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Meanwhile, in Canada: "A judge sided with the timber companies, arguing that their economic interests outweighed the community’s concerns about its water supply." by Karen Saxena for @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-w...

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

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📣 TWO WEEKS UNTIL WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 📣 On March 7th, we’re Standing Up for Science in DC & ALL 50 STATES to make our voices heard. We hope you’ll join us! ☀️ #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #standupforscience2025

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They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.

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Important information about #climate and environmental data by @ericnost.bsky.social and Alejandro Paz @theconversation.com 🌎 🌿: theconversation.com/how-to-find-...

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A new research center at UC San Francisco will focus on what some researchers see as the world's leading vector of disease: corporations. insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202... via @lizagross.bsky.social

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While the news is grim, here's an uplifting podcast series from Bioneers. I talk about restoring our relationship w/water. Other guests are people doing incredible work: Merlin Sheldrake @tobykiers.bsky.social, @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social, Brock Dolman, Kate Lundquist. bioneers.org/what-does-wa...

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This statement makes me proud to be a member.

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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"The week before the inauguration, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, described white South Africans as the “most racist people on earth”, questioned their involvement in US politics and said Musk was a malign influence who should go back to the country of his birth." Oh

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#beaver droning with Devon Wildlife Trust today. Amazing seeing the dams and wetland spread all the way across the valley bottom now at this site #NatureBasedSolutions @exeter.ac.uk @uoe-creww.bsky.social

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nearly 11% of the NSF workforce was fired today. this WILL slow scientific progress. this is hurting families. we need to educate folks about all the GOOD that the gov't can do! To help @500womensci.bsky.social has made social media cards for what #NSF funds in each state: bit.ly/NSF_bystate

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This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

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Thanks to Jared Green at The Dirt for highlighting #slowwater approaches we need to create a Sponge Planet. We can soften floods, droughts, fires, heat, and climate change itself. dirt.asla.org/2025/02/10/k...

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Happy Valentine’s Day to all the bog lovers out there. This heart shaped bog is in the beautiful Northwest Territories, Canada. Often unappreciated, bogs will win your love with their beauty, mystery, and strength. They clean our water, produce food and biodiversity, and store carbon. Let’s ♥️ them

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Port Angeles is a great little town. As Vancouver Island residents, we ferry through there regularly. I love this celebration of friendship. It reminds me of what super welcoming people in Syria and Iraq said to me: "We understand you are not your government."

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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"The administration will need to rely on existing officials to carry out its agenda. From deportations to trade wars to prosecutions of perceived enemies, the president’s plans rely on federal employees, and these employees can be powerful." -- Brendan Ballou www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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"All that Trump managed to accomplish was to anger local water districts & farmers who lost more than 2 billion gals of water that flowed, unused and unusable, into the dry lake bed of the Tulare basin, where it will be unavailable to farmers in the coming hot season.” thehill.com/policy/energ...

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Public opinion still matters, @jamellebouie.net writes. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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In all this dark, here's a nerdy little light. It seems I'm cited in the Chicago Manual of Style. I was a copyeditor for 7 years, and Chicago, along with AP, were the bibles of style guides. Now I feel like I've really made it! When you're ready for gripping reading on source citations....

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#bioswales o'clock This is a "swale cell", which is like a bioswale but designed to catch excess stormwater from a gutter and direct it into a green and lush catchment area. Don't know about you but I'd be happy to be locked in a swale cell! Photo taken in Seattle by MIG

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"They're miscalculating the reactions from foreign nationals, politicians, federal workers, ordinary people; they're underestimating solidarity, courage, principle, and misunderstanding power itself. They do not understand people, and this may be their downfall." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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To state the obvious, USAID and and the EPA have real legal authority enshrined in statutes passed by Congress. DOGE does not.

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It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

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Glad to see @gavinnewsom.bsky.social doing this. It's critical we help storm water move underground -- not rush it out to the ocean. As I wrote in "Water Always Wins," the Valley's depleted aquifers have 3X capacity of the state’s 1400 reservoirs & costs 1/5 the price. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/31/g...

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Oo! I haven’t tried Laoganma with pizza. What a good idea!

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Cool!

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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

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“This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions.” Dan Vink, longtime Tulare County water manager

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Resistance is critical.

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Good story by Phoebe Weston in @theguardian.com on community conservancies for wildlife in Africa. 🌎

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It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database. #science climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

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Brandt’s cormorants dating, mating, and egg sitting in La Jolla, Calif. Many thanks to Karen Straus for sharing them! 🌿

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