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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

And one way to reduce such exposure ..... #CRBox w/ Clean Air Delivery rates greater than nearly all commercial HEPA air cleaners (both at high flow) for wildfire particles @ 1/3rd to 1/7th the initial cost and generally lower filter replacement cost. IT;s not rocket science, folks, and it works!

A do-it-yourself air cleaner showing two sides of a box made up of HVAC filters, duct-taped with blue and gold tape and including a UC Davis bumper sticker.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/05/2025

After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

An excerpt of Deloitte’s marketing contract shows its $300,000 per month expenditure on reports on its own performance, $250,000 per month for community outreach, $478,000 Final Marketing and Outreach Campaign Report, and $10.7 million total budget.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 30/03/2025

“The study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus. The problem is not rooted within the device itself, but in the habits and routines that we have developed with our devices.”

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Why Simply Putting Away Your Phone Won’t Help You Focus - Neuroscience News

A new study reveals that placing your smartphone out of reach doesn’t significantly reduce distraction or boost productivity.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t... Here is Merriam Webster's definition of tuition

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12/03/2025

Thoughts on using LLMs for coding, which can often be difficult and unintuitive, and why "vibe coding" is a fantastic way to explore the capabilities of LLMs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Not that it matters, but what Trump did with Musk and Tesla today is a clear violation of Title 5, Section 2635.702, of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: Use of public office for private gain.

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TerraWatts2010 @terrawatts2010.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The US installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. That’s enough to power 8.5 million households. 🔌💡 electrek.co/2025/03/10/s...

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Solar adds more new capacity to the US grid in 2024 than any energy source in 20 years

The US installed 50 GW of new solar capacity in 2024, the most new capacity added in a single year of any energy technology in over two decades.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12/03/2025

Google unveils Gemma 3, the "world's best single-accelerator model", running on a single GPU, in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and says it outperforms Llama-405B (Abner Li/9to5Google) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

an under-appreciated reason to not rank Andrew Cuomo is that he teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down New York’s largest nuclear power plant, causing energy costs and carbon emissions to skyrocket

The GHG impact of shutting down Indian Point
CO, emissions, pounds per MWh 550-900

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...

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Tariff trouble? Nebraska companies, farmers trapped in middle of brewing trade war

The recent Trump administration tariffs imposed on that country means that the animal feed company will now pay more for a feed additive for pigs and chickens, a product that can lead to healthier ani...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today someone on Instagram yelled at me for hammerhead shark research, saying I was violating state regulations. I wrote those regulations as part of my PhD. Time is a flat circle.

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ALT: the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

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Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program

NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

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Jinothy @jinah.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What kendrick did to drake, I need bill burr to do to ben shapiro comedically and professionally

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'

Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

Map of the United States displaying hydrogen ion wet deposition levels from measurements taken in 1985 by the Central Analytical Laboratory. The map uses a color gradient from green (low deposition) to red (high deposition) to show varying levels of H+ deposition (kg/ha). The highest deposition levels are concentrated in the northeastern U.S., while the western U.S. has the lowest levels. Black dots indicate measurement locations. The map is sourced from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network

Map showing hydrogen ion wet deposition measurements across the United States and parts of Canada, indicating values in kg/ha for 2022. The color gradient represents different concentration levels, with a scale on the right. Sites not pictured are listed at the bottom. The map is mostly green, indicating that H+ deposition is no longer a environment issue that it once was.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Bravo! In this article the authors reveal how easy it is to buff up your Google Scholar citations and H-index without *any* real science. Such meta-research is very much needed. 🧪 #MedSky #ImmunoSky

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

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God @thegodshow.com · 20/01/2025

Hi, I’m God. I had nothing to do with saving that guy’s life or making him president.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/12/2024

Trump in October: “This will rapidly drive prices down [...] It'll also bring your grocery bill way down.” Trump now: "It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."

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