jerells.bsky.social
@jerells.bsky.social
Good looking out, Gmail. However, I think you might be assuming something...

Not to yuck your yum, of course. You do you, Gmail.
May 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Claims by the Trump administration that marine protected areas are a heavy-handed restriction on the U.S. fishing industry do not hold water.

Science shows these refuges for sea life help local economies and allow fish populations to thrive

By @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life
America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is a great write-up of the history of public broadcasting.
As the President, FCC and Congressional Republicans consider ending public funding for NPR and PBS, a media historian revisits why public media was founded in the first place and how it contributes to equal access to information today: buff.ly/CW6Jsbr
@joshshepperd.bsky.social @colorado.edu
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
buff.ly
May 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
www.npr.org/2025/05/03/n...

Well isn't that a surprise - USDA is immediately re-hiring a bunch of positions that they paid buyouts to. DOGE is officially *losing* us money here.
After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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i genuinely wonder if the right realizes that this basically means that a lot of US soft power will basically evaporate in the next 4 years
February 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Politicians often frame #tariffs like those Trump proposed as punishment for other countries, but they hit Americans hardest—raising grocery bills and disrupting businesses. An economics professor explains: https://buff.ly/3Q3y0Lm (Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth)
February 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM