"E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html
"The Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA] said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Treasury Building from JP Morgan’s Office, 1935. Photo by Berenice Abbott, born this day in 1894.
Here Ventura County Star, fixed your headline:
357 Non-Criminals Disappeared in ICE Raid
Strong work by Michael Baker / AP
#immigration #militarization #civilrights
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/california-farm-immigration-raid-photos-40c72c9661bddc6e61dac65a10280596
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke into the air to disperse the crowd.
Public service announcement.
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In a world full of Kristis and Pams, be a Silvana or a María Paula.
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:quu4h7b5nl6ktn4cqq65b3ja/post/3ltdw3ychcs2m
🧵 Two 19-year-old Mexican counselors, Silvana Garza Valdez and María Paula Zárate, are the reason nearly 20 young girls at Camp Mystic survived the deadly Texas floods. As water surged before dawn, they led the girls—some as young as 7—to safety through windows and into raging floodwaters.
There are people cheering. That’s our real problem: Long after he scarfs his last Big Mac, the bigotry, cruelty, and willful ignorance of Trumpism will still be with us, and will be much harder to eradicate.
#healthcare #medicaid #democracy #authoritarianism #incomeinequality
Happy 99th birthday Mel Brooks, singing a song for our times.
Microsoft is replacing the venerable blue screen of death with a cut to black.
Will computers also play Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”?
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