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NASA is asking the public to help with studying this phenomena. Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera. #CitizenScience #NoctilucentClouds #Atmosphere 📷🧪⚒️ science.nasa.gov/get-involved...

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Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs insideclimatenews.org/news/1605202...

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“The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by [Zionists] to dispossess and … displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With the … complicity of the Global North, this ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion campaign is now 77 years strong”

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If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Politicians in the 'West' have been quiet. Imagine if Russia would have done this in Ukraine. "On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 63 days ago • 69 comments

@tweakers.net heel leuk om te zien dat jullie hier op Blue Sky zijn 🎊🎊❤️❤️

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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

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We're thrilled to share that our new film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism will be screening at the Sedona International Film Festival next week on Feb. 24th & 26th! Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0 @peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 105 days ago • 132 comments

What if working within the system no longer works? Here’s a call not for revolution but for new creative forms of collective self defense. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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As always, if you're a government worker or tech worker, you can reach me on Signal at velliott88.18

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Wow. This new paper in Science shows how we will be toast at 2.7C unless we have big changes. phys.org/news/2025-02...

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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 117 days ago • 1044 comments

Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.

submitted 117 days ago • 477 comments

Liz Cheney to JD Vance: "You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 117 days ago • 118 comments

This was YESTERDAY. #HandsOffOurMedicaid

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youtube.com/watch?v=CVgN... Great and very needed pep talk by @aoc.bsky.social don't give up in advance ! Dont go down without a fight. Thank you AOC for showing leadership when it matters, I truly believe you will become president one day . #usa #trump #politics

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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals | grist.org/science/a-th... All hell is breaking loose in front of our eyes, and all we can talk about is US politics

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I challenge you to read this article and then copy and paste the link & send it to 5 friends or family members. They may not believe it, but at least they won't be able to say that they never heard this information. It's not good news, but it's important to understand. grist.org/science/a-th...

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"Touching: Palestinian young man reunites with his mother after 15 months of absence." #مؤثر: شاب فلسـ.ـطيني يلتقي بوالدته بعد 15 شهراً من الغياب .. www.threads.net/@tulkaremnew...

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Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

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As hurricane-force winds fan the most destructive wildfires in California history across bone-dry foothills, communities face the dual threat of natural forces and a warming world. And the wildfires show no sign of slowing down.

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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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“According to the Army’s advertising agency, younger generations view the real world through social media discussions, videos, and memes, which influences their values and beliefs.”

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"Sila, a newborn baby from Gaza, died from the freezing cold in a tent... She was one of 7 infants who have died from hypothermia... ...the needs of families are immense. #Gaza's children cannot wait. They need a ceasefire NOW!" www.threads.net/@unicef/post... #BoycottIsrael #Israel #Palestine

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"The World Health Organisation is demanding Israel ends its attacks on Gaza's hospitals immediately... As medical services struggle in the midst of the attacks, the cold and rain has claimed the lives of at least six newborns..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRAr...

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'Gaza is entering its second winter under attack from Israel... we speak with veteran Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin... “We need to put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the agenda again and make sure this is the last war we fight,” says Baskin.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7i2...

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youtube.com/post/UgkxPNw... #democracynow support real independent journalism

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‘I don’t want flowers, I want my Ukraine’: women’s acts of resistance against Russian occupation

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WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital

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⚡️Russia suffered 421,000 casualties in 2024, 'highest price' since start of invasion, Syrskyi says. The figure includes both dead and wounded and is part of the total losses of approximately 785,000 Russian troops since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022.

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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party

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Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal one American militia's journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. Our third most-read story this year (published August) 👇

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⚡️North Korean troops suffer over 1,000 losses in Kursk Oblast in past week, White House says. "It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable," National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said on Dec. 27.

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Jarenlang documentaires voor gemaakt. Spijtig en dom besluit van @vpro.nl, vooral omdat de geestelijke ruimte die Tegenlicht heeft bevochten niet meer terug zal komen na afschaffing, zeker niet bij kijkcijfergeile netmanagers. Klap voor het onderwijs ook, dat gebruik maakte van talloze uitzendingen

submitted 172 days ago • 34 comments

Holy shit, Mad Magazine 👏👏👏 Pulling no punches.

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