I’m committed! Going to UCR. @scholarshipowl.bsky.social please help me! #admissiondecisionscholarship
Ceratophaga Vicinella, or the Gopher Tortoise Moth, an endangered species whose caterpillars can only eat the keratin from the shells of dead Gopher Tortoises, which is also a threatened species. Two endangered species for the price of one #endangeredspeciesscholarship @scholarshipowl.bsky.social
How the FBI Turned a Custody Dispute Into Cheap Anti-Trans Fodder newrepublic.com/arti... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
How the FBI Turned a Custody Dispute Into Cheap Anti-Trans Fodder
When the FBI took over an alleged international kidnapping case from local law enforcement—and sent a plane to retrieve a child from Cuba—certain details of the story changed in telling ways.
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HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.
Mira! She’s my favorite! Click to see the full image, because in my humble opinion, it’s pretty bomb. #kpopdemonhunters #art
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
Being against "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is like being against gravity, or the heliocentric model of the solar system, or the existence of cantaloupes. Lots of different kinds of people exist, and they aren't going away.
Students in #Houston are walking out on strike. "Most of the Houston ISD school's approximately 2,700 students walked out at the start of their second period to protest the Trump administration's immigration crackdown." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
HISD high school stages mass walkout in protest of immigration crackdown
Most of HISD's Sam Houston high school students participated in a mass walkout Thursday morning to protest ICE and a nationwide crackdown on immigration.
houstonchronicle.com
Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...
Cynthia Nixon has stood up in support of trans people with a touching and powerful speech that's already going viral. www.out.com/media/cy... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Watch Cynthia Nixon's passionate & personal speech defending trans kids
"I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man," the actress said.
out.com
The combined wealth of the world's billionaires grew by $2 trillion in 2024 — nearly three times faster than it did in 2023. That's $5.7 billion PER DAY. Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year | Common Dreams
An Oxfam report published Monday shows that the combined wealth of the world's billionaires surged three times faster in 2024 than the previous year.
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Trump’s flagrantly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship is unlikely to survive lawsuits (even with the MAGA-fication of our courts). But for now, we must limit the damage for babies born in this country. Then, we will maximize the political damage for Trump and the GOP. 🧵
Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings theonion.com/nutriti...
So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create
You can report price gouging landlords from anywhere!