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Brett Hamil
10 days ago
ACTION ITEM. They're gonna just keep running surveys until they get some results they like, huh. you know what to do
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Plague Poems
14 days ago
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Jesse Eisinger
about 1 month ago
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Alt National Park Service
about 1 month ago
told Liberty Utilities (the small California company that services the region) that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason is NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno.
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Alt National Park Service
about 1 month ago
Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,
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Marc Auerbach
about 1 month ago
"The workers recently approved a decision to call for a boycott of the retailer’s anniversary sale, which will run from May 15 to May 25. They’re asking the public not to shop at REI over that time period."
www.seattletimes.com/business/ret...
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REI union workers call for boycott of co-op’s biggest annual sale
Unionized workers recently approved a boycott of REI’s anniversary sale, which takes place May 15-25.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/rei-union-workers-call-for-boycott-of-co-ops-biggest-annual-sale/
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Kathleen Bachynski
about 1 month ago
“Let me start with what worked…the part of the story most Americans do not know. The Nebraska biocontainment unit now holding our returning passengers is a Level 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center… the highest tier of a national network built specifically for moments like this.”
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The hantavirus is a wake-up call. Will the Trump administration answer it?
Arriving in the isolation ward of a biocontainment hospital is an unsettling, scary experience. In 2014, I spent 19 days in one while being treated for
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/hantavirus-biocontainment-response-cdc-who-pandemic-preparedness/
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Jessica Valenti
about 2 months ago
YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
about 2 months ago
New update from the Humanitarian Archive Emergency Project! Check out their updated discovery form.
www.datarescueproject.org/hae-census/
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Humanitarian Archive Risk Census
Our colleagues at the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) Project have an updated request for our data rescuers! This initiative, based at the University of Manchester, is focused on the global threa...
https://www.datarescueproject.org/hae-census/
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Miriam Posner
about 2 months ago
Best explanation of it I’ve read comes from Seb Franklin, in The Digitally Disposed. In the control society, to be human is to be friction, and thus noise to be eliminated.
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Miriam Posner
about 2 months ago
One thousand percent. Having never actually read anything beyond new-atheism and airport psychology, they assume they’ve exhausted the supply of human ideas and possibility.
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L. Harrison Jerome
2 months ago
OED and
@seattledot.bsky.social
are making their decision this week on whether to allow The Ave For All - A Car-Free Pilot to go forward. Fill out this Action Network to let them know you want this to happen!
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The Ave for All - A Car-Free Pilot Block on University Way
Let the Special Events Permit Committee know how much you support this pilot project before they decide TOMORROW (Thursday, April 23) whether to approve our permit.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/the-ave-for-all-a-car-free-pilot-block-on-university-way?source=direct_link&
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Troublemakers
3 months ago
Oh HELL no. With low snowpack, our hydro is becoming less reliable. Behind-the-meter power nearly always means gas. And for what? The suicide advice/porn-making/job-killing machine? Just: no. đź§µ 1/5
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5 massive data centers pitched for Seattle
The AI boom has reached the city of Seattle as four companies look to build massive data centers in town.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/five-large-data-centers-eyed-for-seattle/?utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TSA_041026150108+Can+Seattle+handle+5+big+data+centers_4_10_2026&utm_term=Active%20subscriber
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Really appreciating the nuanced takes in this session on ethics, transparency and responsible (data) sharing. “What is ethical is what’s sustainable and scalable with available resources”
#RDAP26
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Sarah Oelker (buxuyaojieguo)
2 months ago
Listening to Data Rescue Project give the keynote at
#RDAP26
and really enjoying it. Plus, this meme: Learn more about their work at
www.datarescueproject.org
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Emily Higgs Kopin
3 months ago
staff in my doctor's office: oh that's an interesting way to write dates, why do you do it that way? me: .....ok how much time do you have and what is your general familiarity with and/or interest in standards bodies
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti
4 months ago
Per NBC, last month Kansas invalidated 1,700 driver licenses belonging to trans folks. Folks sued; yesterday the judge declined to block/pause the law while the case proceeds.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Quinn Daedal
5 months ago
A good thread on craftivism and its place within the ecosystem of resistance tactics.
#DHmakes
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JosephScrimshaw
5 months ago
ICE must be held accountable for the existing laws they’re breaking. I don’t think they’re going to stop if Congress passes legislation making the same crimes SUPER DOUBLE ILLEGAL
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever
10 months ago
"[S]everal international organizations had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives [possibly recouping taxpayer funds in the process]. Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000."
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$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/health/usaid-contraceptives-destroyed-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
10 months ago
When I say Dems are voting to ban trans rights, I mean they are voting to ban ALL trans rights. Included in the military funding bill are these provisions impacting trans people in the military: - A bathroom ban - A ban on correct gender markers on forms - A healthcare ban - A sports ban
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Acyn
10 months ago
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
10 months ago
If you're out and about in
#Chicago
today (where the weather is beautiful!), consider visiting the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (
www.nps.gov/places/rober...
) and Pullman monuments (
www.nps.gov/pull/index.htm
) to take some pics for
#SaveOurSigns
- and don't forget to upload at
saveoursigns.org
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Save Our Signs - Photo submission
A crowd-sourced photo collection of National Parks Service signs to preserve copies before they can be removed, and to document any changes that are made.
http://saveoursigns.org
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Dr. Lucky Tran
10 months ago
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️
11 months ago
"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
11 months ago
This is fantastic work! Thanks for providing this
@envirodgi.bsky.social
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
11 months ago
If you are signed up with us and in Mattermost, please check in. We have an urgent rescue that could use some help in the next three weeks. It is for the HIFLD Open GIS repository.
hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/search
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HIFLD
HIFLD provides high-quality geospatial data our nation’s most essential missions – including law enforcement, border protection, emergency management, critical infrastructure protection, and national...
https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/search
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 year ago
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Irina Dumitrescu
about 1 year ago
"I think humanity can survive just about anything as long as it responds to chaos with creativity. But to hold on to our creativity will be a battle all on its own."
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-world-...
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The world is in chaos. It's time to make your art.
But you have to make it yourself.
https://irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-world-is-in-chaos-its-time-to
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
about 1 year ago
New DRP post: Our partner, RDAP, held a Data Rescue Hackathon, and it went really well. Read more about their work on NCES (Education) data and helping
@icpsr.bsky.social
with metadata clean-ups!
www.datarescueproject.org/rdap-data-re...
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RDAP Data Rescue Hackathon
Our partner group, RDAP, hosted a virtual Data Rescue Hackathon. Find out more about the work they completed and how to get involved!
https://www.datarescueproject.org/rdap-data-rescue-hackathon/
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abby springs
about 1 year ago
The % who support Medicaid cuts in 2026 battleground districts: IA-01 (Miller Meeks): 9% AK-AL (Begich): 9% CO-08 (Evans): 8% PA-07 (Mackenzie): 8% PA-10 (Perry): 9% PA-08 (Bresnahan): 8% NE-02 (Bacon): 8% AZ-06 (Ciscomani): 9% WI-03 (Van Orden): 8% CA-41 (Calvert): 8%
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Jared Yates Sexton
about 1 year ago
AI is the ideal technology to accompany the decline of America. It caters to the entitled, to those who have no desire to learn and think they know everything, it destroys creativity and critical thinking, and lays the cultural foundation for fascism.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/artificial...
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Artificial Intelligence and American Decline
Something very disturbing is happening with the proliferation of artificial intelligence
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-and-american
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Miriam Posner
about 1 year ago
Very worried this is a sign of what’s to come more broadly. (It’s already here in some places.)
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Don Moynihan
about 1 year ago
Read Santa Ono's declaration for why he is going to be President of Florida, and contrast it with the actual situation in Florida. (Thread below). He believes and endorses assault on campus speech and academic freedom, at least if it will get him $3M a year.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Nicole Jorwic
about 1 year ago
We are out here to
#ProtectMedicaid
Everyone who has Medicaid NEEDS Medicaid. We will fight, and we will win!
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24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall
"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/medicaid-cuts-vigil-raskin-booker-pelosi/
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ProPublica
about 1 year ago
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=5-7
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NC Newsline
about 1 year ago
The North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Tuesday morning imposing civil penalties on workers and protesters who conduct “mass pickets” that are deemed obstructive or violent by a court of law.
ncnewsline.com/2025/04/29/n...
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NC Senate Judiciary panel passes bill restricting mass picketing at workplaces • NC Newsline
A North Carolina Senate bill would impose civil penalties on protesters who conduct mass pickets deemed obstructive or violent.
https://ncnewsline.com/2025/04/29/nc-senate-judiciary-panel-passes-bill-restricting-mass-picketing-at-workplaces/
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Miriam Posner
about 1 year ago
I often think about this. There are *so many* sectors where the policy solutions are settled, agreed upon, entirely uncontroversial among experts, and completely ignored. It’s overwhelming.
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Svasti Haricharan
about 1 year ago
"From the perspective of the most anti-science, anti-intellectual administration the country’s history, it makes a lot of sense. From that of the 40% or so of the entire population who will develop cancer in their lifetimes and the 100% who will know and care about them, it does not." 🧪
#handsoffNIH
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Don Moynihan
about 1 year ago
Every so often I remember that Mitch McConnell, who saw Trump with clarity, could have chosen to end him as a political force, but decided it was someone else's problem.
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Don Moynihan
about 1 year ago
Ongoing pattern that extends from foreign students, to Governors, to CEOs. Presenting any information that undermines the state narrative is "hostile" with the implication that it will be punished with retribution from the state. This is the strategy of a weak regime afraid of transparency.
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Paul Blumenthal
about 1 year ago
House GOP reconciliation language kills the FTC's antitrust authority by transferring it to DOJ
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Mark Chadbourn
about 1 year ago
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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Robert Stribley
about 1 year ago
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
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Don Moynihan
about 1 year ago
This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer
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Matthew Noe 🔜 #alaac26
about 1 year ago
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/texas-bookstores-obscene-books-20290932.php
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