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Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say it’s “the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.”

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Please, every time you hear excited and frankly earned praise for Newsom's gutsy move in creating Prop 50 out of whole cloth, PLEASE: Remember this ⬇️

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading. From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

My family's health insurance costs are doubling next year

In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP

Two million more people than the previous “No Kings” gatherings from June showed up across 2,700 events in big Blue cities and, notably, in reliably Republican towns.

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this is horrifying, and I fear the compounded impact of not just this unimaginable storm, but also the devastation that will smolder as so many other, more powerful, fossil-fuel-spewing countries roll back international aid and close their doors to refugees www.commondreams.org/news/jamaica...

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Under Trump, the federal workplace anti-discrimination agency engaged in...workplace discrimination

The government is currently shut down

"Why did the chicken cross the road? To stop a fascist regime." The inflatable resistance continues from Portland, Oregon to the Alameda, California.

as someone who’s been reading a lot about labor history recently, they made some pretty clear laws against exactly this in the 1910s

“They wrongly believe that the world turns on ideas only, and devalue the work that goes into their execution.” every time I’m with people who have spent time developing a creative skill these days, I feel like this is the conversation, which this essay describes gut-punchingly well

Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB chief, famously promised to put career civil servants “in trauma” and cast them as public "villains." The Americans who showed up en masse on Saturday weren't buying his BS.

You know who has plenty of time to make some good protest signs? Furloughed workers. Some of my colleagues @motherjones.com and I talked to current and ex federal employees who attended No Kings this weekend www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ordinarily trials of vaccines are testing: 1. Is it safe to take? then 2. Does it result in better outcomes than existing statistics of untreated infections? But to test existing vaccines against placebos, you have to take people with an infection, & *deliberately not treat them* Totally unethical

"It's anti-fascist, antifa. I don't believe in fascism. We fought fascism years ago, and we're gonna fight it again." Thousands gathered for San Francisco's No Kings rally on Saturday. Mother Jones digital producers Peter Berger and Anna Yeo chatted with a few protesters:

a few pics from Oakland #NoKings

I heard from an inflatable unicorn that frog suits are backordered to late november

Such extremism! So much terror!

a couple of bees are giving away free patches to protestors in Oakland

band starting up early at Oakland No Kings

We will have reporters and producers in the field in a few different places today, including DC, NYC, LA, SF, Oakland. Follow @motherjones.com to see what we see in real time.

worth noting that last I heard, gov agencies aren’t allowed to make bluesky accounts

Whether intentional or ignorant, seems ominous: CDC cuts the unit that assessed whether its proposed research studies are ethical.

Here is a clip from the panel, where Eric Green states we can't even assess what it will take to rebuild the NIH given it could fall even further bsky.app/profile/stat...

Stupid, yes. Kids, no. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape. In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

It's hard to overstate just how badly and completely they screwed up.

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

"To make the proof" shows how absurd this all is from a scientific standpoint.

spotted in line at the grocery store 🙃

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists. A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back. Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

“If you have biased data going in, you will in all likelihood replicate the bias. And we see this again and again.” The internet is skewing the reality of women (and men) in the workforce, a large new study confirms.

Often when you read a research study, the findings aren't something you can easily see for yourself. But I highly suggest googling any profession and looking at the image search results. My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“It is psychologically manipulative." "A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.” “A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

The Supreme Court hears arguments on a conversion therapy law tomorrow. "What you have is competing visions of how states regulate medicine and whether regulation of medicine should be solely evidence-based or not,” one expert said. More here on the potential impact: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/s...

"The Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the laws and traditions governing federal communications—rules that most employees follow dutifully throughout their careers—has left some workers with a bad taste in their mouth." From @jollyette.bsky.social

“Everyone still remembers when he said he wanted to cause maximum trauma to federal workers."

Can't get over this NIH employee reacting to possible Hatch Act violations in the administration's shutdown spin: "I liked the fact that I still had the capacity for disappointment.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Congrats to @jollyette.bsky.social on her first @motherjones.com byline!!