I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc
DOGE Nazis have illegally fired 600 workers from Bonneville Power Authority, a hugely important federal utility in the Northwest www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
Crazy to me how years ago the “Amazon Key” that let drivers into your house to make deliveries was just “an April Fool’s joke” and now it’s an actual thing
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
Lunar halo. A white circle around the moon on a slightly cloudy night.
Ooo she’s showing off tonight
Remember when a lady got fine $220,000 for torrenting a couple dozen songs?
Facebook torrented 81.7 TBs of books.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
USDA has announced this new bird flu spillover, but it hasn't posted the sequence & metadata. Researchers need that to determine around how long this went unnoticed -- and therefore uncontrolled.
“If the Trump administration and Musk’s operation unilaterally gut NOAA, this would be an illegal overreach of presidential authority that will be swiftly challenged in the courts."
Learn how dismantling NOAA would endanger lives, the US economy, and infrastructure: act.ucsusa.org/42JVDQH
The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.
Workaround options for census data thread
researching whether the tariffs will affect the 4 nations face-off
Around 10 years ago I almost died because a road not built with climate change in mind was so wrecked it damaged the bus I was on. I knew that I would eventually write a story about how climate change is wrecking roads, and endangering lives. This is me trying to explain that. Gift lift.
BREAKING NEWS ALERT EPA fires science advisers 01/28/2025 07:24 PM EST Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency's most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump's administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees. In an obliquely worded email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Payne said a decision had been made to "reset" the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board "to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission." EPA will seek nominations in the coming weeks, Payne added, with all members encouraged to reapply.
BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors.
They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.
Oh dang!
I wonder if the clown motel in Tonopah has that print on the bottom right
Tell me I'm not the only one
How right-wing media and Republican leaders turned a bishop's prayer into a campaign of intimidation www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-...
Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.
i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
Taps sign:
I literally cannot read this in anything but the voice of Immortan Joe.
Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
so much intellectual output is just men talking to men about men and the work of men. i feel sorry for them; they have no conception of their own poverty of perspective
A man dressed in brown and khaki hugging an enormous chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii. Source: Katherine Shaw
I have a suggestion for you. In times of trouble and strife, there is therapeutic benefit in being among trees and in physical contact with them. So if you can, go hug a tree today, the bigger the better. This huge old chinkapin oak is known as The Great God Tree.
Calming sunset background image with darkened mountains and trees or bushes in the foreground. Text across the image says, “have a panic attack. You’ve earned it.”
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
