Josh Simon

Disagree - I've had faculty interviews where I was told (once explicitly, once not quite explicitly) that I was not actually under consideration for the job.

The paper says that they downloaded the entire raw MACHO data set and re-reduced it. So if there are specific sources you're interested in, I would just ask them for those.

This group might be able to help: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...

Sadly, Ron Desantis was at a football game this evening, watching Florida St. lose to Stanford. 😢

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

Time to bury Weinstein under a pile of complaints about the anti-liberal bias at CBS.

Probably worth throwing in some devils too, just to emphasize that he's not getting anywhere near heaven.

The author also severely misunderstands the nature of the threat. The administration has made science just as much of a target as the humanities, although the reasons are only partially overlapping.

I am launching No Secret Police, a public records database. It currently hosts the Santa Ana Police Department's records but more agencies' records are being processed.

Headshot photographs, names, badge numbers, payroll and other basic public data.

www.nosecretpolice.net

Congrats, Juna!

Also, everything the House is trying to do is bad. Wasting its time makes it harder to accomplish those things, which is good.

I’m calling on Secretary Kennedy to resign.

We are sick of it. He must go!

I think TRES has observed most northern stars with planets/ planet candidates, but this might be limited to transiting objects. They certainly have thousands of spectra, which are not explicitly public but are generally available on ExoFOP.

Has anyone mentioned Hypatia: www.hypatiacatalog.com?

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

I know why!

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Seems like kind of a big oversight that the Biden OMB didn't rescind this "no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities" part.

Please VOTE for Susan Crawford for WI SC on (or before) 4/1.

Polls: 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. on 4/1.

Voters need to show acceptable photo ID.

Early voting: NOW until 3/28.

Deadline to request absentee ballot: Thurs, 3/27.

Musk $$$: no place in WI -- or USA -- politics.

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The end of The Atlantic article reporting a Signal chat discussing the bombing of Yemen. The paragraph reads: "All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—`We are currently clean on OPSEC.'”

I mean, when you hire a Fox News host as Secretary of Defense, you can't really be surprised when he has a Fox News-level understanding of opsec.

Legislators who are voting based on death threats rather than what they believe is right need to resign. Let someone with more courage do the job.

Anything else is a violation of their oath of office.

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The President of the USADF handled the attempted DOGE takeover exactly correctly. They say they're going to call the US Marshals to force their way into the building? Fine, make them do it. Other agency heads should follow Ward Brehm's lead.

#TeslaTakedown in Los Angeles near LAX. Happening now!

Author with a NO MUSK COUP sign in North Hollywood

Anti-DOGE sign in North Hollywood

Protestors at Tesla in North Hollywood

Happy to report 25+ protestors at the Tesla dealer in North Hollywood today cheered on by a steady stream of honking cars.

One guy had a double-sided NO KINGS sign and said he’d been compelled to come out for the first time today after seeing the Zelensky presser.

Say ‘no’ now. #TeslaTakedown

It's not just Memoli. The article names three HHS officials as well: "Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy" as responsible for the orders. They should all be held in contempt.

Schumer: Dems will insist on Trump undoing ‘bad things’ in spending deal The Senate minority leader doubled down on Hakeem Jeffries’ comments Monday that Democrats would insist on a funding deal that addressed the attempted funding freeze.

I called all my reps and told them not to support any budget deal that would allow Trump to not spend the money. You should too.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Why has no judge said to the DOJ attorneys: by close of business today, you have to file sworn statements by government officials with knowledge as to who is running DOGE, list every person, what their position is, what their status is (advisor, employee, SGE, and so on). By close of business today.

Any member of Congress who is deciding how to vote because they are afraid of violence against them needs to resign. They cannot serve their constituents or fulfill their oath of office if they are paralyzed by fear.

@padilla.senate.gov's voicemail works fine . . .

Sen. Padilla also posts phone numbers for 5 local offices in California, which makes it easy for constituents to contact him.
Please do better on enabling Californians to reach you in an easy and timely manner!

@schiff.senate.gov Please listen to your voicemails and/or hire more staffers who can answer the phone. Your constituents want to contact you and can't because your voicemail is consistently full. But your colleagues seem able to handle the calls that they're getting.