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Story about the secretive Lions Bay council in regards to a deadly landslide. I am curious who is doing the evaluation?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Happy #InverteFest - here's a lacewing larva from the garden this a.m. This tiny tiger was repeatedly biting the anthers in this Carpenteria flower - I don't know if it was probing for prey (they eat aphids or any other small critter they can catch) or maybe gleaning a little moisture. 🐙🌿 #insects

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It bears repeating- There is never enough with these folks. There is no such thing as too much. They will try to censor every single thing, and we need to pushback at every turn. Harmful to minors is a political concept designed to push censorship. It has nothing to do with protecting minors.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Clearly, spreading bullshit is the highest virtue, so teaching people to recognize propaganda & manipulation is “censorship”, and therefore we need to defund digital literacy programs. And while we’re at it, education is “censorship” of bad ideas, which is why we need to defund the universities!

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Pretty much every day I learn about something I never heard about when I was a kid….

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“I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported. “But where to?” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

It’s #RockinTuesday — my specialty! BIFs are a common favorite among geologists. This one is from the Hamersley Group of Western Australia. Personal collection; photo my own. #geologyrocks #BIF #bandedironformation #geology #geologist #folds #deformation #rockcollection #rocksrock

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is a holocaust. Trump and the GOP are its initiators.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 751 comments

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

Sheriff’s deputies across upstate New York are using minor traffic violations to harvest entire families of Latinos for deportation. The Syracuse Post-Standard calls it racial profiling — which is euphemistic journalese for racism. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

submitted 5 days ago • 312 comments

In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race— Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment. Would y’all sign up?

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

My oldest Kayla in 5th grade with Daisy at elementary graduation. Daisy was special needs and bullied. Kayla took Daisy under her wing and protected her. She sat with Daisy at lunch every day. Kayla had no patience for those who would marginalize Daisy, and made her stance known. I am proud ❤️

submitted 7 days ago • 278 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

The unfortunate and unfortunately obvious truth is, they are not that bothered by fascism, just as long as it lets them continue to play Very Important Elected Official on a national stage. Politics is theater to most politicians, and Schumer is self-admittedly performing for an imaginary audience.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Definitely not written by career NOAA feds. That is nonsense written by the politicals.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone attempting to enforce copyright from the 78s era deserves an especially low circle of hell. Circle Ten: Motherfuckers who gratuitously hurt people just for the sake of being a POS when they really don't even benefit materially from it

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

There are dozens of juncos milling about the neighbourhood. This one kindly posed for me. 🌿🪶

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’m actually from a tiny (<2000) town in semi-rural PA where the biggest employer when I was growing up was the state prison. So I can speak to this one with a lot more authority than this author. It’s got almost zero to do with abstractions like their “ way of life”. I can tell you what they say…

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

#StrataDay Lime-turbidite layers surrounded by shales in the Cretaceous Palombini shale formation. Quercianella, Leghorn, Italy #geology #beddingplanes #sedimentaryrock #outcrop ⚒️

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

if you abduct someone in front of their kid you will never see heaven

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Media: Joe Biden, we demand you have a granular level of knowledge about every domestic & foreign policy issue confronting our nation Also Media: Sir, your mastery of public policy is astounding even though you're just reading off a piece of paper and clearly have no idea what you're talking about

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

All new research grants have been frozen at the National Science Foundation, Nature reports, as DOGE considers canceling 200 existing grants flagged for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

What explains Trump's immigration agenda? It's not about illegal immigration. He is the most anti-LEGAL immigrant president ever. He is stripping legal immigrants of their status, arresting them, detaining them and deporting them. It's also not about...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

🌊 Our public lands and waters are part of our national identity, and have been for over 100 years. @POTUS’s move to roll back protections in the Pacific and nationwide threatens endangered marine life & culturally significant waterways. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 8 days ago • 342 comments

TRS youtu.be/tQOvkgZL9eU Via www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Which is probably paywalled.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The 4th Circuit refers to "our good brethren in the Executive Branch," and it's a good and noble line, even if we have no earthly idea whom they're referring to. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

submitted 9 days ago • 176 comments

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Trump wants to eliminate a program that educates poor children b/c the “federal government should not be in the business of mandating curriculum for any form of education.” Except for Harvard. The incoherence of their attack on education is almost impressive it’s so dumb.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

Good lord

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

submitted 9 days ago • 1020 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 9 days ago • 952 comments

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

submitted 9 days ago • 143 comments

Pretty much when we decided terrorists didn't have human rights I think we set the future in motion where enemies of administrations would be labeled terrorists. When we defended Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

This needs to go down 80-90%…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Per multiple sources, apparently the deputy CIO Douglas Perry was also placed on administrative leave yesterday. I believe this has to do with DOGE or other gremlins demanding access to stuff at NOAA that leadership refused to give.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Extraordinary hypocrisy. The government is actively monitoring the social media of legal migrants to the US in the hopes of finding offending messages that would allow Rubio to deport them.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

This did not age well. Ted, we hardly knew ye.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I’m old enough to remember when contracts meant something to folks on the right….

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Correct , the fascists are incrementally moving towards the end goal, which is the disappearance of any person who goes against them,to do that they will have to test the waters a bit less each time. they will target Americans that have done heinous acts to normalize citizens to the new social norm.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

I wish more people understood this:

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments