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Our kids' futures should not be sacrificed for billionaire tax cuts. Slashing the Department of Education puts millions of students at risk. Stand with us to fight back! Call your lawmakers at 202-224-3121. Hands Off Public Schools social.demcast.com/s/JVM0v9c6

Please watch, share, and contact your members of Congress to save science funding! 🌎

youtube.com/live/xdtIKFt... Support our scientific community! Join the livestream and call your representatives!

Hey Laguna! Who’s this?? Racists are not welcome here.

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Something to think about

“One of the least-known stories of the Irish who came to America in the 1840s is that of this Irish battalion that fought on the Mexican side in the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848.” www.latinorebels.com/2015/03/15/t... #StPatricksDay

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Every day! 😂

✨ Sticker Giveaway + Membership Drive ✨ I’ll send you the three stickers below for free, instructions in the comments below 👇 The drive will run until tomorrow at midnight and is eligible for NEW members OR EXISTING members who share this post! Sign up here >> Patreon.com/luke_venechuk Read on

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ... link.motherjones.com/public/38940...

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

Apologies for posting so often but there's so much going on. The personal stories coming out are gut wrenching and deserve to be heard. Ranger Gibbs is one of them.

Great advice from @mark.bsky.social today: if you see something, save something. @archive.org has a free tool on their website that allows anyone to save a webpage they fear might disappear. There's even a browser extension that allows you to save every page you visit, if you are so inclined.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Marching orders from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.

We updated TrumpGolfTrack.com to include the price of eggs and gas per your request. And a nice little home screen icon. More to come 🤣

As we endure these unprecedented assaults on our institutions and Democracy by Felon47 please take these wise words from James Baldwin to heart! We are the #Opposition let’s make their inhumanity our sole focus. Call it out every damn day!!

Take a look at this thing a cool Redditor created (fact chekable, too) www.reddit.com/r/Project202...

@gregpalast.bsky.social @tomhartmann.bsky.social Greg Palast explains how millions of ballots and votes were rejected and/or voters purged. #election2024 @kamalahqofficial.bsky.social @jessicadenson07.bsky.social #kamalawon youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?...

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

A friendly reminder: Global warming equals unstable , crazy weather, not uniformly warmer weather.

I have a feeling someone may need this today. This is a time that will try all our souls. We must let our friends & family know we see them, we value them & we will stand up to protect everyone’s right to be themselves.

What the world needs now... We shall overcome #MLKday Watch this today instead of that clown show in DC youtu.be/MWW24zbHM2U?...

These next four years are gonna be tough: 🌈 Pace Yourself 🌈 Protect Yourself 🌈 Take it One Day at a Time 🌈 Connect & Care For Your Community Pass it on Thanks @hrc.org for the reminders

UCLA study reveals that climate change was a major factor in the LA wildfires. Two unusually wet winters primed the landscape by creating more vegetation, which then dried out due to an unusually hot summer, creating a tinderbox ripe for fire. sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

When you're too stupid to get the joke.

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

I’m done with META so I hope it’s better here. I post lots of cloud photos. My first sunset picture of 2025.