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A place quite unlike anywhere I've been before: The Quiver Tree Forest. These aloes have the unique ability to survive drought, as is common in the Karoo desert, by sacrificing their own limbs in order to retain water. Their common name is derived from the Khoisan […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms […]

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On the road for democracy and justice -- Bernie Sanders I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska, this Friday night and Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday morning. Further, in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast. Why, at […]

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Trump administration appointees running the main United States aid agency have in recent days fired hundreds of employees who help manage responses to urgent humanitarian crises around the world. The firings add to doubts raised about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio is allowing employees […]

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AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

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Get a text from my stepmom: "Windows Defender has shut down my computer. It warns me not to shut down or restart it." The computer in question? A chromebook. The "Windows Defender" was one of the best scareware examples I have seen. In Facebook Marketplace, there was an "ad" on the page that […]

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After Mai e Governor Janet.l Mills clashed with Trump on Friday, she predicted that Maine will not be the last state that the president investigates for defying orders that conflict with the law. “You must ask yourself: Who and what will he target next, and what will he do,” she said. “Will it […]

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#TeslaTakedown is now expanding to other countries! We have many upcoming #TeslaTakedown protest events, including the UK's flagship Tesla store in London! Join an event or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

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Despite his eagerness to explode treaties, shutter entire government agencies and abandon decades-old ways of doing things, Trump understands that Social Security benefits for seniors are sacrosanct. Still, the DOGE team landed at the Social Security Administration this week, with Musk drawing […]

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Before Trump took office, Musk promised to find $2 trillion in savings each year, despite the fact that discretionary spending totals only around $1.8 trillion. So far, no such savings —or anything close —has materialized, and no evidence of the massive waste and fraud Musk vowed to uncover has […]

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The #measles outbreak in #Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials. Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region. At least 16 patients have been hospitalized as a result. The majority of reported measles […]

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外国人来华工作许可系统故障，请耐心等待 Please wait patiently for the failure of the system

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Demagogues and tyrants frequently claim that they are saving the country -- and denigrate the need to follow law. But the Constitution requires the president to “take care that the law be faithfully executed,” and 🔥Trump is doing the opposite, attacking law at every turn. The order asserting […]

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oversight. “In particular, firing the military’s most senior legal advisers is an unprecedented and explicit move to install officers who will yield to the president’s interpretation of the law, with the expectation they will be little more than yes men on the most consequential questions of […]

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The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told ProPublica she didn’t believe DOGE had the legal authority for the actions it’s taken. She called it a “made-up federal department” that’s wasting taxpayer dollars. “This unlawful effort is stealing federal […]

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French far-right leader Jordan Bardellacanceled planned remarks at CPAC Friday, after ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon made a "gesture referring to Nazi ideology," according to a statementto French news agency Agence France-Presse Bardella's change of plans is the strongest rebuke yet of Bannon […]

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Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senators Warren, Smith, and Alsobrooks are holding this Administration accountable […]

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Izumo is home to the historic Izumo Taisha, where all of the gods of Japan are said to gather every October. The shrine is famous as a spot for celebrating enmusubi, the binding together of two people’s destinies. You can also visit numerous other shrines, such as Saka Shrine, which is said […]

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Since the glaciers receded and the weight was lifted, the land has been bouncing back along the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia (the Baltic Sea’s northern arm). The terrain emerging from the sea has revealed remarkable glacial formations. On and around the island of Björkö, unique features known […]

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In these trying times, when we all feel like screaming, I present to you the best explanation of the Cosmic Microwave Background #CMB I've ever come across: "The Surface of Last Screaming" #Science #Physics #Cosmology #Astronomy 🧪⚛️🔭 Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March...

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Gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán responsible for the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Of the dinosaurs, only the avians (birds) survived this time period. The white dots are sinkhole locations which trace the crater's rim. #Science #Geology #PaleoSky #Dinosaurs 🧪🦕🦖

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"The only dangerous minority is the rich." Found here: https://www.tumblr.com/radicalgraff/631119849444212736?source=share&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage

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"Trump is repeating Putin's propaganda. All his attacks on Ukraine are disgusting and distort the truth," the Democratic leader in the US Senate condemned Trump for his scandalous statements. "It's appalling to see an American president speak out against one of our friends and openly support […]

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Back in their districts, GOP lawmakers get an earful on DOGE and Musk Their Atlanta suburb in a solid-red district was hardly a hub of the liberal resistance, but hundreds had shown up to confront Rep. Richard McCormick in person. Now each argument from the lawmaker brought a new round of […]

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#AOC posted an almost hour-long webinar titled “Know Your Rights With ICE.” The video, in partnership with the Immigrant Defense Project, offers advice on how to handle interactions with ICE, and informs citizens, legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants alike of their constitutional […]

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France just voted to ban ‘forever chemicals.’ Whynot the U.S. ❓ The French Parliament has approved a landmark ban on using “forever chemicals” in common products -- including cosmetics, ski wax and clothing, a move that could reverberate beyond its borders. These chemicals, known as #PFAS […]

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The Roberts court’s first Trump II move: A quick sidestep The Supreme Court decides not to decide, for now, about Trump’s firing of a government official. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/22/john-roberts-court-trump-fired-official-dellinger/

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U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia The Trump administration asked Ukraine to withdraw an annual resolution condemning Russia’s war, and wants to replace it with a toned-down U.S. statement that was perceived as being close to pro-Russian The "suggestion" stunned […]

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By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the Trump administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/22/trump-research-nih-federal-register/

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Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. A Washington Post analysis found that hundreds of the canceled contracts DOGE listed represent no savings at all https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/22/doge-savings-found-list-analysis/

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#Pope #Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old Francis, who has been hospitalized for a week with pneumonia and a complex lung infection, also received blood […]

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Apparently this was the Tour De France in 1921. 🤔 #beer #bicycling #BikeTooter

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#Krasnov should be trending huge on here. For context, it's the KGB name for when they recruited the Orange Shitler back in the 1980s. The Legacy Media is now scrubbing proof of the story given they put it out there. NO retractions, just removing it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field

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In the Ising model you have a grid of cells in one of two states and an energy that is a sum of over all the "bonds" between neighbouring cells that depends on the state at each end of the bond. Typically people are interesting in sampling from the equilibrium state and they do this by […]

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Representatives are having a rough time answering to their constituents. Make sure you keep calling, and absolutely show up to your local town halls and make sure your voices are heard.

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They don’t want a meritocracy. 👇 https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lhh7hgmnhk2r

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News from Germany He should have been a little more careful: @unreliablenarrator While posing wildly with a chainsaw, multi-billionaire Elon Musk accidentally beheaded himself in front of thousands of spectators on Thursday at an international meeting of conservative and right-wing populist […]

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My arguments in this essay are as follows: First, the crisis of American democracy is now squarely upon us. Multiple illegal and unconstitutional acts are happening, and the guardrails that check and restrain authoritarian abuse are rapidly falling away. Second, it is going to get a lot worse […]

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German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that the Max Planck Society —one of the world’s top scientific research institutions —is experiencing an uptick in applications from American scientists. Its president said the society regards the U.S. as “a new talent pool” at a time when the Trump […]

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When you hide the sins of your ancestors, you buy stock in those sins. If you outlaw books and ban words to whitewash history, you own those crimes. If you suppress the people whom those ancestors brutalized, you've chosen to be guilty. -- 👏 Roy […]

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign Kennedy is reportedly planning to remove agency vaccine advisers, too https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/rfk-jr-promptly-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-pulls-flu-shot-campaign/

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They are afraid to compete, they want the job handed to them https://bsky.app/profile/56whodoyouknow.bsky.social/post/3liqj6rqzdc2s

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The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change https://bsky.app/profile/patty003.bsky.social/post/3liqe43rhnc2s

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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters https://kyivindependent.com/us-threatens-to-shut-off-starlink-if-ukraine-wont-sign-minerals-deal-sources-tell-reuters/

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Vice President JD Vance’s address to the Munich Security Conference last week was the most shocking thing to happen at that annual summit since President Vladimir Putin of Russia condemned the American-led liberal international order there nearly two decades ago. And just as that tirade […]

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