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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
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Caroline Fraser @calfraser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Air pollution knows no border.”
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 48% drop in employees at National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Yikes.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT is reporting that influencers are shaping political opinions, sometimes they're not telling you the truth, and they are getting paid. I wrote a book about this two years ago. 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
nytimes.com
An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...
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Alice @alice-madeline.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Courts have twice ordered it off the market because of its drift problems, but the EPA has re-approved it.“
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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Caroline Fraser @calfraser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy shit. This must be stopped.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
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A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Alice @alice-madeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Malevolent and hugely stupid.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/07/2026
Trump is going after the National Academy of Sciences. Gift link.
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Trump Attacks National Academies Over Climate Chapter in Judges’ Manual (Gift Article)
The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Chaco Canyon is one of the most significant cultural sites on earth. The Trump administration, never having seen something of genuine value that it did not want to pervert or destroy, is attempting to wreck it, for profit. We have two weeks to comment. Additional background to follow.
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Pueblo leaders oppose a 2-week comment period to remove oil and gas buffer near Chaco Canyon
Pueblo leaders and environmentalists are angry that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released an environmental assessment on Wednesday with the intent of eliminating a buffer around Chaco Culture Na...
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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
koat.com
Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing
A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10/07/2026
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. USG killed funding for Jessica Cantlon's study of cognitive skills, saying it was turning from basic to applied science. "There won’t be more discoveries, and we’ll just stop at what we already know," Cantlon says. Gift link: nyti.ms/4hbDmCS
Photo of scientist Jessica Cantlon sitting in front of fMRI scanner and computers. Photo by Jake Reinhart for The New York Times
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hello we are back from a holiday weekend and the Office of Management and Budget is still trying to make sure federal grants can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. There's still time to stop it. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
theverge.com
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The USA at 250: science in the new gilded age - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The USA at 250: science in the new gilded age
“A republic, if you can keep it.” As the USA commemorates 250 years since the signing of The Declaration of Independence, the “if” in Benjamin Franklin's quip resonates more than ever. The present US ...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 11 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/R83IO
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "11 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 30/06/2026
They’re genuinely trying to kill science
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Alice @alice-madeline.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Posted by the White House. Narrated by Mark David Hall, author of "Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism? Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Christian Church". youtu.be/SgaVjksOo70 @bradleyonishi.bsky.social @katerqburns.bsky.social @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
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The Story of America: The Faith of Our Founders
YouTube video by The White House
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Regime is taking research money from the NSF to funnel it to places other than Universities, such as venture capital firms. That’s your tax money. I would not be at all surprised if Elon Musk or other people with no understanding of science get to grift off of this. Absolute corruption.
science.org
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Need a road fixed or a bridge built in your town? How about funding for a rural hospital? Then you need to know that one man, Russell Vought, is about to have complete control over who gets federal funding and who doesn’t. To learn more and to write your elected representatives, hit this link.
defendpublichealth.org
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Grant Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees | Defend Public Health
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a proposed new rule for federal grants with breathtaking scope, impacting every grant issued across every department and agency of the feder...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
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Alice @alice-madeline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“It is no longer enough… work behind the scenes with lawmakers…Moreover, it is no longer appropriate to fret about political backlash. Now is the time to recognize and fight to reverse the spiraling fall of the United States of America’s status as the foremost nation in health care innovation.””
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Their new girlfriend is women
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/04/2026
Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. wapo.st/48dWJWX
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
These people are just the most abject filth.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Info on the new BLM plan to clear cut Oregon old growth forests so regime buddies can rake in cash without any consideration of ecosystems, watershed, salmon habitat, recreation, etc etc. Comment period open until March 23. You can write in! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
WTF?! The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which consistently marks citizens as noncitizens, per this report by ProPublica & Texas Tribune. The Act imposes *no penalty* 4 faulty purges. 1/
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 12/02/2026
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/02/2026
Even as senior Trump officials cut vital foreign aid programs — in one case celebrating with cake afterward — they had been repeatedly warned that people would die. Join ProPublica journalists for a conversation about the dismantling of USAID. 📌 RSVP and submit a question:
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ProPublica Event: Inside the Destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development
Join ProPublica journalists for a conversation about the dismantling of U.S. foreign aid worldwide.
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rabbit2rabbit @nibberdoo.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
EVERYONE needs to read Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social “They Knew” right now. She has been writing about & tying together loose ends about this “president”, our government & ties to foreign interests for well over a decade now. If you don’t know of her work, I cannot recommend it enough.
Book covers; author Sarah Kendzior: “Hiding in Plain Sight”, “The View from Flyover Country”, and “They Knew”
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A striking parallel: Milhoan, chair of RFK Jr’s vaccine committee, sees the US explosion of measles as a chance to learn about how uncontrolled measles affects the unvaxxed RFK Jr financed Danish researchers to learn what happens when you deny the hep B vaxx birth dose to babies in Guinea Bissau
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
 _________________________________________________
 FRED BIERY
 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/01/2026
Let's be clear about what's happening: Trump gaslit voters about his abortion stance during the campaign because winning meant staying out of prison. His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/01/2026
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
just going to leave this here www.propublica.org/series/life-...
propublica.org
Life of the Mother Archives
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A reminder that every day brings a new horror, and we still have not addressed the horrors that stretch back to the first actions of this administration.
usatoday.com
10 months later, I'm the last Columbia protester still in ICE custody
Inside the ICE facility where I'm being held, conditions are filthy, overcrowded and inhumane. None of us deserve to be treated this way.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
What’s the business
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Alice @alice-madeline.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Napkin calculations… @calfraser.bsky.social
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
this is so insane
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