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1. CALL Congress 2. JOIN Protests (see link) 3. REDUCE all your spending docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The timing of the release of Season 2 given...everything...could be one of those harmonic convergences. If it's as good as they say, this could inspire people.

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species recently had an update publishing the newest assessments of 2025. Although no new sharks, rays, and chimaeras assessments were published in this round, stay tuned for updates around 9-15 October, 2025! #WeAreSSC #shark #ray #chimaera

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The professional title: "Senator Lisa Murkowski (D-Alaska)" looks good on you. Flip. #murkowski

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Chris Van Hollen: 1 Cory Booker: 1 Bernie: 1 AOC: 1 Maxwell Frost: 0.5 Al Smith: 1 Rest of the DNC: 0 Angus King: 0.5 (for his HCR podcast appearance) And...I'll give Lisa Murkowski 5 if she ever finds the courage to flip to the Dems.

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Maybe what saves us is one senator (or rep, or gov, or state AG) trying to "out-do-good" another. Competitive Do-goodering?

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Courage, America. 🇺🇸 The fight continues tomorrow.

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If "officials" hide behind the prez, hold the prez in #contempt & CHALLENGE the SC's prez immunity ruling. Frame it as direct affront to the Judicial branch: 🔶Maybe we get an immunity carveout. 🔶Worse case, the SC will be on the record. Legal scholars? Advice on this? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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-Cory Booker ☑️ -Chris Van Hollen ☑️ -AOC ☑️ -Bernie ☑️ We need more of you out there making LOUD LOUD noises! And right quick, people!

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"It is so important because it is “a choke point for all agencies,” said Steven Schooner, a George Washington University law...professor who specializes in government contracting. “They can, in effect, stop all civilian agencies from purchasing, period. That’s everything.” apnews.com/article/doge...

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My climate change dashboard is updated for this month... Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🧪⚒️

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87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Universities around the country are forming mutual defense compacts to share resources to fight assaults by the administration. Source MSNBC.

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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

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Once again, Donald Trump has shown he only cares about absolute power. Just this week, he froze almost $800 million in already-approved funds for research at Northwestern — in retaliation for students exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Find yur protest Clear social media from yur phone Stay safe And Protest www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.

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Wait until the White House hears about earthworms and several hundred different species of fish.

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🚨 I have another record to share - carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged a record high of 428.2 ppm in March 2025 10 years ago March averaged about 401.7 ppm Provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. Climate monitoring and data like this are at risk. #StandUpForScience

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A MORAL CRISIS “The rule of law is being trampled. Innocent people are being disappeared. Court orders are being ignored. If you claim to love this country—if you believe in the Constitution, due process, order, and justice—this must be your line in the sand.” Take 3 minutes. This is important.

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Every single Q has to be asking about the WH's unwillingness to free an innocent man-- --and hammering the prez over and over about why Garcia wasn't given the due process he deserved.

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Blue states should pass laws requiring that tariffs are itemized and clearly shown in purchase receipts, by the way. Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.

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PeerJ An update on Aenocyon dirus in the interior of North America: new records, radiocarbon dates, ZooMS spectra, and isotopic data for an iconic late Pleistocene carnivore https://peerj.com/articles/19219/ @peerj.bsky.social

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My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume data visualizations were just updated through March 2025: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

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Inspired by my earlier thoughts today, a childhood bee sting, and something a colleague Paul Walsh said, my weekend thoughts in Forbes dot com offers advice for aspiring scientists right now. And perhaps for seasoned ones too. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

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New shark new shark NEW SHARK Description of a new species of hound shark of the genus Iago (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae) from the northern Indian Ocean. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 72(1), 18–28 shark-references.com/species/view... 🧪🦑🦈🐟

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It's impossible to overestimate how damaging this would be for everything from routine weather forecasting, to modeling and tracking hurricanes, to preparing for climate change. Every American will be worse off if this happens. For decades to come. (Gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...

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Very informative chart from Washington Post

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Welp. www.science.org/content/arti...

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With ENSO-neutral conditions returning to the equatorial Pacific... ...Gulf Coast states face will very likely increased risk of hurricanes 🌀 this year compared to 2024... ...which could bring FEMA cuts and cuts to other assistance into sharp focus. #elnino #lanina #2025hurricaneseason

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🚨 Today the House takes up the SAVE Act 🚨 This bill makes it harder for citizens to vote (especially those who changed their names due to getting married). ▪Driver's licenses aren't proof, ▪Real IDs aren't proof. 1 of 2

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Every Democrat should back @schiff.senate.gov and demand an investigation. Do what Republicans do: flood cable news, light up social & drop every detail you’ve got. Republicans won’t hold hearings? Fine—hold your own. Do it in red districts. Live stream it and we’ll make it go viral.

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Trump Blinked. In a just world, that's the headline in all newspapers.

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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UPDATED UPDATE: Trump on the markets: “Up 2500 points. Nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record.” Went the full cycle in less than a week nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record.

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Seems like that all this did was turn our trading partners into competitors. This is not "all's well that ends well." Other countries don't trust us now, because the tariffs can be slapped on again at a moment's notice based on his mood. I wonder how much $$$ he made today yo-yoing the market.

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"De-extinction" is to the biodiversity crisis as geoengineering/carbon capture are to climate change. The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.

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Yes. 100%.

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Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

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