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Environmental storyteller from the late 1900s 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇼
A sleepy, sassy, sappy, sleuthing sloth 🦥
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Jane Goodall, the influential primatologist who changed how people see chimpanzees and themselves, died Wednesday at the age of 91.

She died of natural causes while she was in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on social media.

(Photo: Apic/Getty Images)
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Truly, these are the end times
October 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
Monarez refused to fire top CDC leaders, ‘rubber-stamp’ vaccine changes, confidante says
The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign despite pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.politico.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.

The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
August 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything?

Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
July 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
July 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Consider donating to Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity. They’ve filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court to try and stop “Alligator Alcatraz” before it opens.
June 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Paula Kerger, the longest-serving chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.” Read our full interview.
Can She Keep PBS on the Air?
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please share and submit comments!!!
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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How many #SciComm starter packs are there? Let's make a big list!
Here's one by @drjenndowd.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/DV3dLBw
November 23, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Coral Dragon 🥰💙 One of my personal favorite illustrations from last year!

#CoralReef #TraditionalArt #Fantasy
March 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM