VAN HOLLEN: If the central bank were to cut rates, that would typically push prices up, right?
WARSH: Unlike many of my colleagues, I don't believe I should be previewing what a future decision might be
VAN HOLLEN: I'm not asking you that. Most economists would agree that would dive up prices
Yes, measles, Covid-19, flu... it does not matter, public health is a shared responsibility - our decisions impact others around us
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Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
The war is on germ theory
Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.
Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for March 2026. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.
Depending on the dataset, temperatures ranked somewhere in the top 5 warmest Marches on record for the #Antarctic. Here's a look at a spatial view of those temperature anomalies using ERA5 data...
Current sea-ice extent there is slightly below the 1981-2020 average: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
This morning, four swans
Taking rest by the lake’s shore.
April migrations.
#haiku
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after a tenure marked by allegations that she had an affair with a security staffer and that her husband sexually assaulted her employees.
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Yes he was absolutely talking about you!
Graphic showing the hourly temperature forecast at Fairbanks, Alaska from 51 different members of the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System plus the median from April 20 to May 2, 2026.
Quite chilly in Fairbanks-land through Wednesday but then something close to normal starting Thursday, which will be a big change. Bad news for those hoping for endless winter. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social
…not your economy but hey, you people need to learn how to make do with the chicken and the broccoli and the one other thing.
A day after the state election board greenlit sharing voter data with DHS, North Carolina election officials said they don’t have evidence that noncitizens on the rolls is a widespread problem.
The board also acknowledged that many of such cases stem from confusion, not intentional wrongdoing.
A group of several canoes from around the region will meet in Petersburg this year to paddle together to Juneau, camping and visiting villages along the way — a tradition known as Journey.
(From KFSK - Petersburg)
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Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
“The largest data center in the world is planned to be built in Ohio, and it’ll cost up to $40,000,000,000 to construct.
The 3,700 acre center will require 10 Gigawatts, 1/3 of Ohio’s entire power grid…
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Dogs come into the world with nothing
Then you come and pick one up
And life is better for everyone
Did you know that the husband of billionaire Connie Snyder owns the LA Clippers?
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Breaking WaPo:
The Trump Justice Department is now demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area — a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.
Or someone of any age.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Graphic produced by Climate Central showing daily global sea surface temperatures in °C for all years since 1982 with the long-term mean and 2026 annotated.
Global ocean sea surface temperatures have surged to the highest on record for this time of year!
Join me in our monthly webinar next week to discuss these recent global climate extremes, as well as reviewing the historic March heatwave.
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Lucky! ❤️
Just got one today too!
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Left: daily sea ice extent (square kilometers) each season 1978-70 to 2025-26 with the past two seasons, 2011-12 and the smoothed 1991-2020 median highlighted. Right: NWS Alaska Sea Ice Program sea ice concentration analysis to 18 April 2026.
Sea ice extent in the Bering Sea is typical for mid-April in NSIDC data. There is more shorefast ice on the Alaska coast from Yukon River delta northward than in most recent years, while ice extent on the Russian side of the Being Sea is very low. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
