Alli Vaughn

Says FYI: It's these blue states that generate 80% of the countries revenue.

If blue states, invented a method to withhold transfers to the IRS, we'd be in a much better negotiating position. Moneys transferred could be ( for instance ;-) dependent on payments made and programs continued, records maintained and aid distributed.

True.

US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.

Main FAA Warning System, NOTAM, Is Down Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system while it worked to address the problem.

The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real-time safety alerts to pilots late Saturday because its primary one was “experiencing a temporary outage,” the Transportation Department said.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Take a breath. Then we return to the fray.

Sticking together is gonna be one of the only ways we’re going to make it through.

The DOGE executive order hides it inside the U.S. Digital Service to avoid advisory commission rules. It also gives Elon access to every unclassified record in the federal government. My latest in our Executive Action Reaction roundup:
prospect.org/politics/202...

Helpful!

Fountain at the Boston Common, covered in snow, with a brightly lit Christmas tree behind.

Bright church steeple at the edge of a snow-covered Boston Common, with a fountain in the foreground.

Bright candy-colored Christmas lights on a snow-covered sign of the Tadpole playground sign at the Boston Common.

Snow-covered wreath on a gas light at Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood at night.

Boston at Christmas after a good snowfall!

Coaching inexperienced clinicians before a high stakes medical procedure: randomized clinical trial Objective To assess whether training provided to an inexperienced clinician just before performing a high stakes procedure can improve procedural care quality, measuring the first attempt success rate...

Just-in-time training / practice helps clinicians achieve successful outcomes - performance of clinicians, athletes, musicians etc improves with training and rehearsal 🧪https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-080924

A photo of an article in New Scientist on cognitive impairment in astronauts.

Interesting research in New Scientist on cognitive impairment in astronauts on long duration space missions… I wonder if it’s anything to do with the noise, poor sleep etc. that some astronauts report? Probably of interest to @weinersmith.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social 🧪🔭

These fish have taste buds on their ‘legs’ Adaptation may help northern sea robins find food beneath the sea floor

These fish have taste buds on their ‘legs’- Adaptation may help northern sea find food beneath the sea floor. 🦑🌎🧪🐟
www.science.org/content/arti...

How to handle difficult climate conversations this Christmas Do you engage with climate deniers that come your way this Christmas? And if so, what’s the best way to do it?

Some expert advice when talking to 'Uncle George' this Christmas about #climatechange : Is silence golden? What a change expert says about family climate conversations at Christmas time. 🌍🧪 Via Euronews
www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...

M-Dwarfs are for life*, not for Christmas!

*Their life of 10 trillion years, not yours, puny human.

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Still alive!

Here’s a photo of Sedona, AZ at night from a recent trip. It was breathtaking.

Insta follow. <3

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There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.

Which one? Boston has so many! 💙🥰

John, they are dogging a Hyperloop to Australia at this point.

Congrats to @bluesky for all the new users

My 2 cents. Find every news source the has an RSS feed or equivalent and create accounts that that show their public deeds on here under @johndoetimesfeed

That way we all get access to news without having to wait for them to create accounts first.

There’s a lot of Democrat finger pointing right now (“wokeness” “forgetting the working class” “embracing republicans” “too many consultants”) but in my mind, all of their reasons pale in comparison to their loss in the disinformation war.

Just got here! Going by my actual here as a fresh start, but I was Maxine Vandate on X.