Lisa Ballard

Same thing happening at NASA JPL. They’re breaking our scientific institutions.

Not every rainbow parades across the sky for everyone to see… some are just quietly waiting on a doormat and are just for me. 🌈

Germany used to lead the world in science. The language of science was German—until the Nazis came to power and chased out, imprisoned, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists. Fascists break good things, and it is happening here. (2/2)

NASA Employees Protest Cuts In Formal Dissent Letter Retired astronaut Cady Coleman explains why she felt compelled to sign “The Voyager Declaration.”

Last week, hundreds of current and former NASA employees released a letter protesting the proposed budget cuts to the agency. “Discovery and invention and exploration is not a faucet that you can turn on and off,” says retired astronaut Cady Coleman, who signed the letter.

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"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

More attention here please.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.

An awful, awful gut punch in an already profoundly shitty year www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Angled cup featuring a tiny dot representing Earth framed by Saturn inspired by Cassini image

Pale Blue Dot (commission)

NASA Inspires Your Crafty Creations for World Embroidery Day It’s amazing what you can do with a little needle and thread! For #WorldEmbroideryDay, we asked what NASA imagery inspired you. You responded with a variety of embroidered creations, highlighting our....

Yet more NASA-inspired art: nasa.tumblr.com/post/7241045...?

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Planned Parenthood closes 5 Northern California clinics, citing Trump budget cuts President Trump’s budget cuts to Medicaid have forced Planned Parenthood to shutter five clinics across Northern California and the Central Coast, including one in South San Francisco.

Devastating news that five Planned Parenthood locations in Northern California will close as a result of Republicans' cruel cruel budget bill.

Planned Parenthood provides basic health exams, cancer screenings, & vaccinations. Hands Off Planned Parenthood.
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Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

Lesotho Declares State of Disaster After U.S. Tariffs. Rescissions Impact U.N. : State of the World from NPR The southern African nation's garment industry is being gutted by U.S. tariffs. And United Nations peacekeeping and UNICEF are amongst the agencies facing major cuts after a new U.S. funding rollback.

Our chief export is misery.

I remember when they were doing everything possible to muddy the waters around whether Israel had bombed a hospital and now we’re at “murder starving people in the open with bullets”

It was a genocide then too

Love this absolutely epic War Pigs performance. RIP Ozzy.

Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions.
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Amazing

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning. Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic…

🧵 Since the start of this administration, our reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social have been closely tracking the fallout of USAID's destruction.

In March, we wrote about how Trump's halting of a massive Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam puts hundreds of thousands at risk. (1/3)

I live about 10 miles from Camarillo, it’s a quiet, beautiful, low crime, bedroom community surrounded by strawberry fields and orange trees EVERYTHING he’s saying is absolute bullshit

If you need some talking points to share with your elected officials, I wrote some here and got dozens of scientific professional societies to sign on

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Planned Parenthood Wins a Temporary Injunction Over Medicaid Funding

Defunding Planned Parenthood is a backdoor nationwide abortion ban that will also deprive women of basic health care for things like cancer screenings and birth control.

Fighting every way possible and fighting like hell to protect women's health care.

HUGE admission by El Salvador here; it completely puts to lie the Trump admin’s repeated claims in court that it has no control over people sent to El Salvador to be imprisoned without trial.

El Salvador told the United Nations definitively; these people are being held under U.S. jurisdiction.

INCREDIBLE. Kids (in "a summer day camp") were outside playing as federal immigration agents invaded the MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.

Just out of words really ...

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Anyone concerned that America will quietly succumb to fascism should look at what's happening in LA. This whole thread is wonderful

If the United States decides to declare war on its own people, so be it. They can't defeat an insurgency overseas and they can't defeat one here