Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄
@cliffordthehutt.bsky.social
Fisheries conservation is my gig. It will probably be the least of what I discuss here. All opinions expressed here are my own.
Trump's Freedom 250 celebration in DC is planning to fire off 850,000 fireworks on July 4th. That would best the current world record. It would also be 42X more than the 20,000 fireworks typically used in DC. All of this while starting the show at 11 PM nearly 2 hours later than usual.
This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.
Lexi Koren@lexikoren.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 3mo agoKavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"
the last few years have been an exercise in failing to socially limit vice. turns out a certain amount of hypocrisy and puritanism was actually load-bearing.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
Human-caused climate change is increasing the risk of hotter temperatures, including these dangerous heat waves. Watch the entire distribution shift to the right. I'm afraid these headlines about record heat are only going to become more common. 🌡️ Visualization by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.
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you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Any Agency Head Who Doesn’t Make John Roberts Wealthier
It is very important for presidents to be able to fire agency heads at will, unless that agency is very important to John Roberts.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3mo agoI'll have more to say on this later but between the tariffs ruling and now the 'Trump can fire agency heads willy nilly UNLESS they're at the Fed' rulings..... John Roberts's "Don't Fuck Up My Bag" Doctrine is going strong ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published January)
Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
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The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.
The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
“Gonyea was working as a poll worker Tuesday afternoon at the Central Library on Salina Street when agents called to meet with her … She said she did not want to meet them outside alone. ‘I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,’ she said. ‘And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.’”
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3mo agoTwo 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...
Scientific American workers put out a statement about the magazine's sale & firing of 15 employees: "We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting." www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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If being against fascism in the United States can get you sentenced to 50 years in prison then that makes the United States...
Are We The Baddies Bad
Alt: Are We The Baddies Bad
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Native rough fish story by @lollardfish.bsky.social in today’s Star Tribune! Like our favorite living fossils, PRINT media is persistent and probably even more relevant in these AI times 📰👍
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo agoThanks to @bsky.app, I met @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, visited his lab, read some journal articles, went out and did some fieldwork with him on a boat, and now have written this article. Takeaway: Ancient fish are cool. Science is cool. Public institutions should do cool ancient fish science. (gift)
Look at this figure showing the global distribution of ocean temperature profile observations and contributions from major countries from 2005 to 2023. Without the US, we're flying blind.
To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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Please consider donating to this fund for students affected by a tragic fire at USF, for direct replacement of their lost items & for their student council funds. A link is also provided here for the Marine Science Operating fund (usf.to/USFMarineSci...).
Maggi Brisbin@margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 5mo agoFor those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙
Election security expert David Becker says Trump new “mail-in voting” executive order is pretty much dead on arrival Becker says if you or I colored on a cocktail napkin with a crayon … we’d have as much of a chance of impacting state mail-in voting laws
NEW: With no authority under the Constitution to change election rules, President Trump has signed an executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. The order is expected to be challenged in court www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002
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BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.
Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."
A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...
Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding
The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...
rollcall.com
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
There is something inherently cruel about waking up on a 30 degree Saturday morning when it was nearly 80 degrees on Thursday. Nature always choosing violence.
