Official who could have warned of imminent forced into early retiredment by DOGE: As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

The Trump administration has cut 100s of jobs at NWS, with staffing down by at least 20% at nearly half of the 122 NWS field offices nationally and at least half dozen no longer staffed 24 hours. 100s forecasters were encouraged to retire early.https://shorturl.at/FkMlu

West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

@nathantankus.bsky.From conversation on @pkrugman.bsky.social 's substack: "this is an extraordinary financial crisis because it is a financial crisis, more than any other financial crisis ever, that is directly connected to the erratic and bizarre and dangerous behavior of one person."

From ultramoderate D. Brooks: "It’s time for a national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

shorturl.at/HYPjD Trump is killing a major export: Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the US sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.

Incredible: you would think you should a little something about the thing you shoot your mouth off on national TV. Survivor benefits: an essential feature of social security

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

“Target destroyed!” On #FoxNews you would never know that #Trump tanked stock market in the worst week since the pandemic. It’s not a news network. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

In 73 days Trump started a trade war, poisoned our closest alliances, threatened Canada and Greenland, blown up NATO, offered Ukraine to Putin, gutted scientific research & tanked the economy. If U wanted to destroy our country couldnt have done better than #Trump

Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.

2 months in: Start a trade war with our closest allies, blow up NATO, hand Ukraine to Putin, crash the economy, kill scientific research, threaten to invade Canada and Greenland. If you wanted to design a president to destroy our country you could do much better than #Trump

Along with gutting IRS to make it harder to collect taxes, Trump using IRS to track down illegal immigrants -- individual returns have ALWAYS BEEN PRIVATE -- now illegal immigrants who work, pay taxes without getting benefits will get arrested..https://shorturl.at/xxMBz

The problem is that the #Trump administration is likely to keep moving the goal posts to make #Columbia make concession after concession. It is not a good faith actor. If they cared about antisemitism and hate speech they wouldnt have released the 1600 people who stormed the capitol

if this isnt McCarthyism, what is it? "the administration is targeting legal immigrants who have expressed views that the government believes threaten national security and undermine foreign policy." Crackdown Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

More tribute to the Sultan: The firm agreed to contribute $40 million in legal services to causes Mr. Trump has championed, including “the President’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

I don’t want to exaggerate my powers of prediction but I posted this ten years ago:

Exactly

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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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All you have to do is ask what would Mitch McConnell do if the shoe was on the other foot? Sad to say, the GOP knows much better how to play power politics. Chuck is hopeless

Pretty funny that Meta-- champion of free speech who has given up content moderation (allowing all manner of sludge on its platform) under the banner of combatting censorship tries to keep a former FB employee from telling her story www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...

Why would anyone think that #trump -- of #trumpsteaks, #trumpairlines, a failed casino business, 6 bankruptcies, the man who, according to his own tax returns, lost more money than any other American taxpayer for several years -- should run our economy?

Market drops another 2.7% - after six weeks of #Trump chaos -- mass firings/rehiring/tarrifs, hold the tarrifs -- when are people going to figure out that this guy has no idea what he is doing?

As Ravitch explains, Milton Friedman wrote The Role of Government in Education, in 1955 the year after Brown v Bd of Ed offering a sophisticated intellectual justification for segregration academies

The latest effort of the GOP to destroy public education in our country. Read Diane Ravitch's excellent piece in the @nybooks.com (www.nybooks.com/articles/202...) /https://wapo.st/3XvZuNK

Thank for your very kind words. I think it is true that Berlusconi pioneered much of what we see w/#Trump: politics as reality TV, billionaire populism, transgression as authenticity. But Trump is much more dangerous

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Jeff Bezos throws the Washington Post under the bus and climbs aboard the Trump train alexanderstille.net/jeff-bezos-t...

Yes, Ray @rfisman.bsky.social Berlusconi was a warm-up act for Trump who has taken not just sycophancy but so much else to a whole other level

Another disgrace: armchair generals Trump and Vance rebuking and bullying Zelensky, who has courageously defended his country against all odds.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/28/us/trump-news?smid=bs-share

The ongoing bloodbath at the Social Security Administration has only one goal: The total annihilation of Social Security by firing half of the work force and closing the field offices. Wall Street billionaires want to destroy Social Security so they can give themselves trillions in tax handouts.

It will be known as the “Price is Right” administration.

Can we go any lower?

No one was angrier at #Trump on Jan 6 than McConnell but a days later read the polls showing most Republicans still favored Trump and he cynically refused to back impeachment. Had he shown backbone and principle we would be spared the current nightmare.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

shorturl.at/ePN2j This will go down as one of the most shameful days in our history: an American president sides with a brutal dictator over a democratic ally resisting aggression: imagine if FDR had chosen Hitler over England and Poland

Less than a month into Trump2 we can already see an Orwellian 1984-like dystopia taking shape. Lying as a key arm of rule. The latest: Ukraine started the war with Russia. The slogans of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth: "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength.”

Finally someone with some backbone and principles: willing to lose her job for the idea that bribery is still a crime -- rather than let Adams buy his way out of jail in a seamy deal with #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

HL Mencken said “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people". What would he have made of Fox, Newsmax and social media?

wapo.st/40O8a2R Lying or accepting lies is now officially a prerequisite for holding office in our govt

Be sure of a few things: when all shock and awe subsides -- the rich will be richer, the poor poorer, the middle class no better off or worse, the deficit higher. This blizzard of activity is a smoke screen for an old-fashioned oligarchy (plus new tech oligarchy) taking control