a Veterans charity & called Vets called suckers & losers. R's voted down the Toxic Burn Pit & Health Benefits bill. This is the only way Trump is capable of leading the United States Armed Forces. #ProudBlue Memorial Day #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is what Christian Nationalism looks like. It is dangerous and NOT of God. God gave us free will for a reason. #Resist

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My BIGGEST concern is that NO Senators are addressing the power consolidation efforts. They are focused almost exclusive on #Medicaid cuts. This bill doesn't break the law. It rewrites the law so yam tits never breaks it again. thehill.com/homenews/sen... CALL THEM! www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (🎶) thread 🧵 DAY 25 MAY 2025 Today marks 5 years since the brutal, boldface murder of GEORGE FLOYD Walk in his family's shoes And Still now So much hate in America Rascism alive This clip is from today so many came to honor and remember Stop the HATE

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Maybe choosing someone who is one of your NY real estate investor pals with no diplomatic or military experience to be the special envoy to deal with Putin, who refuses to bring any help with him from the State Dept & uses Kremlin translators, wasn’t the best plan to end the war.

submitted 5 days ago • 401 comments

State Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social gives a master class in Republican hypocrisy 🔥 The Texas House passed the Ten Commandments bill in an 82-46 vote… on the Sabbath, breaking the Fourth Commandment in the process.

submitted 5 days ago • 373 comments

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

submitted 7 days ago • 270 comments

In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

submitted 7 days ago • 200 comments

‼️Blue states stop supporting the federal government and choke the oxygen out of the reds that benefit from your economies. ‼️

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 7 days ago • 366 comments

trump speaking at the crypto dinner next to a lecturn with the presidential seal while his press secretary claims it was a personal event is just another one of those things i guess

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JUST IN: In a strongly worded opinion, Mass. district judge Brian Murphy orders the Trump admin to facilitate the return of "OCG"—a gay Guatemalan man unlawfully deported to Mexico despite his reasonable fear of persecution—to the US to receive due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.

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There are so many other ways veterans could benefit from the astronomical amount of money he is wasting on this embarrassing display of weakness.

submitted 7 days ago • 281 comments

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Judge Murphy in Mass. caused: -Street violence in Tripoli -The loss of humanitarian assistance in South Sudan -Disruption to the U.S.-Djibouti relationship because he is confronting a violation of his court orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 274 comments

Remember the 2nd case like Abrego Garcia, involving the gay man deported to Mexico n/w/s having been terrorized and held for ransom there? Judge Murphy orders the US to bring him back. not facilitate, not effectuate, bring him back.

submitted 7 days ago • 388 comments

AI agents don't read, but I do. And call me a radical, but I don't dream of a future where society replaces actual critical analysis of the tech industry with the tech industry's own AI products

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

If you are in a district where the House Rep voted NO [either Dems of GOP], take a minute today to thank them and to ask them to go out on the road while on recess to SPECIFICALLY share that this bill is going to kill people.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.

submitted 9 days ago • 69 comments

Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

submitted 9 days ago • 257 comments

McGovern: Democrats are united. And with strength in our mission and unity in our purpose, we're here to vote hell no on this monstrosity of a bill

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“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king.” (Bob Dylan, “Sweetheart Like You” 1983) #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #MomSky

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Casten: The oil and gas sector don't like competition for the same reason you don't like D.E.I. Because mediocre folks are scared about a meritocracies.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

submitted 9 days ago • 512 comments

The Big Gift to Billionaires Bill just dropped in its entirety and it’s more horrific than thought. Not only do Republicans want to cut $800+ billion from Medicaid, they want to cut $500 billion from Medicare. People will die. Full stop.

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 402 comments

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

submitted 9 days ago • 372 comments

#ResistanceBlue #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and his Democratic colleagues are fighting for you. Please give them tools to help you. Call your reps and Vote Blue in the midterm. Full Video: x.com/repmaxwellfr...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

submitted 8 days ago • 329 comments

Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair. Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.

submitted 8 days ago • 668 comments

The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit. House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent. They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.

submitted 8 days ago • 320 comments