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As we honor Women’s History Month, let’s remember the strength and resilience of enslaved women who fought for freedom and shaped history. Their resilience continues to inspire the fight for justice today. 165 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
March 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
As we honor Women’s History Month, let’s remember the strength and resilience of enslaved women who fought for freedom and shaped history. Their resilience continues to inspire the fight for justice today. 165 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
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Spot the difference
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Spot the difference
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The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has notified pantries & other food distributors that they are to cease using FarmShare funds to acquire fresh foods from local farmers
FarmShare is/was funded by USDA's Local Food Purchase Assistance program
This immediately affects both farmers & lower income families
FarmShare is/was funded by USDA's Local Food Purchase Assistance program
This immediately affects both farmers & lower income families
March 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has notified pantries & other food distributors that they are to cease using FarmShare funds to acquire fresh foods from local farmers
FarmShare is/was funded by USDA's Local Food Purchase Assistance program
This immediately affects both farmers & lower income families
FarmShare is/was funded by USDA's Local Food Purchase Assistance program
This immediately affects both farmers & lower income families
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Morgan Stanley is stepping in to support Tesla amid its declining share price, framing the drop in sales as a positive development. This move is part of a broader effort by billionaires to control the narrative in pursuit of tax breaks.
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Morgan Stanley is stepping in to support Tesla amid its declining share price, framing the drop in sales as a positive development. This move is part of a broader effort by billionaires to control the narrative in pursuit of tax breaks.
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🧑💼 Are you a lawyer or have legal expertise and want to assist federal workers?
Visit "We The Action". They are recruiting volunteers lawyers now and hope to soon open a webpage to link federal workers with legal assistance.
Visit "We The Action". They are recruiting volunteers lawyers now and hope to soon open a webpage to link federal workers with legal assistance.
Public Service Legal Response Center
Connecting lawyers with opportunities to support federal workers
wetheaction.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🧑💼 Are you a lawyer or have legal expertise and want to assist federal workers?
Visit "We The Action". They are recruiting volunteers lawyers now and hope to soon open a webpage to link federal workers with legal assistance.
Visit "We The Action". They are recruiting volunteers lawyers now and hope to soon open a webpage to link federal workers with legal assistance.
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The behaviors of Trump & Vance against President Zelenskyy were embarrassing, playing up to the dictator of Russia against a European ally.
This on the ground documentary shows what Ukraine has been up against since day one 3 years ago.
I challenge you to watch it.
❤️🇺🇦
This on the ground documentary shows what Ukraine has been up against since day one 3 years ago.
I challenge you to watch it.
❤️🇺🇦
20 Days in Mariupol | Watch the Oscar-Winning Documentary | FRONTLINE
Watch FRONTLINE & The Associated Press' Oscar-winning documentary on Russia's siege of Mariupol told through the lens of Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues who documented atrocities and their own esc...
www.pbs.org
February 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The behaviors of Trump & Vance against President Zelenskyy were embarrassing, playing up to the dictator of Russia against a European ally.
This on the ground documentary shows what Ukraine has been up against since day one 3 years ago.
I challenge you to watch it.
❤️🇺🇦
This on the ground documentary shows what Ukraine has been up against since day one 3 years ago.
I challenge you to watch it.
❤️🇺🇦
We live in hell, brought by the anti-christ.
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We live in hell, brought by the anti-christ.
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We need to tax them until they bleed
February 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
We need to tax them until they bleed
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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
Can anyone confirm Signal is not installable through Google Playstore? Attempted to go this alternative route and am unable to, giving the "something went wrong" when attempting to click on the app option and repeated fails through the 'install' button from the main search result.
February 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Can anyone confirm Signal is not installable through Google Playstore? Attempted to go this alternative route and am unable to, giving the "something went wrong" when attempting to click on the app option and repeated fails through the 'install' button from the main search result.
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6,700 IRS employees fired during tax season, rescinded terminations, bungled buyouts, and cuts that increase costs rather than save money. DOGE is ignoring the basic realities of government & the damage is piling up. Max Stier sounds the alarm.
The Department of Government Ineptitude
Elon Musk's DOGE team is violating every basic principle of good management.
contrarian.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
6,700 IRS employees fired during tax season, rescinded terminations, bungled buyouts, and cuts that increase costs rather than save money. DOGE is ignoring the basic realities of government & the damage is piling up. Max Stier sounds the alarm.
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NEW: Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law
Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and…
propub.li
February 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
#TheColumbusMetropolitanLibrary system is a huge benefit to our city schools, #CCS, immeasurable value and benefit to our community! Thank you to all librarians for your passion and willingness to provide resources and assistance to all who show up! #communityresources #knowledgeispower #education
Libraries and librarians not only spark a love of learning; they are crucial to reversing low reading assessment scores across the country.
www.americanprogress.org/article/inve...
www.americanprogress.org/article/inve...
Investing in School Libraries and Librarians To Improve Literacy Outcomes
Libraries and librarians not only spark a love of learning; they are crucial to reversing low reading assessment scores across the country.
www.americanprogress.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
#TheColumbusMetropolitanLibrary system is a huge benefit to our city schools, #CCS, immeasurable value and benefit to our community! Thank you to all librarians for your passion and willingness to provide resources and assistance to all who show up! #communityresources #knowledgeispower #education
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🧪 The Arc Institute's Evo2 models DNA like an LLM models language, predicting mutations, gene function, and evolutionary signals. With 40B parameters trained on 128K genomes, it hints at AI-driven biological discovery. 🧬💻 #MLSky
Link to the paper: https://arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Evo2
Link to the paper: https://arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Evo2
AI can now model and design the genetic code for all domains of life with Evo 2 | Arc Institute
Arc Institute develops the largest AI model for biology to date in collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing together Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco researchers
arcinstitute.org
February 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🧪 The Arc Institute's Evo2 models DNA like an LLM models language, predicting mutations, gene function, and evolutionary signals. With 40B parameters trained on 128K genomes, it hints at AI-driven biological discovery. 🧬💻 #MLSky
Link to the paper: https://arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Evo2
Link to the paper: https://arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Evo2
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We live in a time where "genius" and "specialization" are deemed of utmost importance. However, to understand any complex system like the Earth, you need to make connections across disciplines. This requires you to be intellectually curious, humble and honest www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...
It Takes More Than Knowledge to Understand the Earth
Humans have a funny way of thinking they are not part of the planet, but the rocks beneath our feet, the environment we inhabit and ourselves are linked forever.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We live in a time where "genius" and "specialization" are deemed of utmost importance. However, to understand any complex system like the Earth, you need to make connections across disciplines. This requires you to be intellectually curious, humble and honest www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...
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The response of the science community to the last month is not about one statement or action. It's about all of us with our different frames. For Science's part, we are doing what we have always done and have no plans to change. My thoughts on what we can do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
www.science.org
February 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The response of the science community to the last month is not about one statement or action. It's about all of us with our different frames. For Science's part, we are doing what we have always done and have no plans to change. My thoughts on what we can do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.
Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders.
They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social .
My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social .
My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order
Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.
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Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”.
📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz
📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
buff.ly
February 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”.
📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz
📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz
Looking to expand my network on BlueSky, drop any recommendations for people, organizations, & resistence efforts supporting the greater global good!
February 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Looking to expand my network on BlueSky, drop any recommendations for people, organizations, & resistence efforts supporting the greater global good!