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I may not have seen a tornado chasing yesterday, but I still came away pleased with the experience. No place like the Great Plains.

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Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

This is truly sick.

submitted 12 hours ago • 53 comments

This makes me ill

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These fired federal workers were stewards of tax payer dollars. That’s why firing 121,000 of them has caused government spending to go UP. Federal employees save more money than they cost. For example, the VA paid me $120K a year and I saved them $60M a year.

submitted 12 hours ago • 58 comments

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social has been one of our fiercest advocates. That's why we've added his upcoming book Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America to our 20% off Preorders We're Excited About list. It comes out August 19th, but lock in your discount now: theliteratelizard.com/list/preorde...

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Trump’s second term will be the worst presidential term ever | Steven Greenhouse

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Idaho Governor issues a Trump-like Executive Order that aims to boost commercial logging in national forests in Idaho. But the E.O. refuses to use the word "logging." Why? Because majority of people hate big stumps almost as much as they fear big fires. www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

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More ocean destruction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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No exaggeration, deep sea mining could cause the massive collapse of the entire deep sea ecosystem and food chain. This is an existential risk to every person on this planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/c...

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We tried deep-sea mining in U.S. waters already -- back in 1970 -- off the South Carolina coast. Scientists returned to the undersea site in 2023 to see what it looked liked now. One told me: "It's like they were there yesterday." My story: pulitzercenter.org/stories/pull... #deepseamining

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Michelle Obama addressed why she skipped President Trump's second inauguration during the latest episode of the former first lady's podcast that was released today.

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How might wildfire season play out in Canada this year? I discuss with @mikeflannigan.bsky.social Check it out 👇 youtu.be/eW2q0-HrHk8

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"The Trump administration cited 'wildfire risk reduction' when it issued an emergency order to increase logging in national forests by 25%. But logging that focuses on extracting the highest-value trees leaves thinner trees that are more vulnerable to fires." 🌏 theconversation.com/controlled-b...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Great message and beautiful data visualization. 🪶

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

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Millions of people across Southern California learned about a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit San Diego County on Monday not from their windows rattling or their picture frames clattering, but from a noisy alert on their mobile phones seconds before the shaking started.

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National forests are on the chopping block. Trump’s order to expand U.S. timber production includes all of California’s national forests. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Timber production is not an emergency.

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a few recent springtime mites: 1 - a little dark Galumnid passes behind a larger Euptyctima (both oribatids) 😘 2 - Penthaleid "earth mite" w/ a perfect crystal ball of fluid exuded from its dorsal anus 🤩 3 - hypersaturated Trombidiid red velvet mite ❤️ 4 - wonderfully wrinkled Bryobia spider mite 🧓

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This post by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demonstrates clear defiance of the Endangered Species Act. He states that regulation is not the solution. Innovation is needed- in concert with regulation- to find new paths to recovery while protecting what still exists. #Resist

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

Two heroic stray dogs rescued an injured dog from the middle of the road by dragging him to safety. The dog had been hit by a car and was stranded. Many cars passed by, but it was two stray dogs who pulled him off the road. The injured dog survived, and the stray dogs were rescued. 15/10 for both

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Were the thunderstorms in SoCal today truly a surprise, and unpredicted, as has been widely claimed online and in news headlines? Nope. The possibility was clearly articulated in NOAA/NWS forecasts for today! But not, for the most part, on smartphone weather apps...

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of mushrooms, puffballs & other fungi. More than 400 of the species assessed are at risk of extinction. Read:

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The last time the US set tariffs this high, it was 1930 -- and it sparked a global trade war that caused international trade to PLUMMET. By 66%.

submitted 27 days ago • 361 comments

More winning!

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Too bad we can’t do it to protect this almost untouched eco system, but Vescovo is right: “If you want to stop deep-sea mining, you have to stop the funding.”

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This fabulous little bird is a Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher. Despite the name, they mostly eat berries and forage for insects when they are feeding chicks. They are thought to be related to waxwings and used to be grouped in the same family. 🪶 San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica

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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

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Herring still seem to be spawning in Tomales Bay, CA and the scaup (mostly Greater Scaup) are feeding on the roe being deposited in the eelgrass beds here at Cypress Grove. #birds

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Why the election in Wisconsin on Monday should matter to all Americans: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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The U.S. foreign aid freeze blocks the establishment of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area (MPA). Ghana’s small pelagics — sardines, anchovy and mackerels — make up about 60% of local fish landings and serve as a primary source of protein for almost two-thirds of the country’s population.

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JUST POSTED: First Greenland. Then Panama Canal. Now (perhaps) Seabed Metals. Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans. nyti.ms/3FJhiiy

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A Veery just sang during this dead-of-winter scene in Severance S2E3. What the hell!

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

who's on what platform, 2025 edition

submitted 40 days ago • 107 comments

At some point normal people are going to notice that Trump is disassembling the federal government, right?

submitted 39 days ago • 884 comments

Bring it on Frilled Shark! #2025MMM

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This is the great hammerhead shark we caught with my Georgetown students last week. (These animals are protected and very fragile so our team works them up carefully and quickly). 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈

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🍌 These slugs are a pretty big deal (literally and figuratively)! Just in time for Snail Search 2025, California finally has a state slug: 𝘼𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙭, a.k.a. the banana slug. bit.ly/CAStateSlug

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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

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Not how it works. And they know it. The courts must come down on the Trump administration for this so hard that they do not dare disobey a court order again. I have seen judges do this with juveniles. Explain to me again why they cannot do it with DOJ or the FBI or Marco Rubio.

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“Almost one-third of oceanic sharks and rays, two-thirds of coral-reef associated sharks and rays, and 62% of guitar fishes are now threatened with extinction”

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The eventual fate of the GOP

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Small Craft Advisory issued March 15 at 8:31PM PDT until March 15 at 9:00PM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA Additional Details Here. (1/5)

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