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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 3h

"About 25 years ago, tree trunks and branches in those forests became a net emitter, with more trees dying and insufficient new growth, according to the research.

“It’s the first tropical forest of its kind to show this symptom of change”"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

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gstuedler 🇺🇸 🇧🇧 🇺🇦 @gstuedler.bsky.social · 3h

Rogue House speaker is stealing a vote from Democrats www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Rogue House speaker is stealing a vote from Democrats

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday threatened to sue House Speaker Mike Johnson if he doesn't swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva . "On behalf of Arizona, I am demanding ...

www.dailykos.com

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 3h

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 3h

He’s just so good at this

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 3h

Annals of American Stupidity:

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Wow—has a president ever explicitly confirmed a presidential finding authorizing an ongoing covert action before? Let alone a brand new one?

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 3h

Good!

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h

🐴🤡 Lavrov stated that the supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would cause colossal damage to relations between Russia and the US.

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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 2h

Black people and Latino people who voted for him - you are being erased. We tried to warn you. Military top brass, making the National Museum of African American History and Culture less about slavery, removing photos of Black and Latino military heroes and figures in history...we tried to warn you.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 2h

If you are trying to keep up with the gory details of what HHS Sec RFK Jr. has been up to and get a helpful take from someone who has been following his efforts for many years pre-COVID, I recommend you follow @gorskon.bsky.social Here is a good example...

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 4: Aluminum edition (or: Everything old is new again…again)

Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing for

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Alison Campbell @acampbelteacher.bsky.social · 2h

WTAF???

Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has directed at least five military strikes in the Caribbean that officials say have killed 27 people
Now, he is looking at military strikes ‘on land’ !!!

Wait, what ?

Is that a declaration of war ??

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump says he is 'certainly looking at land' in the Caribbean offensive

Trump said in the Oval Office this afternoon that his administration is considering strikes on land amid his crackdown on drug cartels after his administration

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 2h

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more...

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 1h

Or are we just making it clear we'll be paying the US to at least not get in the way? And what are the timelines for the deliveries of all this stuff? Can US military manufacturing keep up with orders or will this arrive in time for the invasion of Germany?

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h

🇺🇦❗️After the Ramstein meeting, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that 19 countries are ready to provide new military aid to Ukraine within the PURL initiative and bilateral basis.

“We must make it absolutely clear to Putin that he can never win,” Rutte added.

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georgethomas.bsky.social @georgethomas.bsky.social · 1h

Now who’s giving free healthcare to immigrants?

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 10h

Dear national media: Instead of using photos of LBJ signing the Voting Rights Act, use this one of its bi-partisan reauthorization. It does more to show how far we’ve regressed in a few short years.

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 5h

Loved this piece!

John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 1d

We have to take our stories back.

Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself

AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.

www.al.com

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 8h

Why can’t we call this 🐂💩what it is, a lie being promoted by Trump and MAGA. Plain and simple, a lie.

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the great timeline cleanse

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, all righ then: more from the Etosha archive!

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

"Dancing at the Edge of Life": my inaugural professorial lecture theme pic, back there in 2003. Zimbabwean art piece, stone and metal.

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 1d

I’m happy for the Israeli hostages that were released. I’m horrified by the thousands of Palestinian civilian deaths, atrocities and starvation of innocent people conducted by Israel. I’m offended by Israelis lauding Trump “The peace President”. How selfish.I am just disgusted.

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Lisa Gerrish 💙 @gerrishlisa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks rank with MAGA on key issues, confusing critics and supporters, and she’s pissing Trump off. 😂

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks rank with MAGA on key issues, confusing critics and supporters

Did MTG have a political awakening, or is she just rebranding?

www.yahoo.com

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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 1d

My principal digging out the storm drain in the school parking lot is not technically the reason we’re kicking off the school fundraiser today… but here’s the link to donate: givebutter.com/walkerwolf

😂😂😂

She saved the day because this is where the parents drive to drop off and pick up their kids.

A wonderful elementary school principal digging out debris in a drain in a parking lot. She’s wearing rain boots standing at the edge of an enormous puddle, and her umbrella is set on the ground behind her. She’s smiling, of course. Good natured people are generally the ones who roll up their sleeves to save the day.

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 1d

🧪terrible news

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

columbia missouri musicians rally at city hall against ICE arrest of friend and colleague from local music scene

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuoO...

Musical rally held at city hall for Columbia man detained by ICE

YouTube video by KMIZ ABC 17 News

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2d

OPINION: "Today, as I approach 40, I watch children as young as kindergartners practice active-shooter drills, ducking under desks, freezing in dark corners, pretending this horror is part of their regular school day," Duvalier Malone writes.

Opinion | As Kids Die at School, We Need an Emmett Till Moment

Dr. Duvalier Malone writes about the normalization of school shootings and how immediate action must be taken to stop them.

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