A lot of the monarch butterflies around Santa Cruz now have trackers on them, and there is an app to see where they are. Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... iPhone apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

UPDATE: The supermajority has officially been broken: bsky.app/profile/asht...

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Republicans' scorched-earth budget sacrifices our public lands for billionaire tax cuts. Their efforts put at risk: 🏣 60,000+ good-paying clean energy jobs 🌳 13.5 million acres of public lands 🐆 Countless protections for endangered species We MUST put a stop to this madness.

Arbor and Tynna all the way but the biggest #eurovision scandal is Milkshake man dropping out int he semis

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Trump needs to understand that Harvard has 400 years of experience ignoring the demands of people who will be gone in four years.

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion Now he’s down to $150 billion And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services This clown will cut $58 billion Maybe

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Particularly interesting to me: Wilson has repeatedly tweeted the phrase "Ausländer Raus" (foreigners out), an incredibly polarizing phrase in Germany explicitly tied to neo-Nazi and extremist movements; when it's been chanted in public recently in German it's created huge controversy.

Dass Russland hinter den Anschlägen steckt, um zugunsten der AfD in den deutschen Wahlkampf einzugreifen, habe ich immer für plausibel und naheliegend gehalten. Man gilt schnell als Verschwörungstheoretiker, wenn man es ausspricht. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

Für diesen Post gab es damals scharfe Kritik. Der Medienredakteur der @faznet.bsky.social rückte Kollegen und mich in die Nähe von Verschwörungstheoretikern. Nun, mein Post kam nicht ganz out of the blue, zumal ich damals an der MSC teilnahm.🧵

What an absolutely incredible sight in New York City today.

New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.

Mood

My kid: What’s the best way to ask what’s the stinkiest flower on earth (choosing between Google and ChatGPT) Me: existential crisis because when I grew up the answer was NOBODY KNOWS

11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Look at this graph. This just happened. We have gone back to the 1800s.

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios. www.axios.com/2025/03/10/a...

DOE Secretary Chris Wright threw his support behind a vast expansion in geothermal energy at a Republican-facing geothermal focused event in DC today. "Wright name-checked geothermal as one of his department’s primary areas of focus." thehill.com/policy/equil... 🔌💡

Etsy is like only fans for retail

Stilles Gedenken und laute Mahnung #KeinVergessen Sophie Scholl, geb. 9.Mai 1921 Hans Scholl, geb. 22.Sep. 1918 Christoph Probst, geb. 6.Nov. 1919, Vater dreier Kinder, geb.1940+1941+1943 Ermordet heute vor 82 Jahren am 22.Februar 1943 #NieWiederIstJetzt #WeisseRose

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

It’s the little wins wyofile.com/mountain-lio...

If you have ever received treasury payments - tax returns, student loans, financial aid, social security, etc. Call your bank, mortgage company, credit card company, university. Express concerns about the federal personal data breach. Ask how they will protect your information. Put on the pressure!

Don’t believe him! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Now is a good time considering donating to your local public radio station or directly to @npr.org whyy.org/articles/tru...

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

Today we announce EnergySource Minerals LLC (ESM), for a direct loan of up to $1.36 billion for facility making lithium hydroxide from geothermal brine -- 20,000 metric tons annually, enough for approximately 52 GWh of lithium-ion batteries per year. The US is on track to being self-sufficient.

It is incredible that it's taken UCLA weeks to turn around this attribution study when Australia's CSIRO still hadn't completed this work on the Lismore flood when I asked them about it a year later.

This mirrors a similar shift on Facebook 6 years ago. In Aug 2018, 'clean energy' was added to FB's "socially sensitive topics" list, and my page's growth was cut in half. A few months later, 'climate change' was added. My page growth froze at 46k then decreased, and my engagement dropped about 10x.

When NYC started congestion pricing last week, we knew the local mainstream press would be out talking to drivers who were against the toll. So we went out and heard from some people who weren’t driving, including advocates who fought for this historic program. thewaroncars.org/2025/01/14/1...

Sometimes, weather is just weather. And other times human-caused climate change had an obvious impact.

Zuckerbergs jüngste Angriffe auf Faktenchecker & Medien sind Teil einer systematischen Strategie, den #Journalismus zu schwächen. Seit einem Jahrzehnt untergräbt #Meta den Zugang zu journalistischen Inhalten. Zehn Schlüsselpunkte dieser Entwicklung 👇 rsf.org/en/meta-s-te...

If you want a nice Sunday morning read about congestion pricing start here: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/05/c...

One under-appreciated, under-discussed explanation for Trump winning is simply that the people who voted for him believed a wide array of false things. The mainstream commentariat's refusal to center information rot has led to much confusion. Highly recommend this piece from @karlbode.com:

I recently listened to the What’s your Problem? interview with Elie Hassenfeld and thought ‚wouldn‘t it be awesome if there was a givewell.org for #climate?‘ Turns out there is! Thanks @heatmap.news for giving a shoutout to givinggreen.earth

Meanwhile, on Twitter…

public media funding is always under threat — but now Elon Musk is targeting NPR and PBS for budget cuts. @benmullin.bsky.social and I found out how stations are preparing: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...

Elon draws borders only slightly differently than most other sites, but he does draw borders, as any website realizes it must. It's just that he then lies and claims he's the only one who supports free speech. And a lot of silly people believe him.