“Here Comes the Sun” Book Talk with Bill McKibben - The Sanctuary For Independent Media Acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben will be at the Sanctuary to share his hope for our future in Here Comes the Sun, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, a...

This talk at @mediasanctuary.bsky.social by @billmckibben.bsky.social was so good, you should watch it!
www.mediasanctuary.org/event/bill-m...

What has been most effective protest techniques are in essence, low technology mechanisms. Don’t bring your cellphone. Wear masks or other items to obscure your face. Why was the ICE agent approaching Renee Good; to capture her face for a national technology database of protesters.

We're trying to get to 50% of our goal for Black Zine Fair by tomorrow at midnight. Donations are tax deductible. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

All Democrats have to do to win is literally nothing.

Yet Chuck Schumer is actively trying to lose.

I can’t with this guy.

I can’t believe I ever voted for him.

Culturally attuned #scicomm at its best. 🧪

if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by @ellieirons.bsky.social & @phiffer.org

EPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administration The staff were put on administrative leave after signing a “declaration of dissent.”

Considerable coverage of the retaliation against the EPA staffers who signed the Declaration of Dissent yesterday.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.

ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.

Trump deployment of National Guard, Marines to LA will cost $134 million: Pentagon official Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the necessity of deploying the troops to Los Angeles, which he said would last 60 days.

$134 million that could provide healthcare, food, and housing

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/t...

“Remember that the LRAD beams sound in a narrow pattern, so move off to one side to get out of the main pattern”

The Coalition to Stop Avelo

Solidarity with the protesters who took part in the today’s actions against Avelo!

Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org.

#PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne

Season 2, Episode 5 of "The Fascism Barometer" podcast by Ejerie Labs, scheduled for May 26, 2025. The episode is titled “Safety Through Solidarity: How Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Struggles are Connected with Shane Burley." The image features Shane, journalist and author of 4 books on social movements. Smiling beside him is Ejeris Dixon, the host, a Black person in a blue shirt with an afro and glasses.

Resources for Season 2, Episode 5. Find more at fascismbarometer.org.

More resources for Season 2, Episode 5. Find more at fascismbarometer.org.

Podcasts and actions for Season 2, Episode 5. Find more at fascismbarometer.org.

Shane Burley explains that when the administration undermines our power in the courts and Congress, we have only one option left, each other. Find out on Ep 5 (S2) – Safety Through Solidarity: How Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Struggles are Connected. Listen at fascismbarometer.org. #antiwar

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.

Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE Sackets Harbor demanded that Tom Homan return three children and their mother. Why did he cave?

Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.

Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Deportations and the Rule of Law “This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.”

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week. "To keep as many of us alive and free as possible, we are going to have to recognize the nature of the fight we’re waging, and we are going to have to refuse characterizations that deem some of us disposable."

The science coup within the Us Government continues.
@altnih4science.bsky.social

What stage capitalism is this?

Spring Herbal Series kicks off @peopleshealthtroy.bsky.social
@mediasanctuary.bsky.social
on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...

Michael Waltz set disappearing message time to 4 weeks. M Michael Waltz VP. building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job. 17m O New Messages JV JD Vance What? 12m O M Michael Waltz Typing too fast. The first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed. 5m O JV JD Vance Excellent 5m O Michael Waltz M 30m O

Excerpt from Guardian story on the airstrikes: “Most of the casualties in the US strikes were women and children, said Anees al-Asbahi, the spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, on Sunday. The Houthis' political bureau described the attacks as a "war crime". "Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to respond to escalation with escalation," it said in a statement. People in Sana'a said the strikes hit a building in a Houthi stronghold. A man who gave his name as Abdullah Yahia told Reuters: "The explosions were violent and shook the neighbourhood like an earthquake. They terrified our women and children."”

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”

COVID Advocacy NY - Stop Mask Ban NY Action Toolkit

If you live in New York, please call the governor and your state lawmakers and tell them to oppose any anti-masking laws. This toolkit from @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social has the numbers and info you need.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms Agents are deployed in the Oregon city amid anti-police protests. Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR the tactic is being used to move detainees to a "safe location for questioning."

I want to point out, they were doing this kind of thing in 2020.

US could see return of acid rain if pollution rules are quashed, says scientist who first discovered it Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’

I guess I can ask my mom if she saved that “acid rain pollution” poster I made for a school science project in fucking 1987 and post it on the wall again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post office graphic

The post office is under attack! Visit the website of the national postal workers union to find a rally near you- nalc.org. graphic by Justseeds artist Josh MacPhee!

Terminated grants

Various folks (including yours truly) have been trying to figure out how to track terminated grants.

I recently discovered that HHS is bragging about them, posting them at taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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Must-Reads and Thoughts on Fighting for Our Libraries Everything we cherish must be fought for in these times.

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on defending public libraries.