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Get out of your bubble and listen to actual Ukrainians. All of these people speak English, though they may also post in Ukrainian. BE RESPECTFUL!!! They're (justifiably) very angry right now. Just listen. Don't explain, don't argue, don't say you're a "good American," don't ask for absolution.

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Lindsay Graham said Zelensky needs to resign. Putin has wanted Zelensky gone from Day 1. Another sign that the Trump administration wants to align with russia, not just walk away from helping Ukraine.

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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

submitted 2 days ago • 497 comments

Which Team are you on? a) War time leader legend b) Eyeliner Icon Vance

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

In tough days like today, it's more important than ever to protect Ukraine's heroes. Help raise $1.5M for armored evacuation vehicles. Every second counts. Donate now 👇

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Наша суб'єктність, як держави не має залежати від тимчасової дивної адміністрації десь за океаном. Так, США — наш партнер, як і інші країни цивілізованого заходу. Один партнер зараз марить — таке буває. Україна була до цього, буде і після. 🧵

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Rage donation may help: u24.gov.ua

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Make Ukraine Guilty Again! (animation)

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 15 days ago • 508 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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I will go to my execution in a Russian concentration camp wearing an "I told you so" T-shirt. Just for the fun of it. Hold on, my European friends.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"I have the strange feeling, this week in Kyiv, that Ukrainians are living freer lives now than Americans. At a book store where I was talking to a Ukrainian philosopher about freedom, a young woman put her hand on my arm and said 'sorry about the U.S.'"-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

My God, 600 trials at Hopkins now in jeopardy from Trump's draconian cuts to health research, including trials for cancer, pediatrics, & cardiovascular disease I guess cancer, children's health, and heart health are now too "woke" to address?

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

HAPPENING NOW: AIDS ADVOCATES ARE OUTSIDE THE US STATE DEPARTMENT TO PROTEST TRUMP AND RUBIOS FREEZE ON AID AND ATTACKS ON PEPFAR IMPACTING 20 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV WORLDWIDE.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 28 days ago • 354 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

submitted 33 days ago • 313 comments

PATHWAY to PEACE (animation)

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit manuscripts for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

submitted 36 days ago • 148 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 39 days ago • 610 comments

Mcleania darlingtoni from Puerto Rico. Love the fact that, even after almost 70,000 snail IDs, stuff like this that I've never even heard of just shows up. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Happy Birthday, General Budanov 🫡

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

RFK Jr. is an example of a skeptic grifter. There are legit critiques of medicine & its intersections with business & politics; It’s history of racism & sexism, etc. - all things that scholars of health, medicine, & disability bring to light & push medicine to do better. But that’s not his project.

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 71 days ago • 380 comments

In 1994 Ukraine, USA, Britain and Russia signed Budapest Memorandum, according to which Ukraine was to get rid of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. And then Russia attacked us in 2014. And then 2022. USA and Britain didn't keep their promises as well. #UkrainianView

submitted 84 days ago • 22 comments

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

submitted 79 days ago • 1222 comments

Kākāpō 101 No. 4. #kakapo mate for a very long time: often 45 mins and sometimes over an hour. For many bird species, mating takes just a few seconds. This is the male's sole contribution to the breeding process. #conservation #parrots #birds

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While Russia continues to launch dozens of Shahed drones against Ukrainian cities almost daily and more men are sent to the front line, brave Ukrainian women step up to protect the skies. The Kyiv Independent joined one such unit that refers to themselves as the Witches of Bucha.

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Now that the Assad regime has fallen, it might be a good time for Senators to ask Tulsi Gabbard why she went on an unsanctioned trip to meet with Assad and proceeded to say he isn’t an enemy of the United States.

submitted 84 days ago • 89 comments

🐜some recent ants 😎

submitted 305 days ago • 4 comments

Hi everyone. I felt really dejected for a long time about the state of science communication on Twitter, and was reluctant to give things a try on yet another new platform. I’m so touched by the support everyone has shown so let’s give this one last go, as KaiTheFishGuy on Blue Sky!

submitted 93 days ago • 90 comments

In a divided America, Thanksgiving can be stressful. So arrive prepared by reading up on yams (Dioscoreacea) and sweet potatoes (Convolvulaceae). Then sit next to that low-information relative who always brings it up. 🍠🌿🧪 #yams #sweetpotatoes #botany #thanksgiving colinpurrington.com/yams-versus-...

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WOW! 🤯 There are beetles… then there are BEETLES!!!! 🪲 Here at Manu Biostation this is one of the KINGS of the rainforest! 👑🌳 With its super long legs it uses to battle on trees, the male Harlequin Beetle may look intimidating… but is fairly friendly!! 😊 I LOVE BUGS!!!!!😍

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⚡️The two Facebook posts that inspired Ukraine’s liberation. On 21st November 2013 Mustafa Nayem👇🏽 sparked Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity with these two #Facebook posts. That day, then president of 🇺🇦 had, unexpectedly, refused at the last minute to sign a treaty with 🇪🇺.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

submitted 101 days ago • 980 comments

I’m going to say something historians rarely say. We haven’t been here before. We haven’t had a near-authoritarian takeover of our government. Admittedly, we don’t know what comes next. There’s a wide array of options. But know that in the US, this is new ground. And none of this is normal.

submitted 103 days ago • 339 comments

The Kyiv Independent has compiled a photo gallery of the key events that took place during a nearly three-year-long all-out war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions of others.

submitted 103 days ago • 8 comments

First Post on BlueSky. 🇺🇦 Today near Kurakhove We provided two 2kw power stations to former colleagues in 35 Brigade Marines. Thank you for your continued support! 🫡 🇺🇦 www.paypal.me/enveten917 www.buymeacoffee.com/ukrainetbic

submitted 105 days ago • 27 comments

Hey new followers! 🌞 Here's a sparkly blue eustyline weevil from the Colombian Andes near Pueblo Rico, Risaralda 💙💚 more pics on iNat: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

submitted 114 days ago • 69 comments

I second Joe Cardillo and add that Moscow-based Kirill Dorofeev being a director of Blockchain Capital is a massive red flag. Dorofeev works for VK, the Russian state social network.

submitted 106 days ago • 16 comments

⚡ Soldier Natalia Hrabarchuk destroyed a Russian missile with an Igla MANPADS during a massive Russian attack today. Remarkably, this was her first combat launch, and it resulted in a direct hit. Before joining the military, Natalia worked as a kindergarten teacher. 📹: The Air Force of the AFU

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments

Один Проти Всіх / One Against All (animation)

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Dudleya crassifolia in bloom last summer at Colonet Mesa, Baja California. This incredibly rare succulent has a global range of less than 1 acre (!!!), on a single sandstone shelf surrounded by chaparral. With such a tiny range, it is incredibly threatened and the land isn't currently protected.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments