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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Okay the areas where most of the people on Bluesky are (particularly Khan Younis) are being displaced- so I am going to start a master thread here of people who need help with evacuation. I’ll keep adding to it so check the bottom part too:

This lithium company is trying to sue Indigenous land defenders into silence Six land defenders, known as the “Thacker Pass 6,” are currently being sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting a massive lithium mine on a sacred site of local Indigenous tribes’ ancestral h...

Six land defenders, known as the “Thacker Pass 6,” are currently being sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting a massive lithium mine on a sacred site of local Indigenous tribes’ ancestral homeland.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

Hoy hubo cacerolazo 😤🥁

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.

1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation.

We have confirmed those reports.

The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.

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None of the ‘Emilia Pérez’ Winners Mentioned the Trans Community Onstage at the Oscars Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the musical didn’t even use the word “trans.”

Them [Mar 3] -- Emilia Perez takes home Oscars
for Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña) and Best Song, but in a film about a trans mob boss no one bothered to mention the war against transgender people. Saldaña had mentioned her trans nephew in accepting her BAFTA.
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How it started. How it’s going.

A tan background has read text. It reads “Comrades don’t live-stream comrades.” Below it shows a crossed out phone, a crossed out video camera and a crossed out photography camera. Circled in a positive note is a power fist, and next to it, the symbol for anarchism. Below these pictograms is read text in a tan background that reads “Don’t Do Cops’ Jobs For Them.”

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History is repeating itself.

There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...

21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...

Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely A newer variant of H5N1 bird flu has spilled over into dairy cows separately in Nevada and Arizona, prompting new theories about how the virus…

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances A new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months

Go fash, lose cash www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.