A group of youth climate researchers affiliated with UC Davis is trying to fix climate models to correct for fossil fuel industry propaganda that has snuck its way in. But... of course their funding was just cut. :( So they're doing a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/support-Ba...

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

The fuckery with the H1B program goes hand in hand with cutting back on student visas for foreign students (which lets them start work in the US after, eventually converting to H1B). They’re just destroying the workforce on every level at this point, from farms to childcare to healthcare to tech.

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I am loving this 🥰 So much pride & joy 🥹

Verily, you cannot change the Democratic Party overnight or even in time to prevent the consolidation of fascism. BUT, you can change how they communicate in three minutes. And by gum, America would notice.

You should be tenure-eligible if you teach one course every 3 years. Or if you supervise grad students working in a lab. Or if you teach 2 sections of gen-ed composition every semester. There's simply no reason tenure is intrinsically connected to workload quantity or distribution.

A simpler solution: stop making tenure a reward (that's what promotions are), and make it the default for everyone who needs professional autonomy to do their job. I'm fine with a probationary period, but tenure isn't something to earn; it's something institutions should stop withholding.

Grand Rapids was the first city to add fluoride to drinking water. There’s even a sculpture commemorating its role in what was long seen as a public health success story. Now, communities in Michigan and elsewhere are turning back the clock. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

"Julio" is collecting pipes that were used to water the cauliflower in Salinas CA. Once he's done another machine will dig under the rest of the plants that were left. So the next crop can be planted. #WeFeedYou

It's been Andrea's rallying cry for taking down an authoritarian, corruption by definition.

What’s having ADHD like? Well about a week ago I decided to start embroidering and made a stitch book and then today I finished this.

Though @dwallacewells.bsky.social and I don't always agree, this new article about the end to the Paris Agreement and the global trends we're seeing around climate action and climate politics is an extremely worthwhile read: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

The Watergate tapes were secret and the media knows it’s only a crime if the president is smart enough to keep it a secret.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I genuinely think Disney is so omnipresent that people can’t keep track of all the properties they own anymore and this is just a lack of knowledge issue.

The goldenrods are starting to do their thing 🌱

The loss of Ob/Gyn care around the country in the last decade is horrifying. It wasn't great to begin with, and it continues to get worse every year.

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

“I am just blown away that we are watching free speech get taken away from us in real time, and extremely sad that the people who create the things that make us the happiest were in on it."

Disney Adults getting radicalized by all this, and I love it

Tyler’s coming on in 10. They are currently doing Naloxone training in front of the 25,000-person crowd!

Three regional CASCs - the Northeast, South Central and Pacific Islands - will cease operations in coming weeks because Dept of the Interior won’t approve their next 5-year agreements. Other CASCs have had projects cancelled and funds reprogrammed in violation of Congressional appropriations.

The national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers met this week in Juneau, AK. Our visit coincided with a glacial outburst flood, atmospheric river and landslide - hazards becoming more frequent and severe as climate warms. CASC science addresses these risks & more, but is under threat.

One of my favorite people on the internet needs some help, if you can give it. Anything that chills speech makes me see scarlet right now, and I’m so, so sorry she’s been dealing with this nonsense.

it’s not the *worst* part i guess but can you guys imagine how much it’s pained me not to post about this

ICYMI, someone has been making @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social ‘s life hell and she could use help. Please share!!

The dude who sued her is a giant turd. And she is not. Spread the word if you can, her rolling Tumblr post screencap/meme thread literally kept me alive a couple nights plus she's smart af and has a good heart.

Please help my friend

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social is a dear friend of mine and a civil litigator who has dedicated her life to doing good for the world. She is being sued by a hateful troll for a thread she wrote on Twitter, which she had every legal right to post. PLEASE if you can spare it help her out.

She's a good person. If you have the money, please help.

a good chance to strike back against mindless, awful right wing vengeance and make a good person solvent again

So grateful to everyone who came out for today's base-building training. There was so much happening across Chicagoland today, including other important political education opportunities. It meant so much to see a packed room of folks from across the city and from two other states. Just incredible.

6. Thousands of books have been sent to kids inside. The volunteer steering committee of Liberation Library has expanded its work to create a youth-driven newsletter and to advocate for the end of youth prisons. 7. If you have an idea, you can just decide to execute it. You should.

For many years, I waited for someone to start a books to incarcerated children program in IL. It didn't happen. So I decided that I would start such a program. What were the steps to do so? 1. I spoke to people who ran Illinois Youth Prisons about whether they would support such a program.

a couple things stand out to me. The battle over IRA's contents in the US marked a fork in this path Ketan describes, as the capital in the climate tent decisively disciplined left civil society out of what they presumed was going to exclusively be their tent going forward.

Of course John Wilson instigated the restoration of Wm Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, showing at Anthology later this month! (Fwiw, I wrote about the history of the sidewalk: wordsinspace.net/2022/05/11/4...)

The High Seas Treaty has been ratified by 60 countries! This is about protecting oceans beyond the coastal zones controlled by single countries. There are still lots of steps between where we are and the future we dream of, but wow, this is a big one! apnews.com/article/high...

A procedures debate that obscures a values debate: many such cases.

A former student emailed to ask me for help designing a flyer recruiting volunteers for the VA because ever since he took my class he can't unsee bad document design in the world, my work here is done 😭🥰

ironing is a ploy by Big Wrinkle to sell more wrinkles

Go to protests Sign up to be on mailing lists Practice good operational security Don’t volunteer information you don’t need to, like where you plan to be Know your phone gives away information even when locked Don’t use face unlock or print to unlock your phone

You hear a lot about the FIre free speech rankings, which dominate media coverage: More info about their methodology, which excludes calculation of state level policies. Instead, it is basically student assessment/institutional policies/events. rankings.thefire.org/methodology osf.io/6d5gv

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There are huge organizing projects in this country that have nothing to do with changing the views of anyone in DC or any NYT opinion writer.

wow was I wrong about this

—The COVID vax will continue to be covered by payers; —Despite CDC's ACIP taking a vote on requiring an Rx for the vax, CDC has no legal authority to require an Rx; —MAHA is trying to create friction to drive down vax rates, we have to be the anti-MAHA antibodies www.patreon.com/posts/139300...

Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only. If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.

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