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Heads up San Francisco Bay, here comes the Network State again! A startup founded by a Trump supporter seeks a presidential declaration of an AI “emergency” to create a new California tech city. Yeah, it's that weird. More at the Nerd Reich: www.thenerdreich.com/startup-seek...

A GRAMMY Salute to The Beach Boys is encoring on CBS to honor the life of Brian Wilson, the late visionary leader of The Beach Boys. The encore airs at 9-11 PM ET/PT.

For Father's Day: Actor Greg Morris with his children Phil and Iona in 1971. Both of Morris's children both went on to become actors. They were attending rehearsals for the 50th anniversary gala of the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on June 13, 1971.

#Scape A foggy morning in Ljubljana, Slovenia #EastCoastKin #Ljubljana #LandscapePhotography

This is one of the best - and most terrifying - images from my bird feeder. 😬

Happy #FieldWorkFriday! An unexpected (but very cute) guest joined our field staff last week on the way to site TWL1. While this tiny bear cub showed up by itself, we bet Momma Bear was somewhere close by! Springtime always brings lots of cute new faces to our local wilderness.

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Kennedy's massacre of the ACIP panel is a continuation of the Trump Regime's eugenics — they are trying to kill disabled, immunocompromised and chronically ill Americans; that's the outcome they want because they do not view us as fully human. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

Let’s Not Lose Focus….

Do you like clean air? Too bad. Profits for the 1% are more important. Over $14 Billion in US Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled/Stalled This Year: analysis by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit clean energy group. #BigOil owns Trump. #EcoWatch www.ecowatch.com/clean-energy...

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically *because* he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

Mostly overcast in the Borrego Badlands this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Congrats everyone: $14 billion in clean-energy projects have been canceled in the US, in this year alone.

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant. Why? The government told them to move out.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.

I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters. Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174

There's one saguaro thriving in the wild in ABDSP, even though it's way out of the range of saguaro cacti. The only other known saguaro within park boundaries is at a homestead monument that is watered by humans.(Photos: Sicco Rood).

They Are, In Fact, Coming After Obamacare Again open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Today's large-scale termination of grants building on months of attacks on experts, expertise, data, and programs reveal the essence of this administration's priorities: dismantling America's innovation-driven economy. We face a tipping point for science & society. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

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Measure A, the County’s $950 million affordable housing bond, has created new homes for more than 6,000 people who were unhoused or struggling to pay for housing. Here are five of their stories. #AffordableHousingMonth news.santaclaracounty.gov/measure-coun...