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And this is where we'er at

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

I have a really hard time understanding how anyone thinks this administration is reasonable.

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I’m more amazed that you were the calmer-downer! Sigh. We take our hahas where we can.

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

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I watched one of those early on as well and thought yeah, no lol. Unless I'm changing warp colors the only upside I see in doing it that way is if you don't want to use the full length of the warp threads because then you could snug them up from the bottom.

I do the warp as a single thread with a running stitch at the bottom. Easy peasy.

And I would play it at about 930 lol

I'm probably overthinking this but are they maybe conflating "probationary" with a fresh out of school newbie? Maybe not realizing (certainly not caring) that literally everybody starting a new position has a probationary period, whether or not they're new to public service?

Opinion | The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?

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Is there another source for this information?

And they're going to have more trouble studying this if more states follow Texas' lead and stop tracking it.

Not only can we not have nice things we can't even keep the ones we have. I guess it wasn't enough that Melania puller up the roses last time. 🤦‍♀️

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?

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I've gotten really good at sourdough, Randal. Come back to the dark side.

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Hydnellum peckii?

Sorry, but as a scientist AND a weaver and hand spinner, looms don’t spin anything.

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

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Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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NEW: Apparently the Dept of Energy has replaced its Chief Information Officer with a "network engineer from SpaceX" who has maybe run a service desk but has no other IT leadership experience, per a source with knowledge.

The DOE, among other things, oversees all nuclear security. So that's cool.

What the actual fuck?

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Besides the blatant illegality of these actions how is this happening? I've not heard anything about it.

Ok, is this my imagination? I'm sure I remember when Prez Obama was elected and congress slow rolled confirming his nominees that all the "acting" directors couldn't do shit beyond maybe keeping the lights on. (1 of 2)

Alt National Park Service —- This is a coalition of federal workers who have gotten together (in a protected way) and are reporting what is happening inside our gvt agencies. PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS! ELON MUSK HAS STOLEN ALL OF OUR SS NUMBERS!

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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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