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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 22

Senator Roland Gutierrez

THIS BULLSHIT TWEET
BY ABBOTT
I CANT KEEP QUIET ANYMORE

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 22

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

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"Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung

Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on
anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's
blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about
Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled
his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress,
his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at
distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the
Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with
poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing
to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise
and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear"
that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults.
How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a
real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion,
trump is masquerading as a human being.

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He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.
He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in
has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung
and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
"ample time on
at golf than
helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There
progress with him, only
smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your
concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any
money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot.
No intelligent person can defend this
low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka,
trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have
fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who
has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands,
this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and
voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman
leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain
who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's
owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he
was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a
cheap grifter and a thief.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Aug 19

Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.

Why does Australia have earthquakes? The whole continent is under stress from distant forces

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Jenna C. Hill @chillocean.bsky.social · Aug 15

Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️

Early View of Tracy Arm Landslide Features

YouTube video by Alaska Earthquake Center

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Aug 10

That's easy!

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Aug 4

Nothing like a second trip to the ER to make our vacation great again. #MOVGA. Did I get that one right?

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Rhyolite_Prof @edithrojas.bsky.social · Aug 3

US customs stopped me and put me in a room for questioning The woman didn’t like it when I told her I was on vacation Asked me if I was on drugs. Did drugs or had drugs on me? In my carryon or backpack. What was the issue? I traveled for 5+ weeks without checking a bag and how I could afford it. 1/2

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Aug 2

New 🧶friend finished! Pattern from Hobbii’s Picapau 🐞

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Aug 1

Someone is having a tantrum again

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 1

In Reaction To Dismal Jobs Report, Donald Trump Says He’s Ordered Commissioner Of Labor Statistics To Be Fired deadline.com/2025/08/trum...

In Reaction To Dismal Jobs Report, Donald Trump Says He’s Ordered Commissioner Of Labor Statistics To Be Fired

Donald Trump said he wants the Commissioner of Labor Statistics fired in reaction to the latest U.S. jobs report, which showed employment growth slowing.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 1

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas

According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

www.muellershewrote.com

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. (Pssst - federally funded science saves lives) 🧪

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Jul 31

That is just fantastic...

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Internal NSF email: "[W]e have been instructed to suspend all active awards to UCLA with immediate effect and to not make further awards to the institution until the issue has been resolved."

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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · Jul 31

Did you know that part of the Apollo missions to our moon included seismic data collection? A new #BSSA study presents a new automated workflow for these data. ⚒️

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · Jul 30

Russia: Tsunami destroyed the Port of Severo-Kurilsk in Kamchatka following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
Coasts all across the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, and even California are on tsunami alert.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Jul 30

Life expectancy for newborn children varies widely across the US. The difference is as high as 15 years! This is a mismatch of wealth and opportunity that I would be rather outraged about (and I am outraged about in the Australian context that I live in). Source: buff.ly/upNK8HD

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · Jul 30

Although large earthquakes generates strong shaking over a wide area, this is somewhat mitigated by the rupture being offshore. But if the rupture breaks the ocean floor, it generates destructive a tsunami that can spread across the ocean basin in the hours that follow.

Radio&Nukes @radioandnukes.com · Jul 30

Footage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Severo-Kurilsk is published by the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Jul 30

Footage of the #Kamchatka earthquake.

Bricks falling off roofs is one of the reasons why you should not leave a building during an earthquake. Drop, cover, and hold on instead. www.earthquakecountry.org/step5/?fbcli...

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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · Jul 30

For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tsunami watch vs advisory vs warning

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · Jul 30

⚒️ 🧪

A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.

This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka

A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · Jul 30

Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53?

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Jul 26

I’m convening a session at a planetary science conference this fall and people keep withdrawing their presentations. So far every one has been withdrawn because of lack of travel support. It’s all folks coming from the US. This administration is killing scientific disciplines in big ways and small

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · Jul 14

and not just mental health. we're living under fascism; your family is plausibly in a position to get you deported, arrested, or targeted by the state right now. people need to protect themselves. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...

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