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Artist (dance, music, sketching, and painting), avid science and history reader, and poet/essayist/novelist. Vietnam Era, and Disabled American Veteran with a Service-Connected Disability. Retired biologist.
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Unbelievable, more potential criminality, one big crime family & criminal organization? It never ends…

Discussions on possible ways to topple the Trump regime tonight.

Scholars around the world who depend on State Department funding to participate in long-established programs like Fulbright say their payments have been abruptly cut off after getting a notice that officials were reviewing their activities.

Pass it on: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Reports of our demise might have been premature

Yep, yep, yep.

Bad news for Lindt fans.

Art Schallock, the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles left-handed pitcher of the 1950s who had been the oldest living former major leaguer, died on Thursday. He was 100.

The battle over Government funding is coming and it’s going to be ugly, a shutdown could be in our future… Make no mistake, any President, Congressman, or Senator, interested in cutting spending & balancing the budget, will not and should not, be pushing tax cuts that increase the National debt…

A new agreement has been reached to end wildcat strikes by thousands of New York State correctional officers, which have created chaos throughout the prison system.

I wonder if France has any spare guillotine laying around.

Here is the new afterword for the new paperback version of me memoir, Burn Book www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S. It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks. The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 87. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

Prominent Democrats are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts, trying to forge stronger bonds with voters as their party reels from the impact of President Trump’s policies and struggles to craft a new strategy.

Read: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired as Elon Musk’s government-cutting project targets the Veterans Affairs Department. “Lots of people don’t understand how important these roles are,” a hospital administrator said.

I've seen a few "actually, a lot of dems are really good at the internet, they just aren't getting attention" please give me non-AOC, non-Bernie examples so that I can educate myself. I will say though, being good at the internet MEANS GETTING ATTENTION.

A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education.

NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

#GVerse Yesterday, March 7th 2025, here is #NotMyPresident saying verbatim "They rigged the election, and I became President" (like & repost)

A small aircraft carrying five people crashed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, according to the FAA.

Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to attacks from the richest man in the world. Read an inside account of the explosive meeting where President Trump moved to rein in Elon Musk’s power.

I’m trying to think of the reaction from the right and from Fox and from Israel supporters if I or another Muslim or a Palestinian or Biden had said what Trump’s envoy said today, about Hamas - “They’re actually guys like us, they’re pretty nice guys” - & about the US not being an “agent of Israel.”

Donald Trump has now golfed 6 of the 7 weekends he has been President - and he’s spent $18.2 million in taxpayer dollars at his own resort doing so. It’s all a big grift, and we’re the suckers that are on the hook for it.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Tired of winning?

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Many 🇺🇸 living in border states with 🇨🇦 wish us to become your southernmost province. This sentiment reflects our admiration for the values and stability that Canada represents, in contrast to the dictatorial tendencies of our current government. Sincerely, Dr. Len

Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈 Accurate weather forecasts save lives. See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...

@aoc.bsky.social: "Tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. So every dollar that you spend in federal taxes is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon. And it's also going to cut an 8-year-old kid with autism's ability to access Medicaid. That's what they are putting on the table."

“Because of the president, we have a fear.” Fearing deportation, undocumented workers are staying home. The impact is being felt not only in immigrant communities, but also in the industries that rely on their labor, including residential construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality.

I am a Vietnam "Blue Water" Veteran. My sea duty was mostly on a DE class US military ship. I was serving to help evacuate South Vietnam. I worked offloading ammo from the South Vietnam Navy LST (Hull 975) in the spring of 75. Today I see Trump is doing military operations, not political government.

It is unfortunate to see society fall into lawlessness, and unusual to observe the apparent fate of the once greatest democratic republic in the history of this world. We can no longer pretend that systematic national government failure is not happening. Psychology fails as billionaires overpower us

Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.

One social science question is: Is there any method available to what was previously known as the "open social system" that used the "Caucus" convention method, as in the Democratic Party back in Iowa, to cover issues responding fast enough to the AI-enhanced propaganda machine dominant in this GOP?

The key sociological fact is Artificial Intelligence enhanced methods well-funded by the same 660 billionaires who realized a 44 % growth in wealth in 2020, is a rapidly adaptive social media platform using historically proven propaganda techniques of Goebbels inventions from 1939 Germany. Its power

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

"Chris Wright, the new administration’s energy secretary, took the stage and gave an impassioned speech on how concerns over climate change should not prevent Africa from charging ahead with fossil fuel development." -NY Times

Hopes for increased US infrastructure spending? This is Merrill Lynch’s US Infrastructure basket. 🇺🇸

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob