Jack Wittman

The administration is also trying to increase its political control through a proposed NSF rule that would subject all NSF grants to review and approval by a politically appointed official, contradicting everything NSF’s current merit-review process stands for.

I voted! The volunteers said I looked too happy but It sure felt good to let the world know what I think. Go Blue!

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

Read the entire thread that @doctorow.pluralistic.net published (and the formatted version, too), but I'm pulling out this visualization of the distribution of accumulated assets in the United States because it's powerful and extremely well done. Neo-liberal policies are unjust and inequitable.

#OTD in 2009, economist Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to be awarded the #Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." 🧵 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo... #WomeninSTEM #economics

Oh Hey, More AI Stuff – Is This Our Reliable Narrator? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-he...

Jack Smith is my hero.

Most TV is just this now.

This is a great take on the way we define “development.“

We all need to have a dream. This is mine. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mild-...

She “declined?” “Declined”? You can’t just decline to get a security clearance. You either get one or you don’t have a job. So much dysfunction in this White House. When will the GOP have had enough? Why risk the country for this? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

No one in tech gives their little kids screen time. When the people who make the food won’t feed it to their own children, take notice.

Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.

Of all the crazy renovation, redevelopment and idolatry going on in DC, I find this most disturbing. We are in league with the bad guys.

I was thinking the other day how those not in DC (I'm not) aren't hit as clearly with how Trump has turned the White House grounds into something between construction site and waste dump. Genuinely upsetting. Far from the worst thing he's done but among the most tangible and graphic.

I wish more people in the media knew how serious this is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everyone in the Midwest avoiding veggies due to the cyclospra outbreak can thank RFK Jr. The CDC stopped testing for it on his watch.

So when Barrack Obama was running everything in 2016, and Trump won, the election was fair? But when Donald Trump was running everything in 2020, and Trump lost, the election was rigged and stolen? How does that make sense? Oh, it doesn't! It's a lie.

NEWS: Listen closely to what Gov. Beshear says here: the Republicans have tried to take away his ability to appoint a U.S. Senate vacancy but he seems poised to fight them on it. Keep an eye on this. Gov. Beshear knows what’s at stake and knows what he’s doing.

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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMTe... It has a beat.

Ben Rhodes is always clear and sharp when he looks at the world. This is even better www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SCse...

I made a timelapse last night and caught some of the Perseids

Fortunately some of us are….

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/iran-... This is a fantastic take on the current moment.

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If you haven’t already sent an email or called your representative and both of your Senators, I don’t want to see your posts. The news from Venezuela requires us all to let DC hear from us about what we think. Self government includes all of us.

That's a wild looking sea cucumber! The green laser dots are 10cm apart. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

“Carr should be mocked mercilessly, the same way all bad actors/apparatchiks should be resisted who are trying to inflict their repressive ways on others by force. Mocking such people isn’t just our Constitutional right, but our moral duty.” open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

but this is good.