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Alice Ball developed the most effective treatment for leprosy in the early 20th century. Her groundbreaking work in chemistry saved lives. #BlackWomenInSTEM #EduSky #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFuturesMonth

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Dear manager: This week 1. I get knocked down 2. But I get up again 3. You're never gonna keep me down 4. I get knocked down 5. But I get up again

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DOGE's Michigan EPA cuts: "'Right now, we believe that the region has fewer employees than it had during the Reagan administration,' said Nicole Cantello, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 704, representing roughly 1,000 EPA workers in the Upper Midwest’s EPA Region 5."

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Dear manager: 1: I went to the doctor 2: I went to the mountains 3: I looked to the children 4: I drank from the fountains 5: There's more than one answer to these questions

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This land is your land, this land is my land. The kleptocrats want to steal it from us to add to their riches. We cannot allow the disposal of federal lands. As important, we need people working every day to care for our land.

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Explore the lead article from the latest PSJ issue, which examines how science shapes learning in polycentric governance. By @envpolicycenter.bsky.social, Tara Pozzi, Tanya Heikkila, Andrea K. Gerlak, Pamela Rittelmeyer. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

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"Instead of seeing social order as emerging from the interactions of many diverse persons and groups cooperating in a polycentric system, the far right believes a homogeneous order must be imposed—and imposed in a holistic fashion, incorporating all forms of social interaction..."

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Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn't make the costs go away, it puts them on citizens who will see their expenses for everything from housing to food rise higher and faster than they otherwise would www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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When architecture critic @rowanmoore.bsky.social said that “if you can tell a man by his shoes, you can tell a city by its pavements” ... he was paying a tremendous complement to #Lisbon.

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Y’all

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“I'm not 100% convinced they won’t try to get around legal obligations to fund Title I or IDEA by just laying off the people responsible for administering it. That could freeze up funding for our communities in Michigan.” My new comments @detroitnews.bsky.social www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

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Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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call it what it is: a military leadership purge www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The greatest economic effects of the program come from providing free child care, which helps parents save money and frees them to work more hours. With increased savings and earnings, parents spend more money on goods and services, stimulating the economy. #EconSky #edusky

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Trump also fired the Coast Guard Commandant last month. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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My paper "Compounded extraction: An examination of early agro-extractivism in the US Heartland" is out today at EPE: Nature and Space. I argue that the land grants, particularly the railroad and education ones, used the land itself to bootstrap extractivist ag-centered development activities. 1/

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"Anything that takes money, people, resources and respect away from the people of western North Carolina, I’m against." Trump cutting 84% of HUD workforce that manages disaster recovery, e.g. Helene All these survivors' lives and livelihoods hang in the balance. insideclimatenews.org/news/2102202...

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NEW: Trump's DOJ is threatening to prosecute a central New York sheriff. Why? The sheriff released a man ICE wanted to arrest, after the man completed his sentence. A constitutional scholar told us "there's no basis in the law" for such charges. But the DOJ wants to spook local officials. More:

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“On paper, I do school programs and run the visitor center,” says Alex Wild, who was fired on Feb. 14 from his role as an interpretive park ranger at Devils Postpile National Monument. “But I am also the only EMT, and I run the entire search and rescue and medical services program in the park.”

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Not everyday that you see the word "thalassocracy" in the wild. Time to listen to a Frank Black classic 🎧. *Alt text in quoted post: tweet with an image of a kid's book describing different forms of government, including "lottocracy" and "thalassocracy." youtu.be/AOLIVZs6AJg?...

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Already seeing multiple NPS parks needing to close for 1-2 days a week due to being short-staffed after the federal workforce firings. Are we great yet?

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The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’

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I was wondering exactly how they plan to charge existing GSA EVs then, but this bit is tucked in there: "The GSA will also begin offloading the EVs it purchased under the Biden administration, the source said. It’s unclear whether those vehicles will be sold or simply put away in storage."

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Another hallmark of dictatorships is deleting data 📈📉📊 so that there is no evidence or grounds to make empirical, fact based arguments. 🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...

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This is indeed a good question in the future.

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This was what many of us had suspected would happen. I guess that means US scientists who would like to be authors of the next 7th assessment working group reports (WGI-III) will have to find alternative affiliations to make sure their applications can be considered.

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When we were working on this story, I spoke with a Justice Department lawyer who had been pushed out by Trump. I was told that this civil rights discrimination case DOJ had filed against SpaceX was likely going to be dismissed. Now that's happening.

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Refusing to study or share information about climate change will not stop climate change, you greedy, short-sighted, sociopathic fucks www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

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I was surprised that Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement but not the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, as recommended in Project 2025. Perhaps it is coming.

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👇Happening today at 12 EST. Join us for a conversation about coral reefs! 🪸

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Less lamprey, more egg please.

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"mandate[d] to submit for firing...'anyone who worked or works on climate, environmental justice, equity, DEIA,' ... Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern...now the agency is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters." www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Federal scientists who have just lost your job, here’s a list of corporate sustainability roles www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan... 🧪🌎🦑

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Federal government scientists who have just lost your job, here’s a list of state-level and international government science jobs www.linkedin.com/posts/drkimb... 🧪🌎🦑

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ICYMI: The Trump EPA has laid out it's priorities for protecting the environment. Great Lakes advocate says it reads like an economic development plan. You? www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/vete...

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Aside from all the other harms of all this, one very sad effect is that slower transition from #fossil fuels prolongs the ability of tinpot dictators like Putin to threaten us. It is insane to spend € to fill the Kremlin's war chest while having to spend € for weapons against the Kremlin.

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On top of everything else it's excellent data since the post office scans every bit of mail

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"The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people"

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

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Let's send this article to all our state and federal reps. Encourage those reps to have press conferences with those who have lost their jobs in their districts. This is hitting all of our communities in one way or another.

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