Bob Davidson
@wa7iut.bsky.social
Out West somewhere with my dogs. Eagle Scout Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006
Zelenskyy understands the assignment.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoZelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.
Physics@physics.bsky.social · 6d agoCarlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a house next to the brewery in honor of his 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. One of the benefits of the house was a direct pipeline from the brewery, effectively providing Bohr with free and unlimited beer for life.
We're celebrating John Coltrane's centenary all over the world.
Paxton won’t agree to debate Talarico, and we all know why. He doesn’t want to answer these questions: “Why did you give an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator? Why were you impeached… by your own party? Why do you own 15 homes on a government salary?” James Talarico
🇨🇳✈️ Bloomberg: China has taken possession of F-35 stealth fighter parts (cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door) that were inexplicably rerouted to Hong Kong during a UPS shipment from Australia to the US. 🇺🇸 Pentagon says it is working to retrieve the components.
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
The degree to which any and all fidelity to truth and reality went out the door for a lot of people immediately after they were given tools to do it is still so fucking mind-blowing
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h ago"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
There's a whole encyclopedia to be written on the details of how this administration moved money away from brown people and into the insane preoccupations of a couple of rich dudes
I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h ago“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
Sen Risch, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is complicit and should suffer the consequences of abdicating his responsibility by being removed from office in November.
Minor Spear Carrier@tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 15h agoCurrent Administration Strategic Miscalculations: 1. We can do Iran regime change from the air. 2. Iran will not / cannot close the Strait if Hormuz. 3. The Houthis will stay out of it.
Friends in Adelaide and South Australia more generally: I'm looking at a birding trip (Gluepots/Flinders) in early August 2027. I'd love to swing by the university or anywhere else to give a talk. If you're interesting, drop me a note. cbergst@uw.edu Or just tell me where to go while visiting.
Here’s a cool thing about #Boise: Much of our downtown is heated with renewable geothermal energy - the largest geothermal system in the United States.
A surprisingly direct headline. apnews.com/article/trum...
FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claims in front of the UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump made myriad false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, many of which he has repeated frequently throughout his second term...
apnews.com
Michael Shannon’s speech in Nuremberg resonates now more than ever.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis 80 second clip of Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement will send shivers down your spine. Commit it to memory like the Gettysberg address. It’s even more important than Lincoln’s speech because we forgot his words the first time. We can’t promise “never again” if we don’t remember.
The 9th Circuit is having its hearing for the Idaho case about health exceptions under the ban and this man representing the state is up against an all-woman judge panel if you'd like to tune in
Streaming | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
ca9.uscourts.gov
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
finance.yahoo.com
As Health Director for Wayne County, we put vending machines with free Narcan and fentanyl test strips in 100 locations. We hoped to make even a small dent in offsetting the opioid epidemic that Mike Rogers made even worse by voting with the pharmaceutical industry his entire career in Congress.
I'm for keeping our money here and not using it to buy bombs to drop on other people.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
