Tom Ward
churchillward.bsky.social
Tom Ward
@churchillward.bsky.social
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I live in Antigua Guatemala. Retired 8 years ago, moved here 2 years ago. What a great community. Very happy.
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The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security.

NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats.

By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
“Is it good when u live in a country where one of its major newspapers publishes a story on how to cope with the scarcity of eggs and their high prices by substituting potatoes and coloring them for Easter?”
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This is called “capital flight” It usually only happens to poor countries (it never ends well) #EconSky

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Horrific that tracking of individuals the U.S. government has taken into custody and threatens to send to a Salvadorean gulag is now needed.
1/2: Update to include Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Tracker:
1. PDKL: 3
2. PDUL ("disappeared"): 0
3. Formerly PDUL, now located: 1
5. Formerly PD, now released: 1
BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.
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10-year yield going vertical here. Something’s gonna break.
Feeling lucky I moved from the U.S. to Guatemala 3 years ago. Found the retail cost of antiretrovirals to be <1/3rd what the Medicare co-pay was in 2022. Guessing the gap will only widen as U.S. puts new tariffs on imported meds and Guatemala doesn’t.
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The value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by −1.55% in the past 24 hours.

MaKE aMERiCA GrEAt AgAiN.

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“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”
Stephen Miran, take a bow.
“Weak beef” is an odd hill to die on.
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Who’s eagerly waiting for 4pm eastern today to hear Trump’s tariff announcement in the latest episode of “will your 401k collapse tomorrow?”
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As a voter in Golden’s district and a progressive Democrat, I have been torn both ways on his Blue Dog-ism.
But Mike is right.
Yes, they do. “Doing us in” is their goal. Bring on the End Times!
Met a 3-time Trump voter on the street today and he cursed Trump and Vance for threatening his Social Security pension. That 3rd rail is still hot!
She suggests getting chickens to raise in your backyard so we get bird flu from them and die?
“Very concerned”. But unwilling to do anything about anything. This is one voter from Mount Vernon, Maine who is sorry he ever had an ounce of respect for Susan Collins.
I just signed the petition.
“Crawling algorithms” is a great name for an indy rock band.