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Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived
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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/
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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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#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
Note: This is an older analysis, and the death projection for the current bill is likely significantly higher
Public health and policy researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania say that proposed changes to Medicaid and other U.S. health programs
Withholding medical care from someone who needs it is a crime akin to murder.
51,000 deaths is close the number of American deaths during the Vietnam War.
It's 17x larger than the number of Americans who died on 9/11.
This is the Trump GOP dropping a bomb on America.
@luckytran Dept. of Transportation value of a human life, $13.7 million (https://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/transportation-policy/revised-departmental-guidance-on-valuation-of-a-statistical-life-in-economic-analysis).
51000*13.7=698,700 million=$698.7 billion/year
Lives that could be saved with universal healthcare, 68k/year (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8572548/)=$931.6 billion/year (est. % of all earnings paid in taxes, 1/3 [https://self.inc/info/life-of-tax/] -> ~310 billion/year??)
Healthcare 'savings' in the bill average ~$110 billion/year. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-tax-medicaid-cuts-rcna216024)
Conclusion: Cost-wise, universal healthcare is much better.*
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