R D Thorsett
rdthorsett.bsky.social
R D Thorsett
@rdthorsett.bsky.social
Good chance immigrants are net adding to the US housing stock given that their the backbone of the construction industry...
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And he's exactly the sort of authoritarian that 6 SCOTUS justices would LOVE to see in power...
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My main concern with Vance is that he might be smarter about consolidating the levers of power than Trump is...
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
You can argue that the evidence here is only circumstantial... But this is the same newspaper that focused weeks of summer coverage of Clinton around "Clinton Cash" and weeks of fall coverage around Wikileaks.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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7) If it were me, I wouldn't agree to fund the FSGG approps bill that funds the WH/OMB without policy riders that take away the administration's funding to pursue things like impoundment, etc. Why should Russ Vought have any staff? Saying "no" here is a policy win. If they do it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And at the grad student and post-doc stage the intertwining of science and socializing can be daunting if when the socializing tends towards male-bonding activities...
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This was quite an interesting read someone else posted. It’s a view from the perspective of her sister about what happened to Franklin.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM