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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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bevisiscariot.bsky.social
After Bob Weir died
I heard the crickets playing
long into the night

#haiku #senryu #poetry
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
starlings electric
whistle cold weather forecast
chance of snow elsewhere

#DailyHaikuPrompt (snow)
#ThingsToWriteAbout (whistle)
January 19, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
when you are petting a cat and the purr descends in register from “love it” to the louder slower “oh hell yes now that’s the stuff” purr, that is a blessing in this world
January 18, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my lone and level sandes
And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker
Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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rhubarbpiart.bsky.social
冬空も
年を曇りで
切り裂かぬ

Fuyuzora mo
Toshi wo kumori de
Kirisakanu

Neither does the winter sky
Cut apart the year
With clouds

#Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩
#DailyHaikuPrompt : clear sky
#Haikufeels : #year
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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djielle.bsky.social
#haikufeels

bare trees line the creek
lone farm sleeps in the vast field
so white, this new year
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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cinnatus.bsky.social
after the last page—
the light reminds me
to rest

#haiku #haikupoem #prompt #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (year) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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moschoenfeld.bsky.social
staring, still
moon in a clear sky
this old year

#DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuFeels #haiku #poetry #WolfMoon
The waxing Wolf moon in the top right corner of the photo, shining brightly in a bright blue sky. Ther is a thing wisp of cloud coming in from the top left, but apart from that it is pure sky blue.
December 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
oh north wind
a hedgerow robin
sings cold rhymes

#DailyHaikuPrompt (hay)

(hay is a longago word for hedge, apparently)
December 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Dec 22
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
johnkerl.bsky.social
The 1997 film Wag the Dog is 100% timely right now. Strong recommend.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
Fink of woodlice, Beach Crow tells me. Curled up beneath old leaves.

They celebrate midwinter wiv Queen Deepdream Chigglepea.

Who doesn't bring 'em presents, but ancestral memories.

Of sweet drifty weightlessness far under long lost seas.

#whistpr 2/10
jennygaitskell.bsky.social Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Dec 15
Beach Crow watches ten Saint Nicks burst jingling from a pub.

Got a Crowmas fella too, she says. Frostfevver Huggermug.

Drops sparklies from nightskies for us. Like secrets, savvy, luck.

Cos there's many winter spirits, luv. For birds. And beasts. Or bugs.

#whistpr 1/10
December 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
old winter coat
the ghost of Christmas past
in its pocket

#DailyHaikuPrompt (winter)
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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bookish33.bsky.social
in inky darkness
thoughts simmer, rising wisps fade
a tired writer’s plight

#haikufeels / simmer
#poetry #WritingCommunity
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December 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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djielle.bsky.social
#haikufeels

lost at the window
as eggs simmer past soft boil
I ponder fresh snow
December 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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dstan58.bsky.social
#haikufeels
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
tall poppy
sharply trimmed
for mother’s vase
I wonder what it feels like
to let the wild wind carry me

#tanka #poetry #haiku
#emoetry #senryu
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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oevermann.bsky.social
mountain in the fog
its outline almost a thought
half seen, yet enough

#haikufeels #haiku
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
owl and moon
our midnight riddles
solved by dawn

#DailyHaikuPrompt (moon)
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
wishing on strange stars
for a planet we would love
into a new world

secret mapmakers
we whisper like withered reeds
naming our rivers

sometimes dream hikers
over the boulders down scree
in the cargo bay

👾

#SciFaikuSaturday (world)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (w'd reeds)
#inkMine (scree)
November 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM