I urge you to oppose all ICE expansion funding in FY2026 and reject further investment in a system that continues to endanger all our lives, and the constitutional fabric that holds our country together.
Congress must act now to stop further harm, rein in rogue-enforcement agencies, and protect families.
This funding fuels fears, family separation, and deadly outcomes rather than safety accountability.
Instead, it has emboldened abusive enforcement practices that harm all immigrants, both undocumented and those with legal status, as well as U.S. citizens, including former combat veterans and citizens of Indigenous nations, on whose land the United States sits.
What we are seeing across the country -- including the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti -- is unacceptable and dangerous. DHS has already received unprecedented levels of funding, yet that money has not made our communities safer.
And here's a text copy, so you can just copy and paste:
As one of your voters, I urge you to oppose any additional funding for ICE detention camps, detention expansion, or increased enforcement in the FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations bill.
A sample script that you can use to contact your senators to demand refusing to fund ICE: As one of your voters, I urge you to oppose any additional funding for ICE detention camps, detention expansion, or increased enforcement in the FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations bill. What we are seeing across the country -- including the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti -- is unacceptable and dangerous. DHS has already received unprecedented levels of funding, yet that money has not made our communities safer. Instead, it has emboldened abusive enforcement practices that harm all immigrants, both undocumented and those with legal status, as well as U.S. citizens, including former combat veterans and citizens of Indigenous nations, on whose land the United States sits. This funding fuels fears, family separation, and deadly outcomes rather than safety accountability. Congress must act now to stop further harm, rein in rogue-enforcement agencies, and protect families. I urge you to oppose all ICE expansion funding in FY2026 and reject further investment in a system that continues to endanger all our lives, and the constitutional fabric that holds our country together.
The country is a trash fire, but doing something about it helps us feel a little less exhausted and powerless. The Senate is considering a funding bill for ICE. Tell them "No" so loud they can't ignore it!
Here's a link to contacting any current senators:
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
He's just a perfect little example of his species!
Protesting this weekend? Sign up for @aclu.org Know Your Rights training tomorrow, June 10, at 5 p.m. MT! The training will take place on Zoom, so be sure to RSVP ahead of time:
act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
An icon of a haloed man in robes is painted reading from an open book. The book is held in both hands, but the fingers of the right hand are also holding a single-edged dagger, point up.
This is really interesting. It certainly sounds like a defensive stress response.
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Stunning #gorgonian forests thrive in the coastal waters of Lesvos! Our ROV surveys, conducted as part of @nemo-tools.bsky.social , continue to unveil these underwater marvels. #MarineEcology #MarineConservation 🧪
To my student who just left our botany lab vowing to keep your new plant daughters safe:
I am proud of you, protective plant papa!
**squee!!** It's Darwin's birthday today and one of my students just gifted me a copy of "The Origin of Species" to celebrate!
They have scripts. They have an esy-to-index list of them. You have a free couple minutes? Make it count.
As a commenter has said, most excellently,
"Semper phylum!"
I love this.
Tagged for @orodentia.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com
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Not quite invisivle, but transparent solar panels that could be installed in place of conventional windows!
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Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!
Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
Reminder that part of this project is going to rest on trying to convince you that you did not see what you saw, you didn’t hear what you heard, it didn’t mean what you thought it meant, it didn’t even happen
They’ve already been doing that, for years, and they’ve had a lot of help
These are *embroidered* sculptures of fungi. They're incredibly lifelike!
Bison calf snuggling his mom. Sage in the background.
Despite todays outrageous injustice, we're still going to be fighting for the climate, wildlife, our national parks and public lands, social justice, democracy and above all, future generations.
If you need a break
Take it
But never give up
Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
