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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1h

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement | Had a fantastic conversation with Major Garrett about my new book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, on @cbsnews.com #TheTakeout:
www.cbsnews.com/video/examin...

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement

Critics say Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump administration have been pushing an anti-science agenda. The new book, "Science Under Siege," argues it's not just the federal governme...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Zeke Hausfather: Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4h

New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media.

New York City sues social media companies for allegedly addicting children

New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 4h

Pam Bondi’s testimony in front of the Senate was both contemptuous and dismissive. She is supposed to work for the country not just the President.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

This is obviously hateful, but for people indifferent to the hate, just a big waste of money. You have the Secretary of Transportation cheering the destruction of functional public infrastructure.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson.

He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls.

Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving.

He put it this way:

I've been at many protests in our city over the years for a variety of different things, in my clergy attire, desiring to be a presence for peace in situations that can get volatile, desiring to be a person who different sides can be able to approach and talk with and have conversations with. I do think this is one of the important roles that faith leaders can play in contentious public situations.

This was the first time that I felt like there was absolutely no regard and no respect for a person who was visibly associated with the faith tradition. It did not seem like it made one iota of difference.

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 6h

She knew.

SNL Kate McKinnon playing HRC with a sign saying “He will kill us all.”

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 6h

This is good news. It would be even better if Trump wasn't torpedoing the U.S. solar and wind industry and ceding the energy future to China. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian: Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6h

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 9h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 7h

Hell no. Am I gonna pay his bail and lawyer fees too?

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 7h

We can bring them back. I bet new ears will hear them.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 7h

This week The Atlantic & Johnathan Chait published a hit piece on me. It’s replete with disinformation, so I’m compelled to write this rebuttal.

Such pundits have caused incalculable harm to our public discourse, & its long past time to call out their hypocrisy.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

www.qasimrashid.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 7h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for your art.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 7h

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 7h

Oval wants it this way. Nest to ignite this media event. They will swirl to their liking, especially chaos on a national scale.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Bryan Godbe @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 8h

Trump and his anti-science goons could not hide the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Here it is...
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Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc...

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 8h

Fox’s “Cops.”

Entertainment?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 8h

Wall Street tells us something Main Street already knows: the economy is crashing, jobs are being lost, inflation is up, and Trump Tax Tariffs are driving up the cost of goods for ordinary Americans.

Maybe a guy who went bankrupt six times wasn’t the best choice to run the American economy…

#RFA

How Healthy Is the Labor Market? Here’s What the Unofficial Data Says.

A host of alternative jobs data from Wall Street are pointing in the same direction: The U.S. labor market is losing steam. The Institute for Supply Management says services employment has shrunk for ...

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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 8h

No one included the Trump variable(s).

We need a report on that.

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 8h

Fun fact: Cicero IL is where Dr. King's Chicago Freedom Movement was met with white protest in 1966. Now it's 89 percent Latino. The arc of the moral universe bends, that's for sure.

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