Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

With yesterday's disheartening Colbert news and today's deeply cruel gutting of our beloved PBS & NPR, maybe consider killing your Paramount+ subscription in favor of PBS Passport? www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

These people are out of control. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

What is this—Make Asbestos Great Again? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

The US EPA announced that there will be two virtual public meetings of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals on July 21 and August 4–8: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The chances of land this close to Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP being used for “affordable housing” are absolutely 0. Largest public land grab in modern U.S. history w/no hearings, debate, or public input. Future playgrounds of the mega wealthy. Tell your Congressional reps/Senators to stop it.

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

Some of the amazing public land in Washington to be sold to fund disastrous tax cuts.

🚨 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. 🧵

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

UPDATE: It gets worse. The updated legislative language makes over 250 MILLION ACRES of public land available for sell-off.

We now know that the GOP's Big Ugly bill would allow for the sale of 250 MILLION acres of public land. 5.4 million in Washington state. We can't let them jam this through in secret. Help me say it loud and clear for Republicans: Public lands belong in public hands.

Trump's idiot followers (ie every Republican Senator) want to sell off FORTY PERCENT of public land? That is 40% of OUR land.

That’s our paper! Proud of this work from three institutions and a major product of Morgan Domanico’s dissertation

Dr. Caroline Moore shares how scientists are using portable labs to track species in the Amazon via eDNA, from paw prints to feathers, advancing conservation & biodiversity research: www.youtube.com/shorts/M4pQ8... #BiodiversityDay #AdverseReactionsPodcast

we're gone from "90 deals in 90 days" to sending letters to other countries pleading with them to negotiate

The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

Gold standard science

Women’s health issues remain underreported, underrepresented, and under-prioritised—despite making up half the global population. 🎥 In a new video, experts and Lancet Editors advocate for equitable healthcare to transform women’s health: tinyurl.com/22fkf865

BREAKING: Our client Andry's asylum case was dismissed ~75 days the enforced disappearance to CECOT. “It seems the government’s intention in dismissing these cases across the country is to complete the disappearance of people,” - @l-toczylowski.bsky.social #FreeAndry www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

BREAKING The Trump administration has halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

Withdrawal from opioids sends some neurons into overdrive, but manipulating these cells can be beneficial when stopping the chronic use of these drugs https://go.nature.com/3Ffx058

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago : NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend. Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

Robert Reich's helpful guide re. what you can do to fight back.

Innovation takes time US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t https://go.nature.com/44s6cc5

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

As we point out in Science, the Trump proposal to convert NIH program officer jobs into political appointments (Schedule F) will mean, that instead of actual scientific experts, people like "Big Balls" will choose how to direct NIH funds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Outside NIH now! Senator Alsobrooks of Maryland: www.youtube.com/live/j7OGhh2...

Internal records show that the NIH axed grants for research about transgender people despite a court order barring the cuts. Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

The NIH Director is a liar. He is trying to change facts to fit a political narrative. The antithesis of science.

He is so on a roll. China has replaced us as the country to buy from if you want high tech. We are back to coal. Unbelievable

This may be the most obscene thing this man has ever done on social media It’s offensive at a level I’m struggling to articulate, but we can start with the fact that he’s again framing himself as God’s chosen representative on Earth when he is, remember, a _serial sexual predator_

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

I really encourage you to listen to this. This entire incident is chilling and crosses yet another line.

President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the funding of the CDC by almost half. Its chronic disease center was slated for elimination entirely, a proposal that came as a shock to many state and city health officials.

Russia isn’t winning. They’re burning through men, tanks older than your dad, and begging North Korea for troops. That’s not strength—it’s desperation. We didn’t let them win the Cold War, and we won’t let them fake a win now. youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...

🧵This is the cruelty they don’t want you to see. Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp. No criminal records. Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

😱....THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THAT SHOULD SET OFF THE SIRENS......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He must be stopped SOON before it is too late.

www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/... Tox Sci has a recent post notifying authors with manuscripts under review at EHP how to transfer the paper to Tox Sci. Please share

It's all about the cruelty

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features. www.wired.com/story/police...

Please don’t forget about Andry Hernandez Romero. He is in the gulag in El Salvador where he is suffering from torture. He is not a criminal and was kidnapped by ICE for absolutely no reason other than he was Venezuelan. Please repost because all the men in the Gulag had no due process.

Insurance companies are a scam. Healthcare for all people is a human right.

Social Security Inspector General Under Pressure Over Cuts https://twp.ai/4ilmIT

Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity and chaos: The theme that unites everything https://twp.ai/4ilmIY