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Time for a united coalition to stop Trump. What about Liz #Cheney4Speaker of the House of Representatives and Lisa #Murkowski4Majority Leader of the Senate? Maybe #JoeRoganINTERVIEWCheney this Sunday?

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Orwellian Newspeak. Not the world I had ever expected to actually live in. And I had thought that Rollins was one of the possibly less incompetent Cabinet appointees.

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Cutting staff, offices, and access, making it harder, or impossible, for people to get what they earned.

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Going mobilize.us/s/t6SgJf/p

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US National Mall Sunday afternoon March 23, 2025

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“when someone receives an [NIH] award, it is the result of years of preparation by the scientist, plus months of review by teams of leading researchers on the topic. It is not random. It is merit-based and transparent.” [email protected] donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

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Trump is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

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Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

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More damage.

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This is a question that’s been on my mind. The author is a law prof at Rutgers. What other serious writing have you seen about the procedural side of confronting contempt of court orders?

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One of the first things you learn in Econ 101 and in life as a functioning adult is that positive-sum interactions are frequent and important

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Well said. tldr: STOP THE CORRUPTION. Attack Trump for general “corruption” of government, not just the specific violations and harms but overall unfairness and resulting unreliability and ineffectiveness. (paywalled, available via free trial or Apple News): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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Nice list by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (#3 "Tesla is in deep shit.") @rbreich.bsky.social

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Good ideas for more mindful choices about buying.

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Yes another example of how the cuts themselves are reckless, wasteful, inefficient, and terribly destructive.

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Good article on what's been funded for getting students involved in agriculture and conservation and may now be lost. #conservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

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This was a great read, and evocative to remember when hiking on the mountains where the fires were in the book.

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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A note that may be of interest: @torbooks.bsky.social has placed the ebook of The Calculating Stars on sale this month for $2.99. If you're interested in diving into The Lady Astronaut books, this may be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Well said. We need to be looking for common ground, building coalitions and alliances.

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"We won the House. We won the Senate" - then why ignore Congress and its laws?

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To understand what Elon is doing -- why he sees the short-term destruction as trivial in the long run -- you need to understand his grand theory of civilizational change. Tens of millions of humans don't matter much when you're focused on the galaxy. Read this for the big picture.

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The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

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A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head. Now I'm going to make it your problem too. Sorry. Hang onto your hat. This is wild. 1/

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Here’s a wonderful Veritasium mini-documentary about Theo Jansen and his Strandbeests, the inspiration for the arucuro tocua, the massive walking bone beasts of the Lyucu and Agon in the Dandelion Dynasty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaA...

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This Peter Levine article, shared by @msifry.bsky.social, is one of the best I've seen since the election — addressing the q on everyone's minds: what to do? It's a must-read. peterlevine.ws?p=32917&utm_...

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I know that I harp on this All The Time, but we need TIME to do good academic work. I'm re-reading Rittel and Webber (1973) on wicked problems for a talk I'm giving on Monday, and I am finding again insightful stuff that I am sure I read the first time around, but now makes much more sense.

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