Anne Ternus

Letter: Fire with fire As Californians, we are used to having little say in national politics. But now Proposition 50, "The Election Rigging Response Act," will be on the ballot this November. This is

My 250 word explanation of why Californians need to vote “yes” on Prop 50, “The Election Rigging Response Act.”

And though I don’t talk about it in the letter, the same reasons are why other people should support the effort too. Link at the end of the letter for how to do that.

We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.

I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

No Kings! Woodland, Ca

Israel has launched an attack on Iran and I guarantee you - I absolutely guarantee you - the No. 1 thing our narcissistic-oaf president is worried about is how it might draw attention away from his birthday parade.

It’s the stupid, economy.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

So good. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

Somehow this brilliant messaging didn’t work.

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

US Measles Cases Grow by 25% in One Week, as Total Reaches 378 US measles cases grew by 25% in a week to reach 378 this year, adding to an outbreak that has already outpaced last year’s total.

US measles cases jumped 25% in one week, and Texas' count is now above 300. @jessicanix.bsky.social has more >

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Weather balloon cuts at Omaha NE and Rapid City SD

Balloon launches suspended to once per day at six locations in the middle of the U.S.

NWS just announced a major reduction in upper-air (weather balloon) observations due to staffing shortages.

Omaha and Rapid City losing balloon launches altogether, with launches cut in half at 6 other sites.

Losing this many launches could affect severe weather forecasting and computer models.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Read.

On the plus side, as a Canadian, this reassures me that America will attack itself first before anyone else.

These are very serious people getting even more very seriouser

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

LTE: An Open Letter from 218 alumni — Northwestern’s decision to censor DEI is appalling Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted to The Daily prior to the removal of DEI-related content from SESP, Medill, Bienen, Pritzker and The Graduate School’s websites. To the Editor: We are appalled...

Our letter to @medillschool.bsky.social and the rest of the University was published today. Since I wrote the original letter, the capitulation has continued. The Women's Center website has been taken down. Even the NU Office of Civil Rights has removed DEI. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/04/l...

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.

Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

At Least 880 Workers Were Fired at US Weather Agency The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at the top US agency overseeing weather prediction and climate research, raising concerns about the nation’s preparedness amid wildfire and tornado...

Updating our NOAA story. At least 880 fired Thurs. as tornado season ramps up next week across parts of Texas, and the South. The story with colleagues
@bloomberg.com colleagues: @laurenthal.bsky.social
@arinatter.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#weather #climate #doge

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

Whoever puts this on their list of five things they did this week should get the employee of the year award

Sacramento today

A MINOR

Criminals!