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guitardadio.bsky.social
Father. Guitar player. Fencer (foil & epee), vulnerability/sustainability scientist. Opinions are my own. Liking/reposting does not imply endorsement.
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12-mo water anomalies forecast Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 for #SouthAmerica. Deficits: W and S #Brazil, N #Peru, S and E #Ecuador, NW #Ecuador, SW #Colombia, central #Chile, #Paraguay, #Argentina. Surplus: S #Peru, N #Bolivia, NE #Suriname, NW #FrenchGuiana. www.isciences.com/blog/2025/07...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of Naval Operations were hired because they were superbly qualified, not because of DEI. But they were fired because they were black and a woman. That's racism and sexism. Call it what it is.

12-mo water anomalies forecast Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 for #Canada. Deficits: NE #BritishColumbia, NW #Alberta, Central #Saskatchewan, central #Manitoba, #Ontario, #Newfoundland, #NovaScotia. Surplus: #Nunavut, E #NorthwestTerritories, SW #Saskatchewan. www.isciences.com/blog/2025/02...

New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives. Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...

Correct. Take note all @democrats.org

WOOHOO! A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered….I’m sure everything will be perfectly fine 😬 www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

If unionized federal workers are one crucial prong in an actually-antifascist front, this kind of local, cross-issue, cross-community coalition-building is another. Love to see it.

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

Certified school librarians boost test scores, grad rates, & critical thinking, yet their numbers are declining. When we fight for school libraries, we fight for the future of education, & when we fight for the future of education, we fight for a better future PERIOD. #Skybrarians #TLChat #EduSky

I think @fedworkersunited.bsky.social is one of the most important prongs of antifascist organizing happening in the U.S. right now. Please support them and amplify their message however you can.

So CPAC is too overtly fascist for even the French far right. How do we excise this cancer?

Just wear I wanted ... More bad cops and less public safety. This is malicious intent. "deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

12-mo water anomalies forecast Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 for #Africa. Deficits: N #Mauritania, N #Mali, #Algeria, #Libya, #SierraLeone, S #Nigeria. Surplus: W and S #Mali, #BurkinaFaso, N #Nigeria, S #Niger, central to S #Chad, SW #Sudan, W to N #Ethiopia. www.isciences.com/blog/2025/02...

This will make us less, not more, safe. And climate security isn't "woke" - it's precisely the kind of long-term, challenging issue the DoD SHOULD be monitoring and preparing for.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

12-mo water anomalies forecast Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 for the #UnitedStates. Deficits: S #California, SW #Nevada, #Arizona, SE #Idaho, W #Wyoming. E #Maine, #Massachusetts, E #NewYork. Surplus: East-central #Washington, Central to E #Oregon, #Florida. www.isciences.com/blog/2025/02...

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

More thoughtless wreckage. This is not in our best interest as a country or as a civilization. www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

I'm a scientist because 52 years ago the National Science Foundation supported me, as a high school student, to do real research at a university summer science program. The destruction of US science by Trump and the Republicans today will weaken the country for decades.

Stunning ignorance...

Stunning incompetence ...

Stunning arrogance, soon to be incompetence ...

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

Thieves, thugs, and tyrants ...

"Next time you find yourself wondering 'Where are all the protesters?', please think about what you might not be seeing and why." New blog post from me on the big disconnect between media narratives about protest activity and actual protest activity.

Buy these standards, they would need to remove books about how Quakers oppressed in Britain settled Pennsylvania; how Jews oppressed by Nazi's were slaughtered in the Holocaust; and how miners from Italy and Poland were oppressed by union busters in Appalachia. clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

I grew up in rural WI and know how much pride farmers there have in helping feed people around the world. I also served as a US intel officer and saw how food insecurity drives conflict and extremism. Thanks to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal for running my op-ed.

The "heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system ... includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"McCarthy's support and popularity faded. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_....

Stunning incompetence ... "The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work" www.bbc.com/news/article...

What will it take to discover the emperor has no clothes?

Is the Trump administration going to protect us or make it worse? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/s...

Do you think it is a central time of government to prepare for and mitigate low probability/high consequence events such as pandemics? I do.

From June to August 2024, regions of #Yemen experienced prolonged, heavy #rainfall, which caused at least 57 deaths, displaced thousands of residents, and severely affected key sectors and essential services. Read more: www.isciences.com/blog/2025/02... (Image: BBC/Reuters) #MiddleEast #flood #rain

The most recent edition of ISciences Global Water Monitor & Forecast Watch List has been published. Deficits: N #Africa, SW #UnitedStates, N #SouthAmerica, and W #SouthAsia. Surplus: central #Africa, #SouthAsia, and #CentralAmerica. www.isciences.com/blog/2025/02...

"A 25-year-old DOGE staffer, who resigned last week after being linked to a social media account that shared racist posts, was briefly given edit access to the Treasury Department’s secure payment system." fortune.com/2025/02/13/a...

The very definition of a political wimp ... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Because the last thing we want is government executives that actually know how to do their job. dailyprogress.com/news/local/g...

"Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Three rounds of nationally coordinated rallies and one ongoing wave of uncoordinated but interconnected protests have taken place in the U.S. in the past few weeks, and I think that, taken together, they paint a telling picture of the current state of anti-Trump mobilization.

Ushering in the Soviet States of America... Trump DEI crackdown targets books in Pentagon schools www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...