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Posting this for future reference. 🐆

submitted 113 days ago • 10 comments

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.”

submitted 21 days ago • 737 comments

Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the ferocity and velocity of WIRED these past three weeks. IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.

submitted 21 days ago • 140 comments

What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead? Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal "The MMWR has lost its autonomy" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

Ok scientists. How do we respond? Scientific strike starting on Monday? Something has to be done to let people know what is going on.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

submitted 23 days ago • 1605 comments

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 35 days ago • 131 comments

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.

submitted 36 days ago • 72 comments

There are reports that Trump's immigration raids may target San Antonio. We know from history that mass deportation raids can lead to the arrest, detention, and deportation of even American citizens. First, know your legal rights (in English and Spanish below). 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 36 days ago • 835 comments

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

submitted 45 days ago • 37 comments

Florida reports two dolphins infected with H5N1 bird flu, according to the USDA.

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

Photo I just took of Mars setting behind the Moon

submitted 45 days ago • 389 comments

Merrick Garland failed miserably in delivering justice for Trump’s numerous crimes. The absolute LEAST he can do is release Jack Smith’s report so the American people will learn the facts. Publishing the results of special counsel investigations is the norm — burying the truth would be indefensible.

submitted 52 days ago • 493 comments

Confirmed reports now of "hundreds" of cars that were abandoned by drivers on Sunset Boulevard amid frantic #PalisadesFire evacuation gridlock earlier. (Folks made it out on foot.) CalFire/LA County bulldozers are in process of clearing path for emergency vehicles. #CAwx #CAfire

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

Looks like there is only one person interested in suppressing the truth, and it’s not the Jan 6 committee

submitted 52 days ago • 2621 comments

BREAKING: The United States has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu. The death was reported by the Louisiana Department of Health. The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds. ldh.la.gov/news/H5N1-de...

submitted 53 days ago • 20 comments

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submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

“For the sake of national security, I really hope he has stopped drinking,” one of the former Fox employees said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 87 days ago • 20 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Last night, Sen. Mike Lee wrote a blueprint for destroying Social Security. Lee’s thread was quickly amplified by Elon Musk, who Donald Trump has put in charge of slashing our earned benefits. This is a declaration of war against seniors, people with disabilities, and the American public.

submitted 87 days ago • 193 comments

On the shore of Lake Tiktalik in Canada’s Western Arctic, the thawing permafrost had set off two huge landslides into the water. These “thaw slumps” could turn the Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk into Canada’s first climate refugees.

submitted 88 days ago • 10 comments

So @janemayer.bsky.social does not miss www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

submitted 88 days ago • 517 comments

Georgia 👀🇬🇪

submitted 90 days ago • 77 comments

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of them are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

submitted 97 days ago • 1316 comments

Huge 0.468 GW solar PV farm opens in Texas Orsted also donates 953 acres of nearby grassland to the Nature Conservancy electrek.co/2024/11/22/o...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Gaetz is out

submitted 99 days ago • 504 comments

Brush fires in autumn are not uncommon in New York City. What is extraordinary is the number of them this year: in the first two weeks of November, the F.D.N.Y. responded to 271 fires, the most in its history.

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Court REJECTS David McCormick and GOP lawsuit to discard Philadelphia provisional ballots. This victory ensures that 966 voters will have their ballots counted. Congratulations to Team Casey who fought and won for these voters! www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

submitted 101 days ago • 824 comments

Scientific American on Dr. Oz in 2021: “Dr. Oz Shouldn’t Be a Senator—or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-o...

submitted 101 days ago • 72 comments

Major brush fires currently burning in MA - definitely smelling the smoke despite being > 30 miles across the bay on the Cape. #climate #mawx

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Northeastern US brush fires are raging. We’ve had record fires in MA with red flag days for much of Oct/Nov. The smoke was so heavy in the air last night on the Outer Cape that when I stepped outside at 12:00 a.m., I had to run for my binoculars to assure myself nothing was ablaze nearby. #climate

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Utterly in awe of the black-eyed squid's incredible mom powers. She hauls thousands of eggs through the ocean, for months on end, not once letting go. Not even to feed... Incredible footage captured by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. #NatureWriting 🧪 🦑 🌊 #Invert

submitted 101 days ago • 11 comments

Art drawn by people who very rarely make art and think they are “bad at art” is 1000x cooler than AI art. It’s life-affirming. It’s often unexpected. I cannot overemphasize how much I love when people just go for it. You do not need the machine for this human endeavor.

submitted 102 days ago • 97 comments

"I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

submitted 102 days ago • 63 comments

An H5N1 pandemic under RFK Jr.’s DHHS could be catastrophic. Here’s what it might look like a 🧵👇

submitted 103 days ago • 24 comments

It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.

submitted 103 days ago • 1875 comments

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

submitted 103 days ago • 1495 comments

I’ve seen enough to make a call: Bluesky is going to be a legit competitor to Twitter. Sweet.

submitted 103 days ago • 2545 comments