This October marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Octavia Butler’s final book. We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.

 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds. Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Absolutely bonkers that trying to stop white supremacists from doing mass shootings is now a delicate subject!

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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

This video was taken at approximately 12:55 PM and these church bells are not ringing the hour. They are ringing, and ringing, and ringing as the protest passes by

The CDC doesn't understand disease control. The EPA doesn't understand environmental protection. Now it's clear the Dept of Energy doesn't understand energy. This administration is populated by imbeciles.

Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

2/ The state of the world feels unrecognizable. We’re so numb to violence that hundreds of bullets hitting a federal building barely made headlines. This isn’t normal. We’re living in constant cognitive dissonance—powerless, grieving, and forced to carry on as if the world hasn’t changed.

This week on the podcast, @lydiareeder.bsky.social is the author of The Cure for Women: Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever. Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... (1/2)

Trump admin has already cut billions of dollars in funding for R&D - which funds your mom's cancer treatment; innovations; even our space program. Now the admin wants to cut +$30B - huge cuts to science. Go to ProtectScienceAndInnovation.org to say no.

✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️ NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...

'look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours .. you can see their resemblances to landscapes, mountains, rivers .. varicoloured stones, like the sound of bells, in whose peelings you can find every name and word you can imagine' [leonardo da vinci]

“My 2020 article on the NPS website was edited to remove the words transgender, nonbinary, genderfluid, and butch,” writes @wendylrouse.bsky.social in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️

Colorado State Capitol right now.

McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

“If we elect Trump, we will be at war within 6 months.” - Kamala Harris. But having just been humiliated at the G7 summit & doubly humiliated a second time by the poor turnout at his birthday parade, FOTUS decided to act to change the news cycle, so we’d forget & take focus off his atrocious BBB!

This is one of the most important conversations you can watch about the insane threat of Christian nationalism (Project 2025), especially towards women. Thank you @andrawatkins.bsky.social and @theflyingkitchen.bsky.social

In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /

🎥 What is #ClimateChange? Why does it matter? Why we need to take #ClimateAction Watch ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XT... PL RP Thank you! 🩷💚💙 #climate #environment #hope #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChangeIsReal #Klima #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #ActOnClimate #ClimateHope #SaveOurPlanet

Trump sabotages - Ag, family farms - US health care and public health - Science, research, academia - fiscal health of US - our democracy and our humanity - our global reputation Eternal shame to his Congressional enablers.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story. https://n.pr/4kv5xLT

The dismissal of women’s voices - whether in labs, politics, boardrooms, or communities - has cost us untold progress. Mary-Claire King is a powerful example. Her discovery of the BRCA1 gene revolutionized our understanding of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.👇

BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

That you, Rep. Lateefah Simon, for your powerful words! 👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻 Rep. Simon succeeded Rep. Barbara Lee to represent the constituents of CA-12. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateefa...

A good piece debunking the junk science that is providing the pretext for RFK's review of Mifepristone. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

This is extraordinary.

Kennedy is among the most malevolent figures in all of American history.

Unbelievable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Colorado’s outdoor businesses buckling in Trump trade war, closing up shop and laying off long-time workers

Denver - peacefully standing up for Democracy. @maddow.msnbc.com

Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Last month, we spoke to two federal auditors with years of experience who say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like. Here’s that story: www.wired.com/story/federa...

Check out this thirsty girl! #hummingbirds

Hahaha okay NJ we gotta step it up and get the slide going baby #teslatakedown

Writing things down may take longer than typing, but there are some significant benefits, research shows—primary among them a lowered risk of cognitive decline. Here's what we've learned.

Amazing!

The thing about Pollyanna is that she was right

What makes it difficult for young women to grow up in today's world? Why do they become politically liberal? Let's look at some who are successful as kindergarten teachers, traffic cops, or research scientists. There might be something there that the cheeto-powdered young men could learn.

Happy Birthday to Jean Leadwith King, champion of gender equality who laid the foundation for Title IX. #womenshistory; #titleix www.freep.com/story/news/o...