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Hello @botsocamerica.bsky.social members! We have new books available for review at Plant Science Bulletin! Check them here: botany.org/home/publica...

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I had the privilege of talking to @apnews.com about WIRED's Elon Musk and politics coverage. Most important thing: We're not slowing down, we're not stopping, and we're going to cover this story, relentlessly, for as long as we need to. apnews.com/article/elon...

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

New plant just dropped 🚨 And of course, the little guy is growing on America's public lands.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

submitted 21 hours ago • 92 comments

The thing about antivaxxers is that they’re all vaccinated. Even their most fundamental beliefs are stolen valor. They don’t take on any risk, they just put other people - often infants and children - at risk to try to make some point. And the point they want to make has been disproven so many times

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

"I’m Still Here is a film for the cruel and unsettling times once again sweeping the globe. If any film deserves the 2025 Oscar, this is it." www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 1 day ago • 678 comments

“‘Penn has made a cowardly move, rushing to heed dog-whistle demands from a feckless federal leadership + dismantle the pgms that welcome students + workers from an expansive range of backgrounds, and they are alone in this shameful stance,’ said ⭐️ State Sen. Nikil Saval.”

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I would like to see ANY of the pundits and intellectuals who've spent the last decade pissing and moaning about cancel culture dedicate at least 1/100th of that energy to the ongoing explicitly identity-based purges at the behest of professional propagandists, but I'm not holding my breath.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

When Republicans say "These tax cuts will pay for themselves" reporters should treat it the way they do "Trump won the 2020 election," as a proven lie that requires IMMEDIATE refutation in the reporter's voice, to make clear that they have repeated this assertion for decades and it never happens.

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s locksmith. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Republican women voted for Trump, believing complicity would save them. But now MAGA men are pushing conservative women out of leadership, de facto legalizing abuse, and signaling that the era of "chivalry" will be replaced with the era of eating shit. www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

submitted 22 hours ago • 125 comments

Integrantes de diferentes alas do STF veem assédio de Elon Musk e de parte da base de Donald Trump contra Alexandre de Moraes como um ataque institucional à Corte e passam a cobrar uma reação diplomática formal, que ressalte a relação histórica e a tradicional cooperação entre os dois países. – G1

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The Trump Organization was prohibited from doing business in NY because they committed fraud, and Elon Musk turned X into a safe haven for white supremacists, so Alina Habba’s point tracks.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse." "Can you give us an example?" "Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it." "Try me! Just one." "Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."

submitted 1 day ago • 191 comments

i keep reading posts from people getting laid off in genuinely every possible tech industry you can imagine and it's so fucking insane that the thing people have to worry about isn't "can an AI do my job" but "can a very stupid person convince my boss that an AI can do my job"

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Some people will look at this and only see how foolish it is. But what it also is an attempt to set up a blameless, unaccountable arbiter by inserting automation into a “decision making” process. And tbh I wish more people at more news outlets would call that out.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 5 days ago • 236 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 129 comments

Today @anosro.bsky.social gave me a 🌟 behind-the-scenes tour of the Conservation Division @ the Library of Congress, where they conserve daguerreotypes, repair 📘 bindings, mend tears, + build custom 📦 to keep everything safe. What a marvelous, skilled, dedicated team. This is our government, too!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Algorithmic necropolitics, quantified

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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

The unseen, terrible consequences of Trump's ax on indirect costs. Millions of research animals may die due to lack of funding to keep them alive, yet anti-vivisectionists would call this a long-term win. Go figure.

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Fun fact: the USPS delivers to every address in the US. PO Box for someone with unstable housing? ✔️ Tiny post office on an island in the Bering Sea? ✔️ Big ass ranch in the middle of nowhere OK where the mailbox is a mile from the house? ✔️ FedEx, UPS, etc...aren't required to cover these!

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

This could be one way that the Trump administration attacks abortion access, which in red states is now largely conducted by sending pills through the mail.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 7 days ago • 561 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 6 days ago • 863 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 6 days ago • 988 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

If you make it illegal to empty a uterus, people will get horribly, life-alteringly sick in needless, preventable ways.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments