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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

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Climatologist @frediotto.bsky.social - ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’ - her new book argues that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and says what we need to do about it #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I for one feel sad that the last public figure meeting the Pope had before dying was this one

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Should be a much higher bar for dumping data acquired using taxpayer funds. More from @eos.org : eos.org/research-and...

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This is some fascist stuff: illness as a moral failing, bodies assets for and property of the nation, “health” equalling morally good, while illness is coded as parasitic on the nation. Dark times.

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⬇️ Here, @gregsargent.bsky.social ’s piece buttresses @vanhollen.senate.gov ’s point that if you’re not willing to defend the Constitution, you’re not fit to lead! While Americans support tighter controls on immigration, they also want fairness, in particular due process.

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The latest story about Pete Hegseth’s carelessness with sensitive information is yet another alarming example in this administration’s unbroken pattern of incompetence. He should resign.

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In case you're wondering why anyone thinks we can get gut the budget of the National Weather Service, this is how those morons think we forecast weather.

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i will remark again on this hallmark of maga politics, which is that trump embodies the organic will of the voters and this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.

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Thank you to all the 450+ people that showed up yesterday!! Join us again next Saturday to let Elon know we do not stand for fascism. #deportmusk #teslatakedown #Boston @naomivision Naomi Yang @teslatakedown.com

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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

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so they're mycoblogging

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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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Maybe this is unduly optimistic, but I actually think any cabinet vacancies will be CONSIDERABLY harder to fill now

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i couldn’t help but wonder, would i ever be added to a group signal chat with classified information?

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We actually gave them all raises Lenny.

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Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

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In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing ,the US government failed to investigate and prosecute the larger white supremacist movement of which it was an expression. Case just focused narrowly on McVeigh. Yet another decision that looks pretty bad in retrospect.

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Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me, And we, like friends, will straightway go together.

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American citizens keep getting rounded-up by ICE. And it's gonna keep happening. During the first Trump admin, 70 Americans were mistakenly deported. From March, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Do you really deny that there are tens of thousands of people on Twitter, 4chan, etc. who have adopted a politics of outright sociopathy because of weird online permission structures?

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I don’t know if I’m Gen Z’s most dangerous candidate, but I know Elon Musk thinks so: youtu.be/3daDf_iih5g?...

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Why was Jesus crucified? Because he became too woke.

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Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved. by J. D. Vance

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To kick off our new ban on FDA food inspections, we are promising parents that the chocolate at this year’s White House Easter egg hunt will be poisoned. by Donald Trump

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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

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he really got him here

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I wrote a piece for MSNBC about the growth of independent progressive media: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Rally against billionaire Elon Musk and #Tesla outside the store in #Boston at finish line of #BostonMarathon.

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230 people strong at the Tesla Takedown in Dedham, MA on April 19th.

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Austin #TeslaTakedown takes it to the south location today, as strong as ever!

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just another obviously fake screencap that hundreds of people are nevertheless falling for and sharing

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SCOTUS Freezes Alien Enemy Removals In Rare, Urgent, Late-Night Order talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

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Every Marylander deserves an equal opportunity to thrive. Last week, I signed the Model Employer Act into law to help turn that vision into a reality.

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The proposed NOAA budget gutting would also eliminate the Climate Adaptation Program (CAP). The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, the org I work for, is the CAP for Alaska and has been working for Alaskans since 2006. #akwx #climate #NOAA alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

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Can district courts order the executive branch to engage in specific acts of diplomatic negotiation? If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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This should lead to criminal charges against Leland Dudek and the people at DOGE who did this. I’m deadly serious about it. They committed fraud by deliberately marking people dead who were alive.

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President Trump continues to manipulate tariffs for personal profit: this time with a “suite” of thematic “Truth Social-branded” investment portfolios organized under the laughably ironic themes of “Faith & Values,” “Liberty & Security,” “Energy Independence,” and “Made in America.”

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According to this guy he was also part of TPUSA. They've always been filled with white supremacists, but now it appears they have their first white supremacist mass shooter.

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You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

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GM workers in Mexico have won record raises. Despite GM's strikebreaking they secured raises averaging 10%. It's a pivotal campaign supported by the @uaw.org and other worker allies that could boost wages and conditions for autoworkers across North America. labornotes.org/2025/04/unmo...

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The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.

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Power plants in areas with high electricity demand but limited power lines stand to lose $billions per year if new power lines allow cheaper imports. These power plants' owners have motive and opportunity to derail processes by which new power lines get built. Nice work @catiehausman.bsky.social!

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