John Roth

Caught the pop fly to win the series! I was 10 and living in Royal Oak.

Isn’t that a felony? It would have to go before a grand jury.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This country's problems are, first and foremost, the fault of its people

The people need to be better for the country to get better

The catalog of ICE abuses in Noah Smith’s article is staggering.

Paywall.

Do professors ever consider the price of the book in selecting the reading list? $30 for paperback/kindle seems predatory.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington

Keep fighting!

Just so we are all on the same page, when Trump says that 11 months ago he inherited a ‘mess,’ this is the mess he inherited.

Brilliant writing!

Facts matter.

This is quite a startling drop, to the detriment of public safety.

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www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...

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Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S. The statement from a Costa Rican official conflicts with what the Trump administration told a federal judge about its attempts to deport the undocumented immigrant

Here is the Washington Post article reporting on it.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Credibility is the coin of the realm for those who represent the interests of the United States in court. With more evidence of more misrepresentations to a court by Department of Justice lawyers, that credibility has been shattered.

Abrego's lawyers maintain that this misrepresentation is further "unmistakable proof" of the government's selective and vindictive prosecution resulting from his animus against him, resulting from challenging the government's original, unlawful deportation.

Previously, the government had offered Costa Rica as an option if he would plead guilty to the pending trafficking charge, which he declined to do.

As it turns out, Costa Rican officials had told the State Department since August that Abrego would be accepted and his civil rights respected.

In the government represented to the courts that Abrego's preferred country for deportation, Costa Rica, was unavailable so he must be deported to Liberia. Abrego, a Salvadorian who was living in Maryland with his American wife and children, has no ties to Liberia.

Another apparent series of misrepresentations to two federal courts by the Department of Justice in the Abrego Garcia cases.

My pleasure! Still an open question as to whether it can be re-indicted at all.

The handbook and the US attorney’s manual are not binding per se, but in this instance it cites binding case law. So the indictment can be no broader than the one just dismissed.

Thank you!

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

😉thanks!

This is insane. A government I no longer recognize.

Paywalled article.

Inconceivable numbers. Each one would be a scandal in normal times.

So valuable. I returned to college after retirement and am loving it. Thanks to the Virginia university system that waives tuition for those over a certain age!