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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Gretchen Kent @gretchenkentpdx.bsky.social · 11h

I love Portland Frog and the AMPHIFA movement so I made some protest art to go along with the movement. No AI was used to illustrate the frog - I drew it myself. Feel free to use this image - just don’t claim it as your own or sell it.

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Dave Manson @coachmanson.bsky.social · 11h

Please share widely.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11h

Corporate media has completely ignored that since January, the number of 287g agreements between ICE & local police has gone up nearly 4X. We need to repeal these.

I'm a human rights lawyer. I wrote this piece on how to protect ourselves from ICE fascists.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

www.qasimrashid.com

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 11h

Wow! I had no idea about these! From what part of the world are they? Those flowers are stunning!!

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Thad Ochocinco, Active Listener @thadochocinco.bsky.social · 17h

From the people that repeatedly shoot at the Emmitt Till Memorial Marker comes Brent Jones, who was arrested for pissing in the reflecting pool and destroying the eternal flame at Martin Luther King's burial site www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

I see it. But there’s something very Gary Larson-like about it, too. It’s a really cool figure!

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

Each time she touched the mic!

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot stress enough how terrifying this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

100% to the main post and this reply. Just think morning I was thinking about using Karate Kid as a reference in class next week when talking about learning, growth, and the uncomfortableness and uncertainty that sometimes goes along with them!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

Link to the Governor’s site: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/09/a...

A hiss-torical day: Governor Newsom signs bills establishing state snake, state shrub | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

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Assemblymember Steve Bennett @asmstevebennett.bsky.social · Sep 3

We're thrilled to send our bill, AB 581, to the Governor's desk! Brought to us by local environmental nonprofit @lpforestwatch, AB 581 would establish the resilient and fire-germinated Big-Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) as the state shrub.

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

Bigberry manzanita has been designated as the State Shrub of California😭😍💪🏼

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 1d

Meet Arctostaphylos glauca, commonly known as Bigberry Manzanita and, since the evening of October 9, California's new OFFICIAL STATE SHRUB! YES!!! 🤩

alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/man...

#Manzanita #Twilight #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #Photography #Arctostaphylos

A vertical orientation color photo showing a gnarly shrub with grey and red bark reaching into the twilight sky.

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 1d

My 6YO nice asked me to teach about butts in my evolution course this semester, and I think this is my chance 😎

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 1d

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 1d

Vertebral skeletal diversity in mammals is remarkable. How do the differences between vertebral size and shape develop and evolve? See how we tackled this question in our paper published in @natcomms.nature.com today!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 2d

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 18

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 2d

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 3d

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