Literally everything this administration does suggests they are unaware that other countries have agency & domestic politics, too.
NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed
VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*
One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*
She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets
How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
“I expect at some point” that the ceremony will make its way back across the pond, says Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams. But “the way things are right now, I doubt that the ceremony will be back in the U.S. in any of the next few years.” Nice coverage by @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org
This declaration from Paul Smith, Anthropic’s CCO, gives the flavor. The dispute is over autonomous lethal weapons & mass surveillance of US citizens. Yet the govt is sabotaging Anthropic's contracts with grocery chains, pharma, financial services, fintech ...
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We've gotten numb to it, but what Trump/Hegseth is now doing to Anthropic—and what Trump did to the law firms—are not just tantrums, they are impeachable abuses of power. They are, in effect, executive branch bills of attainder. ...
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FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science.
It does not require that you went to school for science.
You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
All the different kinds of daffodils I planted are blooming
I washed my car
The dawn chorus has begun
More Beta Pete pix here:
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
and here:
talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/slid...
Trump only got into Wharton after his family pulled strings and got him an interview with an official who did a "special favor" to the family. A Wharton prof later said he was "the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had.
So, yes, his admission does say a lot about how smart he is.
The sun will rise in #Baltimore #Maryland tomorrow at 7:22, 94 seconds earlier than the day before.
It will set at 19:09, 60 seconds later than the day before.
7:04p: TORNADO WARNING just east of Damascus.
Includes Roxbury Mills, Henryton, West Friendship, Lisbon, Glenwood, Glenelg, Marriottsville, and Woodstock through 715p.
A military investigation has determined the U.S. carried out the deadly Tomahawk strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings. Latest w/ Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Tyler Pager, Helene Cooper
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
6:55 pm: Radar shows the worst of storms focusing over northern suburbs -- damaging wind the primary risk. This should continue to be the case as it passes east over the next hour.
South of the Beltway, some rain and rumbles possible, but severe weather looks to stay north.
The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.
Trump lies that he "got the highest vote in history" (Biden got more votes in 2020)
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it’s exhausting, as it’s created to be; it also means that i, attempting to be discerning, am much more apt to share things i feel confident about based on my own education, but folks shouldn’t have to be years-worth of confident in a subject matter to feel as though they can trust something 😮💨
I've seen lots of arguments in science where the rival parties simply are not interested in understanding one another, and so the result is a boring argument that gets nowhere and serves no productive purpose.
Just before I retired, the public affairs team at the Center for Astrophysics did a sort of exit interview with me that is now available as a podcast... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19c...
I’ll be getting bit early in the zombie apocalypse because I wanted to check out the maggots and carrion beetles
Officers must demonstrate Four Leadership Tenets
1) Pull-ups
2) Warfighteriness
3) Day drinking
4) Dank memes
Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.
SpaceX alone wants there to be 100x as many satellites as you see here.
Hi scientists of Bluesky!
I’m on the lookout for positives.
Tell me: Why is your field the best right now?
What are you excited about?
Have any good news to share?
(Yes, I know. I’m working on something.)
If you’re willing to talk to me, reach out here or Rebecca.B.Boyle at gmail.
Please share!
New: Dead bodies and a long-missing "death" bell: What will authorities find at Zorro Ranch? open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Sigh. More about scientists and Epstein (starring some familiar names).
Of course, just knowing JE or attending a conference he sponsored isn't necessarily an indictation of participation in his less ethical activities. OTOH a lot of people turned a blind eye to them.
www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Today 15 years ago the M 9.1 Tohoku-oki #earthquake occurred in #Japan, one of the biggest ever recorded. It triggered a devastating tsunami up to 40 m run-up height. These events killed over 19k people and also caused the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. ⚒️ 🧪(1/4)
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Broke: Whining about The Times’s coverage
Woke: Getting the results of the government investigation that shows the Times was on the money
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Medical device maker Stryker reportedly hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivist group. So far only Irish news reporting, not here in US. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical equipment, defibrillators, imaging equipment
