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Jottawalee
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Angelman parent, treehugger, writer/photographer, lyricist. “first, we do a bit o’ screechin’, then we do a bit o’ howlin’”

https://www.threads.net/@jottawalee?igshid=MGUxYzgxM2YwYQ==
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War
We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.
werehistory.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Trump's America.

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at risk
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Heather Cox Richardson: November 2025 elections are what we need to focus on right now, and outcomes for issues like preserving mail-in ballots and appointing state supreme court members will depend heavily on voter turnout. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
#elections2025
youtube.com/shorts/PoUVk...
What Can We Do to Stop Him?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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These guys destroyed USAID (budget $28bn) causing a potential 14m preventable deaths by 2030 because the deficit but can find $40bn to bail out their buddies who stand to lose money in an Argentinian crash.
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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In ordinary times, Americans go about their daily lives without much worry about who is running the Office of Management and Budget, a powerful, low-profile agency tasked with executing the federal budget.

These are not ordinary times. @contrariannews.org
contrarian.substack.com/p/russell-vo...
Russell Vought is the tool of a dangerous elite
He wields his budget hammer not in service to the people or the Constitution, but for the billionaire class.
contrarian.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.
What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders
Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.
n.pr
September 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Jimmy Kimmel’s “as I was saying” opener wasn’t random—it’s a callback to Jack Paar. In 1960 Paar walked off The Tonight Show after NBC cut a mild “WC” joke. 3 weeks later he returned, opening with the same line. Kimmel nodded to one of late night’s boldest moments. Brilliant bsky.app/profile/ever...
Here is the video of Paar walking off the show. www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...
February 12, 1960-Jack Paar Walks Off The Tonight Show (REUPLOAD. NOW WITH PARTIAL VIDEO!)
One of the most popular items on my YT channel is my audio recording of the complete Tonight Show of February 12, 1960 when Jack Paar walked off the program to protest the censoring of a story he'd told the previous night (totally innocuous by today's standards). I have known since 1987 that kinescope material of this program did exist when two tiny snippets were shown in the special "Jack Paar Is Alive And Well", but nothing further was ever seen after that. Then recently, I discovered that the YT user "KJM" owns a 16mm kinescope of the first fifteen minutes of the show covering the walk-off and he posted it on his own channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip12LI0BhAY&t=11s. But he was only showing it projected onto a screen complete with the noise of the film projector and not in a digitized format. I have taken his upload and synched the picture to my clear, line-check audio recording of the program so that you can now see and hear the walk-off segment in better quality (in the event the kinescope is ever digitized, I would do another synch effort since kinescope audio, even when digitized is still inferior to a line-check audio recording, which sounds identical to what we'd hear if the program had been preserved in its original videotape format). After the first fifteen minutes, the program reverts to the audio only format. (I have no way of knowing if the rest of the program exists in kinescope format, but it's not likely). The old upload will stay before of all the views and comments its attracted over the years, but I hope people will now come to this one with a chance to actually see the moment that attracted national headlines in 1960. Paar stayed off the program for five weeks before he finally returned to the show, stepping down in 1962 to then make way for Johnny Carson.
www.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Since January OMB Director Russ Vought has hidden over $410 billion in appropriated funds in order to push his own agenda. trib.al/8b60Vlr
Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked
Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.
trib.al
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Trump's wannabe dictator playbook:

1) Create fake emergency
2) Bypass Congress and public debate
3) Grab emergency powers
4) Repeat

(from June)
www.theframelab.org/trumps-fake-...
Trump’s Fake Emergencies Follow Authoritarian Playbook
Trump is using fake crises to grab power, echoing tactics of autocrats. Americans must recognize the pattern and resist.
www.theframelab.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Please let’s not call Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska a meeting for peace. It’s no meeting for peace when the murderous invader is conferring with his American asset.
August 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Important.
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✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

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#31days
August 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Never again is now.
Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news

America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now!

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
www.inquirer.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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True, though USAid food intended for Gaza (mostly its child-nutrition program, afaik) was repeatedly blocked as well, not only since Nov. 2023.

Apparently, it wasn't stolen by Hamas either
No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
An analysis conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, Reuters reported Friday. The findings...
www.france24.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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NASA must not be used as a political instrument divorced from its foundational commitment to scientific exploration, discovery, and service to humanity. www.standupforscience.net/voyager-decl...
Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.
www.standupforscience.net
July 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM