Foreign billionaire mines on National Forest? Follow the corruption in the Republican budget.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/06/03/chilean-billionaire-mines-on-national-forest-republican-budget/
#Nationalparks

#HarveyMilk came from a family that had a history of #NavalService & he was commissioned as an officer in 1951…. Milk then served as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the #KoreanWar. He was honorably discharged from the service as a lieutenant junior grade in 1955.

#Pride #LGBTQ #discrimination #bigotry #ignorance #hate #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #military #Navy

Sigh.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sgti3jsgu3luif24tokvth3a/post/3lqqb3mv2rs2h

I am getting pretty much daily texts now with stories of postdocs losing their funding (unexpectedly) or at risk in the immediate future. Not sure these stories are getting through, or what the larger implications will be. This will get worse as old grants no longer can provide temporary support.

@georebekah on Hegseth renaming USS Harvey Milk:

Harvey Milk signed up to serve a country that deprived him of his liberty. He served admirably in the Korean War on the USS Kittiwake, a submarine rescue vessel.

A diving officer in the war, then a diving instructor, lieutenant, he saved lives.

For his service, our country threatened to court martial him for being gay, so he resigned. Later assassinated by a homophobe who said too many twinkies made him do it.

To spit on his grave this way...

Meanwhile, on the asshole front

(Hegseth, obviously, not Milk)

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html

May 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was statistically tied for the 7th lowest on record...

This was 730,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. May ice extent is decreasing at about 2.31% per decade. Data: NSIDC (https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index)

Exploring the GOP’s strategy to keep wages low and the poor desperate...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-do-americas-workers-need-welfare-981

"The National Weather Service costs the average American $4 per year in today’s inflated dollars — about the same as a gallon of milk — and offers an 8,000 percent annual return on investment, according to 2024 estimates. It’s a farce for the administration to pretend that gutting an agency that protects our coastlines from a rising tide of disasters is in the best interests of our economy or national security. If the private sector could have done it better and cheaper, it would have, and it hasn’t."

#meteorology

A Hurricane Season Like No Other https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/hurricanes-florida-forecasting-national-weather-service.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.EH3N.ei1sRzEmCrw3&smid=nytcore-android-share

Probably what DOGE was up to all along…. :(
#resist
#8647
#notmypresident
#resistfascism

@rdfrkian

Nice!

@wimi

Thank you.

Transgender people disproportionately targeted in anti-LGBTQ+ incidents: new report

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/anti-lgbtq-incidents-glaad-data-transgender

When Brad and I first got together, we couldn’t have imagined that one day we’d be able to celebrate Pride Month so openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

Warm enough for Dragonfly, Skipper and Skimmer Season. With a wet spring, we have enough water in the marshy areas for them to thrive. The lake is still limited since they have not repaired the berm. This is a Female Common Whitetail resting on a grass stem.

#NaturePhotography #CommonWhitetail #DragonFly #500mm #DarkTable

“Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders' PVV party left the governing coalition on Tuesday, in a move that is set to topple the right wing government and likely lead to new elections.”
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-far-right-leader-wilders-quits-government-coalition-nos-2025-06-03/

@GottaLaff

Ran across this in my files from 21 years ago...

Today's #NonSequitur moment of zen...

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur

WHAT?! No, come ON.

‪
" #FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season.

--Agency head Richardson made comment on second day of hurricane season
--Richardson said no changes to agency's disaster plan this year
--FEMA cuts have raised concern about agency capacity to respond to natural disasters"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/