Former US undersecretary of treasury joins the folks questioning basis for Trump’s Section 122 tariffs

Never saw this one before, lol

yeah he's pretty firmly under 40 at this point

The last part abt how measles disrupts immunity vs other infections is, imo, underappreciated (& mechanism was recently clarified). It's part of why measles vaccination was seen to help beyond just reducing measles complications - not getting measles reduces severity of subsequent infections too.

All updates and forecast: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

In just 25 hours, the U.S. has had four tariff regimes: 1. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) 2. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs 3. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% 4. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% + 5%

Precipitation increasing in coverage, more snow mixing in this afternoon. Already number of reports of snow in S MD with heavier activity. Mid- and upper 30s now, will drop to low and mid-30s by around sunset. Some areas quicker in heavy precip. Main accumulation potential after dark.

For the first time, I think, since his disastrous first term, large blocks of “Executive Time” return to Trump’s official schedule. Surely a coincidence after his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (or maybe cover for meetings about bombing Iran again to re-destroy “obliterated” facilities).

As someone who's raised over $21 million directly for hundreds of Democratic candidates, it behooves me to post this excellent explainer by @matthodges.bsky.social once in awhile. matthodges.com/posts/2024-0...

⚠️ Concern for a burst of heavy snow late afternoon–midnight. Snowfall rates could hit 1"/hr → difficult travel. Most likely heavier zones: • W/NW of I95 • Southern MD & western Bay Elsewhere: lighter totals. Key factor: how quickly temps flip rain to snow. Intensity eases after midnight.

If Trump gloats about hockey we have to burn down the White House again that’s the rules

The Navy owns two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy. Neither appears ready to deploy any time soon, and both were at a maintenance facility run by Alabama Shipyard in Mobile as of today.

SC hospitals do not report measles hospitalizations and they are being vastly undercounted. Propublica delves into the problem of transparency and how it affects what doctors can say to parents. www.propublica.org/article/sout...

He dances in a way I have only seen horses dance. He possesses a power and majesty we will never know.

From @theguardian.com: In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and 5 charged cases still pending. Similarly, In Minneapolis as of last month there have been no convictions.

The twists and turns continue at the nation’s health agency, where the FDA announced this week it will review Moderna’s new flu vaccine after all and a handful of top agency officials are getting new jobs. Listen for more on the latest health care news 🎧 ⤵️

The sun will rise in #Baltimore #Maryland tomorrow at 6:49, 81 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 17:50, 66 seconds later than the day before.

Venezia I 2026

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Snow is coming, Maryland! Parts of the eastern shore are now under a blizzard warning, with the rest of the state under either a winter storm warning or watch. Get prepared now and make sure that you are stocked up on any essentials. (And try not to eat all of your snow snacks)

🌧️ Rain showers arrive late tonight 🌨️ Turns mainly to snow later Sunday ❄️ Accumulation likeliest Sun nite→Mon AM 📍 Heavier outside Beltway, as it looks now ⚠️ Winter weather advisory D.C.; warning near Bay 🌬️ Gusty, slippery late Sun night 📢 CWG.Live: Snow map, timing & impacts

Pretty incredible. This candidate went to the West Bank to see the violence of the occupation herself. And Israeli settlers — apparently flanked by a soldier — immediately showed it to her by throwing eggs at her as she walked with an ex-soldier, a priest, and Jewish activists:

one day he'll die and we won't have to see his picture on every news post every day of our lives anymore

Now it can (again) be told: We had a tagline for DART: “66 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. In 2022, Earth strikes back”. Everybody loved it except some (1-whimsical) NASA folks, so it was never officially adopted. It did sneak into some things, though…

Until I read this, it did not even occur to me that priests are using ChatGPT to generate homilies, but of course they are, and my long-lapsed-Catholicism is kicking down doors in my skull yelling “HOW DARE THEY?!?”

Adoration of the Magi https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/adoration-of-the-magi-1306-1

Why have the medals at the Olympics kept breaking? My colleague Eric Sullivan dug into the science for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪

Latest European model run just coming out now, increases snow totals further west, for D.C. into central #Maryland including Hagerstown but also further south as well, including Ashland and #RVA. Still not the monster snow the GFS was showing but an uptick from this morning’s model run.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

From aviation-world reporting experience, I know something about planes like the flying yacht/spa/hotel/bistro/737MAX that Noem has ordered for herself, at our expense. Many "real" billionaires would consider this too ostentatious. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...

An excellent piece. And it feels very relevant not just for “top” schools - but for schools like mine — with huge capital investments into glassy new Donor Trademark buildings — and the ensuing austerity and centralization of management everywhere else.

I'd like to hear this piece read aloud to a large crowd of people who still understand the purpose of a university.

SNF agora and the AI buildings mentioned in this piece are our on campus neighbors. You know in the building full of mold that keeps trying to burn itself down with HVAC that literally never works correctly and a roof that leaks. No one cares.

Nature Medicine starts an investigation into inconsistencies in a study that found it was better to have immunotherapy in the morning. www.statnews.com/2026/02/20/c...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

I can NOT believe the Academic Council was dissolved. So who makes decisions about the character, direction, and quality of the A&S departments? not the faculty? So then what's the university selling? not its scholarship? So then the point of going to a university now is?

"I am ready to pull the plug on my association with Brockman’s agency—and would encourage other authors to consider doing the same—until and unless he clarifies the relationship between him, the Edge Foundation, and Epstein." Well, quite. newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Forecasting this event is agonizing. Ranks up there with the toughest in CWG's 20+ year history. Maybe the toughest.

Deposition https://www.wikiart.org/en/rogier-van-der-weyden/deposition-1435

NEW: National Weather Service expands winter storm watch into DC. Its forecast is for 3" in the Beltway area but the watch is for the potential for locally heavier amounts. We're working on a fresh briefing that will post later this morning.

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the uncontrolled re-entry of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The findings are published in Communications Earth & Environment. 🧪

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Fellow apple nerds: are there varieties that consistently ripen with white skin (and a pink blush)? I had initially thought this was a Winter Banana, but the genetics don't match (they don't match anything in WSU's database), and it is too white and too soft. Photos from fall 2022

Do I know anyone at Cape Canaveral? Do you?

Who do we know at the cape space friends????

If social media giants are going to feed off Illinoisans, they ought to support them. I'm proposing a social media platform fee that will generate $200 million per year to support K-12 education.