Pew-litzer or Pull-litzer?

Nothing says Memorial Day like honoring the fallen by attacking Democrats. Trump on brand.

New 'transactional' US global health agreements offer critical US aid in combatting HIV and other health threats in return for what critics say is expansive US access to resources like data and minerals, reports Matt Field @mattyfield.bsky.social.

Newish field hat.

Why are the white boys losing they're poo about the casing of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy? A fictional character who hatched from an egg?

Groundwater and Data Centers Data Centers and Groundwater – Water Well Journal share.google/XwIyt6v93U5K...

And here comes @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social from the top rope

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Pretty sure Trump doesn't know what the "Thucydides Trap" means.

Got double jabbed after work today...second (and final for life) dose of hepatitis vaccine and my COVID booster.

😂🤣👌👌When have I heard this before?

Fifty(!) years ago I was 14 yo. I was so excited about USA's Bicentennial. I remember doing a handdrawn comic book I called "Bicentennial Times" and serving in the color guard for the Scouts. I was so excited about this milestone for our country. I'm meh about the 250th.

Release them.

Trump wanted a war with Iran because he thought Americans would rally around a war president and it would drive his poll numbers up. It did the opposite. So thousands of lives & billions of dollars were wasted, and the price you pay for gas is significantly higher, because Donald Trump is an idiot.

California, Arizona and Nevada just keep upping the ante on Colorado River water savings. They now say they'll save 3.2 million acre-feet through 2028, while the Upper Basin states refuse to agree to mandatory cutbacks: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

Mito ni uhai. Maji ni uhai.

If corporations can have rights, why can't rivers?

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Trump thinks windmills are ugly, though, so

Cutting Science Out: Trump Administration Fires National Science Board Members blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

But Rubio’s talking points says no one has died.

I'm not sure Trump knows what "cease fire" means.

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

For my boating friends...it's "put in" not "putin". And "take out"...not "put out". That's an entirely different story.

Heading to Kenya in July. The cheapest flights are on Qatar and fly through Doha. I think not!

Doctor making a house call.

I learned a new word today...trekademic. As in people who study academically Star Trek.

I find watching videos of folks working on overgrown yards and towing out stuck vehicles from the backcountry to be oddly addictive.

Victor Orbán is a horrible person, but at least he had the decency to immediately concede defeat. Donald Trump, an even worse person, *still* hasn’t conceded defeat—SIX YEARS LATER!

Brief Trump summary of the past weeks: - “Open the strait” - “Help us open the strait” - “We don’t need the strait open” - “Open the f’king strait or I destroy you all” - “We block the strait”

Will it hold?

Uh oh...I am Reviewer 2.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

From the latest Kenyan Blue Community Kakamega Youth Water Parliament: We joined (Blue Community) Kisumu Youth WaSH Parliament for the launch of their youth-led SDG 6.5.1 report & InfoHub. blue-community.net/b...

Wind & solar projects have been held up for a year because they have been locked out of an Interior Department tool to identify endangered species

Last week’s monthly wildland fire outlook shows that the US wildfire season is already off to an above-normal start. UCS’s Rachel Cleetus breaks down the risks and impacts of climate change-driven heat across the country, pointing to the lack of policy response from the Trump administration.

New in PN: Trump's Total War Budget "It points the way clearly toward a distinctively Republican vision of America — one where there's endless money for bombs while the populace is transformed into an impoverished mass of hunger and disease, emitting hoarse pleas for castoffs from oligarchs."

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Samuel L. Jackson said it plain: show up and vote. This runoff is happening because too many voices stayed home last time. Let’s fix that. Election Day is Tuesday. Get to the polls. #GA14

Pasaka njema. Kristo amefufuka.

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“He is not the owner” A Bush judge. Wow. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”