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INCREDIBLE! ☺️

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Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html

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Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

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themercury.com/news/usda-sa...

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Instead of doomscrolling, watch this.

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WTF? Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash “When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.“ www.cnbc.com/2025/02/17/t...

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… but of course! Now we somehow need to asphalt over the Whitehouse Rose Garden. 💩🤡🤮 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

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I think collapsing the US is precisely the goal... they are aiming to turn everything into a profit generating "business"

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Personally, I would prefer Swamp A Lago if we absolutely needed to rename it (which obviously we don't ...)

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If you need an example of how far you can get in life as a white dude with no talent whatsoever…

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🙌 credit @soverybritish.bsky.social 💥

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On this day in 1954: Polio vaccine is first given to a large group of children in Pittsburgh. One year later, the vaccine was proclaimed safe on April 12, 1954. #science

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open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...

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Rep. Ro Khanna ,(D-Cal): "...what budget approved this work ?!?" (hint: none, and furthermore, it's a federal offense to spend $$$ without it being a budgetary item, AND/OR if you're not a federal employee...

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Happy Birthday!

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Scientific progress in the United States is inextricably linked to the lives and stories of immigrants. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Spotlight on Florence Margaret Durham (6 April 1869 – 25 June 1949). A British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance. Her work very much helped to support and extend Mendel's laws of heredity. #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

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YAY for American science education!! ...WTF ???

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Results provide a proof-of-concept demonstration for simultaneous multicarbon synthesis and biomass-derived waste conversion into value-added products. Andrei, V. et al. (2025) www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

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I can't seem to reconcile exactly WHY they are so fearful of FACTS!!

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we have a long ways to go

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EVERYONE!!! See this!

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An asteroid up to 100 metres wide has a 1-in-83 chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. “This is a historic moment,” says Richard Moissl at the European Space Agency (ESA). www.newscientist.com/article/2466...

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In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"

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...and queue the attendant problems with attempting to run the US government like some kind of profit driven "business". Idiots !!

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Vice President JD Vance called for the rehiring of a DOGE staffer who resigned from a sensitive Trump administration post over the exposure of tweets advocating for racism and eugenics. Truly horrible - but what's worse, 90 million eligible voters did not even bother to cast a ballot.

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Outdoor apparel company Patagonia, which has a history of activism for climate action said it wouldn’t be rolling back its DEI policies. “We stand firm in support of our justice, equity and antiracism policies and practices."

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A delightful story about how humpback whale song follows some of the basic laws that govern all human languages. Biology and evolution are amazing. 🧪

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Emergency debate to start in about 30 minutes 7:30pm (GMT). Chamber debate to follow www.youtube.com/live/GHaeOdH...

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snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...

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