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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn What is humanity for?  What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet?  These are the central questions driving Michael Pawlyn's third ...

How would it feel to wake every morning knowing that you—all of us—were here to help all life to flourish?

That as a species, we could still become self-conscious nodes in the web of life, to act for the good of all?

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YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News BREAKING NEWS: Bernie Sanders Issues Epic Takedown Of Trump, Musk, And 'The Greed Of The Oligarchy'

Tuesday, on the floor of the Senate, Sen Bernie Sanders torched billionaires, scorched Trump, and burned every shred of political cowardice in his path.

Here is his fiery speech, word for word . . . (Video: 30:41)

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

🚨 #revolution2025

Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo!
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What? Some Dems and “an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats” just voted to confirm an oil & gas industry guy to head the Energy Dept? In the middle of a constitutional crisis? There should be no cooperation with the criminals!

excerpt on climate doomism/geoengineering nexus from "The New Climate War" (https://www.amazon.com/New-Climate-War-Fight-Planet/dp/1541758218/)

I warn of the dangerous doomer/geoengineering nexus in #NewClimateWar: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

There is still beauty in this world

The changes made by Elon's coders are focused on "creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked."

This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.

I was never a fan of Lawyer Brain, but my disdain for it grew as the US increasingly shifted from operating under rule of law to operating under raw power—with the Supreme Court's blessing!—and so many prominent attorneys just pretended it hadn't, smugly chastising those who acknowledged reality.

screenshot of the private IG account of a Gavin Kliger

Screenshot of Gavin Kliger's now-deactivated GitHub account

Gavin Kliger, Elon's DOGE hitler youth shutting down USAID, is now indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. His Instagram appears to be @gkliger. He's scrubbing his online footprint.

Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...

Elon Musk's DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts The Trump Administration claims it is allowing "lifesaving" foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.

NEW: Elon Musk’s attack on USAID has cut HIV/AIDS workers off from medicine and money.

The Trump Administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives. Read our scoop here:

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.

We hammered this time and time again and yet.

As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? I had never imagined, when working as a professor of transplant surgery at a large teaching hospital in London, that one day I…

As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode

CDC Scientists Ordered to Withdraw Studies That Say ‘LGBT’ or ‘Pregnant People’

Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’ President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say Donald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army…

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

‘Less than slaves’: The Palestinians detained by Israel despite ceasefire Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas.

"Every day, the occupation [army] arrests 30 to 40 or even 50 new prisoners."

Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig

WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia was partially destroyed and critical patients are at grave risk, the UN body says The World Health Organization says it is “appalled” by an Israeli raid which it said had shut down and partly destroyed the last major hospital…

WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture

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Before and after shots of Luigi Mangione with hair and eyebrows sculpted between arrest and trial with caption from Coven of Hoes: “the fade expert and the brow technician in prison held hands and said let’s make history”

As Mr Rogers told us, “look for the helpers”

Science journalism becomes plain old journalism "For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something <em>extra</em> — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed a...

"Integrating science more fully into journalism will not only serve readers — it will strengthen public trust in both science and in journalism itself." @siricarpenter.bsky.social nails it in @niemanlab.org! science touches nearly every part of our lives and good reporting should reflect that.

This is illegal!

Trump posted to Truth Social, “Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!!!”

Another factor in the complexity crisis that feels on a runaway course into unpredictable outcomes, as “life coming at us fast” collectively goes into the territory of exponential math in the next decade, and folk heroes and ersatz “influencer populism” rides this tiger.

Incentivizing structures and their influence is a critical area for greater collective insight and oversight; these days, social capital makes means beyond where the scope of law has perspective or procedure as yet defined.

What’s being implicated on emergent grounds is that there’s ways around federal laws against profiting from one’s own crimes, as legalese is a language determined by interpretation (and influence of and over judges and jurisprudence).