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Geologist from Wisconsin living in Japan for some decades. Always in wonder at the way the world is changing!
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Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions on Global Health www.kff.org/global-healt...

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Has Trump kept his day one promises? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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'Biggest shocker': CNN expert gobsmacked to see Trump tanking on 'bread and butter' issue www.rawstory.com/musk-trump-e...

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Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

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Trump Tracker 21 Feb 2025ByScience News Staff Latest: Judge won’t block mass firings of federal workers, including scientists www.science.org/content/arti...

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🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗🎀💗 MEXICO IS NOW MAKING ITS OWN ELECTRIC CARS. COST IS 90,000 PESOS THAT IS UNDER $4500

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Common Mushroom Fiber May Protect Against Flu, Study Finds www.sciencealert.com/common-mushr...

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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This

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Biological sex is not as simple as male or female Defining sex as a binary excludes many biological realities, scientists say www.sciencenews.org/article/biol...

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The Truth About the Sex Lives of Dinosaurs www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

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Modeling Mantle Dynamics as the Earth Slowly Cools eos.org/editor-highl...

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Chlorine radicals could be used to destroy methane heading for the atmosphere www.chemistryworld.com/news/chlorin...

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Hospital in Colorado to resume gender affirming care.

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Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

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Meet the capuchin monkey: Curious, creative and vengeful knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

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Doctor Realizes He's Having a Heart Attack While Treating Heart Attack Patient www.sciencealert.com/doctor-reali...

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Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

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Diagnostic dilemma: Weakness in a man's leg revealed his abnormally small brain www.livescience.com/health/diagn...

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Thousands at the Lincoln memorial standing up for Ukraine, proving Trump doesn't speak for all the US with his treason. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #USprotests #DCprotests #StandWithUkraine

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So, great! Bawahahaha!!!

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Astronomers Map Out 3D Structure of WASP-121b’s Atmosphere www.sci.news/astronomy/3d...

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Apothecary inventory offers glimpse into medicines from the 17th century www.chemistryworld.com/news/apothec...

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Minnesota is leading the way on combatting climate change, and we’re creating clean energy jobs in the process. www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it...

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A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud www.universetoday.com/170976/a-spi...

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Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.

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Why We Think Theia Existed The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth. www.universetoday.com/170940/why-w...

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New Theory Increases Probability of Intelligent Life beyond Earth www.sci.news/astronomy/ha...

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A proposed law could force California health insurers to explain claim denials www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive www.quantamagazine.org/catalytic-co...

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He nails it.

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😀the New Yorker magazine

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For those at the back…

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From United Humanists on FB

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Without friends

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The EU stepping in when the Russian compromised leader of the United States won't.

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