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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.

Meta now allows women to be called ‘property’ and LGBTQ+ folks labeled ‘mentally ill.’ Watching people justify staying on Meta —‘It’s just where everyone is!’—is wild. At what point do convenience and connection outweigh complicity in a system harming the most vulnerable? Asking for humanity.

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Thread of ways to help those devastated by the LA fires:

God bless and protect California in the years ahead

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

YouTube video by The Daily Show GOP Promotes Trump’s Greenland Fantasy While Fires Rage in LA | The Daily Show

GOP Promotes Trump’s Greenland Fantasy While Fires Rage in LA

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as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

Linda Blair’s sanctuary was still safe as of earlier today.

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

$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.

So true. 💯

Get it get it

Artists engaged with science
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The SciArt Starter Pack:
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YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly BlueSky for Beginners

Tips for new users!

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How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.

When I said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being DHHS Secretary would kill people, you all understood that I was being literal, right?

To underscore: Kennedy Jr. will actually kill people. Mostly children. And only a contemptible monster like Trump would position him to do that and think nothing of it.

nope, long since lost touch

yep, he released it. didn't have a hit with it. Rick took it & changed it up and released it and had it. Sammy teases that he appreciates all the money he gets from Rick for it. They are friends and in the Rum business together

nope, not Rick's real last name. it was changed by his first band manager in the 60s in Australia

#This

Don't we deserve to know the truth about Matt Gaetz?

Call the GOP House Ethics Committee Reps - tell them to RELEASE the Gaetz report

Michael Guest 202-225-5031
David Joyce 202-225-5731
John Rutherford 202-225-2501
Andrew Garbarino 202-225-7896
Michelle Fischbach 202-225-2165