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Ian Livingston

@ianlivingston.bsky.social

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Extreme weather and climate reporter. Forecaster. Former Brookings foreign policy. #wx #dc #dogs #climatechange #python #gis Weekday morning newsletter: https://www.weatherretort.com/subscribe

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve def reached the it’s way too dark before 8 pm season. The worst.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 5h

problem with that is god created the world much more recently tho. he also built the labs that developed lyme.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5h

The lab leak conspiracy theorists running the US health agencies are getting kookier & kookier 🤦‍♂️

In fact, research shows that “the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years” (medicine.yale.edu/news-article...)

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

President Melting Brain

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

First big snow of the season for the Sierra thanks to a big cold upper low moving down the coast from Pac NW then across CA in days ahead. Widespread 1-2+ feet expected per NWS.

Sierra snowfall forecast shows a max of 3 feet with many of the resorts picking up a solid pasting.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 20h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t even have an active web account at the moment lol

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 19h

In a sane timeline this would all end in severe backlash for Trumpers but I’m not holding my breath www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

where else am I going to get the premier conservative opinion page

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

This might explain the extra emails.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

Two articles in the paper today. I guess I should subscribe so I can know before someone randomly tells me.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

I eagerly await the no explain emergency ruling that the president can personally pay the military while he shutters the gov.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

As usual on the media was quite topical and important to listen to this week. Two systems of “law” under development in the US. open.spotify.com/episode/4n7v...

Authoritarianism, but Make It Look Normal. Plus, the Family Taking Over American Media.

open.spotify.com

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

On the bright side the same folks brought us Palantir.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

In DC a lot of the early excitement did indeed come from the final group. Same old think tankers that totally missed the rise of Trump.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21h

makes you wonder why the hypest AI folks have been the ones who made it, conspiracy theorists who believe almost anything you tell them and old guys who can barely turn on their computer.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22h

Hard to believe we didn't get a budget done on time.

Brian Schatz on Twitter: The Republican House has worked 12 out of the last 79 calendar days.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 21h

Kinda puts a damper of the reactionary theory of the unitary executive when it doesn’t seem very unified.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeannie in DC @rivergirl202.bsky.social · 22h

Saturday’s #Sunset over the Potomac River and Key Bridge in DC! @ianlivingston.bsky.social @meteormolly.bsky.social

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 22h

Watching Boots and imagining they are preparing to go to battle against Democratic voters in big cities.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 22h

the stupidest time to be alive

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 22h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 23h

What about ATC? (And many others) They don’t carry enough guns to matter. gotta wait till planes fall out of the sky.

Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 23h

Republicans refused to vote to pay the military and then Trump pulls some illegal shit to do so. How much are congressional leaders colluding with him?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 1d

Fortunately Norfolk has been liberated from concerns of climate change thanks to this administration so don't mind the purple dots there. yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/the-...

The surprising climate vulnerabilities of the world’s largest naval base » Yale Climate Connections

The Norfolk, Virginia, base can’t just wall itself off.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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