“You have two years to generate a candidate that doesn’t support genocide” “So you’re just gonna let Trump win?”

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is shocking. It isn't just decimation, it's extinction. Medical research in the USA may take decades to recover.

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George, please take another good look at Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It uses "shall," so it's legally binding.

"No person shall... hold any office..."

As I read it, Trump ended his term when he pardoned the J6 insurrectionists. It sounds crazy, but we don't have a president ATM.

Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation

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It sounds like this buyout is backfiring to some degree. Check out this Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Senior Republican Warns House Trump Expects Total Loyalty—or Else House Majority Whip Tom Emmer had a grim warning for his colleagues.

So much for congressional independence. What spineless cowards. Why are they paid?

“Do you really want the president going to your district and telling your voters that you are the one that is preventing him from doing what he was elected to do? I don’t think so"

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Trump reportedly will offer buyouts to all 2 million federal workers The White House’s plan to offer “deferred resignations” that pay departing federal employees their salary through Sept. 30 will likely run afoul of rules governing buyout payments.

This has been tried before, during the Reagan years. Only the good ones with bright futures on the outside and folks about to retire took the offer. It was like getting an organizational lobotomy. The department limped along for years after that.

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This is insane.

It's like one of those drive-in B movies where people's brains have been taken over by worms from outer space.

The Democrats need to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time. This business-as-usual single-thread approach is just weak.

At a minimum they need robust independent war rooms on economics, constitutionality, and humanity. And "starting wars" war rooms? Civil and global?

He was lying when he took the presidential oath of office; it has clauses that restate section 3 of the 14th.

And within 24 hours of swearing the oath again he gave aid and comfort to insurrectionists. The 14th says "shall not... hold office..."

Is he actually the president? Serious question.

Trump very publicly just "gave aid and comfort" to an insurrectionist, right after very publicly taking the oath.
According to S3 of the 14th he cannot hold office.

So he is no longer the President, and only congress can lift this. Either congress votes to lift it or Vance assumes the office, no?

This week we watched as Trump took the oath of office and within 24 hours "gave aid and comfort" to convicted insurrectionists. As I read the 14th amendment, he very publicly just disqualified himself from holding office. When are the House and Senate going to vote to lift this disqualification?

Trump just speed ran an article 14, sec 3 disqualification. He publicly swore to uphold the constitution, then a few hours later publicly "gave aid and comfort" to convicted insurrectionists by commuting their sentences.

Is he still President?

I'm serious. Any legal minds want to weigh in?

I don't think this is what the MAGAs were sold. In their minds all asylum seekers are criminals and "illegals," but she's just a regular person trying to follow the law.

Is anyone else getting the sense that we are watching Trump do a flying face-plant on day one?

Most of the stuff I'm hearing is not achievable. A the end of 100 days, what will he actually have? A broken government, his signature initiatives stalled by lawsuits, and what else?

This is a screenshot of an app I wrote over Christmas. I am working on. Chris's room has a clock with circle-of-fifths labels on the face, but it's in Chris's room. I wanted one on my phone. If there is interest I will publish it in the iPhone App store. This is the Major/flat look.

Matt has a bird feeder on his window. The other night it was visited by a flying squirrel. We've been here for almost 15 years and never seen one. This was so cool!

The dude was very chill. His fur was not really hairy; it was smoother, like velvet. And yes, that's snow on the ground.

A three-part graphic showing observations of Wolf-Rayet 140, two massive stars with 17 dust shells around them. An inset appears at right, showing a portion of the two observations matched up to show that the arced dust has moved.

WR 140 has been observed before by JWST on July 2022 (pic a).
The craziest thing is, by comparing it to the updated image (pic b), you can actually see the dust rings getting farther away from the star, at almost 1% the speed of light.
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Trump Gets Insane Show of Support From Washington Post Editorial Board The newspaper’s editorial board has fully caved to Donald Trump.

The bright light that used to be The Washington Post is gone. Democracy is fighting for it's life in darkness.

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Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN Business Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.

Interesting. Something to watch.

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It feels like it has reached critical mass and a self-sustaining reaction has started.