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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Jun 14

A beautiful day to go out and make one's voice heard!

RyanWeather.Com @ryanweather.bsky.social · Jun 14

Temperature will climb a few degrees today as a weak ridge builds inland. This means we will see another day of gusty winds due to a tightening pressure gradient. Overall it will be a beautiful day with temperatures near seasonal for this time of year.

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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · Jun 14

Alaska’s 1st ever Heat Advisory is in effect for Sunday. A Flood Watch for snowmelt is also in effect for northern AK

🌡️Last week: 15°-25°F below normal
🌡️This week: 10°-20°F above normal

🔴Climate Change is playing a role in this weather whiplash. Sunday's unusual heat: at least 2x to 4x more likely

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do NOT do this. Do NOT sit down at a protest. This will get people hurt.

hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Jun 10

6 degrees over the climate change affected previous record? We are so cooked.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 5

Amazon’s merger with the carceral state means the same robot that delivers your package will come back later to kick in your door and detain you.

Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

The robots are leaving Amazon’s warehouses.

www.theverge.com

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · May 29

I had some amazing fish tacos with pickled onions yesterday. Divine. 🌮

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DTM @thedtm.bsky.social · May 24

Two dozen MASKED federal law enforcement officers? Who on earth is okay with this?
wapo.st/4mvhLpi

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · May 24

They're letting in El Chapo's family.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

17 members of a cartel kingpin's family were escorted into California from Mexico. Why?

Mexican news reports suggest the U.S. recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to California.

www.latimes.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 6

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · Apr 21

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the @syracuse.com investigation shows.”

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families

“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”

www.syracuse.com

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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · Apr 17

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Apr 17

if u are fuming at mass deportation of migrants to El Salvador's CECOT prison, u should also be fuming that people are being deported at all. Plus, much of the $ for the securitization & border externalization & carceral regimes in Central America has LONG come from US-backed neoliberal war on drugs

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Apr 17

And she will. There is no way she is coming our of this unscathed. I understand a decent portion of what it is grow up in rural Mexico as a girl and be here as an undocumented person. FAFO will still catch up to her without calling the SS to round her up.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Apr 17

This situation isn’t just outrageous. It’s enraging. It’s normal to feel rage about human beings being treated like this. It’s normal to look at this wealth of injustice and horrid bullshit and feel rage.

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Apr 17

No. No one deserves that just for being indoctrinated and stupid. Please rethink this attitude.

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Apr 17

100%. He is evil. I went NC with family over their Trump support back in 2015.

I was so flabbergasted I couldn't even really respond to this person's delusion. She's a conservative Christian, so thinks Trump is great. I hope her family comes through this ok.

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Apr 17

An undocumented Trump supporter I know reassured me that Trump would only be taking the "bad people".

It is a form of cognitive dissonance. I like Trump, so he must be good and will only do good things. Human brains just suck.

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Aaron Ortega Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen and a PhD student at Oregon State, where he’s been researching the impact of wildfires on ranchlands. Ortega Gonzalez has reportedly been given no reason why the federal government ended his visa."

Oregon State student sues Trump administration for revoking visa

Aaron Ortega Gonzalez says he’s never committed a crime despite ICE officials’ claims.

www.opb.org

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · Apr 15

speaking as a dog owner here - y’all, keep your dogs on leash when you’re out in public, my god. This isn’t hard

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hypatiafan.bsky.social @hypatiafan.bsky.social · Apr 14

Friend of mine had a child die of AIDS when she was 5. It was a hospital acquired infection.

Please reflect and feel some shame.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 14

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Apr 14

anyone who is acting like the US and el salvadore simply accidently deported the wrong people and can’t find them is lying because they don’t want to admit they rather like that fascistic deporting of political enemies into death camps is essentially legal now

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Dozens of gray whales have been found dead along the Pacific Coast. “We didn’t see a single southbound calf, which has never happened in 40 years.” @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Gray whales are dying off the Pacific Coast again, and scientists aren't sure why.

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again.

www.latimes.com

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Apr 4

Once again, in a functioning democracy -- and more to the point, with a media working as it should! -- this would be a huge, epic, what-the-fuck scandal.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · Apr 4

NEW: The Trump Admin has been "covertly" withholding FEMA funds from Democratic states, seemingly as retaliation for sanctuary laws, a judge ruled.

Hawaii is missing $6 million for widlfire aid. Oregon is waiting on $129 million for disaster prevention.

Trump slammed for ‘covertly’ withholding FEMA funds from blue states

The Trump administration had claimed FEMA was just launching a new manual review process for allocations — a process the states showed is covertly based on Trump's funding freeze.

www.courthousenews.com

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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · Apr 1

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

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