Another demonstration of the willful ignorance at the heart of this administration.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

I just had a shared post removed, and I was placed on administrative hold for some posting functions. The original post made the point leaders who promoted violence (Hitler, Bin Laden, etc.) were guilty of the crimes committed in their names. I attached Jan 6 to that list. Who’s censoring whom?

California’s Desert Ecosystems Will Never Recover Fire in the Anthropocene has become the environmental equivalent of nuclear war.

A Mike Davis essay from 2020 that, along with many recent events, suggests the we are officially past the tipping point, human-biome-wise.

www.thenation.com/article/envi...

It is truly pathetic, a lifetime of shame and insecurity, projection and terrified bravado. It’s interesting that the act appeals to so many people. And depressing.

California.

Lizard brain mentality, always need more, beware the interloper, make friends with the bully

What’s interesting is that he’s saying it out loud, to curry favor from our Fuehrer. He’s not really
Changing things, except
he cut some deal with the duchy of Texas to move his minions there. “Abandon hope ….”

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

That said, there is something appealing about Rudy on a spit.

And points upwards when he talks about Trump, as anyone does when referring to their deity.

Right?

Judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump's criminal cases The injunction lasts until three days after the 11th Circuit rules on a pending request to block the release of the report over a separate matter involving Trump's co-defendants.

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order BLOCKING the release of Jack Smith’s report. Interestingly, she did this 45 minutes before Jack Smith said he would transmit the report to Merrick Garland so Garland couldn’t release it first. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Sometimes it takes longer to find your bliss. You’re never to old to start, or to admit how much you don’t know. (I’ve been learning fly fishing for 70 years.)

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing – to learn to live on earth as human beings.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Exactly

Really useful advice. Valuable not just for scientists, of course.

Humans are political. As an ideal, science should not be. This is that part about not believing everything you think, which takes us back to questioning ALL our assumptions. It’s a process, and not, in this world, a destination.

Back to 2, 3 and 4. And 5 and 6.

A mistake is a terrible thing to waste, if we stop learning we stop progressing. Beginner’s mind: The first wisdom is accepting that we don’t know. Science is the commitment not to believe everything we think and to constantly question our assumptions.

Making it actionable. As Bucky Fuller said, you can’t see the forest until there are too many trees. But you have to start somewhere, like a map, in order to actually see your path.

Ahhh, the war between precision and accuracy, the whole gestalt versus the actionable (the territory and the map, again). Don’t give up.

We have to keep trying to find the language that best describes the idea. Assuming the idea is static enough to be put into words of any language.

Information/data first has to separated from the noise, and then organized to give meaning to the parts and the whole - the forest, the trees, the snowstorm — sort it to get a map (which is not the territory). Do it again.

And, of course, Blue Sky.

Green shoots this fall. It’s California, and the resistance is growing.

See if you can wrap Your head around this: science may affect politics, but science that tries to align with politics destroys science. Science and politics are not the same thing. They don’t operate in the same ways, even if each is part of our knowledge.

Keep Your friends close. And your enemies closer.

The people who like to say they aren’t political are going to get political quick.