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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 .

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Combined scent bottle and bonbonnière (South Staffordshire, c1765), at Bonhams, London (est. £1,000-1,500) #c18th #c18 #18thc

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Finland’s president isn’t F’ing around.💪

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Occasionally one comes across a skeet (bleet?) of genius. This is one such occasion

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 78 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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The FDA Just Approved a New Covid Vaccine.

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Yesterday, I was sleepy floofy cat with nose in air. But now, having had some rest and caught up on some news, I am now:

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something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Hey @pressherald.com @bangordailynews.bsky.social @mainepublic.org Here's someone very prominent stating the obvious about Collins! Instead of reprinting her press releases, ask her what she's actually doing

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if you actually believe that drugs cannot cause bad behavior, at all, then this sort of implies that every crime or transgression committed by an addict or user is done solely because of their own innate, inescapable badness as people. Which is worse!! That's like Drugs Calvinism!!

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I recently went to a fun little conference where most in attendance were central bankers & financial journalists; plus Chris Desan, P. Mehrling, B. Eichengreen and me (?!!). Here’s one of the panels in podcast form thanks to @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social @bhgreeley.bsky.social

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Hope folks’ enlightening conversations with Grok have been worth the NAACP having to step in for the environmental harm it’s causing Black communities.

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TOMATO - tariffs on, markets angry, tariffs off

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NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/n...

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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These are straight up gestapo tactics from ICE. They’re going after Democrats trying to scare them or provoke a response to justify a further crackdown.

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My energy going into the weekend and month of June

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Our nationwide day of defiance is two weeks from tomorrow. As Trump hosts his self-indulgent birthday parade in DC on June 14, we’re taking to the streets everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 1,500 events planned across the nation. We hope you join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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President Trump’s 2026 budget would cut #WIC food benefits by more than $1.3 billion for more than 5 million young children and new & expecting parents with low incomes by slashing their fruit & vegetable benefits, despite the Administration’s stated goal of improving child health.

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So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

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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.

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In expected but disappointing local news indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-prov...

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This is his only biography now

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Gotta hand it to them, there aren't many places that accept BOTH cash and crypto!

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Unprecedented corruption & crimes happening daily, right in front of us

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MAGA Political Kommissars now have final say on Fulbright Fellowships. Verboten topics for international scholarship include climate change, gender, disability, race & ethnicity, migration, and multiculturalism. 40% of approved fellowships for Norway were canceled on these grounds. #academicsky

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Note to self: read this and decide what you think about it!! Note to everyone else: I did once publish a chapter on Braudel in an extremely obscure anthology.

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Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

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Holy shit! An NYPD detective on Mayor Adams' personal detail was also working for the alleged crypto torture guy and reportedly brought the Italian vic from the airport to the luxury Manhattan townhouse where he was tortured for 17 days to give up his bitcoin password.

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This is so on-point. And @willbunch.bsky.social has the branding nailed: Cryptogate.

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Paintings like this make me forget everything I ever learned about the general crisis of the seventeenth century. The 1640s suddenly seem so appealing!

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This OUGHT to be a completely fringe, niche event--no more threatening than any other conference that happens in Las Vegas. (Okay, I find those all mildly threatening ... but that may just be me.) But instead, it's part of a plan to destroy US banks and Federal Reserve System! on.ft.com/3Hj4ikr

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Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.

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Internal presentation warns of mass exodus at FAA that will further impact air traffic control issues. Trump's mismanagement and chaos is making it increasingly dangerous to fly in this country and it looks like its going to get worse. Congress needs to step in. www.wsj.com/business/air...

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Points to the author who realized we would be more likely to read about climate change negatively affecting Maine fisheries if she used words like "squirts" and "glom" civileats.com/2025/05/27/w...

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