Not now! I am very busy making a ballot of bugs for the local elementary school. Election day is TOMORROW this is very serious. The children must vote for the best BUG, don't you understand the STAKES here?!
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
there's a line of argumentation i keep hearing on tiktok: "if the only thing keeping you from being vegan is cheese, then be vegan except cheese, or vegetarian except bacon. just do that, if it's the only thing stopping you" and i think that kind of flexibility should be encouraged
Train cormorants to nest on ice agents houses so their toxic shit eats holes through their ceilings.
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
If you're in central Texas & you have room to house a shelter dog in a spare room Friday - Mon/Tues, area shelters would love your help getting dogs out of outdoor kennels and into homes for a brief break. You don't have to do a lot with them, just let them decompress while we wait out the weather.
It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along!
transscientistcollective.carrd.co
Cops are cops.
ICE are cops.
Corrections officers are cops.
Prosecutors and district attorneys are cops.
“School resource officers” are cops.
They are ALL cops. They are ALL going to have each others backs.
The cops are NOT arresting other cops.
Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther
Absolutely wild pink nitrogen ribbon aurora burst last night here in Iceland. There was cloud cover, and I was worried the show would stay shrouded. Voila!
The purpley-pink & white ribbons are much closer to us in the atmosphere than standard green arcs, and are fast moving.
#northernlights #aurora
MELIA
Full of love, sweetest girl once she gets to know you, enjoys car rides, peaceful walks, playing, will be you best friend. All she needs is a calm adult only home. No dogs. Cats ok.
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
I love hearing about fossils that hold more than meets the eye, especially when they hint at how different species interacted millions of years ago! In this article by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social, scientists found fossil evidence that ancient bees nested in tooth cavities of dead rodents' skulls 🧪🐝💀
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Do you think that Christians who woke up feeling anxious and afraid of how Zohran Mamdani's personal beliefs might influence how he wields the power of office will ever pause and think "Hmmm maybe non-Christians feel this way about Christians in power using their faith to inform their politics"?
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
A submerged water anole (Anolis aquaticus) with a bubble of air held on its head. Photo credit: Lindsey Swierk.
Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
Disabled people are not getting a free ride.
They’re not stealing your tax dollars.
The process to get approved is dehumanizing & painful. It’s designed to make you quit.
You sacrifice your autonomy, dignity and independence for a benefit that forces you to live in legislated poverty.
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
