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Hurricane Ian (2022) was so massive, Hurricane Ivan (2004) could have fit in the eye of it. The cost of hurricanes has increased in the past 5 years, averaging nearly 150 billion per year, up from 65 billion per year in the past 42 years. (Source: NOAA) Data-driven models save lives and money.

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I miss having a human president.

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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland

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The belief that "Librarians will Save Us All from Book Bans" is not only wrong, it is harmful to Library Workers and people in general. Yes Library Workers are currently on the front-lines of pushing back against attacks on school and public library collections and staff

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With this and the HELP victories from yesterday, Republicans are out more than a quarter of the affirmative cuts they wanted. Just enormous praise to the Democratic staff who argued these provisions in front of the Senate Parliamentarian.

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Nine days after the final wave of staff returning to office, NSF HQ staff are on notice of intent to displace them from their office. www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s immigration policies and the importance of immigrants in the United States…

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We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

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Crucially, the mother missed the hearing in 2018 because she was a child at the time, and it was her mother’s failure to bring her to the hearing which led to the deportation order. This is depressingly common.

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“Secretary Rollins is taking a blowtorch to a landmark rule that shields almost 60 million acres of national forests from the serious impacts roads can have, not only on wildlife and their habitats but also on the nation’s drinking water sources” -Vera Smith, @defenders.org

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I thought the exact same thing when I first saw this photo.

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The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.

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The FDA is literally tasked with overseeing the safety of all food, drugs, medical devices, & cosmetics, as well as “preventing the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases.” They regulate our safety from cell phones, to sperm donation, to condoms, to domestic animals to lasers

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Wow. Fourth batch of Byrd droppings is out - Dem staff absolutely dominated the HSGAC fight We won on reorg & bonuses for cost cutters ofc, but also on at-will, filing fees, and USPS green vehicles & infrastructure sales Seriously, major praise to the D staff www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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The National Park Service is already underfunded and understaffed. To put its budget on the chopping block as we continue to see a rise in visitors at parks across the county is reckless and thoughtless. It's the worst idea for "America's Best Idea."

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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

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Guess we don't need bees either wapo.st/4n9dpVn

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This doesn't even express the extent of the damage. "The bureaus that will absorb the awards are facing significant cuts too, and employees have expressed concern that they simply do not have the staff, resources or expertise to run them. They plan to terminate more awards and to let others expire."

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical. These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months. Removing them puts millions of lives at risk. wapo.st/3FQovhf

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President Trump and Republicans’ massive tax legislation would force the government to undo billions of dollars in electric vehicle investments made by the U.S. Postal Service. This would mean auctioning off nearly 7,200 brand-new postal EVs.

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If this is going to cost USPS trillions, why does the GOP say it will save money? Bec USPS’s budget is separate from the federal budget. So this would deprive USPS of vehicles it desperately needs while passing costs from taxpayers on to postal rate payers. Postal rate payers = mostly everyone

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June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org

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Got an email from a buddy this morning that brought me up short, asking if it was time for people to start hiding immigrants who risk deportation. My initial reaction was, No. We're not in Anne Frank territory. But the more I thought about it, I had questions . . .

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

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The NYC Bar Association views with alarm ICE agents wearing masks when conducting detentions and arrests. This comes at a time when their actions are the subject of numerous legal challenges, and a public outcry vehemently opposing unlawful detentions and emphasizing the need for due process.

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Sorry. This is very raw. But what’s happening in LA right now is absolutely horrific. #iceraids

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President Biden flew commercial from D.C. to Galveston, Texas for Juneteenth celebrations, snapping photos with fellow passengers along the way. This is what public service looks like—showing up, grounded, and among the people.

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I wish media would provide income range amounts for "richest," "poorest," top x percent, bottom x percent, deciles, etc. in all these OBBB impact charts they generate. I think it would be more meaningful to folks.

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If you can see this tweet you need to push back hard on the Republican Party’s Big lie 2.0 which is that Joe Biden let all the illegals in. It was George W Bush and the number has stayed pretty constant since 2005.

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Time for some tax bill graphletics!!! One Big Beautiful Bill Act is policy design at its worst. In this thread, I show through some charts just how much MORE expensive it is to give a tax break to rich people than it is to provide services to poor ones. 1/

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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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So much for MAHA.

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Holy crap! Why would they remove sign language interpreters!

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BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

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