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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
about 14 hours ago
President Donald J. Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to promote domestic production of glyphosate-based pesticides, potentially giving manufacturers immunity from lawsuits over alleged health impacts and inadequate warning labels.
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Farm bill and Trump’s glyphosate order magnify pesticides’ ‘watershed moment’
Order comes as Bayer proposes a settlement for thousands of Roundup lawsuits and all branches of government consider pesticide maker liability
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/glyphosate-roundup-bayer-monsanto-preemption-trump-executive-order/104/web/2026/03?sc=260317_sc_eng_bs_cen
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This is the way. Tech giants need to prove and fucking _show_ proof before there's any adoption of AI.
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Kev Abazajian
about 12 hours ago
More disastrous cuts to American science: “This effectively sets X-ray astronomy back by a decade, with the earliest realistic timeline for an X-ray flagship now looking like the 2050s or even 2060s.” 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪
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NASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed
The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/nasa-x-ray-axis-killed/?fbclid=IwdGRleAQmxSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeuoroVcjBlFfMAv0UzYWRSBS0CZmISmAbVQMcsPyc3C6nFKsYEi5z3OHsZlc_aem_I73e_AXPdB6wIpg5QLdkIA
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GS Lakes
about 14 hours ago
Medical misogyny is real. I had a rheumatologist tell me that my (very clearly COVID-caused) fibromyalgia was caused by my "mental health". Another said my (also COVID caused) chronic fatigue was caused by my gender. (Not even hiding the misogyny there!) Doctors, do better.
#AusPol
#Disability
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Jessica Ellis
about 11 hours ago
This article does not mention Covid even one time, and suggests maybe just all 40 yos have hypertension for no particular reason at all.
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Dr. Stephanie
2 days ago
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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Image Cooperative
2 days ago
Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software.
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Eb
4 months ago
Note to Democrats: Weird how when you don't explain to people how your policies would actually improve their lives, many just don't know what your policies would do. But if you do tell them, they often actually really like that.
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Mark Lemley
about 18 hours ago
The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 17 hours ago
Let's elect people who have put gas in a car and shopped at a grocery store.
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More Perfect Union
about 17 hours ago
The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.
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Postal Service may be forced to stop deliveries by 2027 amid cash crisis
The U.S. Postal Service may be forced to stop deliveries next year if current trends continue, according to the postmaster general.Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers this week that the Po...
https://www.rawstory.com/postal-service-budget/
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Kyle Griffin
about 18 hours ago
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee just formally subpoenaed Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Epstein investigation behind closed doors on April 14.
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 18 hours ago
NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed charges against prediction market company Kalshi. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation."
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Kalshi charged criminally in Arizona for operating illegal gambling business
Arizona's attorney general on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction markets platform of operating an illegal gambling business in the state and unlawfully allowing p...
https://www.reuters.com/world/kalshi-charged-criminally-arizona-operating-illegal-gambling-business-2026-03-17/
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 18 hours ago
New Dem ad just dropped
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 19 hours ago
Because it’s already been litigated. 63 times. And Trump lost all 63.
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JJ in DC
about 19 hours ago
😲 HORRIFYING – A trans person who has a mismatch between their identifying documents and their "gender at birth" can be rejected for visas/green cards for FRAUD under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(C)(i) – which comes with a LIFETIME BAN against re-entry to 🇺🇸 ⤵️
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Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.
https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door?triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=go.bsky.app
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Gabrielle Peters
about 20 hours ago
"what is really worth recognizing is that able-bodied fears, rather than disabled realities, are distorting public thinking about “assisted dying.” Excellent piece. Every word.
www.compactmag.com/article/i-am...
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I am a wheelchair user. My life is worth living.
I cannot count the number of times I’ve been told by people that I must have overcome so much in order to drive a minivan.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/i-am-a-wheelchair-user-my-life-is-worth-living/
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
about 20 hours ago
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷 UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell attended US–Iran talks and believed a deal was “surprising” and could prevent war, - The Guardian Further talks were planned, but 2 days later the US and Israel attacked Iran. Witkoff and Kushner were seen as “Israeli assets” pushing Trump into war.
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Eb
1 day ago
I mean yes this is how people get to be billionaires. By just completely checking out of their responsibility to be a decent prosocial human being who does prosocial human things (like think about how their behavior affects those around them).
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More Perfect Union
about 20 hours ago
A new analysis shows that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in credit card debt – more than any other point in history.
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Interest Nation: The State of America’s Credit Card Debt Crisis
As families across the country struggle to make ends meet amid a growing affordability crisis, households are increasingly turning to high-cost debt as
https://tcf.org/content/report/interest-nation-the-state-of-americas-credit-card-debt-crisis/
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Marisa Kabas
about 21 hours ago
Today is the one year anniversary of DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. DC Metropolitan police literally broke open doors at the institute's privately-owned building to let Trump officials bully their way in. Read about my lawsuit to retrieve the body camera footage, and what it revealed:
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/body-cam-footage-usip-doge-raid-mpd-lawsuit
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Ketan Joshi
about 21 hours ago
Amazing piece of work here:
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Clay Wallace
about 21 hours ago
An interesting bit about the Fight For Kentucky super PAC (the one that Musk donated to backing Morris that made the racist anti-Afghan ad against Barr) - as of the last quarter (Dec 2025), not a single donation came from KY.
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More Perfect Union
about 21 hours ago
Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse farmers for 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies. The standards governing those tech wouldn't be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry. This could give Big Tech immense power over farmers.
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The 2026 farm bill quietly hands big tech control over American farmland. Here's the fine print | Fortune
The 2026 Farm Bill would reimburse farmers 90 cents on the dollar for adopting Big Tech AI tools — while letting the private sector write the rules.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/14/farm-bill-2026-big-tech-ai-precision-agriculture-eqip-subsidy/
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More Perfect Union
about 22 hours ago
BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.
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Winifred Sedai Burton
about 23 hours ago
Those deposition videos display naked aggression and entitlement to RULE. Anti-intellectualism yes, but that's further down the list from "WM no longer feel the need to conceal how far they'll go to achieve *and maintain* their preferred hierarchy. You cannot shame the power drunk w/ morality. CANT
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Whaley Queen of the Woke
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Have to be banned
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NOTUS
1 day ago
The SAVE America Act would make it harder for Native Americans who live on tribal land to vote, advocates and lawmakers say.
https://www.notus.org/us-news/native-americans-save-america-act-ballot-access
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Native Americans Could Be Among the Hardest Hit by SAVE America Act
The legislation, poised to get a vote in the Senate this week, is President Donald Trump’s top priority.
https://www.notus.org/us-news/native-americans-save-america-act-ballot-access
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Rusudan Djakeli
1 day ago
Day 474 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests. 🇬🇪
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Seth Abramson
1 day ago
Trump officials need to go to jail over this and similar Crimes Against Humanity. Stephen Miller, in particular, should be imprisoned for decades and possibly for life. NYT:
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The Tyee
1 day ago
Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write.
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How the Top One Per Cent Threaten Canada’s Future | The Tyee
Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. To preserve democracy, we must act.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/16/Top-One-Per-Cent-Threaten-Canada/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Justin Wolfers
1 day ago
Things are not okay.
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Social Security Works
1 day ago
"SSA policy and process changes implemented by the second Trump administration created significant barriers for those seeking to apply for and maintain disability benefits" Everyone who cares about the future of Social Security should read this report.
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Eb
2 months ago
To contrast, here's the alt text OP provided for the first image in the previous post. And hey it's not all bad, but it's also mostly not appropriate for alt text, which has a specific and defined role for use and is 30+ years old. In other words, this is not about my opinion.
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Mueller, She Wrote
1 day ago
Yes, and when he does make a “policy announcement”, the mainstream press treats it as truth.
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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Thomas Zimmer
1 day ago
If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving. It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.
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Mueller, She Wrote
1 day ago
TODAY: Military leaders WARNED Hegseth and Trump about civilian casualties and the Strait of Hormuz. They ignored them, and eventually replaced them. Free wherever you get your pods:
the-daily-beans.simplecast.com
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The Daily Beans
The Daily Beans is a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast for your morning commute brought to you by the Webby award-winning host of Mueller, She Wrote, Allison Gill, and comedian/fund-ra...
https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
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2 days ago
Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.
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Deborah Blum
2 days ago
The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3
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Outbreak Investigation of E. coli O157:H7: Raw Cheddar Cheese
RAW FARM-brand Raw Cheddar Cheese linked to ongoing outbreak. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o157h7-raw-cheddar-cheese-march-2026?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
New polling from Pew shows what Americans think about data centers: Only 6% think they're good for the quality of life for those nearby. Similarly, only 6% think data center have a good impact on home energy costs. And only 4% think they're good for the environment.
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US views of how data centers affect the environment, energy costs, jobs and more | Pew Research Center
A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact…
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/how-americans-view-data-centers-impact-in-key-areas-from-the-environment-to-jobs/?cb_viewport=desktop
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee.
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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.
https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-fargo-case
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Cara Marta Messina
2 days ago
CCCC leading the charge how to advocate for our rights to refuse genAI ❤️❤️.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦
2 days ago
🇪🇺 Association Agreement with EU: Ukraine completes nearly 85% of required tasks
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Association Agreement with EU: Ukraine completes nearly 85% of required tasks
The report states that Ukraine reached 84% implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2025.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/03/16/8025716/
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Ruth Deyermond
2 days ago
Trump shows yet again that the US under his administration (a) has ceased to be a trustworthy NATO ally and (b) is a much less desirable ally because it starts destabilising wars for no clear reason and with which it has to ask for help when the wheels fall off.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
2 days ago
ICE is buying industrial warehouses across the U.S. and converting them into mass detention facilities often without notifying local officials. A thread on the "ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative" and what it means. 🧵
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Aparna Nair
2 days ago
The universalization of LLMs is going to turbocharge everyday sexism and misogyny and already has,
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
2 days ago
🇪🇪 In recent weeks, a large-scale propaganda campaign has begun, with Russians promoting the idea of declaring a "Narva People's Republic," Narva is a border city in Estonia, - BILD
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Michael Coyle
2 days ago
A reminder that "orbital data centre" is a science fiction concept, we currently have no way of dealing with waste heat on a scale that makes this viable. We can barely handle it on earth.
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