Jack
@ascienceguy99.bsky.social
High school math and science teacher 📚. Greenskeeper ⛳️. Golfer & film photographer📸. Bruins and Red Sox diehard🏒⚾️ (although currently in enemy territory, Florida) All #believeinfilm photos are mine.
This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w agoThoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Quick, run him for president. The only way dems can beat a republican rapist is with their own. They’ll never see it coming
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan@jaketapper.bsky.social · last mo.Woman alleges Graham Platner raped her in 2021 while they were dating, which he denies www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/u...
Could they also give back the election then because egg prices were like the biggest talking point for republicans. Oh wait nothing is real and hypocrisy is the nation we live in
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.A group of major egg producers accused of price fixing will pay $3.3 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by the federal government and 17 states, according to court documents.
These are the early stages of a police state.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
just remembered trump's tax returns got leaked and he said in a debate that he'd close the loopholes because he knows how rich people game the system, then he cut taxes for the rich and is now exempting his family from tax audits. lol.
Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
As long as I’m a teacher in Florida I will never teach a class that Florida politicians create. I teach AP classes because they have an international standard. I’m also a math/science teacher so this doesn’t apply to me. But apparently the GOP has their own type of math.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoFlorida has created a new U.S. history course that advances a more conservative interpretation of the nation’s story. It focuses on the Protestant faith of the founders, argues that the U.S. Constitution is an antislavery document and recommends a textbook written explicitly to build patriotism.
A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.
For a second I thought he was actually talking sense about America
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoRubio: "You've got friends who have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to him to see these people are abused in this way and have no measures to take against their own government as a result of it. This is a vicious regime."
Melissa McCarthy with a cameo on SVU to hit on Olivia Benson was not something I ever expected or thought I wanted but now I know it’s something I needed.
Wait so boycotting isn’t going to work because the government is going to go after ad companies that pull ads from outlets that spread hate? Isn’t a free market where companies can choose when and where to spend their money?
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 4mo agoThe FTC complaint recycles various claims made by conservatives about brand-safety initiatives that attempted to reduce ad spending on sites distributing misinformation and other objectionable content.
Imagine what terrible world event we were saved from by having a Castellanos home run robbed. Certainly would have to be worse than what we are currently living through.
Bruce Ciskie@bruceciskie.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe home run robbery is the best play in baseball. And you'll never know it if you checked the play by play. What a catch by Beck!
Almost as foreseeable as the events that have transpired since this country elected the dumbass again
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoPolice in the Bahamas say they have arrested the husband of a U.S. woman who was aboard a boat near the archipelago and vanished.
S-tier corruption. Pay back a company to tell them to NOT give us more rentable energy, during a fossil fuel crisis, so instead, that energy company can spend money on fossil fuels. Wonder how much of this billion is going to Trump friends when it’s reinvested.
NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoTotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced. n.pr/3PjBEUt
So let me get this straight, in our effort for a regime change in Iran we directly caused the dead ayatollah (who we killed with American bombs) son to rise to power while also injuring him with American bombs? And we expect him to not hate America? What the hell are we doing here
“I guess”. You’ve got to be kidding me. We have totally unserious, completely incompetent people taking us into mindless deadly war.
All I can think about is Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, Raytheon, and all the other DOD contractors reacting like this to the war. Wonder how much money they are making…
a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair with the words oh boy i been waiting for this above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair with the words oh boy i been waiting for this above him
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NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5mo agoTop Trump administration officials told lawmakers in classified briefings Tuesday to expect an "overwhelming" and bigger wave of military strikes on Iran in the coming days.
Personally, I thought the benefit of having the author of “The Art of The Deal” as president meant that he would be able to make any deal to avert war.
a man with tears running down his face says it was said that you would destroy the sith not join them
ALT: a man with tears running down his face says it was said that you would destroy the sith not join them
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NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoResearchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.
ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag
It's almost impossible to comprehend how many people have died now because a racist reality star just couldn't deal with having a popular black president.
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.
Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
When the government starts preying on the few remaining kind people in society, that probably means the inevitable collapse of said society.
Tina-Desiree Berg@tinadesireeberg.com · 6mo agoCCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
I never thought the inaction of congress could ever end up being the best thing for this country
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 6mo agoThe Department of Homeland Security is poised to shut down this weekend as Congress remains deadlocked on a path forward before leaving town for a weeklong holiday break.
