NYT gift article. tRumpty-dumpty has enriched himself to the tune of $1,408,500,000 at our expense. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the clock closer to doomsday, because of the growing armed conflicts, including the actions of the USA. They also cite the lack of response to climate change. Watch the presentation from this morning here: www.youtube.com/live/ulvUJui...

Has the world become closer to nuclear annihilation? Find out tomorrow at 10am when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updates the Doomsday Clock, live. thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

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The destruction of science research in the USA. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Trump abandons more programs of global co-operation. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two. They don’t need that many. [..] Two or three is nice. So we’re doing things right.” - Cognitively Perfect Donald Trump in PA yesterday.

AI analysis of Trump speeches: www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

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“This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?” — A senior foreign diplomat, texting a Washington Post columnist after President Trump’s speech at the United Nations. politicalwire.com/2025/09/23/e...

Fear, Anger, Hate - the three prongs of the Republican platform - are explored in Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's Book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator. See how the Republican Party exploits those avenues to manipulate their supporters and promote autocratic rule in the US. amzn.to/47MJSLV

Trump is the joke that transcends national boundaries. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Six Ways AI Could Cause the Next Big War connect.thebulletin.org/lt.php?x=3DZ...

Cowardly Mike Johnson is shutting down Congress rather than to allow a vote on releasing Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Trump has reached his late-Reagan-stage: advanced dementia, falling asleep in meetings, rapidly failing health, inability to hold a train-of-thought, and decisions being made in his name by people around him. #Trump

Trump's Justice Dept has defined the cost of killing a black child at one night in jail. www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/p...

Renown AI Expert and computer scientist Melanie Mitchell has joined the Science & Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She is also author of AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Complexity: A Guided Tour, An Intro to Genetic Algorithms. connect.thebulletin.org/lt.php?x=3DZ...

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Trump administration continues its support of authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Confused about Ranked Choice Voting? CNN has a pretty well done demo: www.cnn.com/interactive/...

The new dark ages www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Modern intensive farming techniques depend on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. At current rates of use & population, phosphorus supplies will run out in 50-100 years, & potassium in 500-600 years.

Thomas Edison to Henry Ford, “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide… What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

After resolving the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war, Trump is ready to lend a tiny corpulent paw to resolve the India-Pakistan War. www.axios.com/2025/05/08/t...

Ken Griffin, whose donations helped fuel the elections of Donald Trump, now says the US is 20% poorer because of Trump, and “It can be a lifetime to repair the damage that has been done.” politicalwire.com/2025/04/24/g...

“Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades, and extending the 2017 tax reform and deregulation may not compensate for all the damage.” - Wall Street Journal

50 years of climate change show increased desertification and loss of green areas bbc.com/future/artic... #science #climatechange

"The people running the MAGA movement are terrifying sycophants who gaslight the world into ignoring reality should it remotely contradict their Dear Leader’s minute-by-minute whims." - Andrew Otazo

The Trump Administration attacks on science and education have direct, chilling parallels with the Stalinist Purges which began in 1936, and Chairman Mao’s ‘Culture Revolution’ beginning in 1966. 1/4

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Experts say that countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also the United States. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

Quantum sensors reading earth's magnetic fields as an un-jammable and more accurate replacement for GPS interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

"I think of us humans as a family of amnesia victims who kept making up stories about our past until we found a means to reconstruct it—the sciences." - Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Possible Worlds

I was talking to a person who is a member of an evangelical church about the state of the US and the world right now and they said something that threw me. “I’m studying on the Tribulations”. Then I realized what they meant- they are giddy for the End Times. 1/2

Your Social Security is in danger, the US government is being gutted, but Trump is going to spend $20M or more of your tax dollars to celebrate his birthday with an authoritarian-style military parade down the streets of DC. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7618...

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“They’re playing to Trump’s strengths, which is as a mob boss.” — Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb, quoted by Politico, on the capitulation of law firms, Ivy League universities and media outlets. (from Political Wire)

"As politicians around the world try to work out how best to protect their countries from Trump's capricious policymaking, the one constant in all their calculations for the future is a diminished American role in their countries" - Emma Graham-Harrison in The Guardian Weekly

75% of scientists considering fleeing the US, according to Nature poll www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tourism to the US is collapsing due to the actions of Trump. Tourism from Canada has dropped 70% already. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/t...

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,” www.openculture.com/2025/03/when...

Reverse Brain Drain, American Style 🎶🎶 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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