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Dad, spouse, economist, cyclist, Lego maniac, long lapsed blogger (not necessarily in that order). Tend to prefer my 70 square miles to the surrounding reality.
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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

Flightline on Fire: Spectacular images of SBU special operation “Web” to destroy enemy bomber aircraft.The SBU says over 40 have been destroyed, including Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers and A-50 aircraft. The enemy's losses already exceed $2 billion, the SBU says.

A drone attack is ongoing against Russian airbases with strategic bombers. While the full damage is still unclear, several videos show multiple bombers have been badly hit. Satellite images from yesterday confirm that Belaya hosts various Tu-95 models, Tu-22M3s, and Tu-160s

Reports that Ukraine smuggled a bunch of drones into Russia and took out a bunch of bombers: kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber... The ability of a sabotage squad to have precision guided weapons with multi-kilometer range is substantial.

Jodi Ernst doubles down on her "we're all going to die" re Medicaid cuts: Walking through a cemetery: "I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we're all going to perish...I'm really glad I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well."

The brand destruction that will come to the university that lends its reputation to this will be massive. Stephen Miller University from that moment on.

DEI is good for business and the leaders who get that will reap the benefits (in addition to showing they’re not cowards.)

SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

Speaking as the alum of just one such school, alums/faculty/students would LOSE THEIR MIND if the university did this. Not an enticing choice for college administrators

Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

Trump imposes big new tax on domestic cars www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt: "The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

I do not have the mental capacity to deal with this. Will someone hound them about this? Create a whole vertical devoted to taking the controversy? Call them everyday to ask? Or is that just for Black women?

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

True, but Trump did help solve the Fermi Paradox www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The fact that the media isn't treating this right out of the gate as an immediate & total disqualification of RFK and his closest advisers is all the proof you'll ever need that our reporters simply aren't up to the moment. This would 100% end any other HHS Secretary in a matter of hours.

People have a tendency to find their courage when things can’t get any worse. Let’s not wait until that point.

Democrats need to stop hand-wringing about their limited power in Congress and to start extracting whatever political price they can from the Republicans who are abetting Trump's corruption. Gift link: wapo.st/431rQCY

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

I always remember when some Conservative ministers under Stephen Harper would actively argue climate change would be good for Canada because the warmer temperatures would enable us to grow more food. They never talked about how much worse the wildfires would get!

My favorite part of the lab leak freaks is the concept that "COVID-19 is a fierce bio-weapon unleashed on Americans by our worst enemies and your baby should definitely get it."

I am stuck on 'Why does a toothbrush need to be connected to the internet?' Once it is, I guess maybe it needs to be password protected, so that, um, your enemies do not make it start whirring in the middle of the night. 🫢 But why does it need to be connected at all?

Your occasional reminder that Duffy came to NYC, rode the B train two stops with the Mayor, hid the event from all but his hand-picked press (we found him anyway), and apparently came to the below assessment after seeing one homeless person.

Even if the courts make the administration back off it feels, much like tariffs, like the damage is already done here. It’s much harder to agree to a very expensive, multi-year investment in your education if you also have to worry that it could get interrupted at any moment by the government.

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.

👀 The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist www.notus.org/health-scien...

Government employees who actually could be replaced by ‘AI’ apparently

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

we got an EV recently for our limited car needs and, enh, it's a car, fine, but a thing that's interesting is how it reveals just how much energy driving takes; I am currently using V2L on our fridge during some electrical work and an 80% charge could keep our food cold for like 3 months

Who's in charge?

We pay this guy a quarter of a million dollars a year. For that money, does he do anything except go on Fox News and talk shit about public transportation?

COVID-19 was one of the 10 most common causes of death for all age groups in 2021 www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...

It's long been clear there's a common denominator to a lot of the institutions Trump picks as enemies: Journalists, Universities, Courts, the Intelligence Community. All independent sources of facts & information that might conflict with his fabricated reality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

DAMN RIGHT (also, unless I missed it, Harvard should have spoken out about this earlier)

every time they lose the democrats do this

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

Weird how there dont seem to be dangerous gangs of illegal lunatics to infiltrate and ICE just spends all their fucking time plucking moms out of parking lots when they show up to immigration court