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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...
On Instagram, a pictured ICE agent says he is "not picky" about who he deports.
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Mar Benavides @marbenavides.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Glad to share our paper revealing that inland and coastal waters, while covering <10% of Earth’s surface, contribute ~20% of global nitrogen fixation! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
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Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters
Biological nitrogen fixation is a key driver of global primary production and climate. Decades of effort have repeatedly updated nitrogen fixation estimates for terrestrial and open ocean systems, yet...
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hey Josh Kraft, let me know if you’d like a tutorial. I promise to make it easy for you because #mapoli needs leadership that understands & respects facts - & your handlers are running patently false ads.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21/05/2025
Hi to our new followers, and OGs! We are two indie journalists who rely on reader support to keep digging. We are just getting started, and there are so many more stories we want to write. Help us reach our spring goal 🌼 of 100 monthly contributors. $3/month is all it takes. Only 30 more to go:
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Support Unraveled
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/05/2025
This is genocide. www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/m...
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A Gaza doctor went to work to save lives. Hours later, her children’s burned bodies arrived | CNN
Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home on Friday when she went to work at the Nasser Medical Complex. Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the h...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 02/05/2025
Poisoning America: Senate advances bill overturning public health protections for 7 air pollutants that science shows are extremely toxic to human health, incl. mercury, dioxins & PCBs. House passage of the bill is expected, would mark 1st time ever Congress has weakened Clean Air Act protections.
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Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants
If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.
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BlueAlaskan1 @bluealaskan1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 03/04/2025
A new potato variety has been granted PVR protection in the Netherlands, which was developed using a proprietary technique for creating graft hybrids by combining 'Pimpernel' skin and 'Bintje' inner cells: www.argenpapa.com.ar/noticia/1566...
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Netherlands: First transplanted skin potato variety receives plant breeder’s rights | ARGENPAPA
The Board for Plant Varieties in the Netherlands has granted plant breeders’ rights to a groundbreaking new potato variety – the first of its kind to feature a skin transplant. (2025-04-02)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Straight down seems bad
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Purging experts who save lives to own the libs www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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The Deep Sea Is Not for Sale—the ISA Must Reject Corporate Pressure | Common Dreams
The multilateral body, recently decried for its seemingly pro-industry stance, should reorient itself back toward its most weighty purpose: protecting the seabed for the benefit of humankind as a whol...
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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Endangered wildlife can't survive if streams they live in are "devoured by hungry cows & made into stinking manure pits year after year." New report @biologicaldiversity.org urges feds to get cattle out of sensitive habitats where they don’t belong. www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Grazed yellow-billed cuckoo riparian critical habitat on Montana allotment, Coronado National Forest. May 5, 2021
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to see SOMEONE finally standing their ground for once. Wish it was someone who isn't bought by AIPAC (Booker is #20 in most Senate AIPAC $$), but I guess there aren't too many of those out there these days. theintercept.com/2019/03/30/c...
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In Leaked Recording, Cory Booker Says He and AIPAC President “Text Message Back and Forth Like Teenagers”
Even as the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has shown willingness to criticize Israel, Booker has tried to smooth over the widening rift.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/04/2025
🌍📈🌡️ Another month at +1.6°C! The next few months will likely remove most doubts about crossing 1.5°C of global warming.. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very rigorous vetting process
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The EPA will close a museum that tells the story of the agency’s history and mission.
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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Residents of Canmore, Alberta, Canada have been left disturbed the female Cougar with kittens was shot – after living peacefully alongside them for years. More: focusingonwildlife.com/news/wildlif...
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Wildlife photographer shocked after “ghost neighbor” cougar he tracked for four years is killed by hunters | Focusing on Wildlife
John Marriott had been tracking the cougar for four years using trail cameras, and recently he was shocked to discover that hunters killed her and left her
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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
1. Wildlife photographer shocked after “ghost neighbour” Cougar he tracked for four years is killed by hunters. John Marriott had been tracking the cougar for four years using trail cameras, and recently he was shocked to discover that hunters killed her and left her kittens to fend for themselves.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It was an error of historic proportions to give the Zionists their own state. And then, unbelievably, to give them nuclear weapons. The biggest fuck up in the history of modern geopolitics. And we're still some way from seeing the awful conclusion of this monumental mistake
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and @indivisibleskagit.org member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The U.S. Passenger Rail Network 1962 vs. 2005
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
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Ⓐ Anarchist Federation News 🏴 @anarchistfederation.net · 26/03/2025
Boycott Ravitz-Owned Shoprites In South Jersey
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Boycott Ravitz-Owned Shoprites In South Jersey
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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Alert 🚨 Georgia voters!! www.ajc.com/politics/swe...
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Sweeping cancellation of 455K voter registrations planned in Georgia
About 455,000 inactive Georgia voter registrations are scheduled for cancellation this summer. It will be the largest removal since Georgia set a national record in 2017.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Dudek also said the changes, happening so fast and with little public understanding, will create opportunities for scammers” What on earth are we doing here??
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It has to be nerve wracking for anyone flying a Mexican flag and protesting to see anyone coming up to them. This guy is a great American #USDemocracy
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Dems Double Down on Fundraising From SpaceX and Palantir Lobbyists.” We cannot rely on democratic leadership to make things right. It is up to us as a collective to work together and push back against the inequity, the fascism, the society that doesn’t work for us. readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
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Dems Double Down on Fundraising From SpaceX and Palantir Lobbyists
Senate Democrats have joined their House counterparts in fundraising from the top lobbying firm for the Trump and Musk-tied companies.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Unfuckingbelievable, he STILL thinks "let the fascists do all the horrible things so people will vote Dem in the midterms bc we aren't as bad" is a viable strategy. @schumer.senate.gov is not equipped for this moment in history. This is not 1992, Chuck. This is a coup.
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littleswitchgrass.bsky.social @littleswitchgrass.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/03/2025
We need to light up the phone lines and ensure Congress can’t ignore the public outcry to protect our schools. Call now. GOP Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal... GOP House: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Dem Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Dem House: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Without the Department of Education

A massive decrease in federal funding will balloon class sizes, lead to the loss of 180,000 teaching jobs, and increase racial disparities in education.

Title IX enforcement will be gutted, rolling back protections against sexual harassment and assault.

Accommodations for students with disabilities will be left to state politicians.

Students and families could lose Pell Grants or federal student loans, leading to more students dropping out, fewer choices, and fewer options for families.

Trump wants to end programs for civil rights protections and funding for disadvantaged students, which will disproportionately harm marginalized communities.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations are held to account. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/21/hu...
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Human Rights Attorney Wolfgang Kaleck on Double Standards in International Law
Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Israel’s army has reinvaded the Gaza Strip, reclaiming control over the Netzarim Corridor, which splits the besieged Palestinian territory in two. Israel is also continuing to bombard Gaza by land, air and sea for a third straight day, www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/he...
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Israel Kills Another 100 Palestinians; Death Toll Tops 700 in 3 Days Since Gaza Ceasefire Withdrawal
Israel’s army has reinvaded the Gaza Strip, reclaiming control over the Netzarim Corridor, which splits the besieged Palestinian territory in two. Israel is also continuing to bombard Gaza by land, ai...
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In Ecuador, pao_montero shows us the inside of a pink flower in the heath family (potentially Semiramisia speciosa) and it's our Observation of the Day! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
The inside of a tubular pink flower.A tubular pink flower hangs from a plant.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
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