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NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16.
The affected groups have historically offered feedback to the space agency on science efforts
-- ranging from the exploration of Mars and ocean worlds to the storage of extraterrestrial samples, and more.
The decision has taken many in the scientific community by surprise, says Jack Kiraly,
director of governme…

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

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Last week's #makershour had questions related to media we're watching. I just finished "My Dress Up Darling" (#kisekoi) - which relates directly to what used to be my primary forms of making.
This season focused a lot an the groups/community that form around the hobby. And really …

"[Both Trump and Rubio have] portrayed Maduro as a cartel leader, in charge of groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Those assertions, however, have been contradicted by the US intelligence community, which found no evidence that Maduro controls the gang."
Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing | Politics News | Al Jazeera

Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio reiterates hard line against Venezuela’s Maduro, says Ukraine conflict is ‘not our war’.

Anyone who supports or sympathizes with anarcho-syndicalist ideas is welcome to join and help build a friendly, inclusive space for memes and or even meaningful real discussions.
My new Steam group:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Anarcho-syndicalist

Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an #economic #blackout in Minnesota-on Friday
to protest the surge of federal immigration agents in the state
and mourn Renee Good.
Organizers are urging Minnesotans not to work, shop or go to school.
The Trump administration has d…

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

This crew I'm printing with
(shout out @mostlybree.kitrocha.com @lefttheprairie.bsky.social and @bibliogrrl.bsky.social )
are the real deal.
Whistles free for groups all over the country.
You can ask for whistles or help supply printers with filament here:
https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 1000) & where to send them.

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

yeah, so it becomes a test for privilege or fear
privileged kids who have never been food-insecure, whose teachers & coaches & caretakers have always given a shit -- they pass the marshmallow test
or kids who have been draconically punished for disobedience -- they also pass, for very different reasons
but both groups are willing to wait for the additional marshmallows later
the _truly_ scrappy (gritty?) kids might grab the marshmallow and then lobby for the l…

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

"We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate": Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days (In These Times)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p167#a260113p167

Local community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.

Congrats! The @… team hit their initial “maintenance” goal. The next unlock is working on federated groups.
Help fund their campaign!
https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/11566

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

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The U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco
According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base,
the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.
Community groups and at least one San Francisco supervisor called the 11-month…

Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard Site | KQED
San Francisco officials and advocates are demanding answers after the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material found last November.

#New_Public is testing their nonprofit alternative to #NextDoor / Local #Facebook Groups. This could be very good! <…

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It’s not enough to just express our outrage about ICE’s horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good.
We must also demand that our elected officials act.
Join a local event this weekend to say
👉ICE Out For Good:
https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132

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As Donald Trump and his administration have rolled back rights, cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and ignored or failed to comply with court orders,
new demographics are being activated to join a broader coalition of people fighting for education, racial justice, gun control, science, the environment, immigration and the LGBTQ community.
From local grassroots efforts to nationwide groups, today’s organizers are breaking down barriers and creati…