unofficial CTA poster @chicagocta.bsky.social because I'm excited to explore the city as it gets warmer. support your local public transit!

hey @aoc.bsky.social you were asking us for suggestions on what we think Dems should do for the SOTU, this is what y'all should do

Who needs carbon sinks? (Hint- we all do)

Check this out-terminated employee. “Without my position filled, these species will be neglected for years to come,” Gladstone said. He said his firing left these species, among the most at risk under the Endangered Species Act, in particular danger…as their habitats face threats from development.

At this point a shut down is the best option. Total resistance to everything they're trying to impose on us. This isn't democracy and the Democratic reps need to show they're willingness to go all in with the resistance. news.yahoo.com/news/us-cong...

Just for reference— hindering the Forest Service’s allegiance to rules and due diligence is literally out of the Project 2025 playbook. Page 308 to be precise. Thanks @lawyerlizz.bsky.social for pointing this out.

Just saying.

Congrats, everyone—the Elon boycott is working! Reports indicate that Tesla inventory is swelling, especially with Cybertrucks piling up outside their factory. Keep the boycott going, and don’t forget—today is the Economic Blackout!

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

If you’re at home today, not spending money, and feeling bored, you might be wondering, “What could I do?” Well, task one: you can make random reports on this website: enddei.ed.gov

FDA plays wack-a-mole with folks who flog thermography devices in ways that can kill women www.fda.gov/inspections-... Press release www.fda.gov/news-events/...

My fellow historian of early America, and fellow student of the very conservative historian Gordon Wood, wrote a very sober piece recently that came to a similar conclusion. It's truly crazy-making how many of our fellow Americans look upon what's happening as if it's totally normal.

BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division. Developing story.

Our people are capable of moving $2 billion. BRING THEM BACK. #SaveUSAID

And there's 80 more cases pending An EO has to pass two tests to be legit It has to fall within the confines of the law It has to fit within the framework of the constitution Trump and his band of baboons couldn't write a legit EO if there lives depended on it. news.yahoo.com/trump-3-cour...

If you are a federal employee in one of our scientific agencies who has been fired, please consider filling out this form. The House GOP may not give a damn about the the Enlightenment, objective truth or the Constitution but we do. democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.

Apparently it is moss appreciation week! I don't normally post on the weekend, but I love moss and wanted to share some pictures of moss! I always try to add moss to my growing areas and restoration areas. 🌱 🌎

Please! if you care about science 🧪, about our planet 🌍, about children, about human rights 🗽, about the right to vote 🗳️, if you believe in the constitution ⚖️📜 Take an hour, get in the streets for #NotMyPresident day events. Wherever you are find an event or make one. #StandUp #PresidentDay

In which, I gush about and show off mosses unapologetically! substack.com/@hannahharde... 🌎🌱

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

This next week is both Moss Appreciation Week and Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Here's an aro flag I made from pictures of moss.

Ringtails live as far north as SW Oregon. I'm not as personally familiar with their habitat selection or density there so I couldn't give you any advice on how to find them. But iNaturalist is your friend. They've also been seen in southern Idaho. idfg.idaho.gov/press/rare-i...

A fungus that zombifies spiders has been discovered in Ireland. 🌿 www.sciencenews.org/article/fung...

like, this is just fucking insane. the government is pretending that it passed the Inverse Civil Rights Act overnight and everyone is acting like it's a real law.

🌸🏙️#PlantReproductionWeek The flower does not open in the city: evolution of plant reproductive traits of Portulaca oleracea in urban populations by Tomohiro Fujita et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #openaccess article 👉 doi.org/n5qg @portulaca-oleracea.bsky.social #PlantScience

But now, critical emergency response positions are being cut, leaving both staff and visitors at risk. We take pride in protecting and maintaining these parks, but we are being set up to fail. The people who love and rely on these public lands deserve better.

you should read david’s thread for a thorough dismantling of this article. i will only add that it is very disappointing, although not altogether surprising, to see some progressives treat trump’s war on DEI as a legitimate policy difference and not as an explicit effort to resegregate the workforce

❄️🌸 #PlantReproductionWeek🌳 Floral freezing tolerance is tied to flowering time in North American woody plant species by Jessica Savage et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #openaccess article 👉 doi.org/n5qj @savageplantphys.bsky.social

there's also something incredibly risible about an argument that boils down to "160 years of lawyers and jurists and lawmakers were wrong about this provision and only we have figured out what it really means, which incidentally is exactly what our chief political patron wants it to mean

Finally diving into the willow carr, too calcareous for the rarities, but pleased with Plagiothecium nemorale, and later sight of Rhizomnium puntatum. It was cold, but not cold enough to stop the willow buds breaking; their fluffy catkins expanding, peeling back their single bud scales.

Wolves are essential The fact that they had such a positive, wide ranging impact on the environment wasn't really known till they returned. Today there's a new war on wolves. One we can't afford to lose What can you do fight for what's right Find a protest hear you www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

On 2/12/2025, the North Dakota Senate held a hearing for SB 2355, a bill that would require the inclusion of Intelligent Design in North Dakota K-12 curriculum by August 1, 2027, despite the long legal history barring this in U.S. schools. It's important to make sure this does not pass!

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants open.substack.com/pub/populari...

On Friday, hundreds of transgender and queer New Yorkers and their allies gathered outside the Stonewall Inn to declare that a brazen act of historical revisionism from the Trump administration would not stand. Here's what I saw and heard over about 10 interviews: www.huffpost.com/entry/stonew...