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Donate to Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss, organized by Patrick Haluptzok UPDATE: Colin and Sophie are moved by the outpouring of kindness a… Patrick Haluptzok needs your support for Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss

Here is a GoFundMe link for Sophie and Colin ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-co...

Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips — Harvard Gazette Study explores links between financial stress and mortality risk.

This isn't just heart breaking, it's terrifying. Your financial situation shouldn't be a factor in receiving or responding to life-saving care. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.

It's long past time to refocus economies around what actually matters - wellbeing and sustainability - rather than maximising financial transactions

Important new call to move beyond GDP in Nature

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

Carbon offsets, though widely used, often fail to deliver real emission cuts. They undermine global climate goals by enabling polluters to avoid reducing fossil-fuel use.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

Thank you for this update 🙌

Tucker does not know where his wife is. She was taken by ICE during a green card meeting. @latimes.com @laist.com @juliabarajas.bsky.social @ktla.com @joshdubose.bsky.social @thehill.com @abc7.bsky.social @abcnews4.com @theguardian.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @nbcla.com

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

Keep cancelling!

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US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Today marks the 90th anniversary of Social Security — the most successful anti-poverty program in U.S. history.

As Trump and Republicans try to tear down all of our country’s safety nets, I’ll keep fighting back and making sure every American is able to retire with dignity.

NEW ANALYSIS: Trump and Republicans’ Big Bad Betrayal Law will decrease income for the poorest Americans by $1,200 per year and increase it for the richest by $13,600.

The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history.

Think the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again. : It's Been a Minute Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attack...

Me & @joanalker1.bsky.social on @npr.org's "It's Been a Minute" talking about the erroneous stereotypes that drive Medicaid cuts & the fundamental connections between all of us. When we harm those whom government deems "underserving," we ultimately harm everyone.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors.

This ain’t about law and order.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

I don’t remember hearing of this initiative at the time. It’s not free for all, it’s free for most. Still, wildly successful. A great model.

Institutionalizing politicized science The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Gran...

Here’s how the Trump administration is taking decisions about science away from scientists. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FBI director says Wisconsin judge arrested for allegedly obstructing ICE | CNN Politics The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media, accusing her of helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.

Trump's FBI director, who promised to punish Trump's political opponents, announces the arrest of a sitting judge.

We're sliding deeper into authoritarianism by the hour.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.

Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)