"The administration’s actions have shaken the decades-old assumption that the US is a solid, well-funded and intellectually open environment for research. "

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science - https://on.ft.com/44Dyq3r via @FT

If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record

In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined the British in exchange for a single promise: freedom. They formed the Ethiopian Regiment—the first Black fighting force of the American Revolution. This is the story of how they marched under a banner that read Liberty to Slaves, and what became of them in a single, searing year.

Caption: Troiani, Don. Brave Men as Ever Fought. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.
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#histodons #history #education

This is not the amount of money you request if you are trying to close the US border.

This is the amount you request if you’re creating an authoritarian army to terrorize the domestic population.

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/114347768609506770

I've been pretty clear about my belief that electoral politics in a wholly captured free market fundamentalist oligarchy isn't going to help us stop fascism; which is why I have been devoting a lot less attention these days to election discussions. If I were to articulate an important goal for me in the field of electoral politics however it would be to ensure, by any reasonable methods whatsoever, that Gavin Newsom does not win the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination; because he's absolutely a type of fascist himself, and also a complete fucking dipshit who would struggle to win an election against even heinously unpopular nazis like Stephen Miller or the Trump sons.

Look, personally I think Newsom's eliminationist policies towards unhoused people in California, and his willingness to chum around with nazi Trump regime propagandists on his podcast, while agreeing they make some good points about things like trans rights, should be enough to disqualify him from political life immediately; let alone a 2028 Dem nomination run. Very Serious PeopleTM however have played these morally inexcusable activities off as savvy "realpolitik" decisions that make him an ideal candidate to stop Trumpism at the ballot box; despite the fact that no reasonable person should consider "getting elected" on a Republican platform to be any sort of "win" for people who aren't Republicans and nazis.

Personally, I have always thought that Newsom's "political instincts" are actually garbage and pretending he's a brain genius smooth political operator is basically wish-casting for bougie liberal strategists who wish Reaganism were more popular and Bill Clinton was still president. As if to prove that point, Newsom recently argued that Trump literally kidnapping and trafficking an innocent man to a slave labor prison in El Salvador was the "distraction of the day" and an "80/20" issue for Republicans; as if the installation of a fascist dictatorship and the obliteration of our constitutional rights were a debate about paper straws or which airport should be named after the Klepto Kaiser.

As this short video analysis by Francesca Fiorentini from The Bitchuation Room points out, not only is this argument callous and reactionary in nature, but all available evidence strongly suggests it's just terrible fucking politics too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6I-SLWzGMU

Folks, I honestly couldn't give a rat's ass who wins the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination; I'm here to fight nazis. But for those of you who still believe stopping fascism has anything to do with electing Democrats who enable fascism, the fact that "important" people in the mainstream discourse are touting Newsom as a leading candidate for the next US presidential election should fucking alarm you. The Democratic Party just lost an election to a reality TV show nazi by appeasing fascists and running as sensible Reaganite Republicans; Gavin Newsom isn't the solution, he's the fucking problem - and if you run that stiff for President, the Democratic Party *will* fucking lose, again.

#USPol #2028DemPrimary #BitchuationRoom #DemocraticParty #FrancescaFiorentini #Fascism #Trump #AbregoGarcia