snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034

chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out

It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

This campaign against #science is a major unforced error! Turns out, real estate hustlers are only incidental to the 'greatness' of a nation. Possibly detrimental?!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Opinion | How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump

This is SCARY, on so many levels.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Feel like taking in some award-winning science in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Do I have a program for you.

Harvard Medical School, are you OK with this outcome? Who will speak up for her?

Music group that pulled off ‘the craziest thing possible’ still at it 30 years later Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, a jazz big band featuring a handful of the Pacific Northwest’s ample improvisatory talent, honors its legacy with a set of founders concerts April 12-13.

The #SRJO has had an amazing run. Congrats to Michael Brockman and the band. 🎷🎷🎷
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

The American people owe NYAG #DanielleSassoon and her colleagues!

A plot of maternal death rate vs country - US is highest.

The maternal death rate in the US is ‘off the charts’ high?! Source: Chartbook by Adam Tooze

I don't know; I think this is meant to teach you that the truth is socially constructed. 🙃

Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Inorganic Chemist: Copper(III) phosphide (CuP) is not expected to be a stable compound.
#chemsky

A word cloud generated by scholargoggler.com

~45 years, compressed into a word salad. Does this count as generative AI?
Anyway, pleased to meet you all, #chemsky

Hmm... I like the "bottle of red wine from France"

Police Report Offers Graphic Details of Sexual Assault Claim Against Hegseth President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.

Sexual assaulters all the way down. Will the Senate decide that that is where we are now? #USPOL

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...

Do tell … between you and me 😆… and 20 M bluesky users.

May I join? @khtheopold.bsky.social

Why Did Ben Sasse Resign as President of the University of Florida? Florida’s star president, Ben Sasse, was among the best paid university presidents ever. He promised a conservative overhaul, but then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the ...

Nothing wrong with aiming for excellence, nor with spending $$$ on its pursuit. Alas, you’ve got to have the right criteria and measures. U.S. News rankings won’t do. #AcademicSky
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

There's material for another movie!

The nomination of Matt Gaetz for #AttorneyGeneral of the United States is a sick joke and provocation by an unfit 'President-elect'. Is it irony that allegations of sex trafficking, sexual misconduct and drug use were apparently encouraging the 'nominee' to resign from the House ASAP?

The Aurora borealis, as seen from Fairbanks, Alaska in Oct 2024.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends …

A recent check off the bucket list - the #AuroraBorealis

HI! I just got here, but I've been a chemist for a while.
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Glad you liked it. I thought I would lead off with an 'old German tool of science'.

An antique microscope.

This is where all the right-thinking cool kids hang out? I want in.