Alaska a big win for the WH - kept Epstein off the front pages for a week

Despite being best known for his humorous and satirical songs, Tom Lehrer spent most of his life as an academic mathematician go.nature.com/474SrkG

The draconian cuts in spending supposedly eliminate wasted money. Sorry, spending money to save lives is NEVER a waste.

Who knows how many of the stories circulating about Trump are true - very possible some are not. But the sickening reality is that even the most heinous and outrageous rumors are believable given what we already know about him.

Who knows how many of the stories circulating about Trump are true - very possible some are not. But the sickening reality is that even the most heinous and outrageous rumors are believable given what we already know about him.

The draconian cuts in spending supposedly eliminate wasted money. Sorry, spending money to save lives is NEVER a waste.

Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell." Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him." Every news story will include both clips, right?

… and ashamed of my fellow Americans who voted for him despite all the clues, warnings and rhetoric that indicated what his second term would be.

This is so wrong….

Remember during the election when the Democrats were jumping up and down and shouting about the horrible things that would happen to our country if Trump was elected? Well, here we are.

Bizarre July 4th memory: headed to the Sheep Meadow in Central Park to meet friends and spotted a handwritten sign guiding picnic participants to the location of a local hospital’s event. It simply said LIVER AND KIDNEY PICNIC with an arrow. No hot dogs????

They were warned…

Well, still in rehab - slow but steady improvement but a long way to go before I get home. Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement!

After a series of medical mishaps I’m in rehab at Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn . I wasn’t really planning on growing a beard, but there it is.

Trump Republicanism at its finest. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Happy Passover!

Today!

A big THANK YOU to @TMobile for once again offering a full season of @MLBTV free to its customers. Now I'm all set for opening day this Thursday!

Freezing in #NYC this morning - literally. Wake-up temp of 32F.

Seriously, who could have known?

Beyond reprehensible.

It’s not about “DEI.”

The Social Security Administration said that people who wanted to file for benefits or change the bank where their payments are deposited could no longer do so by phone and must first verify their identity online or go into a field office.

The Trump admin is threatening to pull back funding from the MTA, if it doesn’t crack down on crime. But crime *is* down on the subway, and it’s unclear what the letter intends to accomplish. The timing is noteworthy: Trump wants congestion pricing to end this Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

Thank you 60 Minutes - this segment was at times frightening and at times exhilarating.

This is worth every second of the 13 or so minutes of the piece. This is America.

I would not want to be friends with the person who designed this.

He needs to be reminded

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

Estimated number of people who could die within a year without American foreign aid for: H.I.V. prevention and treatment: 1,650,000 Vaccines: 500,000 Food aid: 550,000 Malaria prevention: 290,000 Tuberculosis prevention: 310,000

Chuck Schumer’s capitulation is a lesson in how *not* to fight fascism. Democrats who are real true warriors know that we NEVER SURRENDER Now that’s a movement I would join.

Who ever imagined that some folks would have to dip into their nest egg to buy an actual egg …

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/m...

Federal government agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, including clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, environmental quality, and pollution. These words literally refer to the quality of our life support system on Earth.

"The only vehicle Tesla has launched since the 2020 Model Y is the Cybertruck. The pickup had sales of 38,965 units last year, Cox Automotive estimates, well below the 250,000 that Musk initially predicted Tesla would produce by 2025..." www.reuters.com/business/aut...

“Tesla’s (TSLA) German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January, Reuters reports.” 3/6/25 finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-s...

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

My Saturday evening laugh…

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For those like me of a certain age this can be both funny and frightening

And sadly there will be more

Normally, when I don’t hear back right away from my NOAA colleagues, I just assume that they’re busy. Now I assume that they’ve been fired. 😩

Good God. The biggest chunk of this is $3 million to determine why women suffer more from asthma than men. They're giving estrogen to male mice to see if that's the culprit. WH describes this as research on "transgender mice". Clearly someone in the Administration can read; they hope you can't.

Tariffs UP. Groceries UP. Exports DOWN. Stock market DOWN. Consumer confidence DOWN. Chance of a recession UP UP UP. After Trump left, it took Biden 4 years to rebuild the US economy. It’s taken Trump just 6 weeks to destroy it again.

Trump is running the U.S. economy straight over the cliff.