Seems like there are several blantant Hatch Act violations going on at a few USG websites today. I look forward to reading about the prosections of the deep-state cabal that is no doubt behind this.

11 September comes round again, but I imagine the news today will have little somber reflection on that attack and our actions over the subsequent years. Instead, our various feeds will be wall to wall with the latest affronts to our society and reputation by our elected officials.

Long simmering professional work finally out: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013420 - early in the pandemic, I noticed that there was a small tweak needed to how we calculated certain parameters for compartmental models. But that this small correction […]

SCOTUS has now made a worse-than-Korematsu level decision: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court-los-angeles-immigration.html - even if they later undo their decision upon full consideration, they will made all of us party to these shameful acts in the interim.

... I will retire in shame if ordered work on this https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-army-navy-parade-anniversary-b2816130.html Such an embarassing abandonment of what should be a moment of pride.

Ovf, Bret Stephens calls out MAGA movement as neosocialist: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/trump-intel-economy-competition-control.html - checks out, imo.

Never pay the Dane gelt: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5515480/fcc-abc-nbc-reviews

If not sufficiently clear, this is a cash handout to these states: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5505271/three-republican-led-states-to-send-hundreds-of-national-guard-troops-to-washington - "at the request of" the federal government means that a bunch of federal money is flowing to these […]

Seems like a boycott list to me: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/white-house-rating-big-beautiful-bill

"After his speech, Trump was presented with a traditionally folded American flag — a gift usually reserved for the family members of fallen soldiers." (https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5433765/3-takeaways-from-the-military-parade-and-no-kings-protests-on-trumps-birthday) I've done funeral […]

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5428533/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisory-committee-acip Paraphasing: Unsatisfied with killing Samoan kids, RFK goes after bigger game.

Lived in DJI and the surrounding area for just over a year myself when recalled to actvie duty https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/g-s1-71039/migrants-djibouti-ice-shipping-container It sucks, and its an inappropriate place to hold prisoners. But as for the ICE folks complaining about long hours and […]

Right as a bunch of tech bros want to spin up their own reactors? Just a coincidence, im sure https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392382/trump-nuclear-regulatory-commission-watchdog-safety-radiation Look - do we over regulate generally? Yup. Nuclear specifically? Almost certainly (disclosure […]

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So an event where the US forges relationships with the senior naval leaders around the globe, for about $2M, is out (https://news.usni.org/2025/04/24/navy-cancels-56-year-old-international-seapower-symposium-due-to-unavailable-funding), but a parade that will serve no strategic objectives aside […]

Straight out of Mao and Stalin regimes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo.amp Un-American.

Whatever your policy preference re size and responsibilities of gov, the sledgehammer demolition version was always going to damage all the functions: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks Maybe that's acceptable collateral for some voters, but my preference is […]

What a clown show. https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

RFK: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-it-s-not-unusual-rfk-jr-comments-on-growing-texas-measles-outbreak-232983109592 Narrator: it should in fact be unusual. Before this one, last measles death in US? 2015 US measles cases all of 2024: 285, about 2x what we've seen in just two months […]

As someone that owns a few chainsaws*, this is some real soft-hands performance-art-level BS: https://apnews.com/video/elon-musk-waves-chainsaw-on-stage-at-cpac-97d5394d574d41669e1fadfd25fa3205 What a fucking poser. I mean, I guess he's got eye pro on? But only an idiot wears that's kind of […]

I'm looking for a good maps app for phone, which also doesn't indulge capricious renaming of bodies of water. Recommendations?

Interested to see WH pivot into these sort of announcements: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/g-s1-45994/trump-hegseth-isis-somalia-airstrikes Historically, USAFRICOM has routinely announced such strikes (n.b. almost always no civilian casualties). One could check their bird site profile and […]

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Not taking a position on the intended outcome here, but this seems like a questionable way to accomplish it: https://news.sky.com/story/amp/men-in-shackles-led-on-to-us-military-plane-as-immigration-arrests-on-rise-13295895 I've flown in these. They are not cost-effective ways to move people […]