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Democracy, equity, protection of vulnerable people, sustainability, and rapid decarbonization. Anti-fascist. Ph.D. Wildlife Ecologist working in conservation, mentoring scientists, and mitigating impacts of climate change on vulnerable species.
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Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

We are up against people who literally want to destroy America. These are the technocrats. The broligarchs. They hate the Constitution. They hate democracy. They hate equality. They are greedy racist fascists. We must not let them succeed.

This terrible accusation is a hard Schlapp in the face to the GOP

The End.

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

The @nytimes.com "passed" on this

Xenophobia is a helluva drug

Trump is aiding Putin who has clearly stated his invasion plans, declared he has no interest in peace and started his spring offensive in the East. Everybody including Ukraine can see the US Trump administration is either inept, inexperienced or aiding Putin. Take your pick!

Sooooooo. Donald Trump gave Peter Thiel and Palantir a massive contract for mass surveillance of all of us with our data that Elon Musk stole with DOGE? And all those “big brother” screeching MAGA folks are rolling over and taking it? 🙄

Lindsey Graham is really hoping that Israel bombs the Freedom Flotilla that political & environmental activist Greta Thunberg is taking on an aid trip to Gaza. “Hope Greta can swim.” The GOP party should change their name to the POS party and be done with it. They revel in this shit. Amirite, Joni?

According to GOP: Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage! Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon! www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

(Far) less secure than a Signal group with Jeffrey Goldberg. Basically this in telcom form. How many secrets has he already given to the Chinese and the Russians?

Tesla Takedown in Boston.

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

There is no way Ukraine could trust the current US government with info that they had operatives behind enemy lines in Russia to execute this operation. Telling that to the Trump admin would put their lives in even greater danger than they already were.

"HOW TO WRITE GOOD" 1. AVOID ALLITERATION ALWAYS.

I’m glad this made the Times.

That it Otto Richter. He was an activist in Germany and fled after the Reichstag fire. He got into the US by deserting his ship. His wife, Clara, was a U.S. citizen.

SERIOUS QUESTION: What is going on with all these “officers” in tactical gear for a routine traffic stop—with no clear identification? They seem like imposters. And what’s up with that ball cap?

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

MAKARY: 88 percent of American kids, their parents have said no to the covid shot last season. So the vast majority of Americans are saying no. BRENNAN: I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. You don't go with popularity, you go with data.

Penzey's Spices, a company that actively loathes Trump and all things MAGA, has its chicken taco seasoning on sale right now, 50% off. "No reason," they said. Get you some!

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

This is happening all around the country, not just in Arizona. But the Health Department isn't telling us anymore. RFK halted the bird flu vaccine work. So let's see how this works out 😑

Trump’s latest pardons, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were known for their 10-season USA Today reality show "Chrisley Knows Best” (which this goddess had never heard of). They were in prison for charges of bank fraud and tax evasion. They’re now teasing a new reality show. Because, of course they are.

WHAT A SHOCK

GOP Senator Joni Ernst replies to a voter that is concerned people are going to die if they take away Medicare. “We’re all Going to die”. STOP VOTING FOR THESE PEOPLE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

‼️ ⚖️ SCOTUS RULING ⚖️ ‼️ SCOTUS will now allow Trump and ICE to immediately DEPORT Immigrants with “temporary protected status” fleeing from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. 🧨 This could affect more than 500,000 asylum seekers. ☹️ 💀 PEOPLE WILL DIE 💀 #MakingAmericaWhiteAgain 👨‍✈️ ☠️ 🚔

One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

No words

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat it for emphasis: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

This is the real game: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Great piece on Musk’s drug use in NYT, now do Trump. I promise you Elon isn’t the only one on Adderall in the White House. Follow up at their joint presser with a question about last Trump term’s WH Pharmacy and his drug chronic addiction. Ask about Doc Ronnie, I dare you, MSM.

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

LEVINE: “.. This is not some weird technicality; this is just what the Constitution says. ‘The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,’ and ‘To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.’” @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

QAnon Shaman wants me to stop trolling him 🤣💀🦬🇺🇸

Total bullshit from Brainworm psychopath.

So Idiot Trump’s signature policy was, of course, illegal from the get-go. The irony is that the United States Court of International Trade has saved him from himself.

Not to mention…

BREAKING - A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade has just INVALIDATED Trump's tariffs. Says Trump CANNOT use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to unilaterally impose tariffs; that power belongs to Congress. MORE TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs…   Trump: I kick out? Reporter: Chicken out.