Andrey Kislyuk

Why America’s experiment to make the batteries of the future could soon fail As EV sales slow and Republicans take aim at tax credits, the United States’ manufacturing renaissance is on hold.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’ The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.

Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.

Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

www.nokings.org

Photo of Senator Alex Padilla, being handcuffed on the ground after approaching Sec. Kristi Noem.

This is disgusting.

If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

I like Sen. Padilla's style. Now where are the other 99 senators?

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

How Chinese drones could defeat America A Ukrainian drone attack shows our extreme vulnerability.

How Chinese drones could defeat America

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings.

“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Terminal Genome Viewer (tgv), written in Rust github.com/zeqianli/tgv

“America First” Will Destroy U.S. Science The U.S. government has sought to restrict immigration under the “America First” doctrine. These policies severely harm American science by stripping it of talent and eliminating a major driver of its...

25 years ago, I came to Stanford on a J1 visa and worked so hard to be worthy of that privilege. Today, I lead Immunology at Mount Sinai and I am the one who feel privileged when brilliant international trainees chose to join us.

“Every such terrorist Russian strike is a sufficient reason for new sanctions against Russia,” —President Zelenskyy

Russia is doing everything it can to prolong this war, continues killing every single day

“The world may go into the weekend, but the war goes on — regardless of weekends or weekdays

Regeneron Acquires 23andMe Assets for $256M to Expand Consumer Genomics and Data-Driven Drug Discovery

Regeneron picks up the 23andMe dataset -- one of the best possible outcomes, I think. REGN has a stellar track record of handling patient data responsibly and effectively, e.g. UK Biobank, Geisinger Health.
www.biopharmatrend.com/post/1252-re...

YouTube video by Asianometry How Did China's LFP Batteries Get So Cheap?

LFP batteries in particular are pivotal. It's now clear that the packaging innovations and scale-up of companies like CATL have enabled the most important energy breakthrough of the century so far - but there's no reason to think the improvements will stop there www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT72...

The parts about rare earth magnets, power electronics, and lithium ion batteries are compelling. US manufacturing is behind in these sectors and we desperately need to prioritize catching up, because the economic and military implications of these mutually reinforcing technologies are far-reaching.

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

Trump administration in talks with Qatar over plane gift A deal on a plane that would become Air Force One has not been reached, but ethics experts say accepting it from Qatar would violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

Qatar is discussing with the Pentagon donating an aircraft for POTUS to use as his new Air Force One, an idea that ethics experts say violates the Constitution.

No final agreement has been reached. Trump will visit Qatar on his Middle East trip this week.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

insane how this article just takes all of trump's bullshit legal justifications for this bribery at face value

It is important to recognize that a president who takes bribes and a Congress that lets that slide was itself a Constitutional crisis.

Banning bribery was so important, the Founders had the Constitution forbid it three times, including as the only directly named impeachable offense besides treason.

www.savensf.com/take-action

#NSF_75

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper ...and how it could have survived

www.dwarkesh.com/p/kyle-harper

Elizabeth Bik and the PubPeer Gang is a dope indie band name, their first EP should be called The Duplication Sensation.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Democracy and the rule of law is not an automatic thing. Democracy exists because of our actions and the time to act is now

The president authorized an act of extrajudicial rendition and stated his explicit intent to extend this extrajudicial abduction process to any US citizens he deems criminals. That is an explicit statement of intent to not just steal elections or ignore the constitution, but to usurp judiciary power

Screenshot: @urllib3 has a new $500.00 / month sponsor on GitHub Sponsors (@americanexpress)!

Thank you @americanexpress.bsky.social for sponsoring urllib3 and helping improve critical Python internet infrastructure.

I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏