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Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

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silver was my first pokemon game. only being allowed to play it during summer, i associate its distinct color palette with the saturated summer landscape. everything seemed somehow more colorful back then. it sparked my love of nature. here's a tribute to summers where winds of a new beginning blow.

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I have returned from the woods with more puddle crustaceans. I can only assume the crumpled beer can gave them more power. I found these in only like five minutes of looking, with an old aquarium net that is not quite fit for the job.

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Another jar of soil centipedes identified and digitized! This one has centipedes from Virginia and Italy, collected between 1982 and 2011. All of them were collected by myriapod specialists and by Virginia Natural Heritage staff.

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

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Whoohoo my new paper has just been published! The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality. See doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Women #Botanists #Wikidata

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New Ant Lab video out today: Ants mating and flying at the same time! youtu.be/bG9I9u-aM8g

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Want to set up your own photo-stacking imaging system for under $3000? This post which outlines all the off-the-shelf items I used this year along with some recommendations for how to use it. Planning to talk about this at @entcollnet.bsky.social this November, too! www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...

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That Scizor tho

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It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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we are about to enter the golden age of scams, people are going to lose millions

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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

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Border patrol arrests U.S. citizen, falsely accuses of assaulting officer (per eyewitnesses/video), now in custody where lawyer can’t find him. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

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“I have never seen racial discrimination by the government like this” in 40 years on the bench, says Reagan-appointed judge (to gasps in the courtroom) as he calls NIH grant terminations "void and illegal." Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as the sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

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One month apart.

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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Republicans continue to inflict generational damage on research in the name of cost-cutting, but costs aren't being cut. They're not even paying down the federal debt. Instead, they're going to take on more debt while redirecting research funds to foreign labor camps and domestic occupation armies.

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

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See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

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“Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump” apnews.com/article/minn...

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It’s hot summer 24/7 sauna rain season in central NC and that means MILLIPEDES!!! I would like to smell like cyanide containing millipedes all the time k thx bye Follow @derekhennen.bsky.social to learn all the things millipede

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A small sample of the ticks I picked off my pants and socks after a day of working outside. None of them were attached to me and most were already dead thanks to my permethrin-treated clothes, a MUST to prevent tick bites!

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Billionaires of the cyber industry have laid siege on the U.S. government. Is it techno-fascism? Sure! Should it concern us that Trump appears to be a trojan horse for Silicon Valley’s most neo-reactionary ambitions? Absolutely! 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Most of the #altgov network seems harmless, but @altnps.bsky.social is becoming more of a conspiratorial LARP by the day. So I wrote about it. Here's part 1. jjoycelynch.substack.com/p/the-alt-na...

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When you think about whaling, you’re probably thinking about 1800s Moby Dick era stuff. But guess when we stopped using whale oil in cars?? 1972. We were using sperm whale oil in transmission fluid until 197freaking2. The NYT even ran an article about how bad the ban was for people’s transmissions🧪🦑

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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This is journalism malpractice 101, and it should be taught in J-schools as such. What in bloody hell does "widely accepted mean"? It's not "widely accepted". It's true. The other alternative is false. Full stop.

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The political assassinations in MN = domestic terrorism. A reminder that the guy now running the DHS division responsible for combating domestic terror & targeted attacks is a 22 yr old with no federal experience, and whose last job was his own lawn mowing biz. Dems should now be screaming this.

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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

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