"These rules now face a 60-day “comment period,” where YOU can weigh in. A large number of comments can slow it down, force changes, or lay the groundwork for future litigation. YOUR comments are where that starts." Comment period starts tomorrow

Useful thread from our reporter @bxroberts.org 🧵

Comment period ends soon about proposed rules that would weaken the endangered species act: act.abcbirds.org/a/take-actio... @altfws.altgov.info @nrdc.org @nature.com @defenders.org @oceanconservancy.org @sierraclub.org @outdooralliance.bsky.social

Your data. Potentially misused. Put at risk. Possibly illegally shared. Speak up and speak out. Make our jobs easier to stand up in your defense by adding your voice to the chorus. Go put a public comment in. #data #civicduty www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

The time to demand Medicare for all is NOW. www.levernews.com/weve-reached...

It’s time to create real policy that creates real solutions for rural schools!

If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.

Heads up. There is a 30-day comment period on proposed regulations to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Details here, www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

🧵1/2 The Bureau level staff across DOI in HR, IT, Communications & Contracts who were “consolidated” to the Department level back in May(!) continue to be in a bizarre limbo and the Bureaus are being bullied into funding staff & “fees” while having their resources taken away.

The facilities suck up land, water, and power—driving up prices for all—and many locals are fed up. The latest from our friends at @wired.com:

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit

Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.

ahoy! my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow! check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space! also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!

Deadline today for public comment to FERC on proposal to remove tribal objection requirement for new hydropower dams. www.grandcanyontrust.org/act/i-oppose...

Aw, heck yeah!

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I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

If Jason Miyares remains as Virginia Attorney General, we lose. Expect him to obstruct the Democratic governor and General Assembly we must elect on Tuesday. Expect him to enable Trump's whims. Please vote FOR Democrat Jay Jones and vote Miyares OUT. #jayjones #Virginia #vote #freedom #democracy

Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m not the kind of lawyer who is ever going to argue a case at SCOTUS or land the next big Warner Bros M&A deal, but I am very, very, very good at explaining how to navigate the punishing bureaucracy that tries to kill us.

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

AI data centers are predicted to triple their energy use in the next five years. Powered mostly by dirty fossil fuels, this surge could hike up electricity bills for consumers and worsen the climate crisis.

pls watch this and share it with everyone you know

They don’t really care about hungry kids. Just political power. Hold the line, Democrats.

BIG NEWS: We’re calling for a nationwide moratorium on new data centers. These facilities increase energy costs, consume huge amounts of water and expand dirty energy. To protect communities, we need to halt unregulated approval and construction until we know the risks. More here: fwwat.ch/49ogtrY

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One more symptom of the assault on higher ed is that the more prestigious research institution in the dominant producer of science in the world is slashing investments in the people who generate new knowledge.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

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Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

There’s now an entire frog brigade outside the ICE facility. Peacefully protesting fascism while bringing whimsy to the streets. The whimsy and silliness directly contradict Trump & Miller who want you to believe it’s a war zone. Protect the frogs!

This is outstanding. Never forget that these weak fascist lying losers are WEAK FASCIST LYING LOSERS.

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

the "post-modern fascism" label is appropriate because this really is all about spectacle and symbolic shows of violence and control removed from larger context. it's no less brutal, but also built off the notion that they truly do believe they can meme their way into the permanent white ethnostate

Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

“There are people who have real benefits [from this care]. To deny it to people, to make people suffer unnecessarily, that’s another type of harm.” Trans health care “skeptics” lost a key ally—now they’re having a meltdown.

A new report from @brookings.edu, co-authored by economics professors Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight, shows that NIH funding increases can boost labor markets in college towns. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/nih-funding-and-local-employment/?utm_campaign=Economic%20Studies%20Bulletin