@dajerk13.bsky.social
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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
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The Pennsylvania house had a great informational hearing today on avian flu led by folks @ Penn (including @lhmoncla.bsky.social)
Great Qs asked by policy makers
R chair, however, asked if we could get sick eating vaccinated chickens & questioned COVID vax 🤦🏼♂️ (54:20)
www.youtube.com/live/yRxdeG9...
Great Qs asked by policy makers
R chair, however, asked if we could get sick eating vaccinated chickens & questioned COVID vax 🤦🏼♂️ (54:20)
www.youtube.com/live/yRxdeG9...
Agriculture and Rural Affairs & Health Committees -- February 26, 2025
YouTube video by Pa. House Video
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The Pennsylvania house had a great informational hearing today on avian flu led by folks @ Penn (including @lhmoncla.bsky.social)
Great Qs asked by policy makers
R chair, however, asked if we could get sick eating vaccinated chickens & questioned COVID vax 🤦🏼♂️ (54:20)
www.youtube.com/live/yRxdeG9...
Great Qs asked by policy makers
R chair, however, asked if we could get sick eating vaccinated chickens & questioned COVID vax 🤦🏼♂️ (54:20)
www.youtube.com/live/yRxdeG9...
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I've been trying to get Lisa Friedman to join us here. I will keep trying. Lisa is doing amazing work covering the climate and environmental nonsense under the Trump administration, including this story.
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More (Gift Article)
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I've been trying to get Lisa Friedman to join us here. I will keep trying. Lisa is doing amazing work covering the climate and environmental nonsense under the Trump administration, including this story.
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Three things that are all true:
1) What Trump and Musk are doing is an unprecedented, authoritarian power grab
2) Their methods are slapdash and hamfisted because they lack the muscle to act legislatively
3) If the courts choose not to enforce the law, 2) won't matter — and 1) will succeed
1) What Trump and Musk are doing is an unprecedented, authoritarian power grab
2) Their methods are slapdash and hamfisted because they lack the muscle to act legislatively
3) If the courts choose not to enforce the law, 2) won't matter — and 1) will succeed
February 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Three things that are all true:
1) What Trump and Musk are doing is an unprecedented, authoritarian power grab
2) Their methods are slapdash and hamfisted because they lack the muscle to act legislatively
3) If the courts choose not to enforce the law, 2) won't matter — and 1) will succeed
1) What Trump and Musk are doing is an unprecedented, authoritarian power grab
2) Their methods are slapdash and hamfisted because they lack the muscle to act legislatively
3) If the courts choose not to enforce the law, 2) won't matter — and 1) will succeed
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Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪
February 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪
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Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
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How it started. How it’s going.
January 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How it started. How it’s going.
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The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health.
How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health?
Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25
How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health?
Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25
January 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health.
How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health?
Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25
How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health?
Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25
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The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
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New year, new faces in our staff starter pack. Keep up with our latest investigations ⤵️
January 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
New year, new faces in our staff starter pack. Keep up with our latest investigations ⤵️
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A virus came along & killed 10s of millions of Americans & the social consensus is that we made too big a deal out of it.
Adjust your climate hopes accordingly.
Adjust your climate hopes accordingly.
I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.
January 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A virus came along & killed 10s of millions of Americans & the social consensus is that we made too big a deal out of it.
Adjust your climate hopes accordingly.
Adjust your climate hopes accordingly.
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I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.
January 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.
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Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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November 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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She says he blocked the bathroom door, confiscated her phone, and raped her despite her repeatedly saying “no.” She did a rape kit the next morning at the ER and reported the incident to police. She broke down crying when cnn called her comment last week.
November 22, 2024 at 2:46 PM
She says he blocked the bathroom door, confiscated her phone, and raped her despite her repeatedly saying “no.” She did a rape kit the next morning at the ER and reported the incident to police. She broke down crying when cnn called her comment last week.
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And once again, this is the administration elected by the people who insisted that the *Democrats* were secretly guilty of sex crimes
To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
November 21, 2024 at 3:25 AM
And once again, this is the administration elected by the people who insisted that the *Democrats* were secretly guilty of sex crimes
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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"Scientists as political advocates" | Must-read commentary in Science Magazine mentions my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Dr. Peter Hotez and me in the context of the dual assault by the right on both climate and public health science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Scientists as political advocates" | Must-read commentary in Science Magazine mentions my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Dr. Peter Hotez and me in the context of the dual assault by the right on both climate and public health science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Bernie Sanders' office tells me this account is "not real."
His official page is @sanders.senate.gov and he will have a personal one soon.
His official page is @sanders.senate.gov and he will have a personal one soon.
November 21, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Bernie Sanders' office tells me this account is "not real."
His official page is @sanders.senate.gov and he will have a personal one soon.
His official page is @sanders.senate.gov and he will have a personal one soon.
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This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:41 PM
This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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New Georgia Power load forecasts just dropped. Your jaw will, too.
DATA CENTERS: 31 GW
MFG'ING: 1.2 GW
OTHER: 1.2 GW
CLEAN TECH: 1 GW
DATA CENTERS: 31 GW
MFG'ING: 1.2 GW
OTHER: 1.2 GW
CLEAN TECH: 1 GW
November 20, 2024 at 3:02 PM
New Georgia Power load forecasts just dropped. Your jaw will, too.
DATA CENTERS: 31 GW
MFG'ING: 1.2 GW
OTHER: 1.2 GW
CLEAN TECH: 1 GW
DATA CENTERS: 31 GW
MFG'ING: 1.2 GW
OTHER: 1.2 GW
CLEAN TECH: 1 GW
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/5 One of the things I remember from this incident was that the Etsy lady — far far younger and more attractive than her lawyer husband — responded to my critique of the errors in the threat letter by saying I’M A BRAZILIAN NOT A PARALEGAL
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
/5 One of the things I remember from this incident was that the Etsy lady — far far younger and more attractive than her lawyer husband — responded to my critique of the errors in the threat letter by saying I’M A BRAZILIAN NOT A PARALEGAL
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Summer UK temperatures have warmed faster than global average temperature.
But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England.
Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.
But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England.
Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.
November 21, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Summer UK temperatures have warmed faster than global average temperature.
But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England.
Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.
But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England.
Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.
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If you're interested in this topic, I also wrote about a resurgence in AIDS denialism earlier this year for MIT: www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1...
How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism
Widespread distrust of our public health system is reviving long-debunked ideas on HIV and AIDS—and energizing a broad movement that questions the foundations of disease prevention.
www.technologyreview.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM
If you're interested in this topic, I also wrote about a resurgence in AIDS denialism earlier this year for MIT: www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1...