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the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

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The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

WSJ - Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s and threatening the global economy. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Speak out: Protect our Public Post Office The Postmaster General has sounded the alarm. The Postal Service will run out of cash by February 2027 - less than a year from now without urgent action. Warning that, potentially, "everything is on t...

I just took action with @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social: Speak out: Protect our Public Post Office. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/speak-... #USPS

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org joined a letter led by @americanprogress.bsky.social thanking @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov & other state AGs for taking hard look at the Paramount-Warners merger

It's a democracy danger & NOT a done deal

Just look at AMAZING coalition signing letter 1/2

People think Trump cares that his war is unpopular, his tariffs are unpopular, his economy is unpopular, etc. Those people don't get Trump views us as subjects. Our views don't matter.

Markwayne Mullin is for Trump – and Indian Country - High Country News The Cherokee congressman, who is hard-right and white-passing, may not seem like an Indigenous lawmaker, but he’s no anomaly.

A Native American will be in charge of ICE? Sen. Markwayne Mullin is a Cherokee Nation citizen. Here is an old profile from High Country News. www.hcn.org/issues/51-21...

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This is terrible; I can only hope that the UK will work to end this problem. Women are targets of violence every day, & have been for centuries; it’s disgusting. In the US, for example, NO ONE in a position of power is investigating the frequent kidnapping & deaths of myriad Native American women.

Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."

Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.

If you think that teaching what really happened to Indigenous & Black people in America is an attack on White people—that's a "you" problem.

Our history is here to stay—like it or not.

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"Mentor" comes from Greek mythology, where Mentor was a wise advisor to Odysseus' son.

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Blue sky and ocean with sun reflections in the top third of the photo. Light yellow sand and an old jetty on the far right. The bottom part is green with yellow California Brittlebush growing next to the sand.

Will Rogers State Beach today, with a few California Brittlebush (a.k.a. California Sunflower) in the foreground.

Vendredi 6 mars, 16h-18h30 : Conférence au Collège de France et en ligne. Le réseau Stand Up for Science organise sa conférence annuelle au Collège de France le 6 mars, afin de dresser un état des lieux des attaques contre les sciences et l’Université aux Etats-Unis et en France, d’en analyser les stratégies, les cibles et les effets, et de lancer les mobilisations à venir en France, en écho aux actions prévues aux États-Unis. Programme: – 15h30-16h00 : Rassemblement devant le Collège de France – 16h00-16h10 : Claire Mathieu (SU4S) | Présentation de Stand Up for Science et synthèse sur la situation de l’Université et des sciences aux Etats-Unis. – 16h10-16h30 : Michel Feher, philosophe, cofondateur de la maison d’édition Zone Books et du média en ligne diagrammes.fr | Tout et son contraire : de quoi Donald Trump est-il les noms ? – 16h30-16h50 : Valérie Masson-Delmotte, chercheuse au Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement, CEA | Climat : une alerte planétaire. – 16h50-17h10 : Nathalie Bajos, chercheuse à l’Inserm | Santé : une alerte planétaire. – 17h10-17h30 : Nonna Mayer, chercheuse au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée, Sciences Po | La délégitimation des sciences sociales. – 17h30-17h35: Bruno Andreotti (SU4S) | Comprendre la structure du budget de l’Université et de la recherche. – 17h35-17h55 : Julien Gossa, Laboratoire Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe, Université de Strasbourg – 17h55-18h00 : Andreina De Bei (sous réserve), présidente de la Société des journalistes de Sciences et Avenir-La Recherche | Le journalisme scientifique menacé. – 18h00-18h05 : Kristel Chanard (SU4S) | Liberté académique : quelles leçons des Etats-Unis ? – 18h05-18h30 : Questions réservées en priorité à la presse.

Vendredi 6 mars, 12h-13h : Conférence-débat à l’Université Paris-Saclay : “Défendre les sciences et les libertés académiques”. Programme : – “Pourquoi s’engager ?”, Maëla Sémery, doctorante – “Liberté académique malmenée : causes, méthodes, conséquences et comment faire face”, Julien Gargani, directeur du centre d’Alembert – “Science et politique, un témoignage”, Bruno Bombled, Les Ecologistes Informations pratiques : Lieu : Université Paris-Saclay, salle Rosalind Franklin (rdc, IDEEV), 12 route 128, Gif sur Yvette. Affiche de l’évènement disponible ici.

— Toulouse — Lundi 9 mars, 14h : Temps d’échanges à l’Observatoire Midi Pyrénées : “Stand Up For Science : un an après, où en sommes nous et à quoi faisons nous face ?”. Un an après la mobilisation de Stand Up For Science en France qui avait rassemblé des milliers de scientifiques et citoyens où en sommes nous ? Les attaques faites aux sciences n’ont fait que s’amplifier. Sur les campus étatsuniens, la repression est d’un amplitude inouïe, et les coupes budgétaires ont durablement affaibli des pans entiers du système de recherche, avec des répercussions partout dans le monde. La falsification de l’histoire est devenue le lot quotidien des discours politiques et ils servent notamment à légitimer les guerres qui se multiplient sur le globe. Le rapport au réel est en train de disparaitre pour laisser place à un illibéralisme autoritaire. Face à cela, les scientifiques doivent penser les formes de résistances permettant de défendre la science et les libertés académiques en tant que rouage essentiel d’une société démocratique. Nous invitons celles et ceux qui pensent que le rapport aux faits mérite d’être défendu à venir échanger sur la situation et les moyens d’agir. Programme : – Point sur la situation avec Olivier Berné, astrophysicien, directeur de recherche au CNRS, et Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant, historienne, maîtresse de conférences à l’Université de Toulouse – Prises de parole et discussion sur les actions à mener Informations pratiques : Lieu : salle Coriolis, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, 14 avenue de Belin, Toulouse

La liste des des évènements Stand Up For Science France qui auront lieu dans les jours qui viennent est disponible ici : standupforscience.fr/evenements-2...

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Good Morning Science Fighters!

Planning your weekend today? This SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, we are rallying NATIONWIDE to do three things:
SAVE SCIENCE.
PROTECT HEALTH. 
DEFEND DEMOCRACY.
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I signed up for this service early last year after the current US gov’t fired so many of our trusted scientists and doctors at the federal level/CDC (and current HHS leadership is such a mess). It’s been very helpful and it’s free. Thank you, Canada! recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/subscribe

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Joe Neguse is just consistently better at this than anyone else, and it’s not really that close. bsky.app/profile/atru...

@neguse.house.gov is so terrific! Future President?

Has a conflict ever gotten more popular as it drags on?

Alex Pretti and Renée Good were murdered by federal agents. Soon after, Secretary Noem labeled them 'domestic terrorists.’

I gave her the chance to recant and apologize for the pain she's caused their families with these outrageous lies. She refused.

Why does Mace keep getting re-elected? Obviously unwell and here using a very bizarre post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Bhattacharya urges measles vaccination as US activity increases

After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines.

And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.

Look how her glam team parted her weighty hair extensions…

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