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I’m torn. I remember campaigning for dark & dramatic #stibnite in #MinCup24 but those fragile, fluffy, cutie-pie little newcomers of #okenite are tugging on my heart strings. I feel both calling to me. I think I’ll have to think about this one. #MinCup25 Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
No preference for either of these--let's see arguments for either antimony plus a bit of sulfur or wet calcium silicate....
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
let’s trust the thing that can’t do basic math with our lives this is a good plan
How the Trump Death Fantasies Reveal a Democratic Party That Refuses to Face Its Own Flaws, by Some Very Serious Guy at The Atlantic, coming sometime this week, I imagine.
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
Breaking News: An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 250 people and injured more than 500, officials said. The death toll was expected to rise.
BREAKING: At least 250 people killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
A #Pectolite variety from the Dominican Republic is called #Larimar which is named for a combination of “Larissa” and “sea”, so it is *of course* one of my favourite minerals. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larimar
#Chrysotile lost me at asbestos so I'm voting for #Pectolite ☑️ #MinCup25
Vote #Pectolite because it’s just so damn gorgeous, its name literally means “compacted stone” and doesn’t kill people just for breathing! And yes, I know I shouldn’t hold #Chrysotile responsible for people dying horribly from asbestos poisoning, but that’s the rough and tumble of #MinCup25.
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
TIL Giuliani has a spine
Many states don’t let you get a COVID vaccine without a prescription as they had existing laws that tied access to official CDC approval. This made sense as a safety measure, but now the CDC has been taken over by antivaxxers, several states are rightfully modifying these laws to reinstate access.
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
Between what New Mexico, Colorado, and Illinois are now doing. @capublichealth.bsky.social needs to get on board.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
#MinCup Round 1 Match 1 starts at 00:00 GMT on September 1st. That’s just 6 more hours!!
81.1°F here in Twin Peaks at 11 a.m. On track for the hottest day in San Francisco since October! #CAwx
There are Disney straight to video bullies more terrifying than JD. I mean have you seen him run 😂
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’ve been calling her Princess Polio but this absolutely wins
I will be there and you should come too. We cannot let the Epstein story die.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah.
Gotta hand it to the artist.
Happy labor day weekend, everyone! Don’t forget the bossman's always watching you peasants! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
He's definitely locking up the "New Yorkers with total amnesia" vote.
#TeamKyanite LETS GOOOOO
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
The presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "THERE WILL BE TRIALS!" has my vote.
I know! Tough first round 🫠
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, that's pretty weird, right? I wonder how many days he'll go without being in public until an intrepid journalist asks why. Might even be a book in it. Do you know anyone?
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
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Pathetic. Both the lackeys who give into authoritarianism and the journalists who cover it. Constitutional crises every day and it gets covered like a jockeying horse race.
Good.
Always near the top but never the winner. Let’s go Kyanite! #mincup25
allllllll of this
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
I want to see every Democratic senator and representative exhibit, at the very least, the level of courage being shown by the CDC staffers who are walking out in protest.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
The best time for Bill Cassidy to stop RFK Jr was months ago. Instead, he voted to confirm him, fully knowing all the damage to public health that would be done.
Almost 100 buoys bob along the surface of the ocean, quietly collecting information thousands of people use every day. Now, that crucial data is in peril — and its loss could lead to dire ripple effects across the state of California. via @amandabartlett.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
McIver's case will be an important test of what, if any, guardrails remain to prevent the Trump administration from siccing a pack of Justice Department lawyers on anyone with the temerity to question his administration’s authority. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Experts said the impact "will be severe."
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.
He has filled the most powerful vaccine advisory board at CDC with sycophants. He has placed a man who is opposed to COVID19 vaccines in charge of their approvals at FDA Their hands are tied, and they correctly refuse to “just follow orders”.
He is manipulating data and making absolutely horrific decisions without consulting some of the best experts in the world. They have no recourse. If you wish to rage at someone, may I suggest any Republican Senator. 2/3
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.
At a time where federal worker unions are under attack by the Trump administration, 600 workers at Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks have unionized
In addition to the mess at the CDC, FEMA workers have been suspended in retaliation for speaking up. This makes the US a sitting duck for any kind of disaster as the front line agencies who are meant to protect us from them are completely dysfunctional.
Some of these top CDC officials being pushed out had bullet holes in their office windows
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
I am invoking Brandolini's Law until further notice. en.wikipedia.org/wik...
"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs. The essay questions — which have nothing to do with meteorology — are part of federal guidelines launched as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to recruit “patriotic Americans” to its workforce.
NEW: After reports surfaced that she had been fired, lawyers for CDC Director Susan Monarez say she "has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign."
Wow the CDC director is now saying she was not officially fired and is refusing to resign.
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Cool, cool, coool, coool
the folks resigning are dedicated public servants who would not do this unless they felt that a) they could no longer do their jobs and b) they had no other choice. many of them worked at CDC for decades + helped build the modern agency that trump, musk, & rfk. jr have wrecked in a matter of months.
The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...
"President Trump wants the island, but Denmark refuses to hand it over." Or, put another way, Greenland is sovereign territory that Trump is threatening to invade or annex. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.
😒🙄🤦♂️
As we keep seeing more and more stories about ChatGPT leading to deaths it's important to frame it as a faulty product born from hubris whose true costs are passed on to everyone but the people who made it.
So ... guess you can't actually indict a ham sandwich?
Federal government just burning through money.
Thank you for sharing, @vanhollen.senate.gov. The #FEMA36 risked their careers to protect the American people & were punished. Stand with them. Sign your support here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... #standupforscience #sufs #31daysofaction
Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."
There are two political conversations underway. There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media then, there are the results playing out across the country the results matter way more than the punditry
Whether it's Donald Trump declaring martial law in our cities or Barack Obama wearing tan suits at our press conferences, both presidents have done great damage to the rule of law in the United States.
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
Huge shift!
🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave. See the letter below…🧵
BREAKING: In a shocking upset minutes ago, Democrat Catelin Drey just FLIPPED an Iowa State Senate seat from red to blue and broke the Iowa GOP's supermajority in the state senate.
Wearing high visibility vests over their camouflage is a perfect metaphor for how incredibly stupid that whole situation is. I feel sorry for them being pulled away from their families, lives & daily jobs just to be forced to wander around DC as political props - and now sanitation workers.
deploying highly trained soldiers at the cost of millions of dollars per day to do light janitorial duty really will make the capital cleaner and is the kind of thing they would impeach a democratic politician for doing. trump always gets to play on easy mode with the unlimited money cheat
People are rightfully horrified about Adam being encouraged to complete suicide by chatgpt. I just wish there had been this level of outrage when all of social media a few months ago was celebrating the suicide of Charlotte Fosgate, a 17 year old trans teen.
i don't really have the emotional bandwidth to engage with this right now so i'm just going to say that we don't have to put up with this as a society. if the rules don't let us make it illegal, we can change the rules. this should not exist.
Government of one person, by one person, for one person
There are lots of rumors flying around about what might happen to COVID vaccine access, but please note we still do not have any official news yet. While we wait, there are things you can do: 1️⃣ Wear a mask to prevent COVID transmission 2️⃣ Push your elected officials to speak up about vaccine access