This is an old article but highlights some of the impacts to science as a result of downsizing the Office of Research and Development - to note, it is estimated that of the jobs lost, an estimated 25-30% were science related jobs federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...

Update: ICE agents involved in killing of a Biddeford man were not wearing body cameras.

Fossil fuel giants knew the catastrophic reality of climate change since the 70s, but chose to fund massive denial campaigns instead. They must be held financially accountable. They need to be charged for retrofitting our infrastructure to survive the crisis they actively created. @lbc.co.uk #LBC

NEW EPISODE: Check out the latest episode of my podcast: Defending Democracy. I break down Trump's firing of the remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission. Available on Spotify or wherever you watch/listen. open.spotify.com/episode/0X0G...

ICE is leaving bodies across the states and the administration is calling it enforcement.

MAINE RESIDENT: “ICE needs to be disbanded…” A shouting match erupts between two people who both are anti-ICE as this woman rightly speaks out against Trump’s goons. Things are understandably tense in Maine today after another ICE killing. (H/T @keithboykin.bsky.social)

Dumb and dangerous. If he's not declaring a "national emergency," he's laying the groundwork

The platforming of the lies…. is the problem My latest on the emergence of independent media with Heather Cox Richardson ===> youtu.be/8S0z8J0hUbU?...

Williams makes clear in a footnote that she lacks the power to prevent DOJ and Trump from entering into a private deal, but all that means is that DOJ could try to just do a brazen giveaway of 1.6B to insurrectionists and 100M amnesty to Trump in exchange for nothing. Just raw raid of public money.

Monstrous

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD

A scalding, blistering judicial opinion calling out Trump’s sham litigation, striking down his corrupt IRS immunity, and holding his sycophant lawyers to account. That’s a good start. Impeachment is next.

Zero qualifications to be a senator. Zero.

New public records reveal the Trump administration has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars erecting banners in Trump's honor.

Joy!

“Dismantling the Department of Education without Congress is illegal.” @repbonamici.bsky.social, @repgaramendi.bsky.social + 19 more Representatives are backing Articles of Impeachment against Secretary McMahon to “end her attacks on public education once and for all.”

California is filling the void left by Trump and the GOP repealing the federal electric vehicle tax credit. I've signed legislation creating an instant rebate for Californians going electric — $3,500 off new EVs and $1,750 off used models. We won't forfeit the future to China.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration intends to “dismantle the ICC” and weaken the International Criminal Court “brick by brick,” as the administration grows increasingly worried about prosecutions after they are out of office.

One person killed in Maine in second fatal ICE-involved shooting in less than a week

In Biddeford, Maine, ICE goons were involved in a shooting incident that resulted in the second person’s death within a week. Authorities have provided limited details, stating that one individual was killed and ICE was involved in the incident.

ICE shot and killed another person today in Maine. It’s been a little over a week since the last shooting death at the hands of ICE. ICE needs to be dismantled, it has no place in our society. Every person involved needs to be put on trial!

Reminder there is no evidence that any initial statements by ICE or DHS should be trusted — and reporters should state that in all coverage and stories. Every ICE shooting we’ve seen the agency lie about the circumstances.

🚨A person is dead following an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine. We are awaiting more details.

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

Meanwhile local news throughout the state is some variation of this…

We must adapt in life to survive…👇 This sure sounds like a GOOD IDEA, doesn’t it?! 🤚

July 12, 2026

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

Texas AG Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years. w/ @texastribune.org

The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion. on.wsj.com/3R7lDSK

Y'all, please join @icsc2.bsky.social for an evening w/ James Felder, Chair @ SC Civil Rights Museum & Curator @ Lincoln High School Museum. The presentation is titled "HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965." See you there! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

Enemy's foreign and domestic.... Brown people should be able to grow old. Rest in Peace Lorenzo, and every other brown person who has been slaughtered by the US Government.

Big story here. What an admission by the FBI re: Epstein! More details live on today’s episode 👇

These videos are quite remarkable and well worth your time.

Want to focus on someone's untimely death today? I'd focus on...

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

If you’re ok with crying, watch this video of the many #VisibilityBrigade actions across the US out for #Lorenzo this wknd. Thank you @michnutrish.bsky.social for waiting to include us. It was a tough day out there. 💔 @indivisiblewestsidela.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social

Democrat Rep. Don Beyer: "ICE is deeply, fatally broken. We have to get rid of it. We have to start all over again”…👇 WHO AGREES?! 🤚

If ghosts really existed there’d be hella spiritual retribution going on.

Clearly the ankle monitor isn’t working. Jake (Edward Jacob) Lang spent four years in jail for his role in the January 6 attack before being pardoned by Trump. Since then, he’s been arrested again and faces multiple new criminal charges. Jake Lang and his goons belong behind bars.

The lawsuit seeks to stop the planned headquarters relocation, regional office closures, and other changes that would weaken wildfire response, scientific research, and the agency’s ability to manage America’s public lands.

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NYC has a Legionnaires outbreak. But it also has a functioning health department. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

TAPPER: “Iran says the Strait is closed…” TRUMP: “Don’t talk about it.” TAPPER: “Ok.” Journalism! This is tough to watch. But hey can’t make things awkward at the White House Correspondents Dinner, right?

“Don’t you dare hold me to a higher standard than you hold your president. Also if want people to not celebrate your death, maybe try not being an insufferable cunt while you’re alive.”🤷‍♀️ Feel free to copy paste this as a go to response to anybody who tries this. You don’t even gotta credit me 😘

Totalitarianism…..

He never deleted it.

Attn ‼️ Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as Monday to reduce the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.