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Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
I was invited to an executive office convening Dec 2024. My joke then was one last visit before they painted it gold...
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Trump to Carney: "You see the new and improved Oval Office. As it becomes more and more beautiful with love and 24 karat gold. That always helps too."
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I was invited to an executive office convening Dec 2024. My joke then was one last visit before they painted it gold...
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America was founded on the basic protection against unlawful imprisonment.
Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution.
Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.
Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution.
Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.
Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
April 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
America was founded on the basic protection against unlawful imprisonment.
Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution.
Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.
Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution.
Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.
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its crazy watching the president openly brag about using the presidency to extort law firms into working pro bono on the post-presidency legal defense he thinks he'll need when he's out of office
Trump brags about his shakedown of major law firms: "We have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money... they paid $100m on average... hopefully I won't need that many legal fees. I may. Who knows? After it ends. After I leave maybe I'll need it, but if I do it won't be very pleasant."
April 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
its crazy watching the president openly brag about using the presidency to extort law firms into working pro bono on the post-presidency legal defense he thinks he'll need when he's out of office
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Do your country a favor and send someone this:
PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker
pepfar.impactcounter.com
The counter estimates how many people Elon Musk has personally killed with HIV since Trump's inauguration.
PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker
pepfar.impactcounter.com
The counter estimates how many people Elon Musk has personally killed with HIV since Trump's inauguration.
March 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Do your country a favor and send someone this:
PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker
pepfar.impactcounter.com
The counter estimates how many people Elon Musk has personally killed with HIV since Trump's inauguration.
PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker
pepfar.impactcounter.com
The counter estimates how many people Elon Musk has personally killed with HIV since Trump's inauguration.
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Just heard from the U of M about the impacts of Trump/Musk’s funding cuts to health research.
They painted a grim picture — cutting off funding designed to help unlock new cures and treatments that save lives.
Republicans need to grow a spine and stand up to this.
They painted a grim picture — cutting off funding designed to help unlock new cures and treatments that save lives.
Republicans need to grow a spine and stand up to this.
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just heard from the U of M about the impacts of Trump/Musk’s funding cuts to health research.
They painted a grim picture — cutting off funding designed to help unlock new cures and treatments that save lives.
Republicans need to grow a spine and stand up to this.
They painted a grim picture — cutting off funding designed to help unlock new cures and treatments that save lives.
Republicans need to grow a spine and stand up to this.
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one of the things that drive me crazy about the defense of impoundment is that it is in such obvious bad faith. like, of course congressional appropriations are directives! why would congress have oversight powers if the constitutional expectation was that appropriations were advisory?
One thing that’s difficult to get people to really grasp is that impoundment is both lawless and actively undermines the basis of democracy. It’s one of those areas where rule of law and democracy are extremely closely aligned, the only area where it’s closer would be election law itself.
February 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
one of the things that drive me crazy about the defense of impoundment is that it is in such obvious bad faith. like, of course congressional appropriations are directives! why would congress have oversight powers if the constitutional expectation was that appropriations were advisory?
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Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
you had me at physical buttons. where do i sign?
NEW: I interviewed Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh about how he's approaching running a startup after years of heading up VW/Audi of America, his approach to finding customers, and why he prefers physical buttons over screens/voice control.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/s...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/s...
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh at CES 2025: modern cars have become 'dystopian' and 'disconnected'
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh chatted with TechCrunch about building an EV startup, direct sales, and buttons over screens.
techcrunch.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
you had me at physical buttons. where do i sign?
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One of the attorneys behind the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is turning to a new enemy: anti-renewables activists.
I explain how combatting disinfo is a new climate action frontier for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
I explain how combatting disinfo is a new climate action frontier for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
How Bad Information Is Breaking the Energy Transition
Why an attorney for Dominion Voting Systems is now defending renewables companies.
heatmap.news
December 12, 2024 at 7:42 PM
One of the attorneys behind the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is turning to a new enemy: anti-renewables activists.
I explain how combatting disinfo is a new climate action frontier for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
I explain how combatting disinfo is a new climate action frontier for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
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The results from BloombergNEF's 2024 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour. This is the largest decline observed in our survey since 2017. 🧵⬇️
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
The results from BloombergNEF's 2024 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour. This is the largest decline observed in our survey since 2017. 🧵⬇️