The people in charge of this country are not solving problems. They are being evil. Purely, unadulterated evil.
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The people in charge of this country are not solving problems. They are being evil. Purely, unadulterated evil.
It’s bad enough that this happened at all. The suggestion that the incident management team may have facilitated the raid is so much worse.
I keep saying every miserable summer, it was never this hot in the Pacific Northwest, and here's the proof.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I can
Eh I’m still not convinced he isn’t.
Exact same shirt, shorts, and hat. Nothing at all different.
A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.
I don’t typically consider myself a Big City person, but my one trip to Chicago was phenomenal. Like you, I’ve only been there as a tourist, but I would absolutely consider moving there if life pulled us in that direction.
@lizamazel.bsky.social this is going to be a weird ask, but can you see this skeet?
Oh hell yeah, it's Labor Day Weekend so we're posting the ILWGU song. Look at that 80s style and hair! ICONIC.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
(plz know, British friends, I am about to make a joke. A joke!) BREAKING: British person encounters flavour again; doesn't like it.
I actually know way more about unions than birds but no one ever walks up to me at the wetlands and is like "hey sorry to bother you but why were farmworkers excluded from the National Labor Relations Act?"
Thanks. That worked!
The Great White (Bread) Replacement
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
Imma need the Florida State Fair to step it up y’all. (Who am I kidding? If they did this at the FSF, it wouldn’t be nearly this adorable. There’d probably be a bunch of MAGA or Nazi themed crap.)
Same
“Then I realized the ocean was gonna win.” Luckily, Jake remembered to “swim parallel to the shoreline” -- the most important safety tip for escaping and surviving a rip current. Learn more at weather.gov/ripcurrent
Tallahassee really needed this win. The team, the students, the fans, for sure, but the whole town, too. Go Noles!
This thread of a glorious flat water morning paddle is pure serenity.
They are so BIG!
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
How do we not have a photo of him from a US journalist in how many days now? This is weird.
This whole thread is insane and highlights the cruelty and idiocy of the attacks on trans rights. Absolutely infuriating.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If you’re an educator looking to bring #Conservation #Science to you classroom this is for you! 10 amazing live online talks by 10 If/Then Ambassadors in Conservation. 🧪 #WomenInScience @ebtsoyp.bsky.social exploringbytheseat.com/lessons/amba...
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Given the political climate in the federal workforce right now, this is an extremely brave action by workers who are worried about their fellow Americans.
Following up on this thought (RFK is really getting under my skin this morning), I wonder to what extent those outside of higher ed understand the real goal. Scientific training is not about learning information. It's about learning *how* to evaluate the quality and strength of evidence 1/2
We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.” Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
These people wouldn’t know the scientific method if it smacked them upside their heads.
Hark! Is that a mineral list I spy? www.mineralcup.org/2025/mineral... Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
A somewhat different post today. On the 20th anniversary of Katrina, we ask the question, “Have we learned enough?” The uncomfortable reality is that we probably have not. More here or at theeyewall.com. open.substack.com/pub/theeyewa...
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
I saw someone refer to Cracker Barrel as "Honky Bucket" and I have not been the same since
From the article: Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
I know it’s not any of y’all, but fuck everyone who voted for this.
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Pretty sure that the healthy spare kidneys walking around are being used.
JFCOAC 😮
HFS
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We need to make this gap wider. Support unions. Support union workers. #Solidarity
Now is the time of monsters. Suit up. We got battles to fight.
This is an agency that has gone completely off the rails.
240 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Andesine: - A plagioclase feldspar mineral - Forms in intermediate igneous rocks - Discovered in 1841 in Marmato Mine, Chocó Department, Colombia - Named after the Andes Mountains because it's common in the lava there #minerals
The Donna Adelson trial is big news here in Tallahassee. I was not expecting to laugh so much during a murder-for-hire trial that left two children without a father. But Charlie Adelson is just platinum-level dense in the wire-tapped calls following the FBI “bump.” www.youtube.com/live/cNmSUQK...
If they can get Wendi, that will really be the chef’s kiss moment. They’ve been doing a phenomenal job with Donna’s prosecution.
I saved the EDB’s coverage of the wiretaps testimony for when my spouse got home and we listened to them together. We have not laughed like this in a good long while.
I’m trying hard not to doom and I remain long term optimistic about the politics and about our ability to rebuild. but it is hard not to notice that every function of the federal government intended to prevent death is currently on fire, except for the ones that are ashes already.
Understatement of the fucking year right here.
What’s truly terrifying is that we share our communities with people so blinded by hate and bigotry that they willingly volunteer to drag someone off the fire line for this.
Almost 20 years ago I talked at Google about how privacy should be akin to a second amendment issue. Tl;dr given the scale of force available to the government, all the guns in the world are useless against an all-knowing tyrant and thus privacy is necessary for the security of a free state. Anyway:
Something I probably did not emphasize enough in this article is that nearly all of the R&D that made the CURRENT Doppler radar network what it is today was done by NSSL over the last 60 yrs. If OMB's plan to eliminate OAR goes forward, wx radar R&D - PAR or otherwise - will be seriously damaged.
I wrote about the cancellation by NOAA of the ~$75M contract to procure the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Meanwhile, at least $245M of contracts using federal and state funds have been executed for this "facility" which lasted about 8 weeks. #priorities apnews.com/article/flor...
None of this is normal or ok, whatever the circumstances are. This cannot be normalized. We've been vocal advocates about NOAA and NWS. Well, screwing with the public health infrastructure of the govt and this country is magnitudes worse. These are impeachable decisions.
This, from @kmpanthagani.bsky.social is such an important, challenging read. Kristen always writes really thoughtful things about science communication. www.youcanknowthings.com/is-science-i...
Most people don’t get this about teaching. You still have to work even when you’re sick.
Oh no! Y’all get some rest!
The Fat Cat Cafe is celebrating 8 years in business!
The head of a group that spearheaded the creation of colorful crosswalks at schools across Leon County met with the state Department of Transportation Monday afternoon.
I’m so tired of ‘in a sane world’ not being the one we live in.
I watch Emily D Baker as well.
Annnnd the crisis hits.
Wendi is a witness and can’t be in court except when testifying. Charlie is already in prison. She’s estranged from her eldest son.
BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.
This is an unsettlingly regular occurrence where we used to live in Vero Beach. www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...
The one person who has been pretty consistent and clear eyed about everything in the last several years has another disturbing but necessary read.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
Bookmarking for later.
ohhh my heart.
This is a great interview
That’s basically what our pharmacist said yesterday.
My CVS says they have them, but you can’t schedule them online yet. Pharmacist yesterday specifically said, “Get them while you can.”
This photo will be shown in history books as an example of deep and unabiding cruelty. You can't reform this.
#Florida company destroys wetlands, gets hammered by regulators for doing so, then tries to fool environmental groups into lining up on their side (but they didn't). www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but Wild Birds Unlimited still does calendars annually. Most stores give them away for free.
Everything is extortion. You might as well let him pull funding because once he’s done it he has nothing left. Or he’ll use it for cashless bail. Then for ICE cooperation. Then for voting laws. Then for elections themselves. Then for abortion pills. Then for….
Yup. Already had them decline to help with serology testing for a patient with an unusual infection. We were ultimately not able to confirm a suspected diagnosis, and had to wing it. Not good.
I post more about tariffs and the gutting of government agencies like NWS because I can discuss those issues without losing my shit. What’s happening to immigrants and trans people is upsetting on a whole different level. I sit staring at a blinking cursor unable to transform thoughts into words.
I really love the glowing, fiery orange and red colors on the throat of the Rufous hummingbird 📷 Canon 5D Mark III Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Canon EF 1.4x III M, f/8, 1/80, ISO 640, 560mm 4/3/23 Northern Oregon Coast #birds #ornithology #birdphotos #nature 🦉 🪶 🐤 🦜 📸
Dean Martin, a 1.5 year old cat who came to the rescue extremely overweight, kept getting passed over because he has special dietary needs (and isn’t a kitten). But he is the BEST BOI. And guess what? He got adopted last week! He spent his first night sleeping with one paw on his new dad’s shoulder.
Newsweek: Legacy tractor maker John Deere has announced layoffs at three Midwestern facilities as the company grapples with declining sales and the effects of tariffs on its bottom line. www.newsweek.com/john-deere-a... Workers are getting notice of termination this week.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
This Day in Labor History: August 25, 1935. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signed its first contract with the Pullman Car Company, breaking that company’s long anti-union history and providing a breakthrough for Black workers in America. Let's talk labor and civil rights together!
I guess I'm not surprised, but this fucking sucks and is fucking horrible, so call your reps, clang the pots and pans, make noise.
The next #urbangeology walk with #LondonWalks is on 6 Sep 2025 at 2.30 pm at St Paul’s tube. We’ll be looking at the granites used to build the Thames embankment. Info and reservations at www.walks.com/our-walks/bu...
Mmmmmmmno
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Gross. Consumerism at its worst.
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
is it actually an economic blockade when the reason why european postal services won't deliver is because the USA has no infrastructure in place to collect the tariffs they put on these good, so they want couriers run by *foreign governments* to collect taxes on their behalf? No! What the fuck! lol
That’s because the UK law is different. Read the damn article.
Star Tribune Going Out 
