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“Unleashing” has a really bad sound to it in this context; as in, unleashing from the Constitution. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Booker: I miss Obama… I miss Obama.. I miss her husband too.

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion - BBC www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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“A species of caterpillar that scientists are calling the 'bone collector' is not only a carnivore, and a cannibal, it also dresses itself in the body parts of dead insects so it can sneak around undetected and steal prey right from the jaws of spiders.” www.sciencealert.com/bone-collect... 🧪 🐛 🕷️ 🐙

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Dinosaur footprints found in the Banana Shire? A true and also nice story where nothing bad happens | First Dog on the Moon

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Oh dear. What a shame. 🍿🍿🍿

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Extraordinary morning

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Right over MAGA's heads.

submitted 60 days ago • 80 comments

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 78 days ago • 3385 comments

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

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Researchers believe they've recorded potentially the first-ever sighting of an adult abyssal fish, Melanocetus johnsonii, in broad daylight. Normally found at depths between 200 and 2,000 meters, this predator was spotted just 2km off the coast of Tenerife. Full story: tinyurl.com/5j37dnmw

submitted 79 days ago • 88 comments

substack.com/@newmeans/no...

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‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán

submitted 82 days ago • 13 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 82 days ago • 1367 comments

Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in: 1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments 2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal 3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team 4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system

submitted 82 days ago • 80 comments

Trump claims he’s on the side of the working class. Really?

submitted 82 days ago • 121 comments

Hero of the Revolution Hall Of Fame 🏆

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@meidastouch.bsky.social what’s the Coup Klutz Klan up to today?

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TTW you say you want to ethnically cleanse Gaza and turn it it into the Riviera of the Middle East, and somehow the sane international community has a serious problem with that… 🤯

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

The Coup Klux Klan.

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We really are though.

submitted 84 days ago • 232 comments

How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government

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Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin of flipping belly-up to piss with another male “actively” seeking the urine stream with its snout.

submitted 84 days ago • 15 comments

First you are raising capital Nek minnit you razing the Capitol

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I’ve heard it pronounced “ Doggy” but being Australian can only hear “Dodgy”. Pronouns are theirs/mine Sure looks like a coup from here.

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Australian scientists: something we can do to help. Download NOAA data, especially climate data. It's all there on the website. 🧪

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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Take a deep dive to the #Antarctic seafloor with the benthic ecology team on board New Zealand's Ross Sea 'ACTUATE' Voyage 2025. @utas.edu.au marine ecologist/ACEAS Chief Investigator Dr Nicole Hill is there - and what they've found is incredible ⬇️ antarctic.org.au/antarctic-se...

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Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Horrifying, and this is just part of the list...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 86 days ago • 1677 comments

"This is not a minor transgression. This is an illegal act. They stormed into buildings, they shut down agencies illegally." - @schatz.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 45 comments

None of this is legal.

submitted 86 days ago • 135 comments