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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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The other dog's reaction got me 🤣 -- Mallory Grayson

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20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.

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Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

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From @economist.com h/t @katribertram.bsky.social

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A hypocrite is someone who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, or principles that they do not actually possess, especially when their actions contradict their stated beliefs.

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Dog said, "Yup, smells like family to me. ❤"

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Timeline Cleanse: We're always finding ways to go where we're needed. Our teams constantly adapt to ensure we can reach and provide care to our patients. Medical needs don't stop and neither do we.

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What’s to stop the Trump regime from arresting American citizens who support any cause the regime doesn’t like? Where, may I ask, are the “First Amendment absolutists” these days? Where are all the Republicans who for years have accused liberals of “cancelling” their views?

submitted 10 days ago • 225 comments

I'm voting NO on the Republican shutdown bill. NO on handing Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want. NO on cutting funding that helps families put food on the table and crack down on wealthy tax cheats. We need to push back.

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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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DOGE now must open its records to the public under federal law: “The rapid pace of [DOGE’s] actions requires the quick release of information about its structure and activities."

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Elon Musk’s staffers have been granted access to a sensitive child support database by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The data access was approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite resistance from career employees within the department. Sorry, we tried…

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@drneilstone.bsky.social

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Trump and Musk are going after Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, and public education. In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?

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U.S. employers announced plans to cut 172k jobs in February. Trump's massive federal layoffs and uncertainty around his economic policies helped contribute to the biggest monthly total of planned job cuts since the Great Recession. Does this sound like economic leadership?

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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

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Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island extended an order preventing the Trump administration from withholding billions in congressionally approved funds to 22 states and the District of Columbia.

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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 18 days ago • 2059 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

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wanna feel old? it used to be Crime AND Punishment

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Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

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Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

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We just want to remind you: You’re not alone. We’re all in this together, and we’ll get through it together. We’ve seen so many people sharing their feelings of anxiety and stress—please take a moment for yourself. Your well-being matters. Sending you hugs—you are amazing, and we love you all! 💚

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My friend and screenwriter @toddalcott.bsky.social wrote this, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense.

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What Chellie can’t say out loud yet is that it’s also blatant retaliation for Gov. Mills challenging Trump to his face last week. There are 34 National Sea Grant programs. Maine’s is the only one that was targeted. Vindictive pettiness is not how the UNITED States should operate.

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REPOST if you stand with Maine Governor Janet Mills against Donald Trump!

submitted 30 days ago • 103 comments

Just saying.

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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

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for those keeping score at home— Hillary Clinton: 0 felony counts Joe Biden: 0 felony counts Hunter Biden: 0 felony counts Dr. Fauci: 0 felony counts Barack Obama: 0 felony counts Donald Trump: 7 FELONY COUNTS

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Ruhle: Do you consider yourselves left-wing media? Jordy Meiselas: We cast a big umbrella here, and more so than anything, I consider ourselves unapologetically pro-democracy. If you're pro-Constitution, pro-upholding norms, and pro-democracy, there's a spot for you on our roster.

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Authoritarians can’t rise if there are strong communities and people are acting with joy…you need despair and anger in order for an authoritarian to rise…Showing up and doing the things you love says to an authoritarian, “You have no place to root here!” -Heather Cox Richardson

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Breaking News: An unvaccinated child died of measles in Texas, officials said, the first known death from an outbreak that began in January.

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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Over the past month, the Trump administration has enacted dramatic budget cuts and mass layoffs across federal health and science agencies. In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bf3rfn

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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

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Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, challenged President Trump during a White House meeting on Friday. The fight has thrust Mills onto the national stage, making her a folk hero to her party and a political target. Here's what to know.

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I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

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