Bob Myers

Kerr County took $10.2 million in federal aid from the Biden administration—money that could have built a life-saving flood warning system. Instead, they funneled most of it into law enforcement.

Why? Because Joe Biden is a “communist.” 🙄

Hold the MFers accountable for every death.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl Do Not Look Away

Try and make it through this. Really watch.
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The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

Yes. For the past couple of years I've been saying that the pious John Roberts is the Roger Taney of our day.

I realize now that is unfair to the memory of Roger ("Dred Scott") Taney.

www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...

Besides, any physicist knows that's just 1 anyway.

How long before Bukele sends his goons to forcibly tattoo Abrego García’s knuckles?

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Anybody missing that sleepy guy with the great economy?

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Great News For Us, Awful News for Trump Onward.

AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

Six years later, Allen and McMahon returned. The Pumice Plain was still mostly barren. But this time, there were two 1-m-square exceptions. Within these former gopher plots, FORTY THOUSAND different plant species were thriving. The gophers had done it! (9/x)

This is a science 🧪 story about Mount St Helens, and gophers, and how small positive actions can, in time, make a big difference. I thought a few of you might need to hear it this week. (1/x) 🧵

Articles describing low income voters hoping Trump won’t slash their benefits, farmers worried he’ll deport their workers, and tariffs hitting affordable cars the hardest.

Every election postmortem makes it clear people voted for Trump for two reasons
1. He has a mystical association with money to them, like throwing a coin into a fountain and wishing for wealth
2. They want people “beneath” them to suffer to reinforce that they’re above someone.

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

False Positives How can you rationalize daunting medical news when you understand statistics too well? When your professional and personal worlds collide?

One year ago I got Some Medical News. Writing down *why* I was so scared seemed the rational thing to do at the time. It helped, a bit, and a year later I'm ready to share it with you. Part personal history, part exoplanet lesson, all me.

But you have to read it without knowing the answer.

Syria is the most displaced nation on Earth.

60% of its population - 14M people - forced from their homes by the regime’s brutality.

Today, a golden thread has connected cities around the world as the Syrian diaspora gather to celebrate the end of Assad.

Here’s a 🧵 of global celebrations

🟢⚪️⚫️ 👇

These images should haunt, for the rest of their lives, anyone who helped keep Assad in power.

Almost 20 hours after entering Sednayah prison, efforts continue to reach underground cells. 1000s are believed to be in the 2nd & 3rd floors sealed underground.

#Syria

(🎥Credit: Qalaat Al Mudiq)

Incredible. This man, just freed from Sedayah prison in Damascus, says he was due to be executed TODAY with 54 others.

He says: "I swear by Allah, our execution was scheduled for today, 30 mins ago. Me & this man here. 54 people were supposed to be executed today."

#Syria 🇸🇾

(🎥Credit: Levant 24)

Unimaginable.

The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.

A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”

“What happened?” a woman asks

“The Regime fell. You are free.”

#Syria 🇸🇾

(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)

The Sudden Collapse of Bashar al-Assad The fall of the Russian- and Iranian-backed regime in Syria offers the possibility of change.

"The end of the Russian- and Iranian-backed Assad regime creates something new, and not only in Syria," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes.

No matter what happens next in Syria I am deeply consoled by this evidence that the superior firepower of a Russia-backed kleptocracy is not invulnerable to revolution.

South Korea's version of General Milley - which is why Trump hates Milley so much.

My response for my client @oliviaoftroye.com to President Trump's nominee for Director of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (#FBI) #KashPatel's threat of a forthcoming defamation lawsuit.

#RightBackAtYa

A catenary is a particular shape, not any downward arch. It's the shape a chain (or rope, etc.) takes when hung from two ends at an equal height. It's a hyperbolic cosine curve.

If you wanted to panic, the time was the night he was re-elected. Now it's time to take a deep breath and do things like express your views to your member of Congress, and start planning for 2026.
There will be no panic in this dojo.

No, it's zero Rankine, not Kelvin. Yeah, nobody uses the Rankine temperature scale.

Just a reminder that in 2020, Dr. Oz suggested that opening schools during COVID would "only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality," and that "any life is a life lost but... that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."

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If you're wondering how we got here, and want to do a deeper dive, here are some books I recommend:
~ Autocracy, Inc - Anne Applebaum
~ Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson
~ Dark Money - Jane Mayer
~ Unholy - Sarah Posner
~ The Field of Blood - Joanne Freeman
~ On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder