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an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.

Over 15 Navajo Nation Members Wrongly Detained or Questioned in Trump Immigration Raids One Navajo Nation official said that “many fear for the threat of being deported.”…

Federal agents are racially profiling Navajo Nation tribal members, detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented.

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Jackson said. “People have to understand that this is not the way to live or to be honorable and neighborly with each other.”

@BBKogan Follow XI NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the judge's stay of Trump's order and implement the spending pause. Note the director does not take the limited interpretation the admin pushed publicly but instead takes the broad interpretation the admin pushed privately. 9:22:51 PM Subject: MESSAGE to the NSF PI Community Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, directs all Federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by the recent Executive Orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds awara acuvites. Execuve oraers are posted at https:// www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through the form on مممصطمس NCE عنط+ 12:29 PM • Jan 29, 2025 • 1,249 Views

From: NSF eBusiness Outreach <EBUSINESS@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV> on behalf of NSF Business Applications <NSF_Business_Applications@NSF.- GOV> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 9:22:51 PM Subject: MESSAGE to the NSF PI Community Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, directs all Federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by the recent Executive Orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an Executive Order Implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and

additional guidance. All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at https:// www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through the form on this NSF webpage. Thank you for your work advancing science, engineering, technology and innovation for our nation. Sethuraman Panchanathan

“NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the judge's stay of Trump's order and implement the spending pause.”

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Sen. Raphael Warnock has faced major pressure to confirm RFK Jr.

RFK Jr’s ex-running mate, billionaire Nicole Shanahan, threatened to fund challenges against senators opposing RFK Jr. if they didn’t vote to confirm.

Warnock just announced he’s voting no on RFK Jr.

This would also be illegal.

Trump cannot criminalize conduct via executive order, and he certainly can't reinterpret state criminal law. This is intended most of all to terrify people.

If you are a teacher, consult an attorney for the laws in your state. But don't comply in advance.

Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …

Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

Israel Kills 87 Palestinians in Gaza in Day After Ceasefire Deal Is Announced This is the highest death toll in a day in nearly two weeks, one analysis found.

Israeli forces killed at least 87 Palestinians, including numerous children, in the hours after officials announced that Israel and Hamas have reached a long-awaited ceasefire deal on Wednesday, according to Gaza authorities.

🚨Extremely important for everyone to understand that this is the policy that has prevented ICE from showing up at community disaster shelters and other relief distribution sites, etc.

Emergency managers must make new contingency plans for how to meet the needs of undocumented people in response.

Screenshot from "Authoritarians Want You to Quit," arguing that you're not in a bubble if you decline to consume toxic content or subject yourself to harassment. Full piece here: https://www.arcdigital.media/p/authoritarians-want-you-to-quit

The "you're in a bubble" thing is mostly a canard.

Full thing here: www.arcdigital.media/p/authoritar...

Republicans and Democrats Highly Divided in Economic Outlook Under Trump Consumer sentiment among Republicans has soared to its highest point since Donald J. Trump left the White House, while declining among Democrats.

Consumer sentiment among Republicans has soared to its highest point since Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election four years ago, new data shows. The sentiment among Democrats has dropped to its lowest level since early 2023.

For anyone who thinks the 'woman issue' and the US electing a rapist is an abstract thing you can analyze along with inflation or tactics

Since Thursday morning my body -wholly unbidden- has been in the same physical state as when something horrific happened to someone I deeply love

We are not OK

America First Legal investigating NSF's "leftist ideology" America First Legal Foundation, a nonprofit run by former members of President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, is suing the National Science Foundation for records related to the agency’s p...

When people asked me how can TX and FL want research dollars from their faculty but also constrain them from studying certain subjects, I said that the plan was to take power in order to force NSF, NIH, and the rest to no longer care about those subjects

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And now the single largest contributor to the problem will continue to do nothing about it.

Four maps of western Canada showing unusual effects of the 2002 Denali earthquake. Shaking was felt to 3500 km distance, people felt seasick/dizzy, chandeliers swayed, water wells turned muddy and seiches were generated.

3 November, 2002: the M7.9 Denali #earthquake caused unusual effects to distances of 3500+ km across western #Canada. Shaking caused people to feel dizzy/seasick, chandeliers swayed, water wells turned muddy, ice in lakes broke and seiches were generated
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Behind the Scenes at the Federal Bee Lab Powered by Native Plants At this unconventional research lab, government scientists and curious community members support native pollinators and other wildlife from the ground up.

A fantastic profile of the USGS Bee Lab and Sam Droege's amazing work. Creating change and community on a tiny budget. 🐝 🧪 www.audubon.org/magazine/beh...

America needs someone to fly those payloads into space. If its not NASA itself for whatever weird "private enterprise does it better" reasons, or SpaceX because Musk is a traitor, or Russia because they're the enemy, then Bezos' Blue Origins is the next best option.

Redwoods are the oldest living beings I’ve spent time around. From a perspective of continuity with the living world around us, that makes them ancestors.

Premee Mohamed Books Books I wrote, books I'm in! Not in any kind of order mostly.

Pinned post time! :D I am a scientist and author based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- I write about gods, monsters, magic, science, and people running in circles screaming "WHAT IS THAT WHAT IS IT DON'T LET IT TOUCH ME"

My Bookstore bookshop is here! :)

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This has huge geopolitical implications. TSMC being willing to work with mainland China is significant. Especially to skirt American policy designed to protect Taiwan.

Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the ‘Enemy’ Never before has a presidential nominee openly suggested turning the military on Americans simply because they oppose his candidacy. With voting underway, Donald Trump has turned to dark vows of retribution.

This is more like it, NYTimes.

well that's an awfully succinct way to put it
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green and magenta aurora shining down on the silhouette of a tree on a hillock

Danish photographer Jonas Rask got an incredible shot of last night's aurora

If you are still on speaking terms with MAGA family or friends, the time for a hard conversation is BEFORE they vote for an actual holocaust. Whatever the outcome, at least you weren't silent and at least someone told them.

Good morning everyone ☕️☀️✌️😊
Have a great weekend!

Al Gore hails Biden’s historic climate bill as ‘a critical turning point’ Exclusive: ex-US vice-president says with $370bn package of clean energy spending ‘we have changed history and will never go backwards’

Yes.
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"At last started to seep into"? I was there when it withdrew from Gaza and Israel was marinating in hatred. That was literally the catalyst to make me pursue genocide studies. It was patently obvious to a dumbass teenager who was simply too autistic to understand the social convention to ignore it.

‘We’re living like wild animals’: Europe’s largest shantytown waits in vain for power Four years after the lights went out in the Cañada Real, outside Madrid, people plead for electricity as another winter approaches

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"The hardest part has been coming to terms with the fact that we just don’t have any rights at all,” she says.“There are kids and old people here who are suffering but no one wants to listen.
I know this place and it's been the same for yrs, nothing's been done.

The Joy of Water I love photographing by water rivers, lakes, reservoirs, the sea or even a puddle, they are all grist to my photographic mill. The coast is my “happy place” and I can sit for ages just watching the…

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