Founders: We made the legislature Article I on purpose. The Constitution gives Congress oversight powers and requires the president to faithfully execute laws. And Congress is the only one with power to override or remove officials from other branches. Cornyn: What I presuppose is… maybe it doesn’t

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Heads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.

Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago

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👋 Calling all Postdocs—check out our newest travel grant! Plan to join us at #AGU26 this 7-11 December in San Francisco, CA. 👉 Apply by 12 August: spklr.io/63329EuOWX

The focus on Fauci was always designed to help the GOP and Trump avoid taking the blame from the human and economic impacts of the pandemic. Blame China. Blame the scientists. Blame anyone but the President of the U.S.

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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This entire administration is just nepotism and grifting all the way down. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social are ready to hit the ground running when they retake the House, because there are a lot of crooks to prosecute.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

There it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/ www.facebook.com/financialtim...

I got into journalism on accident over 20 years ago. A random compliment from a random teacher put me on this path and changed my life. This story, published today and written by Garrett Yalch, makes me proud to have spent 2 decades doing this.

Tulsa police took him to the city jail instead of a hospital. Video shows he was dead within an hour.

Justin Benner pleaded for help as detention officers wrestled him into a full-body restraint device and left him alone in a cell.

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Spectacular crenulated turbidites of the Halifax Formation (Meguma Terrane), Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. These strata were laid down in the Ordovician in the southern hemisphere and deformed during the Devonian Neoacadian Orogeny, as Meguma accreted to the North America margin. ⚒️

Unnerved by the fact that a question I had in one manuscript I am reviewing is answered in another manuscript I am reviewing.

Dark palynomorphs from the dark period of the history of life: "Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during the end-Triassic mass extinction suggests ...heat stress, and periods of prolonged drought alternating with extreme precipitation..." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Yes, I know, it's always been unreal the things he says. Yes, I also know he gets away with all manner of things. But, I just don't see how him bragging about *only* sending 18 service members to their deaths — thus far — is a thing the president can do.

Which of these is not like the others:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump offers sales pitch for his war: "Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD. Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD. Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD. Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD. Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD. Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD."

#TrilobiteTuesday Magnificent slab awash with trilobites from the Ordovician of Morocco. On display at the Palaeontological Museum in Oslo.

<Trump looks up from his Big Mac, takes notes>

Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

@nicholasbednar.bsky.social and @tphillips.bsky.social argue that President Trump's removal of the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission defeats his duty to faithfully execute the law and exceeds his removal power under the Take Care Clause.

Faithful Execution and the Removal Power

President Trump is exercising his removal power in ways that defeat his duty to faithfully execute the law.

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If you're interested in the geology & tectonics of the Alaskan and Northern Canadian Cordilleras (who wouldn't be??), consider submitting to our AGU session. Invited speakers are Katie Biegel (UC Davis) and Will Levandowski (TetraTech). Abstract deadline August 5. ⚒️🧪🏔️ agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

The Trump administration has sought to delegitimize the accomplishments—and the very presence—of Black people in the military, Clint Smith wrote in our July issue.

The Betrayal of Black Patriots

They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.

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Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago https://theonion.com/geologist-reunited-with-beloved-rock-he-studied-20-years-ago/

How President Trump and Utah leaders lied and misled on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase open.substack.com/pub/westwise...

How President Trump and Utah leaders lied and misled on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase

Lies about the correct size of a monument, the history of the Antiquities Act, and hunting and fishing access were all used to justify the downsizing

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Sigh

Booze Kitty Forman

Alt: An older woman sighing and sadly pouring a lot of alcohol into a blender with margarita mix and a straw

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“One Proclamation reduces the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from approximately 1.87 million acres to approximately 181,500 acres. Another Proclamation reduces the size of the Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to approximately 121,100 acres”

Friends, we need your help—a 🧵 The White House Office of Management and Budget, led by Project 2025's Russell Vought, wants to destroy how U.S. science has been done since World War II. This @arstechnica.com article is a great primer (apologies for the thumbnail): arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

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There's absolutely nothing politically radical about believing that people should be able to access food, shelter, and safety solely by virtue of existing on this planet. That's not radical that's a minimum

We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

Freedom fuel is sunshine that flows through solar panels and into an EV. It's literally free, every time.

I know it's a good day when I spell "necessary" or its offshoots properly on the first try...twice! Can only go down hill from here.

The Dallas Fed study didn't say that 'unauthorized immigration' caused housing prices to rise 30%, or rents to rise 20%. It said that 30% OF the rise in housing might be attributed to immigration. Same for 20% OF the rise in rents. The actual rise is small. 3/ www.dallasfed.org/~/media/docu...