Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I learned that there are 52,000 elected offices up for election on 11/4. That’s 52000 chances to vote in candidates who share our values and who will protect the constitution.

I voted and returned my ballot.

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Due process. Academic freedom. An independent judiciary. A free press. A professional civil service. A protected environment. These aren't partisan talking points; they are the pillars of a healthy nation. And every single one of them is under direct assault by the Trump administration.

September 23, 2025 In New York City this morning, the United Nations opened its General Assembly, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations itself.

September 23, 2025

This is worth every minute .. please listen, or read the transcript. Listening is best.

Thank you @crow.house.gov

Thanks to @firedbutfighting.bsky.social for sharing this gem.

This is so much better than the Imperial March that has been playing in our heads for months.

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.

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl Is Your Heath Insurance Getting Cut?!

Why don’t more people care Medicaid will be cut? Maybe because they don’t know they’re on it…
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YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury on the three budget bills in Congress right now

Budget bills, Reconciliation, Rescission…oh my! A lot happening (or not happening) here on Capitol Hill in addition to the general chaos. Here are the updates on all things budgetary. ⬇️

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury: Trump has brought us to the precipice of war and a constitutional crisis

Trump has brought us to the precipice of war, a constitutional crisis, and millions marching in the streets.

To my Republican colleagues: You cannot sit idly by while he endangers our troops, breaks the law, and undermines our democracy.

Find your backbone. Find your moral compass. & DO YOUR JOBS!

June 20, 2025 Individuals in plain clothes with their faces covered and without badges or name tags are snatching people off the streets and taking them away.

June 20, 2025

June 16, 2025 At a news conference today, acting U.S.

June 16, 2025

Read the entire thread!

June 13, 2025 Two hundred and fifty years ago, on June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved “That six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in V...

June 13, 2025

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson American Conversations: Secretary Pete Buttigieg

We need more @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @petebuttigieg.bsky.social! One of the most enlightened conversations I've seen recently. I felt its seriousness, I'm inspired, it makes me think, and want more. Please consider as sort of a round table for our future. #freeto

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June 9, 2025 At 10:19 last night, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media: “Stand with ICE.

June 9, 2025

June 8, 2025 Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.

June 8, 2025

June 7, 2025 In April, John Phelan, the U.S.

June 7, 2025

What I have been quietly working on for a year:

June 6, 2025 Last night, billionaire Elon Musk indicated he would be willing to paper over his fight with President Donald J.

June 6, 2025

June 2, 2025 The Republicans’ giant budget reconciliation bill has focused attention on the drastic cuts the Trump administration is making to the American government.

June 2, 2025

May 27, 2025 Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

May 27, 2025

So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …

Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy Conservatives used to want to replace government assistance with private giving. Now that’s out, too.

Today, Republican doctrine is to bleed nonprofits to bail out a federal government rendered insolvent by 44 years of irresponsible tax cuts.

I know this was just posted but within the next hour, this video should have over 2k likes. This is absolutely incredible and I hope they make it a legitimate ad buy. I don’t know if that’s something that committees can do, but maybe if there’s a loophole

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

An autumnal collection of nature finds including shells, pebbles, feathers, seedheads and lichen

A large mounted print of floral finds from my garden in May

Floral finds from my garden during a very mild spell in February 2019

Garden and common hedgerow floral finds in Norfolk in September 2021

My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.

I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
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