Greg
@infomatisk.bsky.social
Microbiology, computer science, Java software developer, equine, photography, astronomy.
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice wants to intervene in a lawsuit to force a massive voter roll purge in California. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ wants to help anti-voting group purge California rolls
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the DOJ seeks to “clean nearly 1 million dirty voter names from California’s voter rolls."
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The supposed free speech absolutist censors checkable facts from being shared.
Trump just admitted why he canceled the bipartisan housing bill. He has more in common with the hedge funds buying up single-family homes than he does with the families who can't afford them. He doesn’t care what working Americans are going through and he never will.
The largest clean energy project in American history is officially online. A 3.65 GW wind farm + a 550-mile transmission line, delivering more power than the Hoover Dam–in fact, enough to power a million homes. Big wind. Big wires. Big win. www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
Jeanine Pirro vows to track down the vandals who are wrecking the reflecting pool. This really should be easy....
Democratic Rep. Gabe Amo tore into Wright: “You’re willing to huff and puff … when your audience of one is paying attention. But the fact of the matter is, my constituents—and the constituents of people across this Congress—are struggling because of your decisions.” trib.al/XvDbMvp
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn't a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
Donald Trump's policies are accelerating Social Security’s insolvency. Here’s a common-sense solution: My bill would fund Social Security for the next 75 YEARS by making the wealthy pay their fair share — and EXPAND benefits at the same time. It’s time to act.
Things your legal department has to do when you are a propaganda outlet peddling lies for a corrupt regime nonstop… Fox is poison…
Can we please return to precedented times? I wish to be bored again by the news.
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Train carrying fresh water derails, contaminating Alberta’s oil sands
Train carrying fresh water derails, contaminating Alberta’s oil sands
FORT MCMURRAY, AB - A freight train carrying over 50,000 litres of fresh water has derailed, devastating several open pit mines and tailing ponds in the Fort McMurray area.
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Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says
Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says
Data processing accounts for 21% of Irish electricity use – compared to just 4% in the US and 1% in China
irishtimes.com
After defense officials got a request to push through a deal with a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr., Pentagon staff moved at an unusually rapid pace. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Scientists, providers, educators, researchers, academics, advocates, anyone with critical knowledge & feedback: public comments are open until 7/13/26. We are counting on you. Thank you. #OMB #grant-funding #research-funding This is #Project2025
Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
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praying mantis@gentlem.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... “What #OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management. It is a complete political control apparatus layered over every stage of the federal science funding lifecycle.” -former NIH official Elizabeth Ginexi open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵
Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department
Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.
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They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
China’s space industry is just beginning to launch megaconstellations to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink, which suggests that if the country does not curb this practice, it will further degrade an already congested space environment.
Analyst on China's spent rocket stages: "Things only continue to get worse"
Spent upper stages are the most dangerous kind of space debris.
arstechnica.com
"I'm being very generous allowing domestic terrorists to steal only $2 billion dollars from you because otherwise I was going to steal even MORE from you. You're welcome, taxpayers. Suckers!"
Kari Lake benefited from several streams of media-related income around or during the time she served — illegally, a federal court ruled — as de facto leader of VOA's parent agency. www.notus.org/money/kari-lake...
Kari Lake Earned Tens of Thousands of Dollars From Media Side Hustles
The former U.S. Agency for Global Media leader made money from a book, a song and social media.
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“.. $41.5bn as of Sunday night — or $316 per US household.” ⛽️ @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/32ff...
CO secretary of state unloads on Dem governor for freeing felon MAGA election denier
CO secretary of state unloads on Dem governor for freeing felon MAGA election denier
Appearing on MS NOW early Saturday morning, the frustrated secretary of state of Colorado bashed her fellow Democrat, Gov. Jared Polis for deciding to commute the sentence of former election official Tina Peters, one of the nation’s most notorious MAGA-aligned election deniers.Speaking with the host...
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Folks, you gotta read this @billhanage.bsky.social is a world expert on the transmission of infectious diseases and he is a bloody brilliant science communicator
Bill Hanage@billhanage.bsky.social · 3mo agoBringing some of my thoughts together. And explaining why hantavirus is emphatically not COVID news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
A highway more than 1,700 miles long, stretching from Texas all the way to Montana, may soon be named after Donald Trump if this bill is passed.
Senator introduces bill to rename major highway 'Trump Interstate'
A highway more than 1,700 miles long, stretching from Texas all the way to Montana, may soon be named after Donald Trump if this bill is passed.
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