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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Nature @nature.com · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million, USA Today reported, and that’s the figure just for the D.C. National Guard, not for the eight states that have sent troops.

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Dan getting ahead of me here because I got distracted by candy. I was going to add: the point is to have a police/military force while starving every other state government function. But he says it better and I had two pieces of licorice. It takes a village.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1d

What would it look like for a bunch of jetski dealer jihadists to secure the monopoly over the legitimate use of force while they rewrite your kid's textbooks to show Jesus invented dinosaurs with the help of Prime energy? I dunno man ask Florida and stop thinking they're backwards. They're ahead!

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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell Says King County Public Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast

The mayor talks to a friendly audience at event sponsored by Seattle's police union, We Heart Seattle, and the Discovery Institute.

Harrell Says King County Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett As readers may know, I’ve spent much of the last month attending Seattle mayoral debates and…

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Right on

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto barriers are heavy and linked tightly to one another, giving them some rigidity, but they work by absorbing impact, and need to be reset after a collision. If they are not reset, obviously, they create a hazard and the impact resistance of the entire row is degraded.

Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 2d

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 3d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s telling that Harrell seems most comfortable among Republicans.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Harrell says he won't be a mayor "who's just going to tax you to death."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 3d

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 3d

What?!?

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Harrell says the city pays into King County's health department, and suggests that Seattle should consider running its own health department. "I know the streets better here in Seattle than the county."

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

A big deal for inflation and also whether you’ll have reliable food supplies, due to Trump policy choices.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 3d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 3d

I know this is a toughie for republicans like Suarez and reactionary centrists like Harrell, but the difference between individual citizens wearing masks and agents of the state wearing masks is that citizens are not required to identify themselves but agents of the state are.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Huge applause at Suarez' question about whether Harrell will require protesters to take off their masks like he wants to make ICE take off their masks

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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 3d

What? Why? We have lots of actual artists and cultural institutions in this city and state who can enrich our city. Why would we debase that for empty AI nonsense?

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Like every mayor before him, Harrell wants arts and culture events downtown. The difference is that "you're going to see a lot of AI in it."

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3d

Oh so he's really drinking the Kool-aid.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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