Kathleen J. Frydl

Trump's EPA killed the need for all 194 U.S. power plants burning coal to have continuous emissions monitoring for toxic soot pollution.

Why? Because EPA said that $2.9 million/year was too much for ALL 194 of these plants to spend—not each, but altogether—for better compliance & transparency. 1/

Rail Passengers Statement on Proposed Amtrak Restructuring | Rail Passengers Association The Rail Passengers Association issued a statement on early reports that the U.S. Department of Transportation is directing Amtrak to undertake a significant organizational restructuring.

Looks like we're splitting up Amtrak? www.railpassengers.org/happening-no...

Red States’ Fascist Campaign Against Colleges and Professors Trump and his hench people get all the attention, but red-state governors and legislators are waging a largely under-the-radar war on liberal education.

"Emboldened by what Trump is doing, red states are going much further. They are attempting to destroy higher education as we know it." newrepublic.com/article/2068...

🧵 Tempting to read this optimistically as a sign that institutions will check Trump on other issues. Maybe they will! But Congress does not appear to be "worried about its powers 'slipping through its fingers'"--it has handed the presidency its powers, esp. in national security/military matters. 1/

All About Nazgul, the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog That Joined an Olympic Cross-Country Ski Race Learn more about Nazgul, the Czechoslovakian wolfdog who joined Olympic athletes on a cross-country skiing race at the 2026 Winter Games.

Not been a fabulous Olympics for the Czech Republic...

but this stellar moment was courtesy of Czech breed (wolfdog)

Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Omg Alysa Liu (USA) won the gold in ladies figure skating

what a day for US women on the ice

this is Tessa Janecke, I think. I met her in the bathroom in Prague when they flew in for the worlds.

I started cheering her on right there in the bathroom & I'm sure she was like, really? But she hugged me anyway.

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I keep refreshing the NYTimes live blog & it's all CAPS and !!! marks

so it must be one heck of a game

Team USA v Canada for Olympic gold in women's hockey today.

I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner.

Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.

Baltimore’s remarkable decline in drug overdose deaths comes with new challenges Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has...

Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.

But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.

The answer was always going to be in the supply:

We Can’t Address Affordability Without Tackling Corporate Power Concentrated economic influence is making us increasingly powerless—and angry.

You can't address affordability without being willing to take on corporate power head on. newrepublic.com/article/2064...

“We move from a substance use crisis that’s marked by fatal overdose to something that’s much more chronic in nature"

" Drug dealers have been experimenting with risky additives to compensate for weak fentanyl, Powell said, which means more dangerous side effects for people who use drugs."

Baltimore’s remarkable decline in drug overdose deaths comes with new challenges Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has...

Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.

But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.

The answer was always going to be in the supply:

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Tell Congress to reject this anti-voter bill: bit.ly/4tmVIor

US star Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom to break 8-year Olympic drought Mikaela Shiffrin’s eight-year Olympic medal drought is over. The American skiing standout has put in two dominant runs to win the women’s slalom by 1.50 seconds.

American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in women’s slalom, breaking an eight-year medal drought at the Winter Games.

Bayer agrees to $7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits Bayer has agreed to $7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.

“Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.”

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Long forgotten: Democrats swept through the midterms of 1990 and showed Bush was beatable (and forced Bush to raise taxes) because Rev. Jesse Jackson systematically organized volunteers all over the country. He contested the South after Dukakis surrendered. Clinton owed him. So do we.

Ukraine’s War of Endurance The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.

Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Jacob Elordi looks like Iker Casillas. He looks Castilian.

I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice.

More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.

The Case of the Mysterious Citations Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

There’s a risk that this lawless premeditated killing spree fades into background noise, like the neglected but intensified U.S. bombing campaign in Somalia.

Thank you so much

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Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation