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The rich HATE public land. This administration is purposefully hamstringing national parks so they can cry "wasted money" and sprint towards privatization. They desperately want to strip OUR parks of resources or make them exclusive spaces for the wealthy. We went through similar shit with the USPS

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Ding ding ding! Watch this. He’s laying it out. My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us. When Elon bought X, it became even sharper. The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign (Musk's touching the stove)

submitted 19 days ago • 37 comments

States argue that Musk wields the kind of power that can only be exercised by an officer of the gov’t who’s been nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution & allege DOGE hasn’t been authorized by Congress. www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

USAID has been paying for removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. Trump's funding freeze has compromised those efforts. Almost immediately, China stepped in to aid Cambodia instead. Besides humanitarian costs here, how does any of this serve US interests? www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 30 comments

The Trump administration is seeking to halve the workforce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center. By @scottpwaldman.bsky.social for E&E News (republished here in Scientific American)…

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Seriously silly to spend your time making fun of people who want to avoid illness while your country’s infrastructure and government mechanisms to ensure clean air and water are being dismantled

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I think the people in charge of the US govt should know who manages America’s nuclear arsenal, or at least take a few minutes to look that up before removing some people who do it without cause or replacements. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. I’ll try to be less politically biased.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Your regular reminder that measles has a r0 (basic reproduction number) of 12-18, which means that in an immune-naive environment every infected person will infect 12 to 18 people around them: it's one of the most infectious diseases out there. Get a MMR booster or get your titers checked, ASAP.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

Brief overview of the catastrophic impact this administration’s layoffs are having on Tribal Nations —to tribal colleges, tribal public health programs, and tribal fire fighting, all which are being amplified with mass layoffs of federal employees the last few days ictnews.org/news/life-or...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

It’s eating faces again www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 23 days ago • 1914 comments

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 23 days ago • 664 comments

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 23 days ago • 1307 comments

Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 23 days ago • 851 comments

The answer to that is yes. Make every thing his little cult tries to do something he has to deal with, directly. When he calls to say, "do it, or else" say his authority is suspect, and you won't comply until the letter of the law is followed. 101 level, OSS Sabotage. www.cia.gov/static/5c875...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

submitted 23 days ago • 587 comments

I still do not want to start down a The Lawyers Are Our Resistance Heroes path, but credit where it’s due, that’s a bar. Guy really got to publicly quit with a “couldn’t be me bitch,” may we all get to do something half as satisfying someday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 80 comments

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

submitted 22 days ago • 164 comments

“I don’t wanna make this political” but…I don’t understand how anyone heard Trump call undocumented folks criminals, rapists & say they’re eating dogs & cats, say he wants to end birthright citizenship & think they’ll be fine? It was ok when it was everyone else but now you’re betrayed? 😓

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote. “I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆 youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...

submitted 22 days ago • 171 comments

This is extremely unjust. If I were less emotionally exhausted I would have a lot more to say about it but: ban the use of criminal background checks for irrelevant jobs. Stop using prisoners as slave labor. Abolish prisons.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all. It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.” Be specific!

submitted 43 days ago • 33 comments

There is nothing more Bluesky than me cracking about everyone having to switch from coffee to tea, and hearing variously: 1} no, support Colombia #resist 2) here's how to DIY coffee roast 3} here are the Latin names of 12 plants indigenous to North America that can be foraged for caffeine

submitted 42 days ago • 44 comments

Either every single child born on US soil is a citizen, or none of us are. Either every single person on US soil has the protections of due process, or none of us do. Either everyone has the right to make informed medical choices about what happens to their bodies, or no one does.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 39 days ago • 2438 comments

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

submitted 25 days ago • 373 comments

If Leon found evidence of waste and fraud, don’t you think he would be sharing the EVIDENCE EVERYWHERE? He is a reckless liar who is stealing from YOU and fulfilling his revenge fantasies on the institutions in our government who are INVESTIGATING HIM.

submitted 24 days ago • 110 comments

These members of congress agreed to withhold their votes on funding bills while we fight this consitutional crisis. If they represent you, call/email them tomorrow and say thanks, give them your support, and tell them to hold firm. Find their contact info here: Reps.fyi

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

This for flu and every vaccine you can get covered. Do it, and do it now. You want all the immunity and residual immunity you can get going into what's likely coming.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Weird. Because when I was speaking out against Project 2025 during the campaign, several Very Serious Senior Scientists explicitly told me that there's no way this would happen and I was being silly for scaring people about the possibility.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

submitted 27 days ago • 636 comments

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

submitted 26 days ago • 172 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

#USDA reports 3 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds today, 2 in Nevada (up to 7) & 1 in California (up to 739). The cumulative national total is 962 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

the thing about JD Vance and the rest of the adult-convert Catholic theobros is that they are attracted to the strict hierarchical order of an ancient church, and also assume that strict hierarchy necessarily results in what they would recognize as conservative approaches to life

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments