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Interdisciplinary Arts student in Maastricht 🇳🇱
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
09.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 10643 🔁 2996 💬 328 📌 340
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
07.09.2025 05:30 — 👍 97 🔁 35 💬 18 📌 10
Another law firm chooses to surrender to Trump.
Skadden will allegedly provide Trump's admin with $100 million in pro bono services to avoid being targeted. www.huffpost.com/entry/skadde...
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
here's the Bunny With Tinnitus (graphite on vellum 2x3
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My deepest take, a rather new one, is that the specialization of modern society both creates and requires ignorance of... a lot.
It is impossible to know all the things, which means there's value in individuals knowing a lot about some things, and those individuals exploit knowledge gaps.
#EU shipyards are repairing russian "ice-class" tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling moscow to keep moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector, the Financial Times front page
14.01.2025 06:35 — 👍 658 🔁 204 💬 49 📌 16Food for thought: A lot of people, me included, have been ragging on Zuckerberg for 180'ing completely on the FB platform. There is an interesting plotline that it seems is being largely neglected, though:
11.01.2025 19:11 — 👍 607 🔁 78 💬 23 📌 1This got me curious, so data: The Fed's had a formal 2% target since 2012. The current 3-month moving average of deviation from 2% is 0.285.
The mean absolute value of the 2012-24 deviation is 1.19.
There have only been 24 of 155 (15.5%) months where we've ever been <closer> to target than now.
Book from Tom Theuns titled “Protecting democracy in Europe”
Got myself an early Christmas present, excited to read up during the holidays!
@tomtheuns.bsky.social
This image of the Ring Nebula appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements.
Eye in the sky.
You're looking at the Ring Nebula, the remnant of a star that had the mass of 3 suns and exploded ~4,000 years ago.
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⚠️Tax changes from Jan 2025 by the far-right led government in the Netherlands: net salaries for those around or above average income go up, but net salaries for the lowest incomes go down.
Y axis = change/month. Source: ABP/nu.nl
