Leah Berman Williams

For those looking to report oil pollution in water, the Coast Guard encourages contacting the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802.

The US Coast Guard has cleaned up 700 gallons of oil so far.

President John F Kennedy in the Oval Office. He appears to be with some kids in Halloween costumes. He's sitting at his desk. There are green colored curtains behind him, as well as small model ships.

George HW Bush at his desk in the Oval office. There's a single paining on the wall and a bunch of family photos behind him.

President Reagan at his desk in the Oval Office. There are four paintings on the wall, a grandfather clock, and some dark wood chairs.

President Trump in the Oval Office. The wall is crowded with paintings in elaborate gilded frames and random gold things on the wall. The fireplace is full of gold ornaments.

we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites

The NNSA maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile. It also does a lot of other important national security work
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‘This has never happened before’: NNSA furloughs 1,400 staff About 400 NNSA staff will continue working to maintain minimum safe operating conditions at the nuclear security agency.

NNSA is out of money. Only about 400 essential staff working, without pay.

Next up: the national labs and NNSA contractor sites? Details still murky
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Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
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Getting trolled by the AK Republican Party Chair! Finger pointing while a fire is burning down the house is unhelpful. Instead let us work together and pick up a water bucket and put the fire out! #winning #akleg 🔥

Wait, this agreement requires *UCLA* to pay A BILLION DOLLARS TO DONALD TRUMP???

(I mean, yes, technically the "United States" but it's the United States that's supposed to be paying UCLA with all the grants that Trump froze!!!)

Paragraph h requires UCLA to prohibit anonymous protest and demand university IDs and mask removal.

"Individuals who fail to comply with these policies will be subject to discipline, being escorted off campus, detained for trespass and referred for prosecution."

Icarus: He gave his life as a true martyr for materials science and flight engineering. A pioneering heliologist of whom the likes we shall never see again. He will be missed.

Orpheus: What's important now is that we look forward.

Chilling sentence from Trump DOJ's demands to UCLA (released today after a faculty-led lawsuit): "UCLA will also develop training materials to socialize international students to the norms of a campus dedicated to free inquiry and open debate." Do not bend the knee Trustees! #NoKings4UCs #StandUpUC

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

"UC warned that releasing the proposal would cause “irreparable harm” to its negotiations with Trump."

yes this is the fuckin problem

The more than 7,000-word proposal asks for vast changes to UCLA that match -- and in some cases go beyond -- Trump agreements with Columbia, Brown and UVA. It also aligns to a degree with parts of the White House's "academic compact" that universities including USC have rejected.

UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic. The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover. When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

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Three Interlocked Hamiltonian Pathes On a Icosidodecahedron

it was made with a powder printer, no need for support.
You can make inner pieces
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Oh, that's very nice! Cleaning up the supports on those thin pieces on the inside must have been a trick.

A snowy egret shaking their head as beads of water come off its beak

Magnificent performance from our favorite snowy egret. Fish were slaughtered. Water was shook off beak. Exceptional. I'll edit more later.

A snowy eager in front of what looks like a lake but is actually an inlet comma it's backlit by the and you can see the wing is exceptionally lit up period they have a small fish in their beak period I added a little bit more yellow to the water for contrast

This is one of those pictures that while I'm editing I'm thinking "Who the fuck do you think you are Brett Banditelli? what are you doing with your life? How dare you bring this content into the world in this moment?"

Then I remember I have a meeting in 12 minutes about unions. 🪶

that is such a great photo!

A pelican this mouth open and swallowing a fish

Oop down the hatch

A snowy egret sticking its head in the water with feat also being on top of the water. It makes it look like it's standing on the water but really it's just the frame

I don't even know what to say to you, bird.

"...the president is now violating spending law on both ends of the spectrum: He is not spending money he doesn’t want to spend while also spending money for unauthorized purposes. This has far-reachiing—and potentially escalatory—implications."

Thank you! It feels a little creepy to me around the edges, like the roots of some weird thing. (but I like the bleached skeleton image too!)

Entangled icosahedral sculpture

#mathsky #mathart

A picture of the "Noperthedron", which has been proved to not have Rupert's property. It looks vaguely like a barrel, or an n-gonal anti-prism but with 6 layers of triangles. "The Rupert property appeared to be so widespread that mathematicians conjectured a general rule: Every convex polyhedron will have the Rupert property (opens a new tab). No one could find one that didn’t — until now."

Apparently, folks have found a convex polyhedron that can't pass through itself, unlike the Rupert Cube etc.

Nice writeup, and neat example.

www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...