HAPPENING NOW! SRTI live projections @ Tesla dealership in San Francisco. 📍Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Go check it out. Tag us! 🧚🏼 #StopBillionaireSummer #ScienceWeek
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WE NEED YOUR HELP‼️ In Belgium, #ScientistRebellion activists are pushing back against capitalism’s obsession with endless growth—a system that fuels ecological collapse and social injustice. Donate here: tiny.cc/srdonation. #StoriesFromScientistRebels #FundraisingThroughStories 1/2
I gasped when I read this - this is where we’re at. “Making lawbreaking opaque makes it harder to prosecute those doing the breaking. It is possible at least some of the drive to hide agents’ faces comes from that impulse, just as members of the Ku Klux Klan hid their faces in the 1860s and 1870s.”
June 20, 2025
Individuals in plain clothes with their faces covered and without badges or name tags are snatching people off the streets and taking them away.
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Reminded of the opening of KSR’s Ministry for the Future where hundreds of thousands of people in South Asia die in a single heat event. Seems like we’re living our fiction now - in the worst timeline. #EndFossilFuelsNow #ClimateJustice
Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels | CNN
For hundreds of millions of people living in India and Pakistan the early arrival of summer heatwaves has become a terrifying reality that’s testing survivability limits and putting enormous strain on...
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A #DarkDay, indeed. Trump administration purges U.S. health agency leaders | Science | AAAS
Trump administration purges U.S. health agency leaders
Reassignment letters come as reductions in force begin at NIH, FDA, and CDC
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#StandUpFightBack “Every item on the chopping block is either a known protective factor against suicide or a resource that mitigates known risks. Remove those protections, and [suicide] rates go up. We've seen it before—and we have the data to prove it.”
Veterans Will Die If Trump and Musk Get Their Way
I'm a suicide attempt survivor. I know what happens when the government abandons veterans—and it's happening again.
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Do you think the term “baby killers” is too harsh for the Trump-Musk-MAGA team?
See How Many Children’s and Women’s Lives Have Been Saved by USAID Funding
USAID investments significantly reduced deaths among children under age five and women of reproductive age, studies show
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Now they’re coming for non-profits … with police assistance. USIP is NOT a government agency. We have questions. #NoDOGE
DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help
The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.
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Disclaimer: I haven’t read much of this sub, but what I have read seems supportive and helpful to prospective or current grad students in STEM. #YouAreNotAlone
From the gradadmissions community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the gradadmissions community
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Our institutions can’t, or won’t, protect us. “Jelani Cobb, the dean of Columbia’s school of journalism, told students, “Nobody can protect you. These are dangerous times.” organizingmythoughts.org/mahmoud-khal...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Repression That Was, Is, and Will Be
Do not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep.
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Haven’t shared in a few days … thought this was a good one. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
A thank you note from China
they are thankful that we are turning over leadership of the 21st century to them
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Shocking (NOT!) news! www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-mor...
Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans - Carbon Brief
More than half of countries have not committed to protecting 30% of their land and sea for nature by 2030 in plans submitted to the UN.
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Sooooooo excited to read this! Yes, I love a good challenge. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Vulture Capitalism: Introduction
Vulture Capitalism is coming out in paperback! If you're a paid subscriber, go to the end of this post to get your exclusive discount.
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I'll have a livestream Wed PM (4pm PT on 2/19) to discuss two topics: 1) Recap of recent storm & major debris flow events last week in SoCal, & 2) Update on expanding chaos in federal depts/agencies protecting public from extreme weather, wildfires,& more. www.youtube.com/live...
Weather and climate office hour 02/19/2025: SoCal debris flow recap & NOAA/NWS update amid fed chaos - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...
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Keeping an eye on this page! Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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I thought we needed something on the lighter side today. Happy elephants win! apnews.com/article/elep...
Elephants trumpet, squeak and flap their ears after their complex move across an Australian city
Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day move from an urban Australian zoo to a much larger enclosure.
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If you’re in SD the first week in March, I highly recommend … open.substack.com/pub/theatero...
Theater of War: Hector, Andromache, and the Death of Astyanax at UCSD’s Epstein Family Amphitheater
Join us on March 6 at 7pm PST! Featuring performances by Taylor Schilling, April Grace, Tate Donavan, David Denman and Chorus of students and community members whose lives have be impacted by war.
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People gotta start understanding that compliance buys nothing. Compliance will only delay the particular awful thing you’re complying to avoid. That awful thing WILL HAPPEN ANYWAY, just a little bit later when fascists have cemented their grip. Refusing to comply now is the only way out.
Yikes! (Not referring to the live, but to the storm.)
Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 2y agoI'll have a livestream on Tuesday, Feb 11 at 4pm PT to discuss the major storm inbound to Southern California, which will likely bring a period of very heavy rain capable of producing significant/dangerous debris flows in/near recent wildfire areas. #CAwx youtube.com/live/RPe...
For your reading … terror. The foxes are guarding the henhouse, people! “The executive branch must respect that Congress controls the nation’s money …” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
February 10, 2025
As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding...
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Amen! According to ‘Letters From an American’ by Heather Cox Richardson on Substack. Senator King was speaking on the Senate floor during the confirmation hearing of Russell Vought for Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Today’s reading: @emorwee.bsky.social of Heated and @scilight.bsky.social have created a tip line for federal employees who want to share their concerns with alternative media sources! heated.world/p/a-tipline-...
A tipline to protect the planet
Polluting industries have captured the federal government. We’re opening a secure tipline for employees to report the impacts.
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Peter has takes on how we can fight this crazy! Crazy Town 97. The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Crazy Town 97. The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home
Peter Kalmus, climate scientist and returning friend of Crazy Town, used to live in Altadena, California, where one of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires struck on January 7th. Get Peter's take on t...
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Maybe a little late in the day - it’s been a busy one! While we were distracted by tariffs over the weekend … “Time for me to dig in.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
More Dangerous than Watergate
It’s like every past constitutional crisis rolled into one.
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