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June 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
littleswitchgrass.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all."

He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota.

www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...
On Instagram, a pictured ICE agent says he is "not picky" about who he deports.
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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marbenavides.bsky.social
Glad to share our paper revealing that inland and coastal waters, while covering <10% of Earth’s surface, contribute ~20% of global nitrogen fixation! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters
Biological nitrogen fixation is a key driver of global primary production and climate. Decades of effort have repeatedly updated nitrogen fixation estimates for terrestrial and open ocean systems, yet...
www.science.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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jimaloisi.bsky.social
Hey Josh Kraft, let me know if you’d like a tutorial. I promise to make it easy for you because #mapoli needs leadership that understands & respects facts - & your handlers are running patently false ads.
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Hi to our new followers, and OGs! We are two indie journalists who rely on reader support to keep digging. We are just getting started, and there are so many more stories we want to write.

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unraveledpress.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
littleswitchgrass.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay … Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or … End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
This is genocide.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/m...
A Gaza doctor went to work to save lives. Hours later, her children’s burned bodies arrived | CNN
Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home on Friday when she went to work at the Nasser Medical Complex. Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the h...
www.cnn.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ucs.org
Poisoning America: Senate advances bill overturning public health protections for 7 air pollutants that science shows are extremely toxic to human health, incl. mercury, dioxins & PCBs. House passage of the bill is expected, would mark 1st time ever Congress has weakened Clean Air Act protections.
Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants
If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
wapo.st
May 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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apiaceae.bsky.social
can't stop thinking about being raised by drunk class-traveling anticommunist whites who loved golf & gold & social clubs & cruises & nation & sat us kids down ritually to watch the price is right as scene of power, cackling at the losers gripped by the winners & $$ is that all this mass shitshow is
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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bluwhalien.bsky.social
I was trying to find old photos of Rafah and how it looked before 2023 but it was a real struggle to find them and all the photos I could find were of death and destruction. We’re witnessing an erasure of a once lively and bustling place via image search. Real time ethnic cleansing.
April 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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bluealaskan1.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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jocelynbos.se
A new potato variety has been granted PVR protection in the Netherlands, which was developed using a proprietary technique for creating graft hybrids by combining 'Pimpernel' skin and 'Bintje' inner cells:
www.argenpapa.com.ar/noticia/1566...
Netherlands: First transplanted skin potato variety receives plant breeder’s rights | ARGENPAPA
The Board for Plant Varieties in the Netherlands has granted plant breeders’ rights to a groundbreaking new potato variety – the first of its kind to feature a skin transplant. (2025-04-02)
www.argenpapa.com.ar
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Straight down seems bad
April 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Purging experts who save lives to own the libs

www.wired.com/story/doctor...
April 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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charleskeener.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/deep...
The Deep Sea Is Not for Sale—the ISA Must Reject Corporate Pressure | Common Dreams
The multilateral body, recently decried for its seemingly pro-industry stance, should reorient itself back toward its most weighty purpose: protecting the seabed for the benefit of humankind as a whol...
www.commondreams.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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jennifermolidor.bsky.social
Endangered wildlife can't survive if streams they live in are "devoured by hungry cows & made into stinking manure pits year after year." New report @biologicaldiversity.org urges feds to get cattle out of sensitive habitats where they don’t belong.

www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Grazed yellow-billed cuckoo riparian critical habitat on Montana allotment, Coronado National Forest. May 5, 2021
April 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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georebekah.bsky.social
Happy to see SOMEONE finally standing their ground for once.

Wish it was someone who isn't bought by AIPAC (Booker is #20 in most Senate AIPAC $$), but I guess there aren't too many of those out there these days.

theintercept.com/2019/03/30/c...
In Leaked Recording, Cory Booker Says He and AIPAC President “Text Message Back and Forth Like Teenagers”
Even as the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has shown willingness to criticize Israel, Booker has tried to smooth over the widening rift.
theintercept.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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leonsimons.bsky.social
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Another month at +1.6°C!

The next few months will likely remove most doubts about crossing 1.5°C of global warming..
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM