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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

“If I were a planetary doctor, I would sit down with my patient and say: ‘Last year, I suggested you change something but you didn’t. (...) So your health is declining further." PIK scientist Levke Caesar on the 2025 Planetary Health Check via @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Good morning Bluesky. Ever wonder where these crazy ideas of suppressing comedians came from? Just check the Nazi playbook.

Me, my new books. My unread books on my shelf, looking at me in horror.

👀 #booksky

A typed document outlining what’s happening in D.C.

The only thing we need in D.C. are the EpsteinFiles

D.C.'s falling violent crime stats, as seen in a new @washingtonpost.com graphic.

There's no denying the city had a spike in violent crime in 2023, as President Trump was campaigning for president.

There's also no denying that it already has receded.

Trump's attempt to militarize and federalize D.C. is an incredibly dangerous acceleration of his fascist takeover of the nation

AND

It's clear he's pursuing it to distract from the Epstein Files

His craven personal self-preservation is driving this escalation and that makes it all the scarier.

Oh my heart 😭💔

Is that Skyrim? 👀

This Fourth of July, I am thinking about the 139 civil servants who took an oath to uphold the constitution and the EPA’s mission, and were placed on leave for raising concerns about issues such as deregulating asbestos and lead exposure.

This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.

EPA suspends and investigates around 140 employees who signed a letter critical of the agency | CNN EPA administrator Lee Zeldin had a sharp response to the employee-signed letter.

EPA just suspended 139 staff for signing a “Declaration of Dissent” against Trump-era policies. Escorted out like criminals—for defending science and climate truth. This isn’t discipline—it’s a purge. Authoritarianism in a lab coat.
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/c...

Why is the dollar off to a weak start this year? The U.S. dollar had its worst start this year in more than half a century. Harvard University economics professor Kenneth Rogoff says President Trump is accelerating the decline.

The U.S. dollar had its worst start this year in more than half a century. Harvard University economics professor Kenneth Rogoff says President Trump is accelerating the decline.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani

Today seems like a good day to remind everyone that the Nazis removed birthright citizenship.

'Science refugees': French university welcomes first U.S. researchers The University of Aix-Marseille welcomed the scholars on Thursday, following the March launch of its 'Safe Place for Science' initiative.

Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer "science asylum" to U.S. academics hit by federal research spending cuts under U.S. President Donald Trump.

The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

Japan aims to complete Yonaguni evacuation shelter in 2028 The project was started bearing in mind a possible emergency over Taiwan in the Nansei southwestern island region.

Japan has said that the construction of an evacuation shelter on the country's westernmost island of Yonaguni, in Okinawa Prefecture, will start next fiscal year, with the completion expected around spring 2028.

Unitarian Universalist here, ready to fuck this up real good.

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in today’s birthright citizenship case is a wake up call for all of us: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates”
 
SCOTUS is essentially deciding to look the other way as Trump infringes on our rights and breaks our laws.

“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King

#photography
#books

"He looks TERRIBLE," says Donald Trump - Donald Trump!! - about Zohran Mamdani.

Beyond parody. I have no words.

The surprising ways food packaging is exposing us to microplastics New research shows that microplastics from paint and food processing are seeping into our food and drink.

New research shows that microplastics are shedding from reusable plastic containers and food packaging, but they can also come from glass bottles with painted caps, as well as highly processed foods packaged in any material.

🎶 WAR HUH!

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

Distracting people from the failures of your increasingly authoritarian regime, and that you’re an out-of-your-depth nepobaby rapist President.

SAY IT AGAIN YA’LL

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

Ishiba to skip key NATO summit following Iran strikes Two other invitees — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and new South Korean President Lee Jae-myung — have also decided not to attend the gathering.

BREAKING: Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has canceled his trip to a NATO leaders’ summit this week, a day before his scheduled departure from Tokyo, following U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites Saturday.

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.