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lindzlong.bsky.social
Conservationist and Lake Superior mega-fan. Household of pointing dogs and cats with attitude. Wildlife veterinarian (free-ranging population medicine) = profession. Yay, kindness! She/her
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Critical: "deportation" does not apply here. It's abduction and trafficking.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

former VOA Mandarin service employee here, and as bad a loss as that is, the shuttering of RFA is awful news for less commonly represented languages -- Uyghur was the first to come to mind for me, but I'm sure you can think of others

Please, guys, don't forget us. The war is back again. The bombing is massive and random. We beg you. We are also souls and we don't want to die 😭🙏

Netanyahu announced today the return of genocide against our children. He is destroying everything. This is the result of a large number of rockets exploding next to us. Please help us. #gaza @mommunism.bsky.social tinyurl.com/np2hxapp

"Tuberculosis and HIV patients have been missing their medication for weeks; disabled children have been locked out of rehabilitation centers; rights groups have faced cuts in their ability to distribute food and water to people. . ."

DOGE is trying to layer on administrative burden to prevent disabled people and older adults from accessing Social Security benefits to which they’re entitled. People in rural communities will be hit especially hard. Field offices are already overwhelmed.

Keep writing in your local newspapers. Keep doing it.

Thus can happen to any of us. With no due process? You get “disappeared.”

As majority of us have been preaching for last three decades, while our friends mocked us-“Climate Crisis” is about to become the “Climate Apocalypse” open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

Happy 17 Ramadan. Multiple friends in Gaza have messaged frantically about new strikes across the strip. Pray for Gaza my friends.

I was at USIP tonight to conduct congressional oversight over DOGE’s break in. I spoke with Acting President & CEO Moose. USIP is an independent, non-profit entity and I will work to stop DOGE’s illegal power grab.

An update, per a source NOAA has done something similar to what NIH did, reinstating fired probationary employees but only in a "non-duty" capacity. They are getting paid but without access to email or anything so they can't actually do their jobs. The height of efficiency.

It's way down the list and pales in comparison to the same issue w/ Musk, but worth noting amidst all the other constitutional breakdowns going on: Homan is not in legally charge of anything and has not been appointed to any Senate-confirmed office. He's another "advisor" being given unlawful power.

NEWS: Federal auditors just admitted that Medicare fraud is the largest source of government fraud in America. But instead of targeting health care industry billing schemes, Elon Musk's DOGE is instead firing workers and eyeing Social Security cuts. www.levernews.com/how-dems-are...

More than 150 employees responsible for managing and upgrading the U.S. nuclear arsenal have been fired or forced out by DOGE.

This is a great question. As far as I’m aware, it is the U.S….where is the money coming from?

The Vietnam War may have ended, but its devastation still lingers. Now, thanks to the #DOGECuts, the U.S. government is implicated in yet another unfolding tragedy in Vietnam. #AgentOrange

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/

I know there's a lot of other shit going on. We still need to care about Gaza.

Israel has ended the ceasefire and is firing upon Gaza en masse yet again

We’ve arrived to Nome, The Widow’s Lamp has been extinguished signaling all mushers are safely off the trail, and the spreadsheet is locked! We will work on updating the final tally for you all in the next day or so. Thank you so much for all your support, shares, matches! #igivearod #UglyDogs

Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich. Hello?

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Oh the irony of a president that sends feds back to the office while he works from home. Which, conveniently, is also *his place of business.* “At the same time that he is bemoaning waste and fraud in the federal government, he’s actually through this travel having taxpayers pay his businesses."

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Make the Cuyahoga flammable again

Israel cut off electricity, which means the desalination water plants can’t clean the water. People are murdered while trying to get food and water for their families. I know we are trained to look away from the suffering, to be apathetic, but please consider donating to someone if you can.

NEW: Photo released showing the treatment of 100s of people deported by Trump to El Salvador, in defiance of a federal judge ruling. Remember, none of these individuals had any due process. They had no opportunity to contest any evidence, if is existed. A grievous human rights violation. 1/2

Mind you, the constitution outlines that slavery is only permitted as punishment for a crime (ik guys, ik) these people were NOT convicted of anything. Yet here they are now enslaved by the USA. Ppl are being enslaved again regardless of criminal status by the UNITED FUCKING STATES IN 2025 HELLO?!

Trump says his administration is “actively monitoring the severe tornadoes and storms” that have already hit multiple states. These storms need to be monitored beforehand. Trump’s DOGE cut NOAA. People are now dead.

“I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met” Absolute #mustread for Zeteo from Jonathan Ben-Menachem, who also argues that “we cannot allow fascists to use the pretext of Jewish safety to attack our communities.” Read/share/subscribe:

Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

Take seriously what @danshafer.bsky.social says: “The cavalry is not coming. It’s up to us. As the perennial canary in the coal mine of every political issue, of course it’s up to us here in Wisconsin … to save our own democracy.”

nice DMs babe... don't mind me, just having a little look around for your safety

Nailed it @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "If reality has departed from the norms, so should your descriptions of that reality. ... I am tired of mainstream media pretending that neutrality and gullibility are the same thing." Me too!

As Trump orders federal employees back into the office 5 days a week — "I don’t think you can work from home" — workers note that he is spending an awful lot of time at Mar-a-Lago, signing EOs, holding a press conference. In other words, he's working from home. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

No reason to trust that ICE is really deporting bad guys, or that Trump's unconstitutional justification for doing so will not be used for others.

Civil War historian here so now the American Civil War is a DEI woke subject? The Trump regime is in a full blown fascist attack on all US history.

Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington."

Madison-area dog owners: kick off the first day of Early Vote on Tuesday with Pet Out The Vote on Library Mall at 1pm! Bring social, well-behaved doggos willing to be petted by tons of UW students as you urge them to vote. RSVP here... and drop dog photo in replies! www.mobilize.us/wisdems/even...

We're outsourcing concentration camps to El Salvador. This is horrifying, especially when they're simply using random tattoos to claim people are in gangs. A simple Michael Jordan tattoo can get you put in a concentration camp in El Salvador.