Andy Ackerman

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought.

rare piece of good news for nasa science arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

meteorological boreal summer is june july august. astronomers with their big brains have unduly influenced civic timing of seasons

jesus fucking christ

where’s privacy-invading AI when you need it, anyway

NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

It’s true.

I’ve put up a bit more history here

fediscience.org/@atthenius/1...

renewed mine in february and only took 4 weeks between hitting the submit button and arrival of new one in mail

who could've guessed

seems like the unitary executive theory might be problematic

Opinion | I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future Trump’s worldview is stuck in the 1970s, and his whole administration is a cruel farce.

checks out www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.

This is a relatively short and clarifying read.

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...

big if true

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Some are saying Democrats shouldn't attend Donald Trump's State of the Union.

I disagree.

They should attend. And the minute he starts speaking, start getting up, one-by-one, and solemnly leave the chamber.

It will be all anyone talks about the next day. And will drive Donald crazy.

recalling a bunch of republican senators in moscow for 4th of july, evidently part of pre-surrender. seemed like we’d won cold war, but the traitors within just needed a little time to deliver the goods

so classic

Federal career workers: We appreciate you and your work. You don't deserve this mistreatment. Here's a file with lots of resources if you are facing illegal termination. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

lambing season is an eye-opener

came here to say just this, because math is still a thing (0.92^5 ~= 0.66 != 0.60)

or else. gulp

gonna happen

how about 25 million protesting peacefully

These are ridiculous numbers (via Lance Lambert of ResiClub):

guns and canoes, seems not unpossible offhand

Behold.... the DSNY bike lane plow!

It has a brine tank in the back.

#bikenyc #BikeTooter #nyc #bikelanes

seems bad

Tulsi Gabbard Holds the Knife An Operation We Might Not Survive

Tulsi Gabbard is not just completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence – she is anti-qualified.
snyder.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabb...