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Ne’er do well-no really. Witty once in a blue moon..sometimes obtuse. Believe in freedom to get in your own way when necessary. There’s still magic in the world if we look closely and quietly..
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“.. The unanimous ruling of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade strikes a blow to one the central planks of Trump’s economic agenda at a time he is seeking to use tariffs as leverage ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

I somehow don’t think they really want to get Germany worked up.

New: The Texas House on Wednesday approved a bill that would restrict protesting on college campuses. Senate Bill 2972 now heads back to the Senate, which must agree with the House’s changes or ask that their differences be ironed out behind closed doors.

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

🙃🙃🙃

Chicken-in-Chief.

Chicken TACO trade.

Five favorite black & white films Grand Illusion Casablanca The Third Man Holiday (1938) Only Angels Have Wings

Normalization…

this is a Biden judge 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Dear Poles, please don’t listen to this idiot who doesn’t even understand the laws of her own country. She doesn’t make policy for anything-We’re gonna side with you even if you don’t kiss the Orange Bozo ring.

This is EXACTLY right

This is an interesting retrospective by a former DOGE software engineer who caucused for Bernie in 2016. It suggests that DOGE’s structure and chain of command were unclear within the department. There are some echoes of Obama-era frustrations about government tech, too. sahillavingia.com/doge

Surprise!

Funny, there was a very long-running Sulla meme on Twitter…but the absolute corruption at this point probably requires some puritanical fire..

Another bridge to far that we’re going to buy.

Fight Fiercely, Harvard While Americans were busy doing the Vatican rag, Donald was poisoning pigeons in the park in Cambridge. Be prepared: this old dope peddler wants to go back to Dixie. by Maureen Dowd

Again.

#ScienceUnderSiege @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Disaster in waiting..

There will probably be faculty at universities our right wing governments manage to kill who still think it all would have been fine if it weren’t for the college wokes, who blame the reactionaries’ hatred of universities of what they claim to be reacting to. Those people kinda deserve what they get

Wow, that’s quite a change.

What authoritarians say

Terrifying-it isn’t professional-or transparent. Soon these goons will be coming for any of us. Unidentified plain-clothes men with weapons grabbing people across the nation is normalizing and training us to accept this.

lol. Bromance not going as planned.

Trump DOJ: Our Own Suggested Remedy For Illegally Renditioning Men To South Sudan Is Now Too Burdensome The Trump administration has managed to achieve a remarkable legal double standard: ask a court for a specific remedy to address your own violations of an injunction, get exactly what you asked…

“.. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 was a ‘major wake-up call,’ exposing the fragility and risks in US markets .. investors across Asia have gradually been rebalancing their portfolios to reduce overexposure to US assets.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Robert Plant would absolutely wander into Mordor like “anyone fancy a shag?”

Newsome is so bland he’s fascinating, both a Roman style patron of a rich family who’s never had a real job and like an avatar of the genteel small business owner class. Owners of hobby breweries and crystal shops that don’t turn a profit should keep his idol in their Larairum

Stealing and destroying the meagre possessions of the poorest Californians and moving the problem a 1/4 mile helps no one at huge expense. #HousingFirst is the solution. The way to solve homelessness is to... Give. Them. Housing. #FreeTheBear 🏳️‍🌈

“Censor” of course is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.

So they can’t do research then

“If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to “reevaluate” longstanding pediatric vaccines. It is now.” www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jrs-wa...

they want the european far-right in power so bad

Good reason to never use it. The way musk has janked around with GROK undermines why no product associated with him can ever be trusted.

⚖️American history shows a pattern: rights expand in times of crisis, but once the pressure fades, backlash often follows. From Reconstruction after the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, this cycle has repeated. Understanding the past helps put current events in perspective.