Carol Higgins
@herkcarol.bsky.social
Amateur astronomer, solar system outreach educator. “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of Earth. - Abraham Lincoln”
Oh Teddy, what have y'all done? Time for him to go, Texas!
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.
www.motherjones.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh Teddy, what have y'all done? Time for him to go, Texas!
Cannot find any words that express the outrage I feel 😡
Trump's gift
American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
The largest brain drain in history was when thousands of scientists left Nazi Germany; it became known as "Hitler's gift."
America's current assault on science is set to surpass that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science
The largest brain drain in history was when thousands of scientists left Nazi Germany; it became known as "Hitler's gift."
America's current assault on science is set to surpass that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science
July 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cannot find any words that express the outrage I feel 😡
Reposted by Carol Higgins
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
What the hell... 😡
Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA
Posted: May 2, 2025 11:22 am ET | Last Updated: May 2, 2025 11:29 am ET | President Trump is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA for FY2026. Human spaceflight gets a boost, but everything else is cut.
spacepolicyonline.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What the hell... 😡
WTF 😡
Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA
Posted: May 2, 2025 11:22 am ET | Last Updated: May 2, 2025 11:29 am ET | President Trump is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA for FY2026. Human spaceflight gets a boost, but everything else is cut.
spacepolicyonline.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
WTF 😡
Oof, China has succinctly launched the truth out to the world.
Your move, Mr. Most Brilliant-deal-maker-in-history Trump! 🔥😱🤣
Your move, Mr. Most Brilliant-deal-maker-in-history Trump! 🔥😱🤣
Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China.
April 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Oof, China has succinctly launched the truth out to the world.
Your move, Mr. Most Brilliant-deal-maker-in-history Trump! 🔥😱🤣
Your move, Mr. Most Brilliant-deal-maker-in-history Trump! 🔥😱🤣
YUP!
April 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
YUP!
So.... why don't you and all other news outlets who have official White House correspondents ban together and protest this disgusting move that silences all reporters who dare to disagree or make a negative comment about this administration?????
Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP | CNN Business
Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
www.cnn.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So.... why don't you and all other news outlets who have official White House correspondents ban together and protest this disgusting move that silences all reporters who dare to disagree or make a negative comment about this administration?????
COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡
Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
April 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡
Ooooff, giving the Trump administration a spanking that it deserves...
On the very same day the tariffs hit, Danish shipping giant AP Møller-Maersk bought a railway connecting ports at either end of the Panama Canal—undermining Trump’s other imperialist plan.
Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed
That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.
newrepublic.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ooooff, giving the Trump administration a spanking that it deserves...
😡 Disgusting hypocrites
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
😡 Disgusting hypocrites
What the actual hell. Please tell me I am just dreaming and the dream is a nightmare...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
By firing inspectors general, President Trump removed the watchdogs who rooted out waste and fraud in government. “Who’s going to be brave enough to speak truth to power when speaking truth to power means you're fired?” says Mike Ware, a former inspector general.
By firing inspectors general, President Trump removed the watchdogs who rooted out waste and fraud in government. “Who’s going to be brave enough to speak truth to power when speaking truth to power means you're fired?” says Mike Ware, a former inspector general.
Opinion | Trump Purged These Watchdogs From Government
President Trump promised to investigate waste and fraud in the government, but he’s fired the watchdogs who did exactly that.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
What the actual hell. Please tell me I am just dreaming and the dream is a nightmare...
Reposted by Carol Higgins
🧪🔭
NASA makes it look easy but no amount of bravura can make up for the group know-how necessary to achieve this feat—perfectly, on the first try, as the world watches in real time. Cut costs and cut corners, NASA learned the hard way, and you end up paying for crashed spacecraft
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
Invigorating the American Space Sector Requires Working With NASA, Not Against It | TechPolicy.Press
When programs are cut to the bone, America loses much more than it gains, writes Janet Vertesi.
techpolicy.press
March 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🧪🔭
And so it begins...
the complete destruction of America's poor and middle class who will pay the price of this idiotic US policy. This US administration is filled with cronies who have no idea what they are doing. God help us.
the complete destruction of America's poor and middle class who will pay the price of this idiotic US policy. This US administration is filled with cronies who have no idea what they are doing. God help us.
Breaking News: Sweeping U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China went into effect. Shortly after, China announced retaliatory measures on U.S. food imports.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
China Retaliates After Trump Announces Steep Tariffs: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
And so it begins...
the complete destruction of America's poor and middle class who will pay the price of this idiotic US policy. This US administration is filled with cronies who have no idea what they are doing. God help us.
the complete destruction of America's poor and middle class who will pay the price of this idiotic US policy. This US administration is filled with cronies who have no idea what they are doing. God help us.
Reposted by Carol Higgins
BREAKING: Trudeau blasted Trump over aggressive tariffs that went into effect today, claiming they hurt Americans and would be subject to retaliatory measures.
"Your government has chosen to do this to you ... chosen to put American jobs at risk."
"Your government has chosen to do this to you ... chosen to put American jobs at risk."
Trudeau to Americans on Trump tariffs: "Your government has chosen to do this to you"
Addressing Canadians, Trudeau said he wouldn't "sugarcoat it — this is going to be tough."
www.axios.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
BREAKING: Trudeau blasted Trump over aggressive tariffs that went into effect today, claiming they hurt Americans and would be subject to retaliatory measures.
"Your government has chosen to do this to you ... chosen to put American jobs at risk."
"Your government has chosen to do this to you ... chosen to put American jobs at risk."
Reposted by Carol Higgins
U.S. stock markets plummeted on Tuesday morning as a new global trade war began.
U.S. stock market plunge as Trump's tariffs spark fears about a trade war
U.S. stock markets plummeted on Tuesday morning as a new global trade war began.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
U.S. stock markets plummeted on Tuesday morning as a new global trade war began.
Reposted by Carol Higgins
“Farmers are on the front lines of climate change... Purging climate change web pages doesn’t make climate change go away. It just makes it harder for farmers to adapt.”
from @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org
from @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org
Growers who rely on climate data sue USDA for cutting off access
“Farmers are on the front lines," says one attorney, and axing web pages "doesn’t make climate change go away.”
www.motherjones.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Farmers are on the front lines of climate change... Purging climate change web pages doesn’t make climate change go away. It just makes it harder for farmers to adapt.”
from @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org
from @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org
Here's a VERY fair Peace Plan to end the Ukraine war that began when Russia invaded the sovereign state of Ukraine Feb 24, 2022. Russia continues to occupy the part of Ukraine it invaded in 2014 in defiance of international law(Crimea).
The poster below succinctly explains its terms and conditions.
The poster below succinctly explains its terms and conditions.
March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Here's a VERY fair Peace Plan to end the Ukraine war that began when Russia invaded the sovereign state of Ukraine Feb 24, 2022. Russia continues to occupy the part of Ukraine it invaded in 2014 in defiance of international law(Crimea).
The poster below succinctly explains its terms and conditions.
The poster below succinctly explains its terms and conditions.
March 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Reposted by Carol Higgins
GO Perseverance!
Perseverance's attempt to collect a sample earlier today. The larger diameter shallow hole is the Sol 1395 abrasion patch from six days ago 🧪🔭
#Mars Jan. 28, 2025 (Sol 1401)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#Mars Jan. 28, 2025 (Sol 1401)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
GO Perseverance!
For a happy image today, there's this...
Thank you, Bishop Budde! Boomshakalaka!
Thank you, Bishop Budde! Boomshakalaka!
January 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
For a happy image today, there's this...
Thank you, Bishop Budde! Boomshakalaka!
Thank you, Bishop Budde! Boomshakalaka!
Reposted by Carol Higgins
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
Some food for thought...
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Some food for thought...
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver