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Unfortunately I won’t be to DC in time, but this rally for Ukraine is happening in Lincoln memorial. Attend if you can and Slava Ukrainii!

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Interesting for those of us reading sci-fi

Yup

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency.

The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

The Trump administration reversed itself on making funding and staff cuts to a federal health program for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, after bipartisan criticism of the moves.

One month after being pardoned by President Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was arrested again on charges of assaulting a protester at a bizarre news conference held outside the Capitol on Friday.

Elon Musk and his team say they have saved the government $55 billion. Their “wall of receipts” is riddled with mistakes.

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

⚡️EU preparing military aid package for Kyiv worth $20.9 billion, Bloomberg reports. The additional military support would supply Kyiv with air defense systems, artillery ammunition, long-range missiles, and drones.

More attacks on US science by stealth as new research grants still frozen! Grants issued via 2 step process- one to assess science via science board and one a grant review step with a membership of a wider board that get final approval to sign the money of based upon initial recommendation 🧪🧵

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(╯°□°)╯︵ into the feeds 🧪⚕️⚛️🔭

🌊❄️ Warming Weakens Carbon Sink but Boosts Mercury in Antarctica A new study reveals that West Antarctic glacier retreat reduces carbon sequestration while increasing mercury levels, posing risks to marine life. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateChange #Antarctica #Mercury 🧪

Sea surface temperature in the Balearic sea. 2025 is starting with warm #temperature... 🥵 🧪🌊

Scientists, #HPS scholars & experts help protect NOAA: Join me in signing this open letter calling on Congress & the Trump admin to ensure that NOAA & its sub-agencies remain fully funded & staffed, & that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk 🧪 ⚒️

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

🧪 As a scientist, and definitely not a fan of conspiracy theories, we have no direct evidence. For the KGB and post-Soviet Russia, that is a feature, not a bug. Nevertheless, the circumstantial evidence over decades, to the present-day bizarre behavior of Trump (when ? about Putin) is overwhelming.

Neat if true

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Canadian humour post hockey game

Where are you headed again USA? From the "Depths" Artwork by William Balfour Ker (1906)