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Court Victory for American Libraries, the Institute of Museum and Library Services The Trump administration has withdrawn its appeal of a decision in one of the lawsuits against its dismantling of the IMLS.

The Trump administration has DROPPED its appeal in Rhode Island v. Trump, meaning that the victory for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the case STANDS.

Let's celebrate the win and then work like hell to restore IMLS funding in 2027: bookriot.com/rhode-island...

Astonishing juxtaposition right now between the sublime glories one is rewarded with from collaborative, outward-looking human endeavour, to the tunnel of fear and loathing that an individual human can trap themselves in, which leads to nowhere but a singularity of horror & destruction.

Trump Once Again Zeroes Out IMLS Budget for 2027. It's Time to Take Action. For the sixth time, the Trump-Vance administration aims to dismantle and defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Trump Once Again Zeroes Out IMLS Budget for 2027. It’s Time to Take Action.

For the sixth time, the Trump-Vance administration aims to dismantle and defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

What to know & what to do right now: bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...

Artemis 2 astronaut delivers amazing Easter message on way to moon YouTube video by VideoFromSpace

Instead of the deranged post everyone is sharing, please notice this thoughtful Easter message from NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of Artemis II, flying toward the Moon today.
“Whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not…”
🌎 🌕

youtu.be/WdgsAtjrxq4

The most wholesome and lovely timeline cleanse!

We don’t support the troops by taking health care from their families. And we don’t support them by mindlessly giving ever more money to ever fewer defense contractors without thinking about what war means and how it is fought in the 2020s. (4/4)

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

AI trained on turtle poop predicts hurricanes better than any model » Yale Climate Connections The new Google DeepDoodoo seasonal hurricane forecast model reads aquatic feces tea leaves, outperforms the best.

Experts have poo-pooed the idea, but the new Google Deepdoodoo seasonal hurricane forecast model, trained on poop data from sea turtles, outperforms the traditional models from CSU, NOAA, and TSR. I have the details:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/ai-t...

Ooh, this looks fascinating. And like a wonderful book to get lost in. Thank you!

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.

As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

For Pollinators' Sakes, Don’t Spring into Garden Cleanup Too Soon! Early spring garden cleanup can disrupt critical invertebrate habitat and leave pollinators out in the cold. Our guidelines will help you determine when cleaning up won't bug the pollinators in your…

With spring arriving, it's tempting to begin working on our yards and gardens. But hold on! 🐝
Clearing debris & trimming plants too soon can actually harm bees, butterflies, & other important pollinators. We've curated a list of questions to tell when the time is right ⤵️

Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019.

Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate.

Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes.

Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

UF College Republicans’ chapter disbanded The group will be reconstituted at some point.

Former state legislator Anthony Sabatini alleges “viewpoint discrimination.”

Sabatini, an attorney, says he “will be filing a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit under Section 1983 Monday morning against UF seeking an injunction.”

floridapolitics.com/archives/785...

SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it

SpaceX's 1 million AI satellites could cause "massive ozone depletion" and change the night sky forever - but the FCC has no requirement to check before approving them.

Astronomers are now scrambling to submit their concerns.

Story by me in New Scientist

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Here’s how Miami-Dade Schools transformed a secret migrant camp into a makeshift summer school Miami-Dade County Public School employees help transform a squalid secret migrant camp into an outdoor classroom during the summer— all amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

He did great work with the migrant communities in Miami-Dade when schools were closed because of COVID amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Fieldwork is Crucial to Geology. A New Course Ensures All Can Take Part Anita Marshall, University of Florida geologist, spearheads the GEOSpace Project to allow for greater inclusivity and accessibility in fieldwork.

Could be worth reaching out to these folks. Not archaeology but they may know of people doing similar work there news.clas.ufl.edu/geospace-pro...

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Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Such good advice. Making connections and making a difference in your local community -whatever that looks like for you- is so important these days. Always, but especially now

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?"

Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Baby Goose Abandoned by Its Parents Learns to Be a Tall Bird After Finding an 'Unexpected Family' with 3 Cranes A baby Canada goose abandoned as an egg found an 'unexpected family' with a pair of Sandhill cranes, and their colt, in Madison, Wis., in the spring of 2025. Madison-based photographer Alan Ginsberg h...

Anyway the photos are precious, blended bird families are the best, this is surprisingly great scicomm from People magazine, and this is the kind of story I needed today: people.com/crane-family...

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.


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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money.

"If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

"The great John Lewis said, 'Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It is the struggle of a lifetime.' That's our struggle, no matter what, Mr. Speaker, you decide to do today, that's our struggle…”