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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

22 weeks apart.

Two front pages of the Economist. The first is dated October 25, 2024 and says “The Envy of the Workd” and has dollars bill rocketing into the sky in celebration of the US economy.
The second front page is dated this week April 5th. It’s headline is “Ruination Day” and pictures Trump sawing a hole in the group the shape of the US.

Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Senator Booker is 🔥🔥 @booker.senate.gov is still giving the longest speech in Senate history. And still making great points we all need to hear.

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Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The livestream of @booker.senate.gov's speech has more than 220M likes on TikTok

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

@sarajacobs.house.gov uses a discharge petition, with a little help of Republicans, to get around GOP Speaker Mike Johnson to get a vote on parents of young children to use proxy votes in Congress

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Now one of my Senators is helping with questions. Thank you Senator Luján @lujan.senate.gov Keep speaking the truth, Senator Booker @booker.senate.gov

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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There’s a newfound mismatch between matter and antimatter. And that could bring physicists one step closer to understanding how everything in the universe came to be. buff.ly/0p0LrVw

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Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter

Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I don’t do TikTok — but my daughter tells me Senator Booker is all over it. @booker.senate.gov @senatorheinrich.bsky.social @lujan.senate.gov

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Senator Booker is still speaking. @booker.senate.gov Practically useless. Morally awesome. @senatorheinrich.bsky.social @lujan.senate.gov Please support him as you can.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Rainfall outlook for the monsoon season just dropped and I like the way it looks 🤞 #NMwx #AZwx

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

the legal profession is tightly bound by professional societies, many of which are highly regulated. the fact that the establishment cannot overcome the prisoner's dilemma to uphold rule of law is grim. rule of law is the basis of their jobs! without it, the job turns into glorified bribe broker!

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The “dumbest trade war” news is getting lost amongst the chaos of our national defense. A bit long but worthwhile speech about Congress needing to reassert leadership on trade.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Everything THIS Pete says is true in my personal experience.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“For Pete’s sake” just took on another, more stupid and incompetent, meaning for me. And yes, they should all be fired or resign. They should be prosecuted as well, but that ain’t gonna happen with the present Attorney General working for her wanna-be king.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is so funny, and true, and terrible. Back in the day I would have been fired and thrown in jail using a cell phone, “encrypted” or not, for classified discussion. Treason — or at least a high crime.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Nice article in Physics Today- "Researchers share computational tricks at unique Los Alamos conference". Chris Fryer and Aimee Hungerford ran a cross-disciplinary workshop at LANL last year. Anybody doing multiscale modeling in any field should read. 🧪 digital.physicstoday.org/physicstoday...

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Physics Today - Researchers share computational tricks at unique Los Alamos conference

Scientists encompassing multiple disciplines and security clearance levels spent more than a month discussing how to efficiently capture both small- and large-scale phenomena in calculations.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Good article to consider. It has been estimated that every taxpayer dollar spent on science eventually grows the economy (and our well-being) 40 to 50 times more. Whether you understand the basic research or not.

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Dave Lengyel @davelengyel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Happy Saturn Ring Plane Crossing Day! The rings of Saturn are only 5 to 30 meters thick, but around 280,000 kilometers wide, and every 13-15 years we see them edge-on from Earth. Here are three charts from Sky Safari showing the ring system in 2025, 2024, and 2026.🧪

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Adam McMaster @adammc.space · 23/03/2025

ALMA has found oxygen in the youngest known galaxy! That suggests, a mere 300 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest generation of stars had already lived and died, making and releasing new elements in the process 🧪🔭 www.space.com/the-universe...

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Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen: 'It is like finding an adolescent where you would only expect babies'

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution."

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Very useful graphic from Bloomberg illustrating the four companies dominating the advanced computing world.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Good short thread about DESI results — and the end of the universe.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"The administration has weaponized the fight against antisemitism as a means to another end: punishing and weakening universities." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 14/03/2025

We’re in Congress to stand up for New Mexicans, and that’s why we voted “no” on the Continuing Resolution. When you confront a bully, you have to confront a bully, and we’ll keep doing that as long as Trump and Musk try to force their personal vendettas on our communities.

Republicans’ yearlong Continuing Resolution doubles down on the chaos and uncertainty Trump and Musk have created, giving them even more tools to harm New Mexicans. We will not stand by and support Republicans’ unprecedented power grab masquerading as a spending bill.
As New Mexico’s senators, we want to see the federal government funded and functional, serving the families of our state. That’s why we have been fighting every day to force this administration to put the chainsaw down when it comes to the healthcare, education, and VA benefits our communities depend on.
Instead, Republicans are giving Trump and Musk the tools to force their petty, personal vendettas on our communities – disregarding the needs of New Mexico families. That’s revenge politics and it is not how government should function.
We are in Congress to stand up for New Mexicans. And that’s what we are doing now. For the people of New Mexico, we voted ‘no’ on Republicans’ Continuing Resolution.

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Senator Ben Ray Luján @lujan.senate.gov · 14/03/2025

My statement on voting against the Republican Continuing Resolution:

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hp28.bsky.social @hp28.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

THEY'RE ALREADY SHUTTING IT DOWN AND PASSING THIS ALLOWS THEM TO DO IT FASTER SHORT TERM SHUTDOWN OR LONG TERM SHUTDOWN YOU DECIDE WHICH IS MORE DAMAGING

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I love these math stories, even though I could not explain them to someone else.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I didn't know I had 10 laws, but these are great so I'll claim them:

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Breaking: Trump to impose 50% tariffs on all EU goods for 90 minutes

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Oh, this is a fun approach against the illegal actions of the King’s minions. Follows upon the strong statement by the American Bar Association. Dis-bar Trump lawyers acting illegally and unethically!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

JUST IN: Judge Contreras has granted a permanent injunction restoring Cathy Harris to the Merit Systems Protection Board, despite President Trump's attempt to fire her. This may rocket to SCOTUS alongside the Dellinger case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Memorandum & Opinion – #40 in HARRIS v. BESSENT (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00412) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION granting [22] Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and granting declaratory and injunctive relief. See document for details. Signed by Judge Rudolph Contreras on 3/4/2025. (lcrc3...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You don't often see a complaint with an epigraph, let alone an epigraph with an epithet. (This is AP's amended complaint over its exclusion from the WH press pool, filed late last night. It's excellent.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Not to like toot my own horn but *every time* I bring up tariffs on the radio I define them: "tariffs are taxes American businesses pay to import goods from abroad." Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

How (and maybe more importantly, why) has the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy changed since the image of its shadow went viral in 2017? We're so glad you asked. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/black-hole...

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Black hole's shadow changes from one year to the next – Physics World

New analyses advance understanding of complex dynamic processes governing black holes

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 04/03/2025

Tonight Trump will address a coequal branch of government for which he has shown total contempt. Meanwhile my constituents are seeing their livelihoods destroyed by illegal actions. What he is doing is not normal, it is not acceptable, and I won't be attending. www.youtube.com/shorts/MlTIB...

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Rep. Don Beyer Announces He Will Not Attend Trump's Address To Congress

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Wittes emphasized that [Trump and Neville Chamberlin] cannot be compared, as Chamberlain acted in good faith and was motivated by peace, while Trump acted with malevolence and has no intent of pursuing peace." @benjaminwittes.bsky.social lawfareblog.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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The Situation: How Does Trump Stack Up Against Neville Chamberlain?

I asked Winston Churchill.

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Cris W. Barnes @criswbarnes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

That was definitely clips from a new season of The Bear! When?!?

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"We want us to stay out of prison. Give us some way to do that," one inmate at the NM Penitentiary told me. I took a deep dive into what workforce reentry programs mean for the people who go through them to contextualize some bills at the #nmleg. www.abqjournal.com/business/art...

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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Blue Ghost is on the moon. The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:

Firefly Blue Ghost photo from the moon's surface.

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