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These kids won't have a chance when I go for Shohei's HR ball. #Nats
NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com
this is potentially a super nasty feedback mechanism because much of our petroleum industry is probably nonviable in a serious global depression, such as the one caused by our petroleum industry ceasing to be viable
🚨Judge Xinis orders the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego, the Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador, the one place it was outright illegal for the United States to deport him to.
Now the question of compliance comes up. How will the admin respond? How will Bukele respond?
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Today's HHS layoffs include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues. #medsky #healthpolicysky apnews.com/article/heal...
Thankfully for D.C., we only have that one Albert Pike statue, but I wonder if they'll try to fortify it more so people won't take it down again like in 2020. Blustering blowhard never should have got one tbh
Opening Day. LFG #Nats
Republicans snuck a brutal blow to D.C. into their continuing resolution, attempting to defund our vital services midyear without warning. It would have a profoundly devastating, paralyzing impact on so many areas of life, especially public safety and education. It's a total shock and a nightmare.
the loudest protests right now need to come from US citizens who are less vulnerable to ICE and DHS
I don't think there's ever been a clearer, cleaner case for D.C. statehood--I mean, besides, y'know, "democracy"--than the fact that the city has been forced by Republicans who don't live there to erase over its Black Lives Matter plaza. And it has no representatives to fight back.
Hint: it’s not okay when they do it to Palestinian green card holders, it’s not okay when they do it to German tourists, it’s not okay when they do it to Mexican people regardless of citizenship, it is not okay. Ever.
There's been lots of debate on the left over the last 8 years about whether Trumpism qualifies as fascism or not, and I've never seen a semantic debate so handily settled
How many Democrats are going to stand up to this? What principles are left to sell out?
There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now.
The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.
An annotated color map of the world designating which states are and are not members of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and which ones have nuclear weapons, along with a few key details about some of those states.
Fifty-five years ago today, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons—which opened for signature on July 1, 1968—entered into force. Only four states have never been a party to it: India, Israel, Pakistan, and South Sudan. North Korea acceded in 1985 and withdrew in 2003.
There is a whole other dimension to this, and I'll have that story for you tomorrow.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
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Folks nobody who is in full compliance with IAEA safeguards is going to be capable of building a nuclear weapon on a timeframe less than 18 or so months, and that assumes going full overt breakout the instant you have enough raw and isolated (eg not spent normal fuel rods) special rocks on hand
There is no "but the SECDEF said" excusal to the moral responsibility a commander has in executing command decisions, no matter who ultimately "made" them
You execute this one instead of refusing and offering your resignation, you own a part of the stain
also gotta say kinda loath people who bring up retrocession into maryland because they kinda conveniently ignore that neither DC nor maryland are interested in that idea
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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.
