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Fort Worth Zoo welcomed two orphaned black bears in spring of 2025, Cinnamon and Raisin. They have a big pool in their Piney Woods habitat & a smaller pool inside their enclosure. This video captures the difference between the siblings: Raisin is calm, Cinnamon is chaos. (📷: Keeper Cynthia)

New: Philly Activists’ Hunger Strike Pushes Community Demands for Budget Surplus unicornriot.ninja/2026/philly-...

PHILLY (anywhere from 41 to 33% of Bluesky): Are you curious why the school district budget continues to be in crisis? Want to know how to avoid laying off reading teachers in the middle of a literacy crisis? Wednesday at 5pm, a smarter person than me will explain. RSVP here: luma.com/e7cgfzb8

If you remember the flavor of the wooden spoon instead of the ice cream, don’t forget to take Ibuprofen, 90s kids.

Recently, the WH abruptly fired 22 members of the National Science Board, an entity that oversees the NSF. This group operates w/o partisan interference. 1500 members of NASME penned an open letter. We cannot afford to watch our science entities get hijacked by MAGA. 🧪 archive.today/6mCrG #SaveNSB

New: Since DOGE cut the statistical arm of the Education Department, basic facts about American schools are no longer readily available. Some of these data points can be found elsewhere but are now harder to track down. Others simply don't exist anymore. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/05/07/e...

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Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution. This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians. The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993. I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago.

I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae. They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS. Most walk on modified fins. Others use jet propulsion. Some are capable of air-breathing. Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.

Weeks: “To tell us that we should reconstitute ourselves seems a hard road to follow. What’s kinder is to say: We are who we are. What we want to do is to change the rules of the game so that we can become otherwise over time. It’s about embracing the politics that would destroy you as a subject.”

She left her agent because he was in the Epstein files, and just like that, there’s a bot-driven smear campaign. You fell for it with Amber Heard and Blake Lively, stop fucking falling for it.

We demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear & violence. ICE Out bills put our values into law & prioritize immigrant communities' safety. Show up Mon. 4/13 for Council hearing & 1st vote to demand no city $, personnel, data or space be used to help ICE! RSVP www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/even...

Excellent round up of comments from this interview! @npr.org & thanks to @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social for supporting my research!

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The SAVE Act is voter suppression—not security. It would purge millions, especially married women with name changes, low-income voters without passports, and more. Tell Your Senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran. Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

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There are many evidence-backed strategies for managing ADHD including cognitive behavior therapy with a trained professional & lots of free resources. LLMs are not one of them LLMs are human constructions, therefore incapable of transcending human capabilities & their output is 💩 🗑️

The FBI claimed Kash Patel didn't spend $75,000 in taxpayer funds to fly on a private jet to watch the Olympics. Today, Patel was spotted partying in Team USA's locker room.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

It’s a plan for a plan with a speculative drafty draft budget from imaginary sources. Similarly, the district says it’s an “equity NOT budgetary driven process” but it is and isn’t about money that we don’t have but might get from various philanthropy & govt sources 🤦‍♀️

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Sign the petition to tell PA Senators No ICE Concentration Camps in PA: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Free them all Abolish 🧊 Shut down these terror camps

Garcia, up again, ends by holding up a photo of Stephen Miller and says: "There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

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"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

This is the story of the day. Share it. We are all being called to be our highest selves. The cavalier treatment of the Nobel Prize is a disgrace. It represents another way to destroy and defile that which should be precious and revered. We can all make choices to be better.

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...

Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports. Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Researchers who have been doxxed for their academic work have been shouting this for years: we need a plan to protect ourselves from concerted, politically motivated attacks on individuals. We need this at the grassroots level, at the departmental level, at the institutional level.

This is happening here now, routine check ins turning into traumatic kidnappings. None of us is disposable, nobody should be deported. Actions: read and support local news, support immigrant communities, and tell electeds this matters to you