Could we pass a designated senator rule and just replace this caucus with top of the Dodgers-Jays batting order for the foreseeable?

Another harmful, gutting Friday eve. No legal scholar, so salt, but my yeoman’s take: this moment is nth exhibit of the maxim that there is no such thing as appeasing autocracy. It is an appetite fed only by boundaries dissolved and people debased, which is why near-total immunity did not sate it.

In this moment of hope and breathing in, also thinking of Melissa Hortman tonight, and how she and John Hoffman should still be here to witness these democratic lights.

I❤️ NY

Molly will be visiting the lands of the Lenape, Klamath, Shoshone Bannock, Diné, and Native Hawaiian in the coming days! Pumped for the respective communities Molly visits, and everyone who gets to learn more about them. Watch them on the PBS KIDS app now or see when they air nationally near you.

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I feel like boomers think about how good they had it and take credit for it. And they made a point of hoarding that good. But as a millennial, it’s been pretty horrific to have a glimpse of how much better a lot things used to be as well as an acute awareness of the decline.

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Jamaica, thinking of you.

Sigh...my quick update www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

relatedly, just updated my profile image to a hand-painted plein-air done by an artist on Vancouver Island in the summer of 2016. I was a background character to my dad's portrait and my hair isn't really this color, but I like the whimiscal puff of steam coming from my head. seems prescient!

out-onioning @theonion.com, I see. from a discourse perspective, would be cool if there were suddenly a proliferation of jaded armchair architects on here saying 'we told you months ago this would happen' and sharing annotated mockups of WH floorplans like receipts.

And if there aren’t any community meetings, it would be a GREAT opportunity to meet like-minded individuals you can organize a meeting with. Doesn’t have to be big. Many movements of yore started in someone’s living room

There's a fund that's been started by several local orgs: www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

Just donated. Heart with everyone in the Y-K Delta and all those affected by the storm.

Thinking of all the CDC experts who received these notices, and all the retired ones who helped shape the centers and modern epidemiology as we know it. Thank you. these RIFs are illegal. and/but the attrition and loss is real—especially when lawmaking and lawkeeping (by top court) is absent.

Thinking of everyone in Kotzebue braving this storm — stay safe! 💙🌊 View local water level data (not all data is up to the minute): 🔗 water-level-watch.portal.aoos.org#metadata/100... More info: awlw.aoos.org @alaskaskies.bsky.social @alaskawx.bsky.social

“We need so many people to care, so many people to say that, ‘I am willing to make financial and social sacrifices, professional sacrifices, in order to build a better world.’Whoever is questioning whether or not they should do that, I want them to know that they can, and it’ll be okay” I miss Link

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case: As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

Thursday 10/9 at 1 PM Central, @sciencewriting.bsky.social is hosting a webinar on covering scientific funding chaoes with @stephaniemlee.bsky.social @katherinejwu.com and @scott-delaney.bsky.social. Sign up: connector.casw.org/event/casw-c...

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Wow.

Even better is the live performance she did for the 2010 Olympics. Like, these are •live• vocals.

Elected officials simply CANNOT POST THROUGH IT. That is NOT their JOB.

This friend is in search of a forever home: Newt, located in Pacific Grove, CA. Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/newt-76000260/ca/pacific-grove/peace-of-mind-dog-rescue-ca1623/

Thank you to the career federal employees, who show up to work every day and improve people's lives across the country.

Those eyes! And the heart patch on her chest! Who do we know in Atlanta who can broadcast for this sweet senior? via @adoptapet.bsky.social

I loved this story! and this passage about how we’re haunted by even the beauty in our past

thinking of Layli Long Soldier and this passage: ‘I think about being a woman in this world, in this country to be specific, and the lengths to which I have been stretched… And I have learned that along the way—en route, when there is time—a dress can be ripped up to bandage.’

Has the annual soup recipe mega-thread happened yet? One of my favorite trifles from the old place! Hope it happens here—please advise 🍲

watching these suits invoke pregnant people’s pain and experiences for anti-science grift and profit on the heels of creating so much needless pain for women and children around the world is rage-making. Difficult to find words commensurate with the collective insult and injury of these last years.

“What you see happening right now in the small, isolated communities could just as easily happen in any number of communities across our state and elsewhere where the immunization rate has fallen,” said Bob England of the Arizona Partnership for Immunization. #EpiSky www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

I want to thank some of you for taking up our call to meet with your City Council member about funding NYC public libraries. We have over half of the districts covered by at least one person. We still have 25 districts that need a constituent to sign up. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What a joy to celebrate “Sun Day” w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social @sandynurse.bsky.social @solaronenyc.bsky.social @brooklynsolarworks.bsky.social & climate activists across the globe. With clarity about the emergency we face, and hope for our capacity to rise to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Reaction's to ACIP's vote are coming in. The American Academy of Pediatrics says the meeting "promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines as part of an unprecedented effort to limit access to routine childhood immunizations and sow fear and mistrust in vaccines."

'Democracy depends on your voice, your courage, and your peaceful participation. Stand tall, speak up, and remember that no troops, no weapons, no show of force is stronger than united communities that refuse to yield our rights.' - Cook County Board Pres. Preckwinkle. My heart's with you, Chicago.

🌍 Join us at University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪! We're hiring an Associate Senior Lecturer (tenure-track) in greenhouse gas dynamics in soil–plant systems. 🔬 Focus: peatlands, carbon & nitrogen cycles, land use. 🔗 bit.ly/47hQKRc #AcademicJobs #ClimateScience #Peatlands @beccsweden.bsky.social

Heart breaking for the CDC and its people. Lab techs and librarians and nurses and doctors and scientists and engineers and more. As an epidemiologist's kid, I've seen how the agency's people have quietly made life better for so many here and abroad. Political headwinds aren't new, but this is arson

The mid-story cottonwoods shutting down. I’m guessing some of these won’t make it.

Thank you @aaberhe.com for visiting @woodwellclimate.bsky.social and the Climate Justice seminar today and sharing your science and insights! Such a gift to be in conversation with you again, and thanks for modeling scholarship and leadership rooted in community, inclusion, diversity, and curiosity.

Great use of Bsky and short-text social for public-good #SciComm: a really important, meaningful thread documenting the public hearings on the endangerment finding. Worth a read and a follow!

"This work underscores the importance of Indigenous-led stewardship in addressing Arctic environmental and social challenges, offering a model for collaborative governance rooted in respect and reciprocity." 💯 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

The #IPCC has announced the authors selected for its Seventh Assessment Report. 664 experts from 111 countries have been invited to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, & Review Editors. 🌍 51% from developing countries 🚺 46% women 🔗 bit.ly/AR7AuthorsPR

I just dropped off a few HEPA air purifiers & a mini AC at their office. If you're #PVDlocal, more ACs & air purifiers would be most welcome--air quality sucks rn, apartments are hot & babies have allergies & asthma

US-🇨🇦 "should collaborate on climate change solutions 'because our smoke is their smoke, their smoke is ours,' said @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social. 'As long as this trend of warming and drying continues, we’re going to get a worsening problem. The good news is .. we can stop it from getting worse.'"

Cool essay by @permafrostpathways.bsky.social postdoc Joshua Rady about how the NASA FireSense Rx burn campaign offered him and other fire researchers a more holistic understanding of fire to inform his fire modeling efforts: @woodwellclimate.bsky.social www.woodwellclimate.org/prescribed-b...

Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’ - More than 470 Canadian fires classified as ‘out of control’ as scientists say climate change exacerbating the burning #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...