Michaela Barnes

Congratulations to this artist, Vincent Valdez, who just received a well deserved MacAurthur award. And heed his call to vote.

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

Today’s front page of the dead tree version of The NY Times seems to be implying Native Americans are immigrants to the US. Editorial miss?

Always a lovely visit

@standupforscience.net and Nobel Prize winner @pkrugman.bsky.social are kindred souls on the damage Trump is doing to science. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-is-wi... All of us must not be complacent. It’s immoral. Economically foolish. And occasionally even illegal.

Michael de Adder, Counterpoint

Join us March 7th to Stand Up For Science (it’s taken a beating of late). They’ll be speakers; scientists, politicians & those impacted by these actions. Also, family friendly science activities are planned. This is the DC rally. But you can check for events in other cities and countries

A sign of Spring, even if Mother Nature is sending us a Winter storm.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

Found Antifa’s headquarters. All decked out for Christmas no less. Note, my parents are still not suckers and losers.

Apparently only children and very short people can protest now according to National Park Service rules. Letter given to the protesters of the longest protest, recently kicked out, of Lafayette Park.

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

Idea for an amicus brief: We list the powers in a chart let's say Louis XIV claimed for himself, and maybe the courts can just indicate with a checkmark which ones of those Trump doesn't have. Seems more efficient.

Good heads up especially for media: do not take a bunch if correlations by motivated actors seriously. If they don’t preregister their hypotheses and data, chances are the results are spurious and cherry picked

Important that we not desecrate the flag

What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.

Mark Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

A zinnia to wake up your morning

Signs from today’s @unite4vets.bsky.social rally

More pictures from @unite4vets.bsky.social rally today.

To the NOAA scientist that was giving out flags back at the March protest, know that your gift is getting good use. Spent the day at the Unite For Veterans Rally today. America made a sacred promise to care for those that served. Veterans aren’t waste, fraud or abuse.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Another day, another rally. No rest for the terrified. Today at NIH

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

No children to embarrass, so we went for the canines. Thanks Roo and Ranger. Merry almost Christmas.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

We would like to issue the following correction:

Happy President's Day, America, a holiday celebrating the guy who said Presidents should not be kings and the guy who said insurrectionists should not be President.