Steve Bergin 🌎

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.

It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.

Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Russia is at ‘hybrid war’ with Europe, warns EU chief, calling for members ‘to take it very seriously’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged the EU to “urgently equip itself with a strategic capacity to respond” to Russian hybrid warfare.

Russia is at ‘hybrid war’ with Europe, warns EU chief.

“It is time to call it by its name. This is hybrid warfare, and we have to take it very seriously.”

#DefendDemocracy

therecord.media/russia-hybri...

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation <p>A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, whic...

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drove unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

- The fires released 791 million tons of CO2, roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of Germany

#climatecrisis
www.egu.eu/news/1509/re...

Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy's new memoir is unusually revealing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired from #SCOTUS in 2018, is worried about this country. In an NPR interview the Reagan appointee warns that “Democracy is not guaranteed to survive.”

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

"I am afraid their response confirms that we can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk," Lenton told reporters. Seeing this as I'm on my way to Banda Neira in the Coral Triangle. We are failing.

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs reut.rs/4ocv79X

And the real funding hasn't even begun to kick in yet. All just trial runs compared to what Trump dreams of doing.

We're currently assembling packets containing a whistle and the instructions (quick blasts for ICE spotted, long for ICE detaining someone.) Here's what we're using. (Thanks to Pilsen Arts & Community House for the flyer design in English and Spanish)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Panama to host next World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027 Abu Dhabi, UAE, 12th October 2025 (IUCN World Conservation Congress) – IUCN has announced that Panamá will host the seventh IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027 – highlighting the...

Panamá will host the 7th IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027 — marking the first time this global conservation forum comes to Mesoamerica.

info.iucn.org/471cQFM

#IUCNcongress #ProtectedAreas

Chinese coast guard rams and damages a Philippine vessel off an island in the South China Sea A Chinese coast guard ship has used a powerful water cannon and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South China Sea, said the Philippine coast guard.

Why are you and main IUCN account active on the Musk site and not here? People will move if everyone moves...

New Global Biodiversity Standard raises bar for biodiversity-positive restoration - CIFOR-ICRAF Forests News One of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s headline commitments is the quest to restore 30% of degraded land by 2030. And there’s significant momentum already towards this goal, with ...

The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) is setting a new benchmark for restoration by ensuring the #RightTreeRightPlace.

This initiative helps projects enhance biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.

Learn more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZuNNap

#IUCNCongress #Trees4Resilience

👇

Pass the word!

Excellent. There will never be a better day for Chuck Schumer to pass the torch than today.

We handed out fliers for #nokings on Oct 18th. We were surprised how many young folks didn’t know about it but were really excited to learn! Talking to people IRL & giving them a piece of paper works.

@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @coin-indivisible.bsky.social

Got the flu & new COVID shots today with the family, but my kids only got the flu shot because there are no pediatric COVID vaccines right now because dangerous anti-science lunatics have taken over the centers of national public health & are sabotaging them

🇲🇽 Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said.
➡️ u.afp.com/Smb7

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

Did you not check your 401K yesterday?

Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru around 1,200 years ago, a new study suggests.

#Anthropology #Archaeology 🍺

There's no hidden gems anywhere there, just watch the good ones again, he did plenty.

Names please! What ICE official? We need all their names, the whole chain of command. They all need to see, just maybe, someday, there will be accountability.

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline:

Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is well deserved. When will the world give her and Venezuelans the backing they need to finally oust Maduro's corrupt dictatorship? Now would be a good time.

VIDEO: 🇺🇸 Hundreds protest against National Guard deployment in Chicago

US President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to the Democrat-led city to aid ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents as they carry out immigration raids as part of Trump's mass deportation campaign