Margo Edmunds

No words for this.

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The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Honeybees? It's Our Native Bees That Need the Buzz Honey bees are in trouble but so are our 4000 North American native bees. Learn about the best flowering plants and garden maintenance practices.

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique? More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.

We seem to be on the cusp of a world in which workers of all kinds—teachers, doctors, writers, lawyers, coders, clerks, and more—will be replaced with, or to some degree sidelined by, their A.I. equivalents. What will get left out when A.I. steps in?

Outrageous.

Powerful image.

These Are the 15 New York Officials ICE and NYPD Arrested in Manhattan More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. www.wired.com/story/ice-ma...

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers

U.S. Transportation Department plans to take over D.C.’s Union Station Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Wednesday that the Trump administration aims to take control of Union Station from Amtrak.

"Government troops loyal to the U.S. ruling regime have seized a key transportation hub in the rebel stronghold of Washington..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Wait, what??

US environment agency employees say Trump administration undermining mission Nearly 300 current and recently terminated employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a declaration of dissent on Monday, outlining five major concerns about how the Trump administration's politicization of science and severe job cuts were undermining the agency's mission.

US environment agency employees say Trump administration undermining mission reut.rs/4leZ1JW

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work In a public letter, employees of the Environmental Protection Agency accused the administration of engaging in unlawful partisan activity and endangering public health.

More than 270 EPA workers signed a letter on Monday denouncing what they described as the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.

Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database The combination of AI and national health databases offers opportunities, but may also be exploited by unethical agents. This study shows that there has been an explosion of formulaic research article...

📉🧪 Is health data flooding journals?

A new study finds 341 formulaic papers using AI-ready US health data, many with flawed stats, unjustified data slicing & zero false discovery checks.

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#SciComm #MetaResearch #AI

Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.

Many Americans in their 80s and 90s can actually remember what fascism looked like--and that's one reason they're the group that hates Trump the most
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

Between the arrogant tech twerps who think “we’ve got this,” and the malicious characters behind them who want the system to break, so they can fix it through privatizing with tech bros and private equity, there’s a LOT to worry about here.

The American and European publics still stand with Ukraine

Public attitudes in the U.S. are even more striking. When it comes to Ukraine, Americans broadly agree with Europeans.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Another outrage. Please follow this story.

Border patrol grabs Venezuelan parents in D.C., despite protected status The arrest in D.C. of a Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.

A Venezuelan couple being arrested with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.

Trump filmed stumbling up Marine One steps as health fears continue to grow

President Donald Trump was left red-faced after stumbling up the steps of his Marine One chopper, leading to questions about his health.

Very interesting.

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down.

Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.

In honor of Black History month…

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

Wait. Vance said what??