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srharacha.bsky.social
she/her, ecological data scientist for BC gov https://www.sarahpopov.com
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

submitted 19 hours ago • 143 comments

The country is falling apart. It’s a coup. We need leaders to emerge to say this. University leaders are too cowardly. Wealthy legal partners are too cowardly. Senate Democratic leaders are too cowardly. The New York Times is on the whole too cowardly. Who will say a coup is happening?

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Hitler dismantled a democracy in 58 days. It looks like it will take Trump at least 70.

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

at the point where a good friend who's had a green card for over 10 years with no criminal record whatsoever is now going to give me the key to their apartment and show me where important dox are kept in case they are disappeared into the maw of ICE; feels like a movie I never imagined acting in

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. —Omar El Akkad Egyptian novelist and journalist

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

Why is the Department of Education being dismantled? Let’s flashback to George Carlin because honestly no one has ever stated it more accurately

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Probably one of the worst feelings I have rn is not being able to visit my grandmother in Belarus for years, bc of safety reasons. Now I’m increasingly feeling like I won’t be able to visit fam in the USA either. How many other ppl are forced to stay away from elderly relatives bc of Putin 😡

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A postdoctoral fellow in peace and conflict studies at Georgetown University was detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on his way home from teaching an evening class on March 17. He is now in ICE custody. www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

submitted 1 day ago • 740 comments

Thinking a lot about this incredibly prescient article from 2020…. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

submitted 2 days ago • 1468 comments

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock! By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731... #dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As always, not a lawyer, but one thing that leaps out at me about how things are going down in the courts right now is that the US court system is not designed to be responsive to a crisis like this one. A crisis like this one is not what it's FOR.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

Schumer doubts that democracy is presently at risk, but, regardless, he envisions ZERO role or agency for Congressional Democrats beyond that of ordinary citizens. Just an astounding dereliction of duty. JFC.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Alt texted version of Mahmoud Khalil’s statement, dictated over the phone to his family and published by @ccrjustice.org

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If laws don't mean anything anymore why do I still have to file my tax return?

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Apparently Tesla isn't selling any cars which also means it's not selling carbon credits. It made 2.7 billion in carbon credits last year. Carbon credits is largely what has kept the company afloat

submitted 15 days ago • 472 comments

New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 years 🐋🦑

submitted 381 days ago • 12 comments

I'm just out here trying to figure out how to do pathetically beginner level stuff in Python, you can chill with the related questions, StackOverflow 🫣

submitted 388 days ago • 0 comments