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We could have had her, America.
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We could have had her, America.
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In his case, the D stands for Dunce.
June 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In his case, the D stands for Dunce.
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ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICE crossed a line in LA
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The Interior Department is rescinding an order that would have phased out the sale of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastics in national parks and on public lands.
May 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Interior Department is rescinding an order that would have phased out the sale of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastics in national parks and on public lands.
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Two seals freed from an old net
The first waits for the second one
before disappearing in the waves.
The first waits for the second one
before disappearing in the waves.
May 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Two seals freed from an old net
The first waits for the second one
before disappearing in the waves.
The first waits for the second one
before disappearing in the waves.
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BREAKING NEWS: In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING NEWS: In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
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Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image
🎥 : The Planetary Society
🎥 : The Planetary Society
May 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image
🎥 : The Planetary Society
🎥 : The Planetary Society
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Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff meaning it is effectively shutting down. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut off by the Trump administration.
By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
Radio Free Asia announces mass layoffs amid funding fight with Trump administration
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff meaning it is effectively shutting down. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff meaning it is effectively shutting down. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut off by the Trump administration.
By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
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Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
May 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
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This NIAID facility in Maryland is one of the few places on earth with the capacity to research and fight the world’s most dangerous diseases.
We cannot let RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration freeze NIAID’s lifesaving efforts.
We cannot let RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration freeze NIAID’s lifesaving efforts.
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
www.wired.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This NIAID facility in Maryland is one of the few places on earth with the capacity to research and fight the world’s most dangerous diseases.
We cannot let RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration freeze NIAID’s lifesaving efforts.
We cannot let RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration freeze NIAID’s lifesaving efforts.
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
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A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters and subdued two of them with stun guns.
Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV
Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters and subdued two of them with stun guns.
Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV
Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV
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April 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Former FDA Commissioner:
April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Former FDA Commissioner:
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Here's how it works:
1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP.
2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president.
3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free.
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP.
2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president.
3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free.
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Here's how it works:
1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP.
2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president.
3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free.
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP.
2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president.
3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free.
www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
“The administration argued that it cannot bring back Abrego Garcia because he’s in Salvadoran custody and knocked down concerns that he’s likely to be tortured or killed in CECOT.”
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison | CNN Politics
The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because ...
www.cnn.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“The administration argued that it cannot bring back Abrego Garcia because he’s in Salvadoran custody and knocked down concerns that he’s likely to be tortured or killed in CECOT.”
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This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the US
Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the US
March 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the US
Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the US
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🚨SPEAK UP FOR WOLVES 🚨
On Tuesday, 3/25, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, +d Fisheries will hold a hearing on several bills, 2 of which directly attack wolves + the Endangered Species Act.
Call on your reps to vote NO on HR 845 + HR 1897 ➡️ bit.ly/43UB7gG
On Tuesday, 3/25, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, +d Fisheries will hold a hearing on several bills, 2 of which directly attack wolves + the Endangered Species Act.
Call on your reps to vote NO on HR 845 + HR 1897 ➡️ bit.ly/43UB7gG
March 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🚨SPEAK UP FOR WOLVES 🚨
On Tuesday, 3/25, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, +d Fisheries will hold a hearing on several bills, 2 of which directly attack wolves + the Endangered Species Act.
Call on your reps to vote NO on HR 845 + HR 1897 ➡️ bit.ly/43UB7gG
On Tuesday, 3/25, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, +d Fisheries will hold a hearing on several bills, 2 of which directly attack wolves + the Endangered Species Act.
Call on your reps to vote NO on HR 845 + HR 1897 ➡️ bit.ly/43UB7gG
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...
Providing Nest Material for Birds: Dos & Don'ts
Rufous Hummingbird by Penny Hall/Birdshare.
Most birds build some kind of structure to contain their eggs and nestlings. A bird's nest may be as simple as a nighthawk's or Killdeer's depression on ...
www.allaboutbirds.org
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...