Reposted by A Peridot NopalPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026MAGA EPA dismantles regulations for mercury and air toxins from power plants, eliminate the endangerment finding. But Republican attorneys want the EPA to re-classify mifepristone as a contaminant. Ideology & $$ over human health. 🧪 www.stlpr.org/government-p... 8184109
Reposted by A Peridot NopalZoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Sporothrix brasiliensis is spreading worldwide, posing a epizootic risk to cats and zoonotic risk to humans. 🧪 #vetmed www.sciencenews.org/article/dead...sciencenews.orgA deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreadingIt’s just a matter of time before Sporothrix brasiliensis reaches the U.S. a CDC expert says. 22726
Reposted by A Peridot NopalPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026“Instead of prioritizing a very specific, clear, actionable research question, we’re simply just trying to figure out how to survive in this environment.” This is where we are. There is little room for innovation in this environment. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgStudy finds sharp decline in Black, Hispanic researchers receiving NIH fundingDrop in those receiving grants and fellowships in 2025 shows impact of Trump administration rollbacks to diversity initiatives 313498
Reposted by A Peridot NopalNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 16/06/2026A vast whale graveyard found on the bed of the Indian Ocean may represent the deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses, and communities supported by the whale falls, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4fx8BYt #Paleosky 🌎🧪 15218
Reposted by A Peridot NopalJohn Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Really well reported piece that shows why Congress appears to be itching to get into a fight with the National Academies.politico.comInside the campaign to discredit a key climate science reportAn emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry. Billions of dollars are at stake. 43125
Reposted by A Peridot NopalMarie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026GOP bills are hiking healthcare costs by 16% and they still want us to pay extra for dental and vision. It is absolute robbery. We are drowning in premiums while they rake in the profits. Disgusting. #TrumpMakesUsSick #USDemocracy #Pinks 20420251
Reposted by A Peridot NopalSuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Cancer treatment should be enough. The idea that you can still lose Medicaid while fighting for your life is cruel, absurd, and deeply American in the worst way. People will miss care, miss meds, miss deadlines and then Trump’s system blames them for the damage #TrumpMakesUsSick 04326
Reposted by A Peridot NopalDanielle, the Teal Joker ︽✵︽ @likethe309.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Is it a sign of a functioning country that every time we hear that the SCOTUS is going to issue an opinion, we know our lives are about to get worse? 260201281
Reposted by A Peridot NopalBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits. 817208045072
Reposted by A Peridot NopalAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship. 481223715518
Reposted by A Peridot Nopal𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/05/2026Men revving their trucks at stop lights like I’m looking for a guy who sounds expensive to insure. 2604698400
Reposted by A Peridot NopalMS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If you always just “vote blue no matter who” why the fuck would they change? They won’t. That is why we have to work outside of this political system. It doesn’t serve us and we shouldn’t keep expecting it to. We are on our own. We have to organize into mass cooperation and civil disobedience. 6298
A Peridot Nopal @aperidotnopal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026To "earn" a billion dollars, working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, for 40 years, you'd have to be getting paid over $12,000 PER HOUR. I don't make that much in 2 MONTHS! Amassing that much also assumes you spend $0 of it to live. There is no scenario in which it is honestly earned, or ethical. 0110
A Peridot Nopal @aperidotnopal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026They should draft everyone who voted for him first, since they're the ones who support him. 000
Reposted by A Peridot NopalMS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026When you say something like 1/3 or 1/2 of the country “voted for this” you are leaving out children, prisoners, green card holders, migrants, disabled Americans who can’t get to the polls, workers without PTO, people purged from voter rolls, etc, etc, etc. This is what they want. Don’t fall for it. 106711
Reposted by A Peridot NopalMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Which is the backwards country now, United States? 999313558719
Reposted by A Peridot NopalChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2026WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵open.substack.comHistory Didn’t Repeat, It ContinuedWE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ 27770833015
A Peridot Nopal @aperidotnopal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026From Substack user Letters from a Feminist. "412 women arrested since Roe v. Wade overturned. 0 men arrested since Epstein files released. The child rapist president is still in the Oval. THIS is how America treats women." 000
Reposted by A Peridot NopalMr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Susan Entwistle - Cornflowers. #Acrylics #Pointillism 403613409
Reposted by A Peridot NopalAndrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 20/04/2026"Rainy Road" - my oil painting 2339582701
Reposted by A Peridot NopalLara (NOT TRUMP) @endlesswinter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong. 659181985346
Reposted by A Peridot NopalChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/04/2026Wow. To hear a Catholic priest make the connection from the Trump administration to “white Christian nationalism” is 🔥 But let’s not pretend this is new. Christianity was used to justify slavery, and now the right uses Christianity to justify racism. I appreciate a priest saying it out loud. 602257728
Reposted by A Peridot NopalDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026WAKE UP! 66148112
Reposted by A Peridot NopalTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425. 2733606214
Reposted by A Peridot NopalFilipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again. 532170194314
Reposted by A Peridot NopalGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/04/2026It‘s so distasteful watching right-wing journalists salivate over more spending on weapons & growing the military. Even where it‘s necessary, it should be a matter of sadness & regret, not greeted with eagerness. You get the sense they prefer taxes spent on guns than benefits or education. 2063118645
Reposted by A Peridot NopalKevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 08/04/2026On the latest episode of @audiommunity.org , @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I talk through this wonderful new paper. A conceptually straightforward advance that massively expands the usefulness of this is kind of spatial 'omics 🧪open.substack.comEpisode 54 - Poop is lumenNew spatial 'omics technology that enables capturing *all* the RNA 0102
Reposted by A Peridot NopalAuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hahahaha. He is not going to like this picture at all. 😂😂😂 10167
Reposted by A Peridot NopalJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 07/04/2026Trump called Fox News this morning to announce it: “8 PM is happening. There will be an attack like they have not seen.” Kharg Island is burning. Congress has the power to stop this war. Call the Capitol switchboard now: 202-224-3121. Call script in thread. 67262
Reposted by A Peridot Nopal🌈Super Gay Mom💙 @hudsonbay2la.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I don't have a picture of my cat, but, an oil tanker has caused an huge explosion at Panama Canal’s Bridge of the Americas, closing the crossing 🤔 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #resistindependent.co.ukHuge explosion at landmark Panama Canal bridge leaves one dead and more injuredMore than 75 firefighting units tackled the blaze at the 5,400ft road bridge, according to Panama’s firefighting chief 0105
Reposted by A Peridot NopalROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Iran, If you are going to hack into some account, please make it the Epstein files. Thank you. 553301578
Reposted by A Peridot NopalJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 26/03/2026Today is Equal Pay Day. Women working full-time earned 81 cents on the dollar in 2024, down from 84 cents in 2022. The gap widened two years in a row. This is theft, conducted in broad daylight. Read it, share it, get loud. open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...open.substack.comStartling Statistics: Women Are Falling Farther BehindOn Equal Pay Day, let's tell the truth about pay disparities between men and women. 56348
Reposted by A Peridot NopalPeggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This graph shows how far into the year 2026 women have to work in order to earn the same as men did in 2025. 11146144
Reposted by A Peridot Nopalbarbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 26/03/2026"Many have received eviction notices, lost their childcare, missed bill payments and been charged late fees, damaged their credit, defaulted on loans, and have been unable to even qualify for a loan to help ease the financial burden during the shutdown."upi.comActing TSA leader: Officers sleeping in cars, selling plasma - UPI.comHa Nguyen McNeill, acting administrator for Transportation Security Administration, said Wednesday that TSA agents are struggling during the shutdown. 3257
Reposted by A Peridot NopalAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'" 456245878324
A Peridot Nopal @aperidotnopal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Quite a few products I've purchased based on Meta ads lately have been not as advertised, (i.e. unclear the item was wholly or partially a digital product, shoes prominently advertised as waterproof are anything but, etc.)... 100
Reposted by A Peridot NopalJorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 09/03/2026It's starting to feel like all of my days off are devoted to dealing with contact centres for things which can't be resolved via "digital channels". I don't begrudge the agents, who have a hard job. But the time invested shows total contempt for anyone who is a customer. 3039051
Reposted by A Peridot NopalDr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 09/03/2026the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors. humans have 3. we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive. the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one. #addOcean 1674393777
Reposted by A Peridot NopalElena @elenarenn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I noticed they cut down a few huge trees in my area and was suddenly struck by anxiety that this one would follow #art 482362186
Reposted by A Peridot NopalAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2026New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n... 638229496550
A Peridot Nopal @aperidotnopal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It's over. This is it. We've been at the precipice of irreversibility and we're about to plummet into the end times. 010