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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Science has improved our lives. Check out this uplifting thread (and Stand Up For Science).

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

Very few people study air-water gas exchange, which determines how quickly the ocean takes up atmospheric CO₂. But because of marine CO₂ removal, everyone is throwing the term "gas exchange" around. So here's everyone's chance to attend a gas exchange meeting to learn and share. www.gtws2027.se

Absolutely not. ABSOLUTELY THE HELL NOT. WE ARE NOT DOING INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR CHILDREN.

There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵

We can force this issue in #Virginia with a statewide moratorium on data centers, the central nervous system of all this artificial BS in the first place. I’ll be introducing legislation for that and so much more in ‘27, including a budget amendment to end the data center sales tax exemption. #valeg

Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.

This is the letter that comes to graduates of Imagination Library when they turn five. 😭 #DollyParton

Loudon County has over 250 data centers, making it the highest concentration in the WORLD (you read that right). Why on earth does this talking yam oppose renewable sources of power? Virginia energy provider has already proposed a sharp rate increase for residents. It's a huge drain on resources.

I love when we can find the humor in our political despair. I'm going to put on my tan and help @shannontaylorva.com flip the VA-01 congressional district. @wittmanwatch.bsky.social

The party may not be supporting Dems in the South, but we can. This year, more than ever, Ds have a shot in the Deep South. #YallVote

The head of federal budget management wants to put all scientific grant funding in the hands of the president's political appointees. We must fight back. Help embolden a Congress that will remove RFK Jr: zurl.co/0vv7S Contact your MoCs and tell them to Revoke the Rule(OMB Proposal): zurl.co/IhkQB

Trump isn’t just blocking affordable, reliable wind power. He’s blocking good jobs that pay well, right here at home. That’s shameful. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Fighting back works. After tens of thousands of public comments & emails, the Senate paused the OMB Proposal until December. Now, we need to stop the proposal entirely. Contact your MoCs and tell them to Revoke the Rule at the link: zurl.co/tp9xz #OMB #Vought #Science #StandUpForScience #StopVought

My course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," is available for free online. Through 10 lectures, I examine Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared, and what we should have learned from the 20th century. Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...

Join a Good Trouble Lives On event near you on Saturday to honor the legacy of the great civil rights leader John Lewis and take action to protect voting rights.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY

Rob Wittman is a sitting representative who is known for not showing up—for not representing VA-01's constituents. Like many rural folk here, I know a chicken when I see one, like the many in my very backyard. Virginia, it's time to kick this chicken back to his coop and out of Congress.

When it happens, I want Mitch McConnell to be honored the way he honored Justice RBG. That is all.

I agree with this take. People are mad bc we want our government to work for us. We've been told things are "impossible" for decades and MAGA just waltzed in a made HUGE changes (bad). Why can't huge changes be made for good? Laziness ain't cutting it anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-r...

We have to stop pretending that the bribe-taking confessed felons are "the supreme court", when the Constitution says quite clearly that "the judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices DURING good behaviour". Not "during bribe taking and commission of felonies".

Congrats DR Congo! They had to quarantine in Belgium before the World Cup due to the devastating Ebola outbreak, yet still made it to the knockout stage for the first time in history!

Current mood.

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Happy #Juneteenth! On this day we celebrate freedom and our commitment to the fight against racism. Our struggles were born from the same roots. Our struggles are one. Su lucha es mi lucha. Together we are more powerful.

We need a nominee who shows up. We've already been too long with a congressperson who dodges voters.

It will be the rest of us next. We need to make sure this ends here.

Goddamnit, Yzma! Started listening to #DungeonCrawlerCarl and I just keep picturing Kronk. So… Dungeon Crawler Kronk and Princess Yzma. 🩷 Doing something different with this one, putting it up on EBay: ebay.io/m/eufHgr

The announcement marked a major shift, after Gov. Spanberger vetoed the cannabis marketplace plan approved by lawmakers in this year’s General Assembly session, five years after the state made adult simple possession legal. www.henricocitizen.c...

Serving in the Navy has been, and will continue to be, some of my life's proudest work. When elected as your Democratic nominee, I promise to fight for every single person in VA-01 and treat them with the dignity they deserve. #navy #veteran #service #VA01 #Virginia

Virginia Congressional Primary #VACD01

A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from a case on Tuesday after finding that counsel on both sides had used generative AI to draft legal filings and left hallucinated sources in the legal record. www.mississippifreepress.org/ai-hallucina...

The fucking audacity

Virginia #CD01 - Fully fund education and protect student borrowers from predatory lending? Yes, please.

In Pennsylvania, we believe in the freedom for women to make decisions over their own bodies. As long as I’m your Governor, reproductive rights will always be protected in this Commonwealth.

One thing that happened during the vote-a-rama: A Van Hollen amendment to prohibit people who beat up cops or who have molested children from getting paid a reward from taxpayers. 46 Republicans killed it. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience

@knappforcongress.bsky.social - thankful I had a chance to hear from you at the candidate forum today in Wmsbg. Very much looking forward to hearing more.