Tom Ward
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Tom Ward
@churchillward.bsky.social
I live in Antigua Guatemala. Retired 8 years ago, moved here 2 years ago. What a great community. Very happy.
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The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security.

NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats.

By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
April 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This is called “capital flight” It usually only happens to poor countries (it never ends well) #EconSky

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April 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Horrific that tracking of individuals the U.S. government has taken into custody and threatens to send to a Salvadorean gulag is now needed.
1/2: Update to include Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Tracker:
1. PDKL: 3
2. PDUL ("disappeared"): 0
3. Formerly PDUL, now located: 1
5. Formerly PD, now released: 1
BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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10-year yield going vertical here. Something’s gonna break.
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.
The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.
wrd.cm
April 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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The value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by −1.55% in the past 24 hours.

MaKE aMERiCA GrEAt AgAiN.

🙄
April 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Who’s eagerly waiting for 4pm eastern today to hear Trump’s tariff announcement in the latest episode of “will your 401k collapse tomorrow?”
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Solar is already a hair's breadth away from being competitive with new gas, without subsidies, in the US. And if we start exporting a bunch of gas as LNG (as we're planning), it will raise domestic gas prices, making solar the uncontested winner. Pretty much inevitable at this point.
February 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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RUSSIAN CRISIS

🔥🔥🔥 For the month, all sectors of Russia’s stock market are in the red:

Gazprom -16.7%

Retailer Ozon -23.7%

Search engine Yandex -12.3%

Largest construction company Samolet -37.91%

Shipping company Sovcomflot -19.7%

🔥 Russia’s economy is melting down.
December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Another beautiful day comes to an end in Antigua Guatemala.
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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"We've never seen this level of operational sophistication," a NYPD spokesperson says regarding the still-at-large United Healthcare Assassin. Notes that NYPD officers have "been driving around" and "gone to every Shake Shack in the city" and would "probably" do so again around lunchtime on Sunday.
December 8, 2024 at 5:21 AM
When a traffic jam is a cause for jubilation.
The return of the displaced to their villages and towns in #Syria 😭😭❤️
December 8, 2024 at 10:19 PM
“Les Miserables” come to life.
December 8, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Moscow is where dictators go to die.
December 8, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Would love context on this, @jackjenkins.me.
A march of spiritual leaders of various confessions against the ongoing terror. I do wonder how many Georgian Orthodox priests joined, given that the Church is, unfortunately, the main KGB ideological backbone in this country. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
December 8, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Political prisoners in the Human Slaughterhouse, Sednaya Military Prison, are about to be released. Many have been locked up for years with no contact with loved ones

We’re all aware of the atrocities Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have committed. We’re going to find out far worse things
December 8, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Bashar-Al-Assad has learned his lesson.

by Susan Collins
December 7, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Assad can still stay in power if Mike Pence has the courage
December 7, 2024 at 4:37 PM
“Other priorities at this time”
BREAKING - Russia has informed Damascus that any intervention will be limited, as it has other priorities at this time, Sky News Arabia reports.
December 6, 2024 at 3:32 PM