Sean Johnson

An Air Force spokesperson said: "although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved." About a dozen service members had been “prematurely notified” that they would be able to retire.

New favorite restaurant in the area!! The Olive Branch in Ypsi is amazing. One review described it as “doing what Al Ameer did for Lebanese food in MI but for Palestinian” and it actually lives up to this expectation. Right next to Alez market, so you can pick out great baked goods while there.

I am an astronomer. If I had a plan to destroy the city, it would involve orbiting mirrors, lenses, and the Sun… not increased housing supply and protected bike lanes.

Wikipedia’s ancient and historically shitty search function is now more useful than Google. AI for the win.

These universities are going to have to reckon with what they are doing to trans women in the future and I just have to hope that people recognize the institutional violence that’s being done.

trans women shall not be welcome on campus

At an international conference, & walked past a large protest. A sight to see.

Disruptive activism is core to the functioning of a healthy university.

Even before the current authoritarian regime, fundamental liberties on US campuses were attacked by our own admins, & the losses are catastrophic.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

WHAT ABOUT OUR KIDS, PETE?

UMich’s austerity hiring review, put in place by Ono, gave enormous power over unit-level hiring to the admin.

And also, switching a graduating student employee to a postbacc position takes 3 weeks plus approval from the Offices of the Dean and Provost/President.

Wonder how much that costs.

In the last week alone, Rush University Medical Center, UChicago Medical, and Children's National announced closures of their gender affirming care programs.

Today, Kaiser Permanente announced a pause on surgeries and Connecticut Children's Medical Center announced the closure of their program.

Sports are a pretty unmatched vehicle for minority groups seeking cultural representation and social progress and it's insane that trans people are just being shut out entirely from that option

a cartoon of lisa simpson riding a bike with the words laughing written below her Alt: a cartoon of lisa simpson riding a bike with the word "laughing" written below her

No one can stop Big Bike

My God... It's the bike cabal!

Not lost on me that NPR is one of the only major US national news orgs with a full time reporter in Gaza.

texas legislators filed an anti trans and anti abortion bill before they filed a single piece of flood relief legislation

Can’t believe a whole ass political party decided that the best solution to their “they think our guy killed Epstein and covered it up” problem would be to try their best to kill Elmo.

Any other astronomers out there finding themselves thinking “wait, Jim Gunn directed what??” A few times a day at the moment?

I’m guessing most of these cis dudes injecting T don’t realize that excess testosterone is metabolized to estrogen…

Bonkers headline.

Puerto Rico is on the verge of banning gender affirming care to to age 21, which would be the highest age for a ban in the United States.

One thing to note, the drinking age in Puerto Rico is 18. So you can drink yourself to death but can't get hormones.

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She had a verbal agreement with the writer that, though on the record for a print story, she wouldn't be part of the podcast. It meant nothing to NYT.

Fuck, I spent a lot of time in Hunt, Texas as a kid. Including one week stranded on the wrong side of the Guadalupe getting food/meds delivered on a zip line that we rigged to the other side of the Camp. Very close to Camp Mystic.

This is disgusting.

I mean, a neutron star with the mass of the Sun is about the size of Ann Arbor… yea, why not? We can definitely work that into the plan!

“Clean up after them” is an imperative aimed at the dogs?

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

A red/brown and white pit mix standing in a green grass field with one front paw lifting and her ears fluttering in the air.

The guy with Greyhounds who brings a very fancy camera to the dog park caught Noor getting ready for takeoff!

I look forward to the Supreme Court supporting parents who opt their children out of all high school economics classes on days in which interest rates are discussed.

Pushing for FY26 spending levels planned by the executive branch, without Congress passing a FY26 budget.