New Leibniz
@newleibniz.bsky.social
Econophysicist, opera lover, traveler in time and space. The background picture shows Lorin Maazel after conducting "The Girl of The Golden West" at his farm in Castleton, Virginia in 2013.
"Just years removed from the height of the worst pandemic since 1918, with midterms approaching and a sitting president who has made it clear he may attempt to stay past 2029, Americans should be attuned to real dangers of indulging in violent revolutionary fantasies."
You Won’t Win the Revolution
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
liberalcurrents.com
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Insane. They wake-up every morning asking "What is the most outrageously, unnecessarily, offensive thing we can do today?"
Flingjore@flingjore.com · 3d agoScouting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park for an MLB ballpark tests the core mission of protected federal lands. As the NPS reviews three sites for Major League Baseball amid a Yosemite road swap, the National Park Service risks setting a precedent that trades conservation for commercial use.
In case you missed it, read our original investigation:
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
propublica.org
#math #physics Lots of people have British Airways horror stories. I once flew from Italy to DC with a transfer to British Airways at Heathrow. When my luggage didn't arrive at DC, the BA representative said, without a trace of irony, "We don't know where your luggage is - it's at Heathrow." 🙄
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · last wk.lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
Neither Ireland nor Luxembourg have been selling Israeli bonds since the start of September, effectively costing the Israeli state €2.2bn a year, as shock over Gaza and West Bank grows.
No Israeli bonds on sale in EU for now, in de facto €2.2bn sanction
Neither Ireland nor Luxembourg have been selling Israeli bonds since the start of September, effectively costing the Israeli state €2.2bn a year, as shock over Gaza and West Bank grows.
euobserver.com
#math #physics I have never understood the appeal of Alpine hiking. I live in a city in South Florida that is 13 feet (4 meters} above sea level and soars another 10 feet (3 meters) at its highest point. This picture is really scary. 😬
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 7d agoWalkers must book accommodation in advance and carry their own backpacks under new rules designed to protect the increasingly crowded Alpine circuit
Trump is doing more for Kaitlan Collins’ market value than her agent.
Exclusive: In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes. “I am the code,” Trump said.
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
washingtonpost.com
Mona wants a deep heart-to-heart chat about the meaning of life, and also she wants more snacks since she was a mostly good girl for the groomer. “Mostly” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence, but it still counts. These days are hard, but dogs make them easier to bear. And also snacks.
“I am the code,” Trump said of building codes in response to concerns that a “preliminary [ballroom] design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
washingtonpost.com
“We drank the Kool-Aid, and we were wrong,” said Ryan Wagner, a conservative in Michigan who was once an enthusiastic supporter of the president. According to the Times, Wagner "has had a slow-motion realization that Mr. Trump has been lying to Americans. #FAFO
'We drank the Kool-Aid': MAGA voters are sick of 'big liar' Trump
On Tuesday, a new report by the New York Times revealed that a growing number of MAGA voters are realizing that they’ve been lied to by President Donald Trump.
alternet.org
bsky.app/profile/pcso... I believe Florence got it right below. It is a pun, but not the one you thought it was.
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Florence 🍂@fra1964.bsky.social · last wk.It refers phonetically to the Equals's song Baby Come Back.
Here is the check that Susan Collins' PAC got from a defense contractor's shell company in exchange for millions of dollars in government contracts
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last wk.New reporting reveals Susan Collins promised a defense contractor tens of millions of dollars worth of government contracts in exchange for a $150,000 campaign donation. The FBI was ready to investigate Collins for bribery until Trump returned to office and purged the agents working on the case.
“Every action needs to be assessed in the context of his psychological dysfunction, his cognitive decline and his untethered relationship to reality—rather than the typical framing of a sane president managing the nation’s affairs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
americaamerica.news
The fact that he calls it 'trump TV' tells me it'll go bankrupt in less than a year.
From Notice News: 1. THIS IS AMAZING: Mamdani brought 25+ mayors from the world's biggest economies to New York City. NYC welcomed mayors from 34 cities across the globe for the 2026 Urban 20 Summit — Los Angeles, Rome, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Jakarta, and dozens more, all in town because
It only took 10 years for the American state media to finally stand up for one another as well as democracy now that they are being banned from the bulldozed White House by the same fascist criminal monstrosity they helped to create by normalizing him and capitulating to his every demand.
America is devolving into insanity. ICE shoots a LEGAL Venezuelan Instacart driver, because they can. I don't recognize America any longer. The shit Trumpy is doing is insanity, cruelty and evil. WE ALL SUFFER WHEN OUR RESIDENTS ARE SHOT FOR NO REASON. WE MUST VOTE on 11/3 TO STOP THE INSANITY.
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
Had a productive meeting with the President today at Gracie Mansion.
Public service notice from this scientist: 🧪 For no reason, here are some threats to all life. All are completely unnecessary to human thriving. - Neonicotinoid pesticides - PFAS chemicals - Generative AI - Fossil fuels - Capitalism
I'm going to try a different tactic for Mondays today-maybe by looking cute & asking nicely, it will go away! #CorgiCrew #DogsOfBluesky #corgisky #corgi #photography
