Heather Ferris🇺🇦

@HeatherFerris
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#ICE out protest in Minneapolis, MN today, by US Bank Stadium. Unlike the White House photo of an arrested activist, this one is not AI altered.

Current air temp is -9 F.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ql1m1m/oc_ice_out_protest_minneapolis_mn_today/

#minnesota #minneapolis #msp #protest

Patterns of October temperatures in the #Antarctic when averaged by decade...

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis.

The printed copies are here! Looking good ...
Download here:
https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 181

Bumblebees tend to start struggling to fly when the ambient temperature rises above 100°F (38°C).

#bees
#climate
#nature
#environment
#insects
#education
#science
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I’ve spent the better part of two decades dealing with people trying to dox and harass the volunteers who make Wikipedia the incredible resource it is today.

I liked it better when they weren’t in Congress.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/082725-letter-to-Wikimedia.pdf

#Wikipedia #USpol

RESOURCE: offers best practices for responding to politicized gov investigations so that orgs can keep doing lawful, mission-based work.
https://protdem.org/NonprofitInvestigationsToolkit

With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%.

https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened

Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

The Conversation

#Denmark summons #US envoy over claims of interference in #Greenland

Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the top US diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least 3 people with connections to President Donald #Trump have been carrying out #covert #influence operations in Greenland.

#geopolitics #USexpansionism
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-6c9544314792cf1e287e21af06111c1e

Denmark summons US envoy over claims of interference in Greenland

The top U.S. diplomat in Denmark has been summoned by the government after a report that people connected to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. Danish broadcaster DR reported Wednesday that at least three Americans have been involved in these operations. They allegedly compiled lists of U.S.-friendly Greenlanders and tried to influence local politics. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service believes Greenland is a target for influence campaigns. The U.S. State Department says the deputy chief of mission in Copenhagen had productive talks with Danish foreign ministry officials and reaffirmed their strong ties. The department declined to comment “on the actions of private U.S. citizens in Greenland.”

AP News
Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News

Truth Social’s new Perplexity-powered AI search tool is live, and it’s already raising eyebrows.

In testing, nearly all responses cited right-wing sources like Fox News and The Washington Times.

Despite branding itself as a free-speech platform, the search engine appears tightly filtered through conservative media.

Even so, it occasionally pushes back—calling Trump’s tariffs “a net negative” for the U.S. economy.

https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-search-perplexity-conservative-bias
#Truth Social
Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News

Donald Trump’s media company is beta-testing a new AI search feature on Truth Social that’s seemingly biased towards conservative media sources.

The Verge

The Trump administration has not only deleted all previous National #Climate Assessment reports from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next iteration, but now say they're going to go back and rewrite the previous reports, all of which were written by real scientists and independently reviewed.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of accepted history and science.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

CNN