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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

And one way to reduce such exposure ..... #CRBox w/ Clean Air Delivery rates greater than nearly all commercial HEPA air cleaners (both at high flow) for wildfire particles @ 1/3rd to 1/7th the initial cost and generally lower filter replacement cost. IT;s not rocket science, folks, and it works!

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

“The study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus. The problem is not rooted within the device itself, but in the habits and routines that we have developed with our devices.”

You see they're bringing MERIT back to government. www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t... Here is Merriam Webster's definition of tuition

The real story is actually better abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/10...

Thoughts on using LLMs for coding, which can often be difficult and unintuitive, and why "vibe coding" is a fantastic way to explore the capabilities of LLMs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Not that it matters, but what Trump did with Musk and Tesla today is a clear violation of Title 5, Section 2635.702, of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: Use of public office for private gain.

The US installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. That’s enough to power 8.5 million households. 🔌💡 electrek.co/2025/03/10/s...

Google unveils Gemma 3, the "world's best single-accelerator model", running on a single GPU, in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and says it outperforms Llama-405B (Abner Li/9to5Google) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

an under-appreciated reason to not rank Andrew Cuomo is that he teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down New York’s largest nuclear power plant, causing energy costs and carbon emissions to skyrocket

Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...

Today someone on Instagram yelled at me for hammerhead shark research, saying I was violating state regulations. I wrote those regulations as part of my PhD. Time is a flat circle.

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Bravo! In this article the authors reveal how easy it is to buff up your Google Scholar citations and H-index without *any* real science. Such meta-research is very much needed. 🧪 #MedSky #ImmunoSky

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

Hi, I’m God. I had nothing to do with saving that guy’s life or making him president.

Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Trump in October: “This will rapidly drive prices down [...] It'll also bring your grocery bill way down.” Trump now: "It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."