Lake Powell forecast to reach critical lows, threatening hydropower generation Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers this year, prompting big questions for the river.

Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers and streams this year, according to a recent federal study.

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This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.

“Whilst SARS-CoV-2 cannot be eliminated from the healthcare environment, a layered approach that considers community epidemic activity, utilises administrative controls, and enhances mitigation in high-risk spaces can help reduce the risk of nosocomial transmission.”

“Despite good ventilation in the study hospital, as reflected by CO2 levels mostly below 800 ppm, we found SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in air and surface samples when community epidemic levels were rising or higher than baseline.

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol and surface samples in high acuity hospital settings during community epidemic waves – implications for risk-based infection control. Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is multifactorial and may vary between clinical sites.

www.resmedjournal.com/article/S095...

Or, as is generally the case, we need to layer different technologies on each other to achieve the desired results. UV germicidal radiation or far UV radiation is a good example. Adding excellent ventilation, filtration and UV brings protection into the 90%+ range.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

This whole piece is amazing.
I got teary eyed reading @vermontgmg.bsky.social musings on the vastness of the universe and the awe that human scientific endeavor creates.

Once again, this Administration is putting pressure on networks to control what people see on TV. Everyone should be able to call this out for what it is: un-American censorship.

GIVE HIM HIS MEDAL

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Dan Koh: In the last year, this leader tried to take sovereign land unilaterally, use the justice system to jail enemies, & actively shut down independent media voices

That was Vladimir Putin—the fact that so many ppl thought I was describing Trump right now shows how much our democracy is at risk

Chucky never fails to front-run Trump's TACOing.
Yet progressives are the ones delusional about establishment Dems. SMDH

The good boi needs his medal!

Just gonna point out here that atheists have been voting for the least-worst religious candidate since forever. Abstaining from voting on the grounds that both choices were bad would not have created a better atheist candidate.

"Hernández was allowed to use the captain’s government phone to talk to the federal prison system’s deputy director, Joshua Smith, who was convicted in a drug trafficking conspiracy before Trump pardoned him in 2021."

It's not about "narcoterrorism."

I worked with ICE when I was at DOJ. Abolishing it won't bring justice. You think Immigration and Customs Enforcement is bad? Letting Trump build a new agency from the ground up would be a disaster.

From former federal prosecutor @michaeljstern.bsky.social on ICE cruelty: If ICE was "gone with the swoop of a congressional act," Trump would then create "the Department of Illegal Aliens." His advice: Vote D this fall to hold ICE accountable, and prepare for 2028. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore The President is Lying to the Public

The President is lying to the public:

1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land.

youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding

Mild slippage and tight connective tissue releasing, yup. So much fun.

Mine does that now- makes this fascinating kerchunk sound that everyone hears.

No worries it's just arthritis, it does that. Give me a minute...🫠

These design flaws need a patch update, ISTG.

I dealt with my three week old being hospitalized with an infection. The idea of being jailed and deported during that horrible experience, when you’re already terrified for your vulnerable baby…I feel like I can’t breathe when I think about it

The cleanup on aisle 47 is going to take forever.

And today they were deported.

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...