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Hundreds of wolves are killed each year in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service predicts that rampant wolf killing under state laws could reduce the region's wolf population from an estimated 2,534 wolves to as few as 667. These wolves need protection. Take action. ⬇️

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

Make your calls!

Some good advice:

I agree.

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Make sure to call your House Rep and Senators. If their mailbox is full, call their local office.

I started talking about our life under competitive authoritarianism c.2017. Lots of folks on the Hellsite told me I was hysterically exaggerating. I’m appalled we’re here. But I’m glad to see the founding experts on competitive authoritarianism clearly explaining exactly where we are in 🇺🇸 in 2025.

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

Odds are good that someone in your life has received vital care at a university-affiliated hospital near you. Trump and Musk want to destroy them. Call your reps and demand they push back -- especially if they're Republicans. www.house.gov/representati...

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

Even the cat has had enough of this constitutional crisis that we're in.

USAID, NOAA …

CREW does good work. Please support them if you can.

WIRED has been doing vital work. If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.

In case you missed it:

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

I’m running the London Marathon in April, raising money for UNICEF (even more important now, given Trump’s impending foreign aid cuts)! I’ll match the first 1,000 pounds ($1,300) donated, so if you donate early, your impact will be doubled. 100% of the proceeds go to the charity—all to help kids.

Are TikTok users really dumb enough to buy this crap? That’s enough proof right there that this is a nat sec threat 🤦🏽‍♀️

If Donald Trump wasn't such an insecure individual, flags would remain at half-staff today in honor of President Jimmy Carter, even though it's Inauguration Day. time.com/7207144/trum...

Men like Hegseth don't change. He should not be confirmed.

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

All of this is so heartbreaking.

I’m running the London Marathon in April, raising money for UNICEF. Every bit helps! I will match the first 1,000 pounds ($1,300) donated, so if you donate now, your impact will be doubled. The link to donate is below and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the charity. Thanks!

This is nightmare fuel www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...