John Bowers

Climate change further demonstrated in 6/27 NYT. The Big Beautiful Bill strips away fiscal policy that attempts to mitigate it. #BBB

@timmiller.bsky.social Epic podcast with Mark Cuban. He’s the type of candidate the dems need: energetic, direct, outspoken, and relevant.

Need to adhere to the War Powers Act before attacking Iran.

Opinion | America Must Not Rush Into a War Against Iran

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

@timmiller.bsky.social Thank you for your Bulwark podcast. Can you put the name of the artist in the outro music in the show notes?@jtbowers3.bsky.social

As Cornell wins its first lacrosse title since 1977, I think of the MVP of that game, Eamon McEneaney, hero of the World Trade Center bombing evacuation of 1993, who died there on 9/11, whom I'm honored to say I covered and took courses with.

Thanks. I love watching the semifinal and final NCAA lacrosse Memorial Day weekend.

What does the “H” in a red shield in two of the corners of the field at Gillette Stadium for the NCAA lacrosse semifinal signify? Harvard? @espn.com

20 federal immigration agents mistakenly raided the Oklahoma City home of a family of U.S. citizens, held the mother and her three daughters at gun point, and seized the family’s phones, laptops, and life savings.

Agents from the FBI, ICE, and DHS were cruel and abusive, treating the mother and…

State health department confirms hundreds of layoffs after ‘COVID-19’ cuts Virginia also lost $219 million in funding, which had already been allocated.

This is due to Doge cuts and really matters. www.whro.org/health/2025-...

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

Corey Booker has been speaking for 14 hours.

How did we get civil rights? Corey Booker

@timmiller.bsky.social Love all your podcasts!

@timmiller.bsky.social Since you are a constituent of Bill Cassidy perhaps he would tell you how his promised monthly meetings with RFK Jr. going with measles cases greater than 500, mass layoffs at HHS, and the commissioning of an autism study overseen by a quack.

Youngkin vetoes minimum wage hike, prescription affordability board bills

The consequences of a state having a Trumpist governor: www.whro.org/virginia-gov...

Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... Trump believes that if you don’t measure or test that bad things will go away.

Virginia eighth grader’s anti-Trump protest draws hundreds in Richmond

www.whro.org/virginia-gov...

Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants

A federal court ordered the Trump Admin to stop its illegal funding freeze. But the Admin is not complying so Virginia health clinics are closing or reducing services.

www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

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

Still no #CDC MMWR or other new information on site except the banner on many pages.

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

More shackling of the CDC.

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

@wyden.senate.gov Please recall Kash Patel for a 2nd round of questioning by the Judiciary Committee in view of the political related purge of FBI personnel.

Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination.

I and more thn 15,000 doctors signed a letter with committeetoprotect.org opposing RFKs nomination. Senator Ron Johnson submitted different letters: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Due to Trump's shut down of CDC communication the last issue of the Mortality and Morbidity WEEKLY Reports (MMWR) and January 16 despite Bird Flu and other rampant respiratory illnesses in the US and Marburg and Ebola virus in Africa. See attached screenshot from today's CDC website.