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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Brave yourselves for more of the like.

Jimmy Carter was a true public servant and peacemaker. Our country is a better place because of him. My thoughts are with his family.

More bad news for the Muskrat. This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site. I love this for him.

Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks, Medicare will stop covering telehealth. For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare. Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act

NASA's Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter's moon Io undergoing a volcanic eruption

The Environmental Protection Agency website in the US has a ton of well-presented info relevant to North America. I'm sure most of this will disappear - hope it's being archived. Download the Climate Change Indicators report (new edition) now for your records: www.epa.gov/climate-indi... 🧪

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

I don't think people understand the gravity of making librarians and teachers *criminally liable* for disseminating information. Fascist shit, from a known playbook. No one has the luxury of being surprised anymore.

Ready-ish for the weekend

Bedtime book! Excerpt: "Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years."

REDUCING METHANE RELEASE FROM THE RUMEN INVOLVES A VARIETY OF SOLUTIONS THAT DON’T JUST TARGET METHANOGENS, BUT ALSO TARGET MICROBES UPSTREAM OF METHANOGENESIS FOR A SOLUTION THAT SHUNTS HYDROGEN AND CARBON FLOW TOWARDS FATTY ACID PRODUCTION

CDC advises sticking fork in toaster most efficient way to retrieve toast