“no one in authority has the institutional memory to recall how the agency operated on a good day” www.biospace.com/fda/opinion-...

“Battery pack prices for stationary storage fell to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% drop from 2024” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/09/g...

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

“tanning bed radiation induces melanoma by increasing the mutation burden of melanocytes and by mutagenizing a broader field of melanocytes than are typically exposed to natural sunlight.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration. Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying. The truth comes out.

for the State Department simplebits.shop/collections/...

Neuromorphic AI is back! I was working on this in the early 1990's. www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/u...

This might be a good day to remind people that when #NOAA cancels funding for #tsunami related data, the warning system is affected. 🧪🌊 #AlaskaSky alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

Listen to protons oscillating under Earth's magnetic field by building a proton-precession magnetometer for yourself for under $100. spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-pr...

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

“the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet.”

“If a vaccinated person encounters fentanyl, antibodies in the blood would then bind to the drug and prevent it from traveling to the brain.”

This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.

The last 12 FDA commissioners did not mince their words (to the extent that one can do that in the context of an academic medical journal): www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Massive 20 GWh sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant announced in China www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/24/m... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social

The Supreme Court could pave the way for companies to receive millions of dollars in refunds for the tariffs they’ve paid.

Liftoff of Landspace's first Zhuque-3 rocket. Successfully reached orbit but RUD during descent for the landing attempt.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

“volunteers in Washington state attempted to reach out to professional refugee aid groups, including World Relief and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, hoping to find help for Lakanwal's deteriorating mental state, but they got limited response” www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...

“About 25 of Roadies’ truck drivers received the cancellation notice. The company is now losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each month as its clients go elsewhere.” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

“I, Claudius” continues to be relevant

The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

Even Ryan suspects something is illegal youtu.be/ZFjHzuH7CyI?...

Full video of the launch t.me/militaryruss.... Colleagues are positive it's SS-18 or Sarmat (they are quite similar). My guess is that Sarmat is more likely. A launch from Yasnyy logical after last year failure in Plesetsk. As for SS-18, it hasn't been tested for a while (2014?) so why do it now?

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight

I feel like my dogs got AI to write this for me: “When you think about it, squirrels usually subsist on a diet heavy on nuts—acorns, pecans, etc.—a diet strikingly similar to that of prized Iberian pigs” ediblecommunities.com/recipes/squi...

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.

In 1995, MTV VJ @curry.com wanted to do a "cybercast" from the Molson Ice Polar Beach Party in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada using the ISP I did part time web design for in grad school. My involvement got me hooked on live video. Also neural networks seemed to be stagnating at the time...

First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡

"By the end of January 2020, it should have been clear that the virus posed a "serious and immediate threat" and "urgent planning" should have started...Instead, February 2020 is described as a “lost month” with life continuing almost as normal across the country." www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss charges against Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Brighton Park, as well as her co-defendant Anthony Ruiz.

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

NIH cuts: “Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19”

Thanks to the UC Irvine nuclear reactor facility for hosting a tour from CRASH Space this week!

The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards). Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

Blue Origin have successfully landed their New Glenn booster, making them just the second company to ever land an orbital class rocket booster! The ESCAPADE payloads are destined for Mars, but they aren't going straight there... Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q

'GROUND LEVEL EVENT' IS UNDERWAY: Today's X5-class solar flare from sunspot 4274 hurled energetic protons toward Earth. Some of the particles are so powerful, they are penetrating the atmosphere all the way to the ground. "Neutron monitors around the world are detecting it." spaceweather.com