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submitted 13 days ago • 1062 comments

🔥Natl Cancer Institute Employees CAN'T PUBLISH Info on These Topics WITHOUT SPECIAL APPROVAL: Vaccines, fluoride, autism, & 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Sec RFK Jr. 🤬 1/4 www.propublica.org/article/nati...

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

submitted 23 days ago • 396 comments

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

submitted 28 days ago • 639 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 47 days ago • 299 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 33 days ago • 983 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 36 days ago • 2218 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 39 days ago • 176 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 41 days ago • 834 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 44 days ago • 497 comments

While Musk is investigating agencies with his DOGE team, he is hoping you'll forget all the investigations and controversies he has accrued through the last few decades.

submitted 44 days ago • 28 comments

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

submitted 45 days ago • 992 comments

Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies. She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas. Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia. I can't stop thinking about her. 💔

submitted 46 days ago • 122 comments

JUST IN: Elon Musk-owned X will pay to settle a lawsuit from his close ally Donald Trump over the president's Jan. 6 suspension from the platform, reports say.

submitted 46 days ago • 117 comments

Authoritarians ask Musk to turn over lists of USAID staff The prime minister of Slovakia asked Musk to share information about NGOs and reporters who worked there. In Russia, the state duma speaker said, if USAID is an enemy organization, Russia wants a list, "and we’ll hand it over to the FSB.”

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

This says it all

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submitted 48 days ago • 240 comments

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

submitted 49 days ago • 89 comments

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 51 days ago • 731 comments

True.

submitted 52 days ago • 2020 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 53 days ago • 2265 comments

A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“

submitted 55 days ago • 127 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 54 days ago • 108 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 57 days ago • 86 comments

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

submitted 59 days ago • 921 comments

Here’s how the iOS beta testing works: 👇🏽Use this link to download both TestFlight and Skylight👇🏽 testflight.apple.com/join/s5RmNCGc 👇🏽Use this link to give us feedback on the app👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Only open for 1000 sign ups! Will be adding more soon!

submitted 66 days ago • 362 comments

the number of calls needed to make the point that a given vote will cost them is lower than we think, a powerful argument in favor of focusing our energies. you take issue A. I take B. someone else takes C. we make our weekly rounds. no one has to deal with the whole firehose at once

submitted 60 days ago • 20 comments

🚨IMMIGRATION POLICIES IN OK SCHOOLS We asked Supt. Ryan Walters if the Trump administration has asked for ICE raids in schools or to collect the citizenship status of students. WATCH the video for his response. #oklaed #oklahoma www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUEU...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

A rule requiring schools to verify U.S. citizenship during enrollment was unanimously approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday with protests outside. | Nuria Marines - Keel reports.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

submitted 64 days ago • 2217 comments

We have two special elections in Tulsa County this Spring. House District 74 in #Owasso is one we could flip blue. I know Amy and I know her to be someone who cares about #Tulsa County, and #Oklahoma Support her if you can, vote for verification you live in #HD74 www.facebook.com/share/12ERnM...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all. It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.” Be specific!

submitted 65 days ago • 33 comments

We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.

submitted 69 days ago • 105 comments

Do read through the 🧵 to get a real sense if his widespread this is and what terms are being censored. Not good.

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

As more people join BlueSky we need to build this up! Share and comment if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/MNU5Xe3

submitted 69 days ago • 12 comments

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

submitted 71 days ago • 171 comments

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

submitted 73 days ago • 578 comments

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a reporter to cover climate change as an investigative beat, examining how decisions by individuals, corporations and governments are shaping life-and-death outcomes for people across the U.S. and the world. Details, including salary range, 👇

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