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@marissacheng.bsky.social
Director of Planning at UC Berkeley. Always in search of creative ways to tell people they can't just do whatever they want; proud public employee; hobbyist baker and pianist. Views are my own.
They don't care about waste or fraud but ppl will pretend to believe they do because what they *all* really want is the racism.
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17h agoJust 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.
<every sweaty coked up Wall St. profit chaser> “look, we’re gonna get you AT LEAST a 9% return, and if shit breaks right, which we KNOW <SNORTS LINE> it will, we’re gonna hit 15% GUARANTEED” the humble SNAP investment: “ummm, well, you see, 50% is the baseline, I’m so sorry, please don’t hurt me”
Miranda Yaver@mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11h agoSNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across countries 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...
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Whopper of the Week on Cyclospora RFK Jr refuses to admit the Cyclospora outbreak which is close to 20,000 reported cases in almost every state is out of control or due to cuts at CDC, FDA & USDA. Well, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social disagrees. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Yes, RFK Jr., your cuts did weaken the Cyclospora response | Defend Public Health
The United States is struggling to contain the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history but RFK Jr. claims the outbreak is under control and unrelated to cuts made to the US food safety surveillance ...
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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Google wants to buy and permanently destroy even more wetlands than they already have here in my city but great news, "a public hearing will be conducted virtually on August 25 via Microsoft Teams" which is the peak of democracy, if you really think about it
Google data center developer applies for more land, public hearing to be held
In a public hearing notice released on Tuesday, it was announced that the developer of the Google Data Center, Hatchworks LLC, has applied to fill an additional 2.13 acres of forested, Class II iso…
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FlowerGirl@flowergirlone.bsky.social · 2d agoProtestors of ‘data centers’ are being arrested. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
#Obesity driven loss of gut microbial #GABA promotes metabolic changes that accelerate #colorectal cancer progression doi.org/10.1038/s414...
In metastatic #ColorectalCancer, adding high-dose vitamin D3 to chemotherapy plus bevacizumab did not improve progression-free survival vs standard-dose vitamin D3. ja.ma/450DfD8
I voted for Senator Warren's housing bill to make housing more affordable for everyone in our Commonwealth. Congressman Moulton skipped that vote.
If cities are so dirty, why does he have his bespoke towers in so many of them
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
I assume Republicans agreed to this to try and boost themselves in the midterm elections
Adam Kovac@adamjkovac.bsky.social · 4d agoThe continuing resolution, which will fund the government through Dec. 11, does not include the proposed change to how federal science grants are awarded. The rule would have put political appointees in charge of the awards, rather than peer review panels. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sena...
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
A high-speed camera and underwater microphones help scientists to investigate a puzzle about bubbles go.nature.com/4cjPC0X
The physics of fizz: why some bubbles are louder than others
A high-speed camera and underwater microphones help scientists to investigate a puzzle about bubbles.
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Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
More people died from heat between April 1, 2026 thru July 19, 2026 than in the ten entire preceding years combined
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 7d agojesus. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
People are delaying heart tests and joint replacements because they can't afford insurance. Hospitals are drowning in unpaid bills. Why? Because Republicans in Congress forced ACA subsidies to expire. Absolutely heartless.
Excited to share that our paper “Climate Benefit and Ecological Cost Trade-offs for Ocean Iron Fertilization” has been published in Nature🌊🌍 Many thanks to my for contributing authors for their insightful discussion, help and support!
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last wk.Deploying ocean iron fertilization — a strategy for carbon dioxide capture — in higher latitudes rather than near the equator could reduce environmental impacts while still achieving removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/4hJtalk 🌎🌊🧪
I’m just basing this on what other species do when one of their own goes rogue but I feel like if a guy’s business model involves making everybody stupid & gatekeeping the collectively earned knowledge of humankind in order to charge people for it we kind of have to rip apart & eat that guy.
Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · last wk.“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
This looks v. positive 👏 But to be meaningful it has to lead to immediate ruling out of *any* new fossil fuel drilling, including Rosebank & Jackdaw & the urgent reinstatement of international climate finance. For more on climate as a security threat, see my podcast for @therestpolitics.bsky.social
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
We literally had a revolution for this.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Besides the obvious idea that we should be kind to humans including immigrants, who do you think helps keep our hospitals going? There are many here in Boston. We need to protect all of our immigrants.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.300,000 Haitians legally living in the U.S. have officially lost their Temporary Protected Status this week. ICE is reportedly planning to target Haitian communities and fast-track deportations to Haiti, which is controlled by violent gangs and deep in crisis. Trump’s cruelty knows no bounds.
Seth Moulton says housing is his top priority but he didn’t show up when it mattered to vote on Senator Warren’s housing bill.
