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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Last year was the first time I had missed a Covid vaccine. I didn't want to get it at the same time as the flu shot. Later I asked the Dr. for it, and she recommended waiting for the updated one. Since then I have had Covid twice. I am on week three this time. Please get your shots ASAP.
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Last year was the first time I had missed a Covid vaccine. I didn't want to get it at the same time as the flu shot. Later I asked the Dr. for it, and she recommended waiting for the updated one. Since then I have had Covid twice. I am on week three this time. Please get your shots ASAP.
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Completely unacceptable that EPA put on leave their employees who spoke up in defense of their agency's mission to protect public health. EPA officials are demonstrating their unwillingness to even engage with their own staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...
E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Completely unacceptable that EPA put on leave their employees who spoke up in defense of their agency's mission to protect public health. EPA officials are demonstrating their unwillingness to even engage with their own staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...
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This Fourth of July, I am thinking about the 139 civil servants who took an oath to uphold the constitution and the EPA’s mission, and were placed on leave for raising concerns about issues such as deregulating asbestos and lead exposure.
This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.
This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
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Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
EPA places staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter on leave
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is placing staffers who signed a letter of dissent against the Trump administration’s actions and policies on leave. The EPA says it has placed 1…
thehill.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Fourth of July, I am thinking about the 139 civil servants who took an oath to uphold the constitution and the EPA’s mission, and were placed on leave for raising concerns about issues such as deregulating asbestos and lead exposure.
This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.
This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.
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UPCOMING TEACH-IN REMINDER!
We’re *very* excited.
Don’t forget to register ⬇️
We’re *very* excited.
Don’t forget to register ⬇️
📣EVENT ALERT!
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!
Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN
@burkebrewing.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
UPCOMING TEACH-IN REMINDER!
We’re *very* excited.
Don’t forget to register ⬇️
We’re *very* excited.
Don’t forget to register ⬇️
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☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
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Just crushing. The district courts did all they could.
NEW: Judge Murphy DENIES the petition of the 8 men seeking to halt their deportation to South Sudan, saying that the Supreme Court has spoken. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70709...
July 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Just crushing. The district courts did all they could.
This is someone who the President calls, "A very good patriot." Terms such as "illegals" are meant to dehumanize. www.snopes.com/fact-check/l...
Laura Loomer posts about feeding 'illegals' to alligators are real
The right-wing influencer has frequently made racist remarks and spread conspiracy theories.
www.snopes.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is someone who the President calls, "A very good patriot." Terms such as "illegals" are meant to dehumanize. www.snopes.com/fact-check/l...
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🇺🇸 This Independence Day, let’s remind ourselves:
The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🇺🇸 This Independence Day, let’s remind ourselves:
The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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These third country deportations are wrong, period.
And the United States should not be sending people to a literal war zone.
Block these deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
And the United States should not be sending people to a literal war zone.
Block these deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court clears deportations to conflict-ridden South Sudan
The move clears the way for the deportation of eight men being held in a detention center at a U.S. naval base in East Africa to conflict-ridden South Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
These third country deportations are wrong, period.
And the United States should not be sending people to a literal war zone.
Block these deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
And the United States should not be sending people to a literal war zone.
Block these deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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“To hear how it’s described by people who never grew up here, who aren’t from here, as a wasteland, this abandoned, barren land. ‘Nobody is out here,’” said Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribal member and activist. “I’m like, ‘What about me?’ I’m somebody.”
Meet the folks who live near ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and call the Everglades home
“I was kind of offended on the alligator’s behalf with the way they talk about them,” she said. “I don’t think the alligator wants its name attached to the word Alcatraz.”
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June 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“To hear how it’s described by people who never grew up here, who aren’t from here, as a wasteland, this abandoned, barren land. ‘Nobody is out here,’” said Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribal member and activist. “I’m like, ‘What about me?’ I’m somebody.”
There is nothing to celebrate in America today.
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There is nothing to celebrate in America today.
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Good to know.
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Good to know.
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The administration’s budget proposal will further cut climate science. This will not make us great and is not helping any of us. 🧪🌊🔌💡 www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...
Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory | CNN
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...
www.cnn.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The administration’s budget proposal will further cut climate science. This will not make us great and is not helping any of us. 🧪🌊🔌💡 www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...
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This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders
World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...
news.exeter.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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⚖️ 🌱 Landmark ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just ruled that a stable climate is a human right. This decision legally obligates states to take urgent and effective measures to address the climate emergency, including monitoring corporate emissions.
Read more: buff.ly/dU2Nbj4
Read more: buff.ly/dU2Nbj4
Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules
Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change
theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
⚖️ 🌱 Landmark ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just ruled that a stable climate is a human right. This decision legally obligates states to take urgent and effective measures to address the climate emergency, including monitoring corporate emissions.
Read more: buff.ly/dU2Nbj4
Read more: buff.ly/dU2Nbj4
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It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country.
Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social
Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country.
Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social
Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social
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🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
act.standupforscience.net
July 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
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'If you are someone who is chronically ill, if you are disabled, if you are medically complex...I would think your goal is to not let them kill you'
(full video is up at www.patreon.com/posts/133307...)
(full video is up at www.patreon.com/posts/133307...)
July 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
'If you are someone who is chronically ill, if you are disabled, if you are medically complex...I would think your goal is to not let them kill you'
(full video is up at www.patreon.com/posts/133307...)
(full video is up at www.patreon.com/posts/133307...)
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"This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."
July 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."
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(This Is especially pertinent given the ways in which this administration, and many Democrats, will ask that we put aside our differences and rejoice in the celebration of our Americaness. In our current time, as in Douglass', this is a mockery of all those oppressed by the work of this Empire.)
July 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
(This Is especially pertinent given the ways in which this administration, and many Democrats, will ask that we put aside our differences and rejoice in the celebration of our Americaness. In our current time, as in Douglass', this is a mockery of all those oppressed by the work of this Empire.)
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Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin:
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July"
Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.
www.blackpast.org
July 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin:
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
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It’s all there and more.
July 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s all there and more.