JUST IN: Judge Micah Smith blocks Trump admin attempt to allow fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, first created by President George W. Bush in 2009. Smith, a Biden appointee, says notice and comment was required
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“The world is at a tipping point for sharks and rays.”
Several proposals seeking greater protection of more than 70 shark and ray species from commercial trade were raised this week for deliberation at the 20th meeting of CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade, to be held in November.
"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/y3RevJzO
Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say
My sign from last weekend
A fish with its mouth open, showing teeth, is being held by a hand. A headline reads: “This Creepy Fish is Invading U.S. Waters. If You See It, Kill It, Officials Say.” Photo credit: Ryan Hagerty/USFWS.
The invasive northern snakehead — a sharp-toothed fish that looks like a horrifying hybrid of fish and snake — is spreading throughout the waters of the U.S. and must be eradicated, officials say. But if you fish, you can help. Here's how. nyti.ms/4i7Js43
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Same 💛
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
“The Trump administration’s ignorance is trumped only by its malice toward the planet … Come hell and high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.”
— @jasonrylander.bsky.social
#ClimateEmergency
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That is cool!
Oh sweet, crow shark??
Looks like Maryland!
I do!!
Oh!! Is it the hammerhead?? I love that sculpture. But yes, renovations are starting soon....I'm supposed to be there tonight, want me to ask around and see if we can find a place?
Yup! I'm pretty sure we can store it for you at the Natural History Society of Maryland on Belair Rd. @kassthefish.bsky.social Let me know and I'll connect you.
Dachshunds are the best!
"What Musk presents is the definitive fantasy of escape: from decency, care, love and the living planet itself. They can leave it all behind, leap off the vile Earth, and ascend into heaven." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Lee Zeldin was in Annapolis on Friday. If you’ve never heard of him, he’s the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Was this the ax man — come to size up some necks?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
Maryland trades more with Mexico than the entire United States trades with Greece.
Here’s a look at the ~$7 billion worth of goods that Maryland annually imports from Canada and Mexico — which now face a 25% tariff. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/tari...
Defunding the world’s leading scientific community is akin to a performing a prefrontal lobotomy on the nation—you are effectively severing the connections between the most innovative ideas and its citizens.
Cutting support for science harms everyone! www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/a-national...
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
Today, we're announcing more actions to help Marylanders impacted by federal workforce layoffs, firings, and changes to federal funding.
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You guys are all some of my favorite pundits but are all missing a huge piece of this. Infertility is debilitating and the cost is traumatic. It is no exaggeration to say you would do anything (or believe anything) to make it happen. Trump cruelly lied about fertility treatment for a reason.
"President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans.
Those resources don’t just appear. They come from nature."
@benjij.bsky.social
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
