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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 7h

The scientific value of going to the moon is not that high, and at least the previous iteration of NASA cuts redirected funding from all the other science to going to the moon. We'll miss incredible discoveries from the outer solar system and exoplanets for sure though.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Where are the rocks??

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

It really sucks Newsom vetoed the HRT and PreP access bills. The stockpile veto is going to hurt.

That said, given everything he has been saying this year, signing 8 out of 10 bills is a win for grassroots activists and the legislators filing the bills.

It shows your pressure has worked!

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 14h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 12h

AB 554, which Newsom vetoed and would've protected access to PreP, was so uncontroversial that *every Republican but one* voted for the bill across both houses! Republicans who voted no on the suicide hotline bill, btw.

This is purely a decision made to protect health insurance companies.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 14h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 14h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 12h

People who are dunking on this must have a cartoon Hollywood image of deserts as big sand dunes with only the occasional cactus or tumbleweed. Deserts climates are defined by precipitation and evaporation, not plants from irrigated ag. Some of the world's biggest & oldest cities are in deserts!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 16h

English agriculture, architecture, clothing, work hours, attitudes about A/C are not appropriate to the Southwest but are the norm in the US thanks to western colonization. Native people were literally forced to adopt Western clothing and agriculture over practices better suited for the climate!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 16h

OP is basically correct here. So much discussion of weather/climate elevates Western Europe as normative. Further, many of the Southwest's problems are downstream of colonial ideas like "making the desert green/the rain follows the plow" or wanting neighborhoods to look like England.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17h

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“No one should live in the desert” bitch the desert southwest is home to many of the oldest continuously lived in communities in US.
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My hometown is believed to have been lived in for over 4,000 years. People find ways to live here.
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I feel like the rhetoric that deserts aren’t livable is super rooted in colonial ideals of living and ignores the multitudes of indigenous groups that call deserts their home
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Deserts are inherently unsuitable for long-term human settlement, which is NOT a “colonial ideal of living.”

Populations who live and succeed in living in deserts, such as the Bedouin, are small in population and nomadic.

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17h

More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on October 3 during a one-day general strike in support of the people of Gaza. labornotes.org/2025/10/mill...

Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza

More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on October 3 during a one-day general strike in support of the people of Gaza and against the ongoing genocide there. The strike, called b...

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 17h

Trump canceled hydrogen projects in red states that had been pushed by the fossil fuel industry. heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h

There is a pernicious “not made here” mentality when it comes to alternative means of resisting our fascist regime. Every other peer democracy that defeated right wing coups succeeded because of alternative means made possible by a broader culture of democratic organizing and resistance.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite example is this is how vanillin, the main flavoring agent of natural vanilla, also occurs naturally in coal.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 17h

I'm reminded of the discourse on "The Groups" after the election when a lot of wonks and media people were trying to insist that civil society was why the Democrats are losing.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

What I'm gathering is that parking requirements are the core reason we can't build nice apartments anymore. The Chicago courtyard building is the gold standard of missing middle density but now illegal in most places.

Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 19h

I am 30-something and was one of the youngest people at a Tesla Takedown protest a few months ago, which got me a lot of attention and questions about "how to get the youth involved".

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 19h

Anarchist trial defendants Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right)

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KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱 @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 21h

There are aspects of the US system that are essentially quasi-feudal, especially in smaller states.

Alabama *could* have a better rail system in the UK, but the usual suspects of white, exurban small business owners and retirees would say "That's not the government's job" and kill it.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21h

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 22h

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

In many ways Silicon Valley is actively destroying all the real innovation via their role in Trump and DOGE.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream liberal response to the 2020 protests and the pro-Palestine movement bears a lot of responsibility for where we are now, and there is real cause for beef. But we all need to get over that (ideally this would involve some mea culpas from the establishment).

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

It's frustrating because the case for revolutionary politics has never been easier to make. Billionaires literally control the government and they are doing everything they can to make sure "vote harder" doesn't work. So where are the ppl who rail against electoral politics right now?

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1d

I submit that the radical Left are paralysed in the face of this mass movement because it contradicts their theory of change - that "Normie libs" are NPC and that change only happens by recruiting to radical ideologies

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Rise of the pro-Palestine movement also pretty nicely coincides with elites becoming anti-woke and deciding they're against virtue signaling.

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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 2d

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween is coming soon. Lupe" sent us this photo of the pumpkins he helped harvest in the Bakersfield CA area. He shares he is proud of the work he and other farm workers do to bring fruits and vegetables to the tables across America. #WeFeedYou

A field full of pumpkins that were harvested by Farm workers

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