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Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

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Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

A picture of the White House and its pillars with white text over the top. The text says: ‘Breaking White House to halt school tours as most officials are not allowed within 500 feet of children.’ In the bottom right corner it says: satire.

Where’s the lie? 😬😁

Ped-ublicans

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics — STAT The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu subtypes that could...

The Department of HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a $600 million contract. This is being seen as a significant blow to the country’s capacity to respond to pandemic influenza. This administration is NOT protecting our healthcare for sure!

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There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’”

My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’.

I bring receipts:

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The New Right in 2025: From Fringe to Power How a once-controversial movement has become a defining force in American conservatism

What we see: chaos, polarization, culture wars. What’s really happening: a strategic realignment of power, new institutions forming, and the rise of a counter-elite shaping the next era. The future isn’t a repeat of the past—it’s being built in real time. #NewRight #PowerShift

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library - NewsBreak Dolly Parton has called on Indiana’s governor to reverse course on plans to do away with her popular “Imagination Library” program. The country singer, wh

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How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

Screenshot of a Forbes headline, “Over 96% Of Airplane Flights Had Covid-19 Coronavirus In Their Wastewater”, published Jan 08, 2023.

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

Fight ALL the fights We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

Thanks! Easier to follow them all

If you’re not part of the resistance, you’re part of the problem. And stay out of the way of the people that actually care about this country and the human beings in it.

Yes, it can happen again. 👀

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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(1/2) Since the government has ordered a pause on all communications, rubin_allergy on IG will be providing information about the list of recalls that the FDA has listed since that pause.

🇺🇸👇👇🇺🇸

For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int

Please support your local public libraries. Many libraries offer reciprocal cards to other nearby library systems (great for borrowing e-books and audiobooks through Libby).

Please read banned books.

Please read books by BIPOC authors.

Please use StoryGraph.

Please purchase locally.

#booksky 📚

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56