🌍🌎🌏 👋 “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish
Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived
#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe
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"Terminated #NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
(#paywalled)
PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted
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Edit: Added additional alt text to describe the fediverse symbol 🩷
#WhatPrideFlagIsThat #SoAreYouGayOrSomething #sarahmhops #meme #memes #fediverse
Per the article☝️, the population of American birds has declined by 30% since the 1970s. To help, you must support the bugs that the birds need to reproduce. But only 14% of #NativePlants generate 90% of the yummy caterpillars that drive food webs!
So are you planting these?
At the link provided, you can pull up a list of what *you* need to plant in your ecoregion. Scroll down and click on your list.
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#Gardening #Environment #Birds #Biodiversity #Science
https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/keystone-plants-by-ecoregion
Monarch feeding on Butterfly Weed in my garden.
I'll need to check to see if there are any eggs or larva. Their caterpillars feed on the leaves.
#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #Lepidoptera #Nature #Butterfly #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #HabitatGardening
NYC, 1919: Perched on a towering pile of donated books, a librarian calls from a megaphone to request more book donations for American troops stationed in France. The American Library Association’s campaign sent up to 55,000 books each month to military camp libraries.
via Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40926/
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