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Stand Up for Science!

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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.

The summer fight for science. The time is now. Join the fight at standupforscience.net.

May 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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February 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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southpaw

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM

ksea.bsky.social

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February 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM

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Splendid Hobo

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Sorry I’ve been scarce, been group sexting with my cousins, we have a big family and some of them are pretty stupid

February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM

ksea.bsky.social

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I made a .jpg with words!

February 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM

ksea.bsky.social

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PLEASE contact your senator right now regarding OMB M-25-13 pausing federal grants & other financial assistance
programs - this is a dire emergency.
In WA, you can conact Patty Murray via webform here: www.murray.senate.gov

Home - Senator Patty Murray

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January 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM

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January 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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January 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM

ksea.bsky.social

@ksea.bsky.social

today I decluttered a brand new wedding dress and it was surprisingly painless and easy! It didn't really fit right and I had a 15 minute courthouse wedding, anyway.

#decluttering, #simplify, #bfacbride

January 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM

ksea.bsky.social

@ksea.bsky.social

I don't understand how Mastodon works. This is me over there if you can figure it out @NiceRackFinance@mastodon.social

Here is a video from a Mongolian girl band I like
youtu.be/wN2OzjFXbU8?...

Behi - Revolution

YouTube video by Behi Ethnic Band

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January 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM

ksea.bsky.social

@ksea.bsky.social

recommended reading from economist Kyla Scanlon

The TikTok Ban Shows America Is At War With Itself open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/t...

The TikTok Ban Shows America Is At War With Itself

national security, the attention economy, and communication infrastructure

open.substack.com

January 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM

ksea.bsky.social

@ksea.bsky.social

I don't even know who Amanda Palmer is.

January 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

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@marcelias.bsky.social: "I am more powerful than Elon Musk, I am more powerful than Mark Zuckerberg, and I am more powerful than Jeff Bezos, because I can say right now out loud, fuck you, Donald Trump, fuck you. And they can't afford to do that."

January 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Annie

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The Altadena seed library needs all of the help it can get- if you have native plant seeds to share, please make sure they find their way to this group. Monetary donations are also hugely welcome via gofund.me/6643efc6