The U.S. is a disgrace. apple.news/Amd12oHRXRGq...

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Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats’ last-ditch effort to save a House map with new Democratic-leaning districts.

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In Mt. Pleasant, DC they take Taco Tuesday very seriously 🌮

ICYMI!! PUBLICATION & PRESS ALERT! @smbrander.bsky.social and her co-authors Shanna Swan, PhD, Alvine Mehinto, Karen Kidd, Judith Weis, Scott Belcher, Jamie DeWitt, Stacey Harper, and Caren Helbing published their work in npj Emerging Contaminants & it was featured in @theguardian.com !

This is what we have become. This is the face that we present to the world. Shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bruce Whitman’s descent and shocking act of violence exposes glaring gaps in Oregon's mental health system.

The #CocktailEffect - we urgently need a whole lot more knowledge on this #PoisonedPlanet

In today’s episode of Susanne figures out DC again, I learned that if you take an Uber to the NIH campus, security will frisk your driver and search the car before letting you through the gate 👀 Opted for the shuttle on the way back! 🙃

NIXON: “I am not a crook!” TRUMP: “I’m not a pedophile!”

Do I need another book? No. Did I buy one at the airport about a woman befriending an octopus? Yes.

Fun travels for work this week to California, got to present and think on tire wear, and microfibers too, via sailboat ⛵️ @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Ran along the Potomac today, 10/10.

IN THE PRESS: "Do We Know Enough About Microplastics to Act?" Several scientists, including @smbrander.bsky.social weighed in! Check out the Dispatch article below! #microplastics #humanhealth #policy #plasticpollution #plasticpolicy thedispatch.com/article/micr...

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On lampposts around town #resist #meltice

The Trump administration has announced a new research program to help us better understand microplastics. Let’s break down what it means. foodfix.co/epa-calls-fo...

MICRO 2026 – Abstract Submission Open! Cádiz, Spain: 12–16 October 2026 6th edition: Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano 📝 Abstract Deadline: 20 May 2026 🔗 Submit here: lnkd.in/dpS_7uj2 CRC1357 is planning a broad participation! See you in Cádiz! 🇪🇸 lnkd.in/dHA5MrHa #MICRO2026 #Microplastics

Exclusive: As FBI director, Kash Patel has focused on trying to bring a criminal case against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California). The lengths that Patel’s circle is going to pursue a political foe of President Trump have raised alarms within the bureau. https://wapo.st/3NY2fpE

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

No kings, but more frogs please 🐸

Jane Fonda: Becca Goode, the wife of Renee Goode, has asked me to read a statement, which I am honored to do.

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

Cherry blossoms after No Kings today.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living to make it clear we want to #EndTheDCoccupation and #FireStephenMiller. #NoKings #NoKingsDC

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Walz: Our weather may be a little cool, but our people are warm and we're fierce. Don't ever mistake our kindness for weakness. We demand justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We demand justice for every single person who was hurt or traumatized. We will never forget what they did

Amanda's virtual #NoKings rally starts at 4:30pm PT, with some great guest speakers. It has over a thousand people signed up but the call limit is one thousand, so overflow folks can watch it on her YouTube channel: youtube.com/@covidlongha....

Just gonna leave this here. newuniversity.org/2026/02/07/t...

It’s been a long week, everyone needs this cute baby being bottle fed 🦫

The fun thing no one tells you about perimenopause is that for somewhere between 2-8 yrs you may get your period *more instead of less often. It’s like Mother Nature decides to hit fast forward. Cool.

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

This is insane 😠 apple.news/AmXH9gdjURpW...

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring. This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence. And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

When you’re a toxicologist shopping for houses, the realtor will send you the latest listings, and also may ask you questions about his son’s exposure to microplastics 😂

"Biologists had previously assumed that the colors were produced by pigments." How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing: we need to #unlearn 20th-century hubris phys.org/news/2026-03...

Stay away, stay away From the fascist USA

Moving to DC for new job this weekend, and being reminded of one of the last times we were here. Women’s march 2017 ❤️

“What’s happening right now is very dangerous. We need our nonpartisan military leaders to follow the law and speak up when they’re asked to break it.” ~ Sen. Elizabeth Warren He couldn’t or wouldn’t give a direct answer about illegal orders. Something is very wrong. #SheShed

The ongoing record-breaking heat wave in the West will continue while expanding across the Central U.S. through the weekend. Based on preliminary data, there have been around 50 March high temperature records broken since March 17 and more than 150 daily high temperature records broken.

Travel experts say passengers need to be prepared, and patient, amid the government shutdown. Until a deal is reached, officials say airport disruptions and delays could get even worse. n.pr/40LTdPq

If we need to resort to stats …

TSA officers haven’t gotten a paycheck since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security partly shut down on Feb. 14.

Higher temperatures is forcing irrigation districts to begin irrigating two weeks earlier than normal, putting more pressure of California's #water supplies. Another impacts of human-caused #climatechange abc30.com/post/early-h...

We all came from women. That should mean something. Every right, every movement, every step forward has been shaped by women who refused to be silent. Strength. Resistance. The reason we’re all here. #SheShed #WomenHistoryMonth

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