Janet Kinneberg
@jkinneberg.bsky.social
Grateful for my time on our amazing planet. Here to learn from & support experts in their fields #climate #health #law #science #politics 🇺🇦
Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope.
Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach
Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope.
Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach
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Biomimicry
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In the wake of this tragic election, I’m remembering how I found comfort years ago in Janine Benyus’ observation that “we are a young species.” Maybe we’ll make it, maybe not..
But I’m re-watching her beautiful short video about #Biomimicry anyway and finding some comfort.
youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?...
But I’m re-watching her beautiful short video about #Biomimicry anyway and finding some comfort.
youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?...
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I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
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It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
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Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
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"Federal law says they have every legal right to be in the United States, and that ICE should never have put them in a detention center. "
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
Three young immigrants ordered freed as Virginia lawsuit tests ICE detention policy
In a decisive rebuke of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration judge on Wednesday ordered the agency to release a young immigrant held at a Virginia detention center — one day after the s...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Federal law says they have every legal right to be in the United States, and that ICE should never have put them in a detention center. "
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
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Thanks to the redistricting ruling and a more competitive district, Democrats are rushing to declare their plans to run for Congress: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thanks to the redistricting ruling and a more competitive district, Democrats are rushing to declare their plans to run for Congress: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
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As the article notes, the ticks that cause alpha-gal are spreading to new areas thanks to climate change
A 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite.
First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite
After months of investigation, researchers confirmed that a New Jersey man died of a tickborne allergy called alpha-gal syndrome after eating a hamburger.
nbcnews.to
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
As the article notes, the ticks that cause alpha-gal are spreading to new areas thanks to climate change
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The civil service laws are fragile because of this:
"a judge-made constitutional order ... with the roles of Congress, the President, and the agencies increasingly being defined by the Supreme Court according to higher-law principles of its own making."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"a judge-made constitutional order ... with the roles of Congress, the President, and the agencies increasingly being defined by the Supreme Court according to higher-law principles of its own making."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The civil service laws are fragile because of this:
"a judge-made constitutional order ... with the roles of Congress, the President, and the agencies increasingly being defined by the Supreme Court according to higher-law principles of its own making."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"a judge-made constitutional order ... with the roles of Congress, the President, and the agencies increasingly being defined by the Supreme Court according to higher-law principles of its own making."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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There is no future for this country as a democracy without Supreme Court reform, as @joshtpm.bsky.social said yesterday.
But there is something we can all do now: say the RIFs are obviously illegal, and publicly disagree with SCOTUS. Ask your Congressmembers to say that too.
But there is something we can all do now: say the RIFs are obviously illegal, and publicly disagree with SCOTUS. Ask your Congressmembers to say that too.
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform
I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
There is no future for this country as a democracy without Supreme Court reform, as @joshtpm.bsky.social said yesterday.
But there is something we can all do now: say the RIFs are obviously illegal, and publicly disagree with SCOTUS. Ask your Congressmembers to say that too.
But there is something we can all do now: say the RIFs are obviously illegal, and publicly disagree with SCOTUS. Ask your Congressmembers to say that too.
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I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs.
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The mass firings have been lawless: now and all year
The first step in stopping a lawless Supreme Court is being clear about what it’s doing
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs.
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/
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What can you do?
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What can you do?
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
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Curing cancer is hard!
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Curing cancer is hard!
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
/2
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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Speaking as a government worker:
The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research???
Either we have failed or they have.
The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research???
Either we have failed or they have.
Quick — someone tell the New York Times that the situation in early October, when the shutdown began, was not “normal.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Speaking as a government worker:
The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research???
Either we have failed or they have.
The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research???
Either we have failed or they have.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Get ready to rock and roll!
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is on the way. In about two weeks, temperatures 12 miles up over Canada and Greenland are forecast to spike by 50°F or more. That’s a shockwave in the stratosphere — a rapid disruption of the polar vortex high above the Arctic… 1/
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is on the way. In about two weeks, temperatures 12 miles up over Canada and Greenland are forecast to spike by 50°F or more. That’s a shockwave in the stratosphere — a rapid disruption of the polar vortex high above the Arctic… 1/
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Get ready to rock and roll!
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is on the way. In about two weeks, temperatures 12 miles up over Canada and Greenland are forecast to spike by 50°F or more. That’s a shockwave in the stratosphere — a rapid disruption of the polar vortex high above the Arctic… 1/
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is on the way. In about two weeks, temperatures 12 miles up over Canada and Greenland are forecast to spike by 50°F or more. That’s a shockwave in the stratosphere — a rapid disruption of the polar vortex high above the Arctic… 1/
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The US drew nearly $900mn of its IMF reserves as Argentina received an equivalent amount ahead of a critical debt payment, transactions analysts pinned on Washington’s effort to bolster Javier Milei’s government.
www.ft.com/content/2730...
www.ft.com/content/2730...
US drew $900mn from IMF account as Argentina debt payment loomed
Buenos Aires’s reserves rose by the same margin as Washington seeks to bolster Javier Milei’s government
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The US drew nearly $900mn of its IMF reserves as Argentina received an equivalent amount ahead of a critical debt payment, transactions analysts pinned on Washington’s effort to bolster Javier Milei’s government.
www.ft.com/content/2730...
www.ft.com/content/2730...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
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People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
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...we were wrong. A trial in this month's NEJM confirms what many cardiologists had already come to realize: beta blockers don't help most of the time in the reperfusion era. (2/2) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction without Reduced Ejection Fraction | NEJM
Current guideline recommendations for the use of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction
without reduced ejection fraction are based on trials conducted before routine reperfusion,
invasive care,...
www.nejm.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
...we were wrong. A trial in this month's NEJM confirms what many cardiologists had already come to realize: beta blockers don't help most of the time in the reperfusion era. (2/2) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey
James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.
www.eonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
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Tangential, but with each additional Drop I am forced to ask: is there one human being on earth who still believes Epstein killed himself
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tangential, but with each additional Drop I am forced to ask: is there one human being on earth who still believes Epstein killed himself