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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 1165 comments

The truth is, once it’s been burned to ground, and make no mistake our nation’s system of government is being burned to the ground, e we will have to go through a period of extreme discomfort, and then rebuild anew. I imagine the EU has some lessons for us.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Black History Month!!!!!!!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 24 days ago • 1414 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 24 days ago • 1049 comments

As I try to find my own words to describe how I feel in this sociopolitical moment, I defer to Audre Lorde who encapsulated feeling so well in words.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Teaching unwhitewashed history is not DEI. Stocking a Black-owned brands THAT PEOPLE BUY is not DEI. Recruiting HBCU grads is not DEI. Addressing racial disparities is NOT DEI. Treating LGBTQIA people like PEOPLE is NOT DEI Trump isn’t dismantling DEI He is reconstructing a WHITER supremacy

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

Charlie Chaplin's speech from THE GREAT DICTATOR. Still sadly relevant today. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Stop posting like you don't actually have POWER challenge.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

President Trump’s illegal executive order freezing billions in federal funding is a direct attack on veterans, active duty military, their families, and communities across America. He is solely responsible for this reckless and unlawful decision.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

submitted 26 days ago • 1099 comments

In the first deportation flight from EUA to Brazil, Brazilian Immigrants had handcuffs, ankle and waist cuffs. Adults and children were prevented to drink water or to eat. They were severely beaten while complaining. revistaforum.com.br/direitos/202...

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Excellent post

submitted 27 days ago • 2082 comments

So Trump sends military planes to South American nations with their citizens (and long term US residents) in literal shackles. They are reasonably angered at the poor treatment of human beings, and Trump, played on an international stage due to his cruelty, acts as an impetuous child. #Day6

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If I’m being honest, I didn’t think my social media addiction was that bad until I decided to leave all of the other platforms. And now, in this cold season before hobbies start and there’s no grass to touch, I’m wondering what to do with my hands. #tiktok #socialmedia #dopamineaddiction

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This should trouble everyone! We have an active bird flu and listeria outbreaks and we won’t know.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries

submitted 32 days ago • 54 comments

“As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.” - Audre Lorde Asé

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Project 2025 well on it’s way out the gate.

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

Anyone want to join me in creating a book club where we read revolutionary literature? #blacksky

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In a VA waiting room this morning and this is what I see. The irony is just painful at this point.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. as well as Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government." Wonder if GOP critics of Biden admin's Afghanistan withdrawal have thoughts on this.

submitted 33 days ago • 36 comments

The only lasting truth is Change. —Octavia E. Butler

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submitted 35 days ago • 1642 comments

to recap: — Trump was for the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

submitted 34 days ago • 616 comments

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

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submitted 34 days ago • 66 comments

The gaslighting is real 🙄. The author acts as if TikTok didn’t have over 160 million Americans on it or entire shipping trends impacting our economy. Not to mention a significant impact on the public perception of Palestine and our collective view of Israel. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Learned a new term in the wee hours of this morning: hypernormalization - a societal condition where people recognize systemic dysfunction but accept it as normal because they cannot envision alternatives. So basically, the band was playing as the ship went down. Or in this case c walking to Snoop

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments