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They banned a book about a girl who has freckles... she isn't gay, she isn't trans, she isn't in some racial minority, they just has freckles. Look clearly the limits of "who belongs here" is so narrow it might as well be Leni Riefenstahl's standards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwjN...

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America's runner up for real life Bond villain now owns the series. Guess we won't be getting a story arc where a billionaire buys out the government to escape every company they won being investigated simultaneously.

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Never forget huh

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Does anyone else imagine he spinning on this issue so often that she creates some kind of local weather vortex?

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

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Nuclear bro's : "Trust me we are more responsible with the waste now" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvS...

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Yesterday, Boston showed up to confirm on President's day that we will not tolerate autocracy, oligarchy, nor fascism.

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Salt marshes are far more persistent carbon sinks than forests or other terrestrial sites,” said Brian Yellen, Massachusetts’s state geologist, research assistant professor at UMass Amherst and one of the paper’s co-authors. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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Hey NOAA, FEMA and federal scientists and staff — I’m a climate reporter at NPR. To share info anonymously, you can reach me on Signal at sommer.55

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The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

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I am an engineer & I worked for Mass Eye & Ear for 13yrs, left in '22. I was there to do research but I dug into this issue because I care about the environment. That said this piece is I believe wrong. Yes Harvard is green washing to an extent with these projects but urban power plants are complex🧵

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Acios: our job is to report the “facts” as handed down to us by the Trump administration.

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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

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Seriously the international community donated to build this and people risked a lot to build it for the good of humanity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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15 years designing lab equipment for hearing research most of it funded by the NIH and now that is under the control of a guy who's brain worm prevents him from paying alimony.

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1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

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Great piece from @liamjdillon.com @latimes.com on Donald Shoup's legacy, particularly his later-in-life success that can inspire others to pursue their work as doggedly as he did. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

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1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it. "Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families." Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Here me out here. What if they either: * Had students use this to design cost effective green architecture Or * Just built a conventional building in an attempt to keep tuition sane

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Maybe you could give them uniforms like matching brown shirts so we know they’re official

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If we couldn't get NHTSA to regulate things in the last administration, I don't see that there is any hope for it now. Or the FCC either, I guess.

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This HAPPENED👇🏾 @mayorwu.boston.gov rightfully objected to #JoshKraft’s proposals to reduce number of onsite affordable units required in new developments from 20% to 13% [..]"This would take us backwards"~#wutrain #BOSpoli + #MApoli #PolicyPLS

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@mayorwu.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social I noticed @ridesthetalot.com made a good point here about the bus lane. Your office and the MBTA were cruising along at full speed on these bus lanes, then you hit blue hill ave and slowed, now you appear to be in reverse just as we got automated enforcement

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Republican Congresswoman Reveals Plan to 'Bring In' Warren Commission Members for JFK Investigation. But They Are All Dead. "She's going to hold a seance, apparently.” www.latintimes.com/republican-c...

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