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Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the cusp of geological malfunction.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the cusp of geological malfunction.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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2025 was even more disruptive in the public health sphere than I could have envisaged. As we look to 2026, I think we need to expect more chaos and more efforts to dismantle policies and systems meant to keep people safe. www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
3 issues to watch in public health in 2026
What might 2026 hold for the fields of public health, both domestically and abroad? Quite a lot.
www.statnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
2025 was even more disruptive in the public health sphere than I could have envisaged. As we look to 2026, I think we need to expect more chaos and more efforts to dismantle policies and systems meant to keep people safe. www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
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From the @WSJ: “Economic fortunes of low- and high-income Americans are diverging—same pattern happening with companies.”
#economy #inequality #divergence #dispersion
#economy #inequality #divergence #dispersion
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
From the @WSJ: “Economic fortunes of low- and high-income Americans are diverging—same pattern happening with companies.”
#economy #inequality #divergence #dispersion
#economy #inequality #divergence #dispersion
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There's a lot of focus right now on a person's right to choose whether to be vaccinated. But the risks falling vaccination rates pose to individuals — especially young babies, the elderly & the immunocompromised — need to be part of that discussion. www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/v...
4 questions to understand the costs of ‘medical freedom’
The choice that one person makes not to vaccinate has real costs — financial and otherwise — for their neighbors.
www.statnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There's a lot of focus right now on a person's right to choose whether to be vaccinated. But the risks falling vaccination rates pose to individuals — especially young babies, the elderly & the immunocompromised — need to be part of that discussion. www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/v...
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One gets the impression AG Sulzberger is for it too and thats a big part of why we're getting this too cute by half framing about JD "I wont apologize for being white" Vance
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
One gets the impression AG Sulzberger is for it too and thats a big part of why we're getting this too cute by half framing about JD "I wont apologize for being white" Vance
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I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Watch full episodes of FRONTLINE, the PBS documentary series, and explore news investigations from FRONTLINE's award-winning journalism team.
www.pbs.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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A recent poll found that about half of young people believe that individuals who do their own research can know as much as a doctor. Health-care providers need to help patients see the value of science and medicine in their lives, Dhruv Khullar writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NGeSFQ
The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever
Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A recent poll found that about half of young people believe that individuals who do their own research can know as much as a doctor. Health-care providers need to help patients see the value of science and medicine in their lives, Dhruv Khullar writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NGeSFQ
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Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”
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I stand on business
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I stand on business
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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The DNC is burying its 2024 autopsy.
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
DNC will not release its report on what went wrong for Democrats in 2024
DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction.
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The DNC is burying its 2024 autopsy.
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
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It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
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This is a science counterpart to demolishing East Wing at the White House. But with far greater consequences.
These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is a science counterpart to demolishing East Wing at the White House. But with far greater consequences.
These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
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Financial markets see the end of fossil fuels on the horizon & they're beginning to price it in.
www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Financial markets see the end of fossil fuels on the horizon & they're beginning to price it in.
www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
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Here's my list of the essential truths about our current crisis that are routinely missing from New York Times coverage: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Here's my list of the essential truths about our current crisis that are routinely missing from New York Times coverage: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...
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If I had ONE tip for librarians testing "Ai search" products is focus on relevancy. If you had time for just one query , test with a "tricky query". There is no one defintion of tricky, but a query that can easily return dozens/hundreds of relevant articles is definitely pointless to test! (1)
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If I had ONE tip for librarians testing "Ai search" products is focus on relevancy. If you had time for just one query , test with a "tricky query". There is no one defintion of tricky, but a query that can easily return dozens/hundreds of relevant articles is definitely pointless to test! (1)
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The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
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Who is the commander in chief?
What is command responsibility?
Where does the buck stop?
What is the unitary executive?
What is command responsibility?
Where does the buck stop?
What is the unitary executive?
POLITICO: Do you believe the second strike was necessary?
TRUMP: Uhhhh. Well it looked like they were trying to turn back over the boat. But I don't get involved in that. That's up to them.
TRUMP: Uhhhh. Well it looked like they were trying to turn back over the boat. But I don't get involved in that. That's up to them.
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Who is the commander in chief?
What is command responsibility?
Where does the buck stop?
What is the unitary executive?
What is command responsibility?
Where does the buck stop?
What is the unitary executive?
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What if there was, like, a single payer?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What if there was, like, a single payer?
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Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."