6. But Argentina is using this money to prop up the value of the pesos at an artificially high level. That means there will NEVER be enough dollars to satisfy demand. As long as the government is willing to pay more for the peso than its worth, people will keep wanting to sell them for dollars.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat

Today @hrdag.org denounces violations of human rights by the US government—and reaffirms our commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...

Maybe the most disturbing about this... He has no idea what "fiber optics" are!

When the Chief Executive can order the Treasury Department to cut him a personal check... We have officially crossed over to an entirely different form of government!

K O M P R O M A T !!!!

Wonder if the Chemistry Department's Organic seminar "Cis-Trans Isomerism & structure diversity" will survive? Https://www.kut.org/education/2025-10-20/ut-austin-professor-art-markman-dismissed-greg-abbott

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Homeland Security, DELIBERATELY generating & sending out false information! Classic "Consciousness of Guilt"

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

$1,200 Billion in new taxes in 2025. Very unclear as to all of the the SPECIFIC effects these new regressive taxes will have on the US economy? We now have a VAT/consumption tax. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DC No Kings note: It is unlikely that we will ever have accurate crowd estimates. Unlike other US cities, the government prevented any "overhead shots" in DC. However, there were observers with camera equipment & at least one sniper rifle on the roof of the National Gallery's East Bldg Trump knows

Is building an undersea tunnel across a tectonic plate boundary in geology with frequent class 8 & 9 earthquakes a great idea? www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/m...

Polish judge refuses to extradite Nord Stream blasts suspect over 'just act'

Blue-green algae emit over 70 highly toxic microcystin compounds - broad spectrum chemical warfare against all competitors - both plant & animal. A single exposure to ppb concentrations was fatal to dogs. Difficult to reliably remove from drinking water supplies.

Karma's a bitch? 4,500 US troops died; none of Bolton's alleged WMDs were ever found www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

University of Hawaii report on the US Navy's "Red Hill" fuel contamination of Pearl Harbor drinking water: uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/u...

So, we should trust inexperts? ignorants? amateurs? incompetents? dilettantes? charletanes? I have a Chemistry PhD, but I seek my Hematologist's advice on CBC test results

B-52s are highly vulnerable to modern air defenses. Imagine the "Tonkin Gulf rage" if Venezuela manages to use their SAM-300s or BUK2 systems to nail one? www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

"We" are young American service members, sent by commander bone-spurs! To kill folks, in hopes he will get a Peace Prize?

Photographer: Anthony Vasquez Chicago

"Gulf of America"... China version

"you have to exercise industrial policy" www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Sending Americans to die in Gaza? Really? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wth the availability of AI, protein folding software, & off-the-shelf polypeptide synthesis instruments... Ignoring the biohazard WMD threat is truly ignorant! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."

When someone says "what's important to me", listen

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

If tomahawks are sent to Ukraine, will be interesting to see if they can successfully evade Russian air defenses. Designed over 40 years ago, <600 mph speed, evasive navigation but no stealth anti-radar

Newest WMD threat - cheaper & more reliable than a nuclear device: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Treating workers like this ALWAYS results in folks joining unions!

Biochemists & National Security folks REALLY need to be watching this terrorist threat that's way cheaper & more reliable than a nuclear device: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

Mortality - people are worrying about the wrong things! flowingdata.com/2025/10/08/m...

China significantly outpacing the USA in Uranium enrichment: www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuc...

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …." www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

They say no one wins a trade war. Certainly, there are few bigger losers than soyabean farmers in America. But Brazil's producers have found a way of profiting from the upheaval econ.st/48XVXhM Photo: Getty Images

In case you wondered about the dangers of "non-lethal" crowd control: www.aclu.org/publications...

Remember this headline? "The beatings will continue until the morale improves" www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” -Friedrich Nietzsche