Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

The reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis

Horrifying to think that the Maine Municipal Association IT dept is encouraging small town employees to increasingly use AI. Often without privacy safeguards in place.

Last month we had a MAGA old lady pull her car over to silently hand our Stop ICE visibility bridge protesters a note reading “why don’t you care about Iran’s protestors?” Now Trump has bombed a girl’s school, worsened their water crisis, and there’s toxic oil rain?

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

Priorities.

I’m pretty horrified to see raw milk popping up even in Portland’s fairly liberal co-ops and natural food stores. Especially without any warnings. Raw milk isn’t safe. My Dad grew up on a dairy farm and knew multiple families who lost pregnancies, elders and young kids after drinking raw milk.

I’ve played roller derby for 8 years, with women’s teams and open gender teams. I have had the experience of cis-men who were close friends and teammates not “getting it” and laughing behind my back. Of being friends who hang out, but don’t show solidarity when we most need it.

We must ban surveillance pricing now before even more companies start using AI to charge you more based on your personal data. I’ve introduced the first federal bill to ban it, and I’m glad to see a proposal in New Jersey to do the same.

Perks of neurodivergent shared households: Chores are allocated by hyper focus special interest history.

On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵 www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Maine Rep. Jared @golden.house.gov’s “Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just fine” Op Ed sure is aging like Haddock left on the backseat in summer. www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

Paint isn't protection! "Even worse, most Americans see these terrible lanes and think, "I'd be crazy to ride a bike" — and the cycle continues." usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/23/s...

I would like to say that I’m not always such a surly grump! It’s just a terrible era to be literate.

I’m a STEM woman in a small nonprofit. I do have to be both meeting chair and responsible for simultaneously taking my own minutes verbatim. And criticized for both. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The US men’s Hockey Team have tarnished their victory by refusing solidarity with women’s and gender minority sports. Sports are political, especially if you have had to actively fight to even be able to participate, to be paid fairly, to have gear made to fit, and to be equally publicized.

A legal system that prioritizes property rights over all others is no longer a democracy. Our current circumstances are the rich few feeling directly threatened by the many who object to their horde of wealth and resources. They define freedom as a freedom from any responsibility for public good.

There's a reason they're calling them detention centers and not prisons. Prisoners have rights, detainees do not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“The frustrated city manager of Social Circle, ...told the Guardian that he’s denying the feds’ request to turn on the public water as they race to open their detention camp there as early as April.” Time to get on your local planning boards, everywhere.

Signal boost. Several times now, peaceful protesters, observers, or even people who have just been in the wrong place and time have been accused of “assaulting ICE agents with their car.” This often falsified claim is used to justify ICE’s violence, illegal incarceration and intimidation.

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

Just in case everyone forgot why the EPA’s been gutted. Can’t possibly let pesky things like clean water get in the way of Elon Musk’s ego project. www.npr.org/2024/10/10/n... #epa #spaceX

Make no mistake, the repeated banging on news media trying to get engagement from AOC’s pause is deliberate. This repetition is frequently used to erode support of women in positions of power. As seen in Doctor WHO to intentionally disempower: youtu.be/GidbEhL0teE?...

After having to endure the embarrassment occurring every single time this administration speaks, I really don’t give a shit that AOC has one single less than polished clip. Purity testing from a group of people that lick the boots of a man who sounds mentally unwell isn’t worth the screen time.

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More like “forced” into, when AI is added to our existing software, email, spell check, web browsers and operating systems. It is extremely difficult to disable. It’s also who we are forced to talk to when reaching out to customer service or, increasingly, even our own local government.

Wolves reduce livestock losses. You read that right Wolves reduce livestock losses. By controlling coyote numbers (coyotes are responsible for 60% of all livestock losses) Wolves (responsible for 1/4 of 1%) actually help farmers and ranchers.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

The bill would give pharmacists authority to administer any vaccine licensed by the FDA and recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, or the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. https://bit.ly/4cEfLse

You don't read this every day . . . but we may from now own. Seriously, Minnesotans have shown the rest of us how it's done. The regime chose the strongest people and the most inhospitable season to attack. Kakistocracy personified. @rawstory.com www.rawstory.com/ice-26752709...

“State Sen. Matt Harrington, R-Sanford, said a pause on development would endanger a new data center planned for his district. He added that the water district that could serve the facility was excited to take on a new customer…Harrington did not respond to multiple interview requests Friday.”

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project

What loons teach us.

Maine universities are leading the charge in updating to bird-safe windows on their campuses. Here is a great read about bird-safe glass efforts at @BowdoinCollege, where studies like these help bring awareness to bird strikes and what can be done to prevent them. tr.ee/YlMmfx

Reminder that multiple US states, farms, and major cities are likely about go to court over their inability to make a new agreement over water rights to the diminishing Colorado River. Climate change is still happening while this administration rips apart the mitigation infrastructure.

Whenever I see pseudoscientific conspiracy theories about ancient aliens or giant petrified trees or ice age satellites or whatever it drives me crazy because THE EARTH IS COOL ENOUGH JUST AS IT IS! WE DON’T NEED TO REACH FOR REASONS TO MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING! HAVE YOU SEEN A TULLY MONSTER??!!

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

your honor you have to understand what a pain in the ass it is to find evidence of a crime before every arrest

Maybe Liam is too wee yet for Spider-Verse, but I ❤️ Miles Morales and Nueva York is covered in snow too! Much thanks to @julioanta.bsky.social for the translation so that I could include both spideys. #Comics4Liam FREE THE CHILDREN!!! Shutter forever these evil detention centers; ABOLISH ICE.

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com

Advice from Pat Izar: "First, trust your own perspective. Your experiences, your landscape, your languages: these are forms of knowledge. Science needs them. Second, seek community. [..] And finally, remember that building a more equitable science is a collective effort. We advance together." WORD!

Visited the Portland Maine Museum of Art and found out our cat has been moonlighting as an art model.

“There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness.” -Terry Pratchett

May the right fire burn within me.

Just little Portland critters.