Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026'But are there not many Fascists in your country?' 'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'. From Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", sounds about right for these days 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Fight the Sheep Creek Mine proposal by US Critical Minerals. The US Forest Service is proposing to fast track the company's proposal without an Environmental Assessment, despite the location of the mine site at the headwaters of the Bitterroot river. Here is one strategy that proved successful:theguardian.comA rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one weekAt the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling 100
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026As a recently retired scientist I believe that we have targets on our back and that this administration is looking for any chance to persecute us. Here is a recent post from Peter Hotez: 0348
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim tells the hero that the secret to immortality can be found in a plant at the bottom of the ocean. And now I read there is an immortal jellyfishtheguardian.com‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortalityTurritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again 085
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comInside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of booksCourt filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. 010
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026AI destroying books? I don't know what AI protends for our future, but I think of them like dogs: can you blame a dog if the owner doesn't control it? 120
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Find it before it is gone! Great Barrier Reef microbiome mapped as researchers discover 500 bacterial species previously unknown to sciencetheguardian.comGreat Barrier Reef microbiome mapped as researchers discover 500 bacterial species previously unknown to scienceResearch identifies 808,585 viral genomes belonging to what scientists estimate to be 362,802 different viruses 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Testosterone testing is wrong on so many levels: is there a baseline for each male soldier or a one size fits all? What about women? Vaccines are bad but testosterone dosing is good - what kind of logic is that? We are letting children govern us. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"The Trump administration has decried the use of hormones in gender affirming care, including both testosterone and estrogen, as “chemical and surgical mutilation”. Hegseth’s announcement did not address the more than 231,000 women who serve as active duty service members in the US military.theguardian.comPete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiencyUS defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’ 010
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3s...youtube.comThe World Cup Knockouts But It's Lord of The RingsYouTube video by Charlie Hopkinson 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Former employees of NOAA that were fired by the Trump administration launch an independent climate watch organization. This group provides climate information free of political and corporate interests. I'm impressed by their determination and showing us a path of resistance to monied interests.climate.usClimate.us Homeindependent, nonprofit, and immune to politics 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The Union of Concerned Scientists released "Attacks on Science Tracker" to document the second Trump administration’s 574 attacks on science and scientific integrity. 000
Reposted by Philip StewartThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/06/2026“In the spirit of friendship and mutual understanding, the United States is proud to welcome some of the most contagious bacteria and viruses ever to infect the human biome,” said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. theonion.comRFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious DiseasesWASHINGTON—Hailing the exclusive gathering as an opportunity to usher in an era of peace and goodwill, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a lively meet-and-greet Thursday with a variety of ... 422160378
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A good article (though long) from the Union of Concerned Scientists on this administration's newest assault on science. Only a significant change in Congress resulting from the midterm elections can slow this Project 2025 juggernaut.blog.ucs.orgThe President’s FY27 Budget Request: More Bad News For ScienceThe president's proposed budget would be bad for science—but it's not too late to change it. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The anniversary of the June 8th 1917 Granite Mountain Speculator Mine disaster. Nice memorial pieceyoutube.comGranite Mountain Speculator Mine Memorial honors heroes of 1917YouTube video by NBC Montana 000
Reposted by Philip StewartThe Onion @theonion.com · 04/06/2026Department Of Labor Cracks Down On People Getting Paid For Work theonion.com/department-of-labor-cr… 201787274
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Peter Hotez has been studying neglected diseases for over 30 years, he knows what he is talking about. 411740
Reposted by Philip StewartCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/05/2026nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...nativenewsonline.netLand Back: Fond du Lac Band Celebrates Return of 3,400 Acres in Historic TransferThe Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa marked a historic moment Wednesday as approximately 3,400 acres of land known as the Cloquet Forestry Center were officially returned to the Band through... 0216
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thanks, Barney Frank, for all that you did for America and its people. So different from today's leadership. RIPbostonglobe.comBarney Frank, groundbreaking gay congressman who coauthored key Wall Street legislation, has died - The Boston GlobeFrank died Tuesday evening in his Ogunquit, Maine, home of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 86. 010
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Robert Malley, lead negotiator for Iran nuclear deal “takeaways from Trump’s speech. 1. That so many still pay attention to what he says, which has no link to reality or to what he might or might not do; 2. that he so cavalierly threatens war crimes ... on behalf of an unlawful & unjustified war.” 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026"Last year the administration RIF'd most of the people responsible for science communication at the NIH, with the loss of most communications staff within the Institutes and Centers. At that time, they also put into place a requirement that public-facing content be approved by a political appointee 100
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“As if the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 ... with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims – to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.”theguardian.comUS judge orders Trump administration to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibitIn ruling, judge cited quote from Orwell’s novel 1984 describing process by which authoritarians rewrite history 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Murderers of Alex Pretti identified www.propublica.org/article/alex...propublica.orgTwo CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti ShootingThe two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym... 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Measles is not back because we forgot how to stop it. It’s back because we chose not to. Virginia’s first confirmed measles case of 2026 is not a medical mystery or a failure of science—it is a policy, trust, and systems failure playing out in real time. www.linkedin.com/pulse/return...linkedin.comThe Return of Measles Was Preventable: Virginia’s First Case and the Cost of Vaccine HesitancyMeasles is not back because we forgot how to stop it. It’s back because we chose not to. 010
Reposted by Philip StewartThe Onion @theonion.com · 14/01/2026This is not a paid advertisement. Subscribe at membership.theonion.com to receive the newspaper and see more print-exclusive content. 181457146
Reposted by Philip StewartWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/01/2026Rest In Power, Claudette Colvin, and a really useful thread debunking popular myths about her from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, whom we used as a source to write our entries about Colvin: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/cl...stories.workingclasshistory.comWorking Class History 116456
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Artist Mike Luckovich: Torch carrying-domestic terrorist 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026A good piece reflecting some of the same reasons I retired from the NIH on Dec 27th. My only criticism is the same I have for everything I have heard recently: people telling us to stand together and fight back but without a strategy for fighting effectively www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...statnews.comThe NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Rogue planets traveling through the galaxy - cool. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...skyandtelescope.orgRogue Saturn Discovered Floating Through the Milky WayAstronomers have measured the mass of a free-floating planet for the first time. Comparable to Saturn, it’s surprisingly massive for such worlds. 000
Reposted by Philip StewartMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them 882507821
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 06/01/2026zeteo.com/p/trump-prot...zeteo.comWATCH: Anti-War Protester From Viral Video Speaks With Zeteo After Michigan ArrestA 22-year-old preschool teacher spoke with Zeteo about being arrested after a TV interview, following a protest against Trump’s attack on Venezuela. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026January 2nd, the 106th anniversary of the Palmer Raids. In the name of public safety government agents arrested/detained thousands, brutally assaulted innocent people, lacked sufficient warrants, and tried to deport many. Sounds familiar. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The future now. A dead sperm whale in breaking Arctic ice, fed upon by a polar bear. From the National Geographic's 25 best photos of 2025. lnkd.in/ekuD6G-k 000
Reposted by Philip StewartWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/12/2025#OtD 27 Dec 1861 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist and leading figure in the First International, landed in Liverpool, having travelled the long way around the globe (via Japan, across the Pacific, USA and Atlantic) after escaping exile in Siberia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9889... 010831
Reposted by Philip StewartPunk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 18/12/2025In memory of Terence Edward Hall, British musician and lead singer of the 2 Tone band The Specials and later a member of several other groups and musical projects Hall died of pancreatic cancer 3 years ago today on December 18, 2022 at the age of 63 📸 David Corio #terryhall #thespecials #ska 1235969
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Just watched "The Great Dictator" again. The speech, tragically, just as fitting today as it was 85 years ago. "To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress." - Charlie Chaplin 093
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 15/12/2025"Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! ... Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness."youtu.beCharlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great DictatorYouTube video by Charlie Chaplin 0137
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Cool find from the Badger state www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comArchaeologists find ancient canoes used by Indigenous people in WisconsinSixteen submerged canoes were discovered along Lake Mendota’s shore at a kind of prehistoric parking lot 010
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025The Nation www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comHis Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, DiesAs much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history. 010
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney . . . As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor." 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025According to Wikipedia, FDA commissioner Makary has some impressive credentials but like all the rest of this administration he should have stuck to what he knows. Here he not-so-subtly suggests that the government created Lyme disease youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4wyoutu.beSilly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.YouTube video by Jonathan Howard 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I always admired her. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comJane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into spacePrimatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship 0127
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025youtu.be/FVKC1ogPXsI?...youtu.beDISNEY'S MESSAGE TO EMPLOYEES: SHUT YOUR TRAP: JIMMY KIMMEL: DONALD TRUMP: BRENDAN CARR: STEPHEN COLYouTube video by COMMENT ON COMMERCIALS 2 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I didn't know that Aberbaijan and Albania had been at war . . . 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The Trump administration and corporate America have moved to silence another voice. Our nation is dying in front of our eyes. Even if you are not a Democrat or a progressive, who can continue in silence? I stand with Jimmy Kimmel and all who are being attacked by this administration and its allies. 000
Philip Stewart @5thstewart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025From Oliver Kornetzke, a genius, but am I the only one who thinks the style is reminiscent of Rod Serling and his Twilight Zone introductions? 000
