Truly ill-informed people who lack the interest and the capacity to become informed.
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Truly ill-informed people who lack the interest and the capacity to become informed.
Hopefully Lorena will give New Mexico a good amount of September precipitation.
Even better than "For Whom the Pell Tolls?" 😉
How would anyone know? Did he actually save it, or post it? Inquiring minds. (I don't subscribe to the Globe).
One team is not like the other…. 😉
Quiz for New Mexico folks. Where am I? 😀
Mode 2 is Deva becoming Wordly ... 😉
Sometimes life imitates art ... or is someone at the Atlantic taking notes? 😅
You are channeling Newsom, I see. 😅
2/ ... considerations were different. The GOP is all bullshit all the time. Just look at Cassidy and Collins for handwringing bullshit and Tuberville for straight up brainless bullshit because that's all his brain can handle.
This doesn't matter to Trump. Everything is political in the moment, and thus changeable. He says this was "hidden," expecting RFK to take the hint. If he wants to get rid of RFK, then he'll say that RFK is IGNORING FACTS that Trump himself conveniently ignored for years when the political ...
The fish was THIS big! The WH doesn't even care that they're off by almost two orders of magnitude. $145B vs $8T, what's the difference? Says a lot about Republican voters that the WH can so obviously bullshit in the Harry Frankfurt sense of the term. Trump is a liar as well, of course.
The fish was THIS big!!! They don't even bother to get the numbers within two orders of magnitude of the correct amount. Says a lot about Republican voters.
Let's not forget about Boxty Curry ... from Ireland.
Yes, the academic year has started! 😉
4/ ... another department? It's either that or, well, we just retire the entire department." I think we can all put some names to this example.
3/...with only three students enrolled. You can probably put more butts in good classes and do it with only six faculty by not having the specialist positions you claim to need in order to fill out your tiny major. How about we get rid of your major while keeping the faculty together inside ...
2/ and a few very popular general classes for non-majors. I can easily see a provost saying something like, "Hmm, you can fully staff those large classes and add a few other potential wildly popular ones that you're not offering now because three of your faculty members teach tiny classes
I can imagine an undergrad program with, say, eight faculty members that has only four students choosing to major in the subject. That program might put a lots of butts in seats overall, but its offerings could be totally skewed. It might have a lot of tiny specialist classes for the four majors ...
I feel so sorry for the tourist industry ... not. I prefer my hotel stays cheaper, and my flights to those destinations cheaper and less crowded. As more industries suffer visibly (how's agriculture these days?), red voters will not be able to pretend that Biden did it or that it's not happening.
"Inflaming passions on the ground" is part of the plan. I suspect Pritzker and Brandon Johnson will play this very carefully. They want to avoid giving the president the casus belli he seeks in order to invoke even more extreme measures.
Well, did I have an impact? 😉 www.koat.com/article/stat...
Don't forget procrastination. That's an essential virtue developed by experience with referee #2.
Hmmmmm. I wonder if that post I put on directly on Governor Grisham‘s BlueSky page had an impact. 😉 I told her that New Mexico should approve the damned things and ignore garbage coming out of the politicized CDC that isn’t holding panel hearings anymore.
Funny that an American leader looks like he stepped out of a propaganda mural from the Soviet Union in the 1940s. d.newsweek.com/en/full/2709...
So this is an attack on the Kardashians? 😉
Of course it was performative. For them, the primary enemies were within the Democratic Party.
This is the continuation of the soft secession taking place in blue states. They are increasingly performing the functions the federal government refuses to perform, while continuing to bleed revenues to the federal government that ignores them. Cannot continue indefinitely.
If you hear something Stephen Miller says, the correct call is to presume that the truth is the opposite.
I would have expected to see a big effect on fresh produce already, given tariffs, ICE raids, and images of rotting produce in the fields. I'm not finding it yet in things like lettuce (FRED), or an overall fresh produce wholesale price index. Perhaps it'll come over the winter as Hanson claims.
I posted this on Gov. Grisham's BlueSky account, asking her to expedite development of a NM panel to approve vaccines in place of the CDC. No response yet ... bsky.app/profile/dhfe...
So this is how you get American labor to do the work formerly done by immigrants who you have locked up in concentration camps or deported...
3/ their solemn oath to defend the Constitution. With this much "dishonor" in the military, what should the Pentagon do in 2029 if the dishonorable GOP is no longer in charge? That is the real question.
2/ ... will claim "just following orders." What disciplinary action is warranted? If the answer is "none, just let it go," then how have we headed off further dishonor? So far, we have not seen military resignations from people who have been told to do things that should clearly have violated
Fine. OK. But what should be done about it? Gen. Hertling doesn't address that. Answering the "what now" question is the crucial difference between a feel-good "get it off your chest" essay and something truly prescriptive. Should the next president discipline the officers who went along, and who
Happy #caturday to those who celebrate. Alexei says hi. Look at those paws!
This timing suggests that Listerine cigarettes were piggybacking on the rising popularity of "Spud Menthol Cooled Cigarettes" and the Kool brand from Brown & Williamson, which debuted in 1933. Not all piggybacking works ... 😀
“If I could sit high, how much greater I’d be! What a king! I’d be ruler of all I could see!”
substack.com/@reallyameri... This pure specimen of Dunning Kruger is unhinged. Every republican is responsible for the fact this atrocious person is in charge of American healthcare. Their continued silence is ethically damning.
2/ Should the next C-in-C discipline them? The hard answer is probably yes, to make a point.
I asked this question of @markhertling.bsky.social. What should we do with the officers who preside over this obscenity? They are between a rock and a hard place since the order likely comes from above. Their oath seemingly requires them to resign rather than to follow this order, or to give it.
@markhertling.bsky.social, what should we do with the officers who preside over this obscenity? Serious question, not rhetorical. Should the next C-in-C identify which officers "went along" with this directive and discipline them for dishonoring their oath rather than resigning their commission?
I haven't wandered around Ann Arbor since, oh, 1978 when I was considering UM for grad school. 😉 Agree that left wing NIMBYism is more than annoying.
Wealthier part of Ann Arbor?
Indeed, which is hard evidence that RFK is a Dunning-Kruger menace to society.
Husband of an OB-GYN here. She's pissed off, and glad that ACOG is disentangling itself from government money. No government money = more independence. Nonetheless, physicians are between a rock and a hard place.
Look no further back than the 1918-1919 flu pandemic that took out a disproportionate number of the young and healthy.
So, embarrassment is now a sufficient reason not to undo illegal actions. Hmmm.
It's almost refreshing that all the nuttiness isn't confined to the US... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
He could always inject some bleach to fix his mitochondrial issues ...
Are you sure he isn't in some hospital getting an IV in his hand?
Yeah, I had my first student come down with Covid yesterday ... At least our president hasn't been forced out by Trump yet. 😉
Don't you think Ukraine should offer France and Germany some training on how to defend their own airspace against incursions from Russian drones launched from the Baltic? The Ukrainians have some valuable experience in clearing the skies of pesky foreign drones.
States must form groups of the willing to go around the CDC to create their own approval processes for vaccines. And they must band together to require all insurance companies to follow their decisions, even if that goes against the non-scientific garbage emanating from the FDA or CDC.
Then I guess human hearts in the United States are decidedly harder and less moral than human hearts elsewhere in the world where these things happen at a much lower frequency.
Hey @indyrefugee.bsky.social , try blocking trolls. This isn't Twitter and we don't need it to become like Twitter.
Speaking of things medical, pharmacies may not offer Covid shots in NM this fall because they believe the state requires CDC panel approval first. The panel is currently suspended, and the CDC is now degraded and politicized. Can NM break this link and set up its own approval process?
Unless it's Oxford/Cambridge or perhaps St. Andrews, how different would that be from a rationalization of a large American state's regionals that eliminates a campus or two that were sited in out-of-the-way places, often for political reasons, and based on demographic projections of the past.
We never ask for this kind of information, though some writers supply it on their own. This is a top-five kind of standard, where tenure depends on being among the best people in your field, not the best available on the market at that point in time.
He's not wrong ...
Hayes nails it ... if someone at your kid's basketball game started spouting off about how kids' mitochondria are off, and that he can see it in their faces, you would probably get up at the first time out and move far, far, away. bsky.app/profile/alli...
Yep. But remember that the administration's loudmouthed flunkies (exemplars of Dunning-Kruger) are speaking directly to people who have no science background at all, no willingness to learn anything, and who think their opinions are just as valid as @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social's.
This shooting took place from outside the building. Fox will continue doing Fox. The dishonesty shames journalism and shames American "culture."
What does that say about Alex Nitzberg as a journalist? After reading the full article, my view is confirmed. Hack.
I wish I had thought of that ....
I think we're up to about 350 so far. How long before a university tries to censure someone for expressing this public opinion? That is part of the authoritarian playbook. Fortunately, we're blessed with a highly decentralized higher education system that will prove harder to completely control.
How about go to jail.
Great respect to the CDC staff. We’ll see how many of them pay for this with their jobs. This is real resistance.
"They" will not fire him. Have "you" contacted your colleagues in the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against RFK?
And "He" can fire them all. That may not be so terrible. We're better off with a public collapse of this kind of institution. CDC recommendations now lack scientific creditability and physicians are in a bind. The public will see more clearly the consequences of its choice of a dictator
Medical societies are at a pivot point now. Many have already pushed back, though mostly symbolically. For instance, what can ACOG do now that the CDC is telling OB-GYNs to deny safe vaccines to pregnant women or face sanctions?
Of course, at best a third of Americans can locate Ukraine on a map ...
I think you would find the same thing true for social scientists as well. Heck, I suspect it's true for all scholars of any disciplinary stripe.
Surely you don't expect Leavitt to have any grasp of -- or concern for -- the facts. 😉
You’re giving me lens envy! 😉
In isolation this is not a very meaningful question. The result can be interpreted in many ways. For instance, how often do Trump voters interact with (or have) family members who have substantially different political views? If you don't have many interactions it's easy to say you don't care much.
3/ GOP will be in the mood to forge a new consensus that limits presidential power, but that agreement must not happen until the Democrats have used the same tools of power Trump now wields to undo as much of the damage to the social fabric as can be accomplished by presidential decree.
Democrats may very well need to use the same playbook in reconstruction, and have been saying so for some time. I don't see a way to avoid that unpalatable approach, given the damage Trump (and the compliant and complicit GOP) has done already. Perhaps what's left of the .. bsky.app/profile/dhfe...
Money paragraph for journalists. Later he refers to the need for a new "reconstruction" using Trump's authoritarian tools. Absolutely. If there is a "next" Democrat in the WH, they will need to purge the civil service again and replace all Trump appointees to independent agencies (like the Fed).
Yeah, here's the real thing: Meta had a fit when I reproduced the third image to make a point about Trump.
My thoughts: Zelensky should offer to train the German military in anti-drone warfare. I can only conclude from this story that interdicting Russian drone infiltration is beyond the capability of German air defenses. The alternative explanation is that there is no German will to respond.
Just why are Russian drones being allowed to overfly German territory? The article doesn't address this. The first thing that pops to mind is that German air defense against this kind of infiltration is non-existent. Telling if true. Maybe they should hire Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
When sense returns in 2029, can the Air Force revoke the medal?
What then happens when medical professional societies explicitly reject the CDC’s “guidelines?”
And then they leave the gun lying around for an 18-year-old with mental illness to find and use.
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Could’ve been worse. His name might have been Rueben.
Well, at least they're doing something productive ... bsky.app/profile/caju...
From Trump by double digits to a Democrat by 11 percentage points. Perhaps The Texas gerrymander won't be quite the slam dunk the GOP is hoping for, and California might net more than five new Democrats.
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If the Court allows this, then every GOP-appointed official is fair game once the Dems have the power. When the stakes of the political game get high, however, parties in power often refuse to give up power.
It's low productivity work, but at least it IS productive. 😉
Those were $$ already allocated by the CHIPS act, so essentially, Intel stockholders have just given away 10% of the value of their assets ... more, actually, if the government intervenes politically in ways that harm Intel's bottom line. Glad I had zero shares on Intel in my portfolio.
Didn't we hear the same story about how unskilled migrants would depress wages of native-born unskilled labor? The markets for high skilled and low skilled labor are different, of course, but I can see many channels through which educated foreign labor could increase wages of native born workers.
I don't think I have ever seen a more transparent group of suck-ups in my adult lifetime. They must be playing to an audience of one, because they are surely aware -- at least most of them (Hegseth excluded) -- of how stupid, dishonest and disreputable they look to any American with brainpower.
Now go listen to what Justin said ... 😉
Let's see, 80% of the US population is urban. So, not only is Stephen Miller full of shit, he has also latched on to what will prove to be en election losing strategy! Very few MAGA-leaning voters are left to be induced into voting. But lots of "normal" Republicans can sit the next election out.
Make it catastrophically scarce nationwide! Next hit the electric grid in major cities, starting with Moscow. You have the tools, and their air defenses are weaker than yours.
I didn't see the lead up where he talks about a "windfall." Later on he says that that's just what Trump is calling it. Sloppy journalism. You don't simply parrot deceptive language and excuse yourself by telling the public that they need interpret "windfall" for themselves.
A moment of peace before the semester begins ...
