CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Deadline 2/17/26 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗

The snow really shows how much rabbit activity goes on in my backyard. It is looking a bit like Watership Down

Take care to mind your OpSec and who you engage with and how. Masked Engagement is here and feds can now interact with people and attempt to join groups they used to only monitor.

Despite ongoing litigation, the administration is barging ahead with terminating collective bargaining agreements. Raise your hand if you're shocked.

Ro Kanna would rather accuse random innocent dudes of being in the Epstein Files than mention Elon Musk, who is all over them

Losing the historical, irreplaceable documents of the Goddard Space Library would be detrimental to space science. You can help save the library by visiting this link below! tinyurl.com/ycxc83yd (1/4🧵)

Good news! www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t... Thanks to all those bringing attention to the surveilance state @deflock-redmond.bsky.social @404media.co @wired.com @weratedogs.com

This week was horrific. With nothing novel to add, I’ll simply say thank you to this community for showing up and speaking up in all the ways you do. As we head into the weekend, here’s some good conservation news out of California this week. @altfws.altgov.info @canaturalresources.bsky.social

Yet another measles outbreak. There are outbreaks across the country. If you were born after 1957 and do not have documentation of two measles vaccine doses, talk to your healthcare provider about a lab test to check for measles immunity. More detailed guidance here👉 www.cdc.gov/measles/down...

🚨 I'm not on facebook, or other social media, but for those of you who are in friend groups, be aware of who you are friending 🚨 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

OH LOOK. THE GOV LINING UP TO USE SCIENCE AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PUBLIC. WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY SEEN THIS COMING??? Answer: @standupforscience.bsky.social

This was Mass Av last night (westbound to the bridge) right at Columbus. See if you can find the bike lane! @wutrain.bsky.social @streets.boston.gov #BikingInBoston #ArriveAlive Here's the @311.boston.gov boston2-production.spotmobile.net/public/BOS%3...

I missed this story in November. Here’s a non-paywalled version: archive.is/VhhC4 Court hearing coming up, as flagged by a follower. Will post details in comments.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Comment period until Mar 11 about changes to the ACA for 2027. It's a LONG proposal. They want stricter eligibility and to offer more catastrophic (junk) plans Summary of changes here: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... @msmedicaid.bsky.social

When you get the chance to celebrate the contributions of women in science, take it. Take notes from BLM, Chief Shultz. They’re still celebrating #WomenInScienceDay over there. So should the U.S. Forest Service. Women’s History Month is in March— just sayin’.

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

The SAVE act is just another page out of project 2025. Its true aim is to disenfranchise women, PoC and the poor from voting. It's meant to return to the days of wealthy land owners being the ruling class. Call your critters at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote NO. #HandsOffHerVote!

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

MAHA continues to halt scientific advances and actively ban access to preventative medicine. How many deaths are on their hands? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Impeach RFK now! www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr @altfda.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info @standupforscience.bsky.social

Thank you @senlisamurkowskii2.bsky.social for standing up 👏 thehill.com/homenews/sen...

“this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.” follow up: Is one of their goals/priorities to not piss off the president? thehill.com/homenews/med...

"Stream & Shale Story Coloring Book" with my drawings, story of a Citizen's Tour of fracking country in Pennsylvania, + inspiring quotes by environmentalists, 2nd edition, is now up today in print, for children of all ages: www.amazon.com/Stream-Shale... #booksky #SciComm #wildlifeart #coloringbooks

first got a warning for "I love democracy" and ":I love freedom of speech" being too political. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Daily red panda allergies 🤧

"While using a device, a person shall not carry a package, bundle, or article that prevents the person from keeping the person’s hands on the handlebars…at all times." are they also going to ban signaling for a turn? Alt proposal: No roadway in Iowa can have speed limits that exceed 24mph

No words. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

This needs a bigger headline. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

For Whom the Bridge Tolls Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The WH is once again trying to open up ANWR to drilling leases. Please tell them no here: www.protectthearctic.org/i-can-help and here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Comments end 3/5 @altusfs.altgov.info @nrdc.org @nature.org @altdoi.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info @abcbirds.bsky.social

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families" www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Please take a moment to make your voice heard to protect the Boundary Waters. The vote is being held sometime this week (February 9 - 13). #AltCitizen

‘I’m scared he won’t come back’: Father with infant arrested by ICE at Chelsea courthouse

"...the agency’s new priorities, including moving away from a focus on diseases that predominantly affect certain populations." certain populations = nonwhite non-cis males @altcdc.altgov.info

MAHA is when you do political retribution

scroll down and send a letter to your rep to vote no on HJ 140 earthjustice.org/article/the-... or send this @resist.bot petition: resist.bot/petitions/PM... text SIGN PMGWXC to 50409 @earthjustice.org @nature.org @nrdc.org @whipkclark.bsky.social @altreclamation.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info

HUGE WIN FOR THE PEOPLE. 🫡 Rep. @crow.house.gov (#4 on our list) and Sen. @hickenlooper.senate.gov (#5) will each donate tens of thousands of $$$ to immigrant rights groups to offset the respective $59,700 and $51,507 campaign money they’ve received from current+former Palantir employees.

The pressure campaign is working. Rep. Auchincloss (@repauchincloss.bsky.social) should commit to returning or donating the $25k he's received from Palantir execs. @purgepalantir.bsky.social

MAGA- “Free Speech, you don’t let us spew hate on campuses! Cancel culture!” Also MAGA- “Die if you don’t agree with us”

Absolutely heinous. @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

We’re making and mending clothes at the campaign office for our mutual aid hub! If you want to get involved in a campaign that reaches voters *and* materially improves their lives, join our volunteer Discord! discord.gg/katforillinois

Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.

The current president has made almost 4 billion dollars since he was voted in office 🙃 This episode breaks down how he made that money and how it compares to other presidents. www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

UPDATE - Trump nominee Jeremy Carl finally gets a hearing next week in Senate Foreign Relations Committee… another White Nationalist, anti-Semitic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynist — who has deleted thousands of tweets. @SenatorHagerty is on the committee. Will he back him?

Fishy is dreaming of warm summer days! #cat #PetLovers

This is so incredibly messed up that people have to raise money for their co-workers and former co-workers in foreign countries suddenly without visas, an income or a way home.