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California youths plead with appeals court to hear how climate change affects their lives In an appeal, lawyers for 18 California youths argued that regulators discount children's future health when weighing environmental policies.

Eighteen Californians, ages 10 to 19, are asking an appeals court to OK their claims that the EPA discriminates against children by ignoring the long-term health benefits of climate regulations. @blancabegert.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...

There Is No Better Time To Begin The most effective forms of resistance come from community networks. Here’s how to find and connect to yours right now.

From @reveleth.com, a guide to getting started in mutual aid work. It might seem daunting at first. But we've got you. "There is no better day to begin. Talk to your neighbors, your local groups, your clubs. Get yourself connected to the networks around you." www.coyotemedia.org/there-is-no-...

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

If you're a first-year biomedical Ph.D. student, I'd like to hear how your first few months of grad school have been going. I'm a science journalist at @statnews.com and got my Ph.D. in immunology before going into journalism. You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. #journorequest

Metaphorical genres in science communication: From gothic discovery to domestic intervention I was idly scrolling Bluesky for some news that was not depressing when I chanced upon an article by Roger Highfield dealing with a recent advance in gene editing. It reminded me of two previous po…

Last post before the new year, about old #genomics #metaphors but also some new thoughts about metaphor genres that match scientific modes #scicomm
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/12/21/m...

While we were waiting for our power to come back on, PG&E sent me my bill lol

Just got an automated call saying they have no estimate for when power will be restored.

Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

get your kiddos vaccinated, but don’t forget the clean air either—vaccines do not prevent infection, and children are not immune to longcovid. reduction is great, prevention is better.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Can chatting with strangers improve public health? Science and data are important, research shows, but people are incredibly receptive to personal stories about public health.

wrote about yapping (making small talk) for @statnews.com . why I love to do it, why I need to get better at it (in terms of talking about public health) and why everyone should make friendly conversation with a stranger.

www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/p...

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky

The Dodgers Never Had It Made | Defector This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next day was in another season, shorter and darker. The day after th...

Some good analysis here on postseason baseball.
defector.com/the-dodgers-...

a cartoon pikachu is standing next to a boy . Alt: Pikachu dancing in excitement.

What a game!!

I LOVE BABSEBALL

Game 7!!!!

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words

But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25

Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

you, reader, can still embody the ethos many of us longed to grow from this time within your sphere of ability by, say, wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces and participating/donating to your local mask bloc, among other possibilities (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

People are overwhelmingly willing to help each other out.

To Stop Trump, Unions Need Joint Campaigns and a Shared Vision [This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. C...

local unions investing in 3 critical approaches:

Supermajority organizing

Bargaining for the common good: affordable housing, climate resilience, +racial justice

Apply upermajority organizing to electoral work, canvassing, relationships bw union+communities

labornotes.org/2025/10/stop...

Well looks like we’re trying to break the record for longest World Series game

So close 😭

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint. He says California is “well positioned” to support the AI-driven data center boom, and he is reluctant to impose “rigid reporting requirements.” www.latimes.com/environment/...