Jeffrey Kargel@icymarsman.bsky.social
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Earth & Planetary scientist, enthralled with nature
Don't you just love multi-colored fireworks spanning the sky?
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SpaceX cleared to launch first Starship test flight after two explosive failures | CNN
Federal regulators gave SpaceX the green light for another test flight of Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed, after mishaps earlier this year rained debris near populated isla...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Don't you just love multi-colored fireworks spanning the sky?
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www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u... This must be unconstitutional. It's unAmerican, anti-American, and harmful to every American citizen.
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students | CNN
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, marking a sharp escalation in the battle over the Ivy League school’s autonomy in the face o...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u... This must be unconstitutional. It's unAmerican, anti-American, and harmful to every American citizen.
Very interesting. Barrett's pivotal self-recusal, particularly.
I am taking frequent note of Barrett's positions and recusals.
I am taking frequent note of Barrett's positions and recusals.
May 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Very interesting. Barrett's pivotal self-recusal, particularly.
I am taking frequent note of Barrett's positions and recusals.
I am taking frequent note of Barrett's positions and recusals.
Is this Manifest Ignorance, or is it premeditated Nineteen Eighty-Four? Of course, why limit your answer. It can be both. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
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May 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Is this Manifest Ignorance, or is it premeditated Nineteen Eighty-Four? Of course, why limit your answer. It can be both. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
What a joke of country the U.S. has become. We are led by reality-TV-show-fakery, so that's what we get. www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/p...
DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a reality TV pitch where immigrants would compete for American citizenship, according to a spokesperson who said in a statement to CNN that “the show i...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
What a joke of country the U.S. has become. We are led by reality-TV-show-fakery, so that's what we get. www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/p...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Hey, Trump administration--you know all that work you're doing to "stop antisemitism"?
Call's coming from inside the house, dudes.
Call's coming from inside the house, dudes.
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Hey, Trump administration--you know all that work you're doing to "stop antisemitism"?
Call's coming from inside the house, dudes.
Call's coming from inside the house, dudes.
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Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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May 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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Our mission is simple: we provide free legal advice and assistance to researchers being targeted by bad actors trying to censor, misinterpret, or otherwise silence them.
Please reach out by phone or Signal at 646-801-0853 or email lawyer@csldf.org for help. ☎️
Please reach out by phone or Signal at 646-801-0853 or email lawyer@csldf.org for help. ☎️
May 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Our mission is simple: we provide free legal advice and assistance to researchers being targeted by bad actors trying to censor, misinterpret, or otherwise silence them.
Please reach out by phone or Signal at 646-801-0853 or email lawyer@csldf.org for help. ☎️
Please reach out by phone or Signal at 646-801-0853 or email lawyer@csldf.org for help. ☎️
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Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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May 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)
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More on the USDA's decision to restore purged data sets and webpages in response to the farmers' lawsuit. knightcolumbia.org/content/usda...
May 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
More on the USDA's decision to restore purged data sets and webpages in response to the farmers' lawsuit. knightcolumbia.org/content/usda...
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New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding
Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.
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May 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ICK WATER IS RICH WATER
The article informs about an economically important advance in re-use of mining waste water to extract needed metals, including rare earths. (But the word alchemy has no scientific place here.)
Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...
The article informs about an economically important advance in re-use of mining waste water to extract needed metals, including rare earths. (But the word alchemy has no scientific place here.)
Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...
A Toxic Pit Could Be a Gold Mine for Rare-Earth Elements
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May 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
ICK WATER IS RICH WATER
The article informs about an economically important advance in re-use of mining waste water to extract needed metals, including rare earths. (But the word alchemy has no scientific place here.)
Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...
The article informs about an economically important advance in re-use of mining waste water to extract needed metals, including rare earths. (But the word alchemy has no scientific place here.)
Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...
President Xi is absolutely right, and he stated it well. But then, why does Xi also persist with bullying of its neighbors? It looks bad and is bad--incredibly bad--for Trump to do this. And so it is the same when Xi bullies nearly every neighboring country. Screenshot from CNN:
May 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
President Xi is absolutely right, and he stated it well. But then, why does Xi also persist with bullying of its neighbors? It looks bad and is bad--incredibly bad--for Trump to do this. And so it is the same when Xi bullies nearly every neighboring country. Screenshot from CNN:
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On a tough day in Congress, loving this point of light! Messing up farmers is terrible for everyone, and going to court can still unlock solutions. Grateful to our courageous clients.
Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
On a tough day in Congress, loving this point of light! Messing up farmers is terrible for everyone, and going to court can still unlock solutions. Grateful to our courageous clients.
The goat seemed to make use of a gap in the bicyclists to attack one of them. The goat's dim view of bicycle races and riders is on display, as is the goat's high level of thinking. But: bad goat! Ba-a-a-a-ad!
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The goat seemed to make use of a gap in the bicyclists to attack one of them. The goat's dim view of bicycle races and riders is on display, as is the goat's high level of thinking. But: bad goat! Ba-a-a-a-ad!
Warren Buffet's home since 1958, and still today. www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffe...
Warren Buffett lives in a modest house that's worth .001% of his total wealth
Located in a quiet neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska lies the home of billionaire Warren Buffett. He bought the house for $31,500 in 1958 or about $250,000 in today's dollars.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Warren Buffet's home since 1958, and still today. www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffe...
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No surprise that Trump’s proposed NASA budget aligns perfectly with Musk’s interests, not the public good.
We would never have gotten to the moon or be talking about Mars without NASA’s science mission — and should not let Trump/Musk jeopardize America’s future leadership.
We would never have gotten to the moon or be talking about Mars without NASA’s science mission — and should not let Trump/Musk jeopardize America’s future leadership.
NASA Proposal Would Shift Agency’s Focus Away From Space Science
That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with dreams of one day sending colonists to Mars.
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May 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
No surprise that Trump’s proposed NASA budget aligns perfectly with Musk’s interests, not the public good.
We would never have gotten to the moon or be talking about Mars without NASA’s science mission — and should not let Trump/Musk jeopardize America’s future leadership.
We would never have gotten to the moon or be talking about Mars without NASA’s science mission — and should not let Trump/Musk jeopardize America’s future leadership.
Trump posts AI image showing himself to be such an idiot. www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/w...
Trump posts AI image of himself as pope, leaving Catholics offended and unamused as conclave nears | CNN
US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman Catholic community just days before the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor...
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May 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trump posts AI image showing himself to be such an idiot. www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/w...
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Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
![WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media:
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.
“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/bafkreie7ky7hw4h6fcaqa6fkkqdyhg6czlebc2udp6fbbsjah4eoj7qg2y@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
The New York Times gets a nomination from me for best-art-in-political-journalism. Now, we are just waiting for the next seismic event.
April 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The New York Times gets a nomination from me for best-art-in-political-journalism. Now, we are just waiting for the next seismic event.
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Dear god let this man cook.
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Dear god let this man cook.