Rich Jorgensen
@rajorg.bsky.social
Retired geneticist, genomicist and plant scientist living in Guanajuato, Mexico
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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
theonion.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
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"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Can't even secure Twitter's servers -- but sure, give him control over Govt servers in social security, IRS, Justice, Medicaid and Medicare .. and let him 'update' the air traffic control system. I mean, c'mon folks. @wired.com doing the work, again. www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Can't even secure Twitter's servers -- but sure, give him control over Govt servers in social security, IRS, Justice, Medicaid and Medicare .. and let him 'update' the air traffic control system. I mean, c'mon folks. @wired.com doing the work, again. www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
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yep
“You know none of this is about saving money, right?” says a third Republican familiar with the behind the scenes push from Musk for a government shutdown. “It’s all about destroying a liberal power base.”
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
yep
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oh no.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
oh no.
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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
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“Statistics provide a mirror to society,” said Andreas Georgiou, a Greek statistician who was criminally prosecuted in his home country after crunching accurate budget statistics during Greece’s debt crisis. “Sometimes these are uncomfortable peeks into reality.”
wapo.st/4iCmMtn
wapo.st/4iCmMtn
Opinion | How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data
Sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent “truth.”
wapo.st
March 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“Statistics provide a mirror to society,” said Andreas Georgiou, a Greek statistician who was criminally prosecuted in his home country after crunching accurate budget statistics during Greece’s debt crisis. “Sometimes these are uncomfortable peeks into reality.”
wapo.st/4iCmMtn
wapo.st/4iCmMtn
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NEW: Elon Musk wants a government shutdown, sources tell WIRED.
from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @jakelahut.writes.news, and @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @jakelahut.writes.news, and @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NEW: Elon Musk wants a government shutdown, sources tell WIRED.
from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @jakelahut.writes.news, and @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @jakelahut.writes.news, and @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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New from @jakelahut.writes.news @leahfeiger.bsky.social and me: Elon Musk has been advocating for a government shutdown, even as Trump himself has opposed one. Why? In part to make it easier to remove thousands of federal workers. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New from @jakelahut.writes.news @leahfeiger.bsky.social and me: Elon Musk has been advocating for a government shutdown, even as Trump himself has opposed one. Why? In part to make it easier to remove thousands of federal workers. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Opinion | The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now - The Guardian
March 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Opinion | The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now - The Guardian
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The new cover of TIME magazine has an illustration of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
February 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The new cover of TIME magazine has an illustration of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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6/ When governments decide what knowledge is acceptable, when they defund, silence, or erase science that challenges their ideology, the consequences aren’t theoretical. They’re written in history books soaked with the fallout of intellectual repression.
February 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
6/ When governments decide what knowledge is acceptable, when they defund, silence, or erase science that challenges their ideology, the consequences aren’t theoretical. They’re written in history books soaked with the fallout of intellectual repression.
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Simon Wiesenthal Center sent CNBC/NBC this statement via email regarding Elon Musk's "gesture" -- "At the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we have spent 47 years investigating, pursuing, and educating the world about the dangers of normalizing symbols and rhetoric tied to the Nazi regime...
January 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Simon Wiesenthal Center sent CNBC/NBC this statement via email regarding Elon Musk's "gesture" -- "At the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we have spent 47 years investigating, pursuing, and educating the world about the dangers of normalizing symbols and rhetoric tied to the Nazi regime...
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HIRONO: Would you carry out an order from President Trump to shoot protesters in the legs?
HEGSETH: *dodges question*
HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would comply with such an order. You still shoot protesters in the legs
HEGSETH: *silent*
HEGSETH: *dodges question*
HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would comply with such an order. You still shoot protesters in the legs
HEGSETH: *silent*
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
HIRONO: Would you carry out an order from President Trump to shoot protesters in the legs?
HEGSETH: *dodges question*
HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would comply with such an order. You still shoot protesters in the legs
HEGSETH: *silent*
HEGSETH: *dodges question*
HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would comply with such an order. You still shoot protesters in the legs
HEGSETH: *silent*
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+1. Also, love the term “musklings.”
There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.
November 17, 2024 at 1:39 PM
+1. Also, love the term “musklings.”
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There is lots of work to do. But, if your response to learning 10 nations are at 100% renewables, 75-85% of new electric capacity globally is renewables, & 70 nations are at >50% renewables and increasing is to conclude the world is doubling down on carbon, there's not much room for conversation.
November 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM
There is lots of work to do. But, if your response to learning 10 nations are at 100% renewables, 75-85% of new electric capacity globally is renewables, & 70 nations are at >50% renewables and increasing is to conclude the world is doubling down on carbon, there's not much room for conversation.