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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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This is WSJ edit board’s second piece in a week raising escalating alarm about RFK Jr’s groundless & lethal anti-vax predilections and now policies (firing CDC vax experts) — and it pull punches in portraying him as no more & no less than a treacherous corrupt killer www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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stop being shocked about what is going on -- it really shows that you did not do the reading. It's all spelled out in Project 2025 & there's even a tracker!

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The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.

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Bro is tripping balls.

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“Europe needs a single envoy to talk to Ukraine, Russia and America. It should tighten its embargo on Russia even if America loosens sanctions. Europe should unilaterally exploit the €210bn ($220bn) of Russian cash frozen in European banks.” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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“Most of our forces are currently concentrated in the tunnels,” Zinarin Kobane, an SDF commander says. @willchristou.bsky.social gets a tour. The Syrian interim government wants the SDF to integrate into the new defence ministry. The SDF wants to keep autonomy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

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This #FossilFriday meet Bojophlebia - this cool ~309 million year old fossil insect was found in the Czech Republic. The scale bar on the image is 4cm, so we can estimate this animal had a wingspan of over 40cm. What it actually was though, has been subject to discussion. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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This week we dug a hand trench and augered a 2ndary rupture of the #1855 EQ near Lake Wairarapa. Thanks to Jose 🇨🇱 Joe n Paris. #eqnz

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New Holland mouse. "With the help of a tea strainer, peanut butter and oats, a tiny, rare native mouse has been rediscovered in part of the NSW Blue Mountains for the first time in two decades... The mammal, is described as a "dumpling on legs". #WildOz

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Sombrero / M104 processing. To be continued. A few more details and bigger, losslessly compressed files available at the ol' Flickr link: flic.kr/p/2qMV33G

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"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

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Personally, I wish to extend a hearty congratulations to Canada, a noble, prosperous country that I understand conducts background checks as part of its fast-track immigration application process, on their thrilling 4 Nations tournament victory

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#EmotionalSupportSpood Tiny Mr Naphrys bufoides on a single pine needle Goodnight y'all 🖤

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New piece by @gilduran.com re: the Tech Bros targeting the S.F. Presidio and Trump’s recent Executive Order. Thanks for the hat tip, Gil! www.thenerdreich.com/trump-target...

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Seems like the new pardon policy, described below by @kyledcheney.bsky.social, should also help Jeremy Brown, whose weapons conviction are on appeal. When FBI arrested him for J6 crimes, they found 2 live grenades & 2 illegal short-barrel rifles in his possession. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Well, I guess we’re a Canadian Territory now. Looking forward to learning who our territorial commissioner is and getting official bilingual traffic signage. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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Welp, there ya go.

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“The whole thing is beyond absurd. It’s not gonna happen,“ he added. ”You might as well ask what is the effect if fairies come down and granted some wishes," says Harvard economist Jeffrey Frankel.

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🌱 Everything starts with plants. Did you know there are two different species of Juniper found at the #TarPits? Learn how our paleobotanists have been piecing fossilized plants together and as a result, have found a number of exciting things about this seed mystery: tarpits.org/stories/solv...

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Our bryophyte curator (Wayne Lampa, MOR) went through his collections a few years ago and painstakingly rehydrated and photographed every one of them, redried them, refiled them. You can see them all on the portal: bryophyteportal.org/portal/collections/list.php?collector=lampa&comingFrom=newsearch

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"If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend."

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I spent most of a family vacation last summer finalizing an R01 proposal that was supposed to be reviewed today and the panel got canceled. 1/3

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I wrote a feature for British Columbia Magazine on the province's disappearing glaciers, and Dr. Menounos provided very helpful perspectives on both this and previous work on how quickly we're losing the ice that drives ecosystems, communities, industry and food production. #glaciers #climatechange

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Here's why reporters should question HHS' explanation that the vaccine advisory meeting ACIP is delayed to give the public time to comment. This agenda was supposed to be open for comment starting Feb 1. But comments were closed. See the federal register document.

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Trump’s Seven Most Anti-Environmental Moves — and How to Push Back legal-planet.org/2025/02/20/t...

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“Defiance of the Supreme Court would trigger a constitutional crisis and a second fight among officials, voters & markets over the future of the republic. New York is already seeing an inkling of this as federal prosecutors &…officials resign in protest” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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The MMWR on indoor cats getting sick from dairy workers exposed to bird flu, which was briefly alluded to in an earlier MMWR that was taken down, was finally posted today: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Una abeja Anthophora en las flores de Erisymum de la Montaña Artificial del Retiro. Un buen lugar para ver polinizadores en un entorno urbano por la diversidad de flores plantadas en sus laderas. La "montaña" es en realidad un montículo de 15 metros de altura y 20x20 m de base levantado en 1817.

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The return on investment for federal workers in the IRS enforcement division is hugely positive. This move (like many other recent decisions) doesn’t improve efficiency. It facilitates fraud.

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The damage that the richest man on the planet and his lapdog #Trump are doing to imperiled species is already unfolding. One example: funding for monitoring northern spotted owls in the #PNW is being cut, leaving conservation agencies without lifesaving data. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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"Arms deliveries from the US to Ukraine have stalled. Even weapons meant for sale are now on hold. Companies ready to supply them tomorrow are waiting—no decision yet. Everyone expects a resolution so that arms can keep flowing, even for money," Head of Ukraine’s Defense Committee Roman Kostenko.

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"About two-thirds of Colorado land is managed by the federal government. And there are a lot fewer federal workers managing those acres as of this week."

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OSINT is "woke."

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This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape. Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.

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Elon is on X picking a fight with an actual astronaut and using the R word over the return of the two American astronauts on the ISS who had their stays lengthened (they are not stuck, stranded, trapped or any other similar word). Mark my words that man will absolutely destroy NASA if we let him

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Scientists working on a blood test to detect mosquito-borne Oropouche virus among those dismissed. ⬇️ 🔗 Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs

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