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This is a Time cover I can get behind.

This has been a long pattern - look it up πŸ‘‡ And now, like clockwork, Trump is destroying our economy once again. #DemocratsDeliverJobs

β€œIf the defining feeling of the start of the first Trump administration was chaos, its equivalent in this term is whiplash,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. β€œThe president and his aides have been changing their minds and positions at nauseating speed.”

March 6, 2025:

"State Superintendent Ryan Walters says the 500 Bibles endorsed by President Donald Trump will be going to AP, U.S. History classrooms as a tool to teach about the foundations of America." A clear indication that you've chosen to stop teaching history. πŸ—ƒοΈ www.news9.com/story/67c90f...

β€œRoad accidents seem to be behind the natural selection of black squirrels in US cities, as they may be easier than grey ones for motorists to spot and swerve to avoid” #scicomm #animalcoloration www.newscientist.com/article/2469... πŸ§ͺ 🦊 🐿️

A leader, an inspiring leader to the core!! πŸ™πŸ™πŸ§ͺπŸ§ πŸ…πŸ… He led NIH through blue and red times, economic booms and busts, and always, effectively got congress to support science and heath research. 'You go! @thebalelab.bsky.social

Another wave of previously unimaginable events in the US www.nature.com/articles/d41... πŸ§ͺ

John Lennon on creativity

Creativity is resistance.

A picture tells a thousand words.

February 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

this week in stupid: February 22 edition www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-... A weak, pathetic little man.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o... He is a modern day Caligula.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Ladies they are coming for our voting rights! Call your representatives and tell them to stop this. Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

Say good morning to my latest addition, Lenny. He’s a Portugese Podengo Pequeno and he’s perfect!

"As a politician, Trump positioned himself as standing above the corruption of the system," Jonathan Chait writes. What seems clear now "is that Trump genuinely believes in corruption as a normal and acceptable way to do business.” ET HIM OUT OF POWER AND OUT OF OUR LIVES

I don’t normally post celebrity gossip, but check out this photo of the hottest star in the known universe: WR 102. Its surface temperature is over 200,000 degrees Kelvin, versus the Sun’s surface at around 5,800K πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸŒŸ πŸ“· Richard Harris

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌎🐠

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

On July 1st, 2024, these six Republican Supreme Court justices handed down an asinine and dangerous decision that gives Trump the sweeping immunity from prosecution he is now using to commit unconstitutional acts and destroy our government and Democracy before our very eyes. #ResistTrump

Article 1 Section 8 CONGRESS shall have the power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.

NEW: According to a source, the DoJ has sent out 14 memos in the last half hour including: Reviving the death penalty Sanctuary jurisdiction directives Rescinding environmental justice directives And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5...

www.npr.org/2025/01/15/g... I love Tiny Desk πŸ’–

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Now NOAA has been seized β€” just like the Department of Treasury, USAID, and Department of Education. Elon Musk and his DOGE gang are at it again β€” storming past security and demanding access to IT systems. Insisting on access to confidential information. Increasingly emboldened staffers of…