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“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”Charles M. Schulz
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"Listen with your ears, your eyes, your heart, your mind, your soul for the message from these kin as improbable as life itself."
I've posted this wonderful 2013 essay (by my brilliant wife) a few times today for #WorldElephantDay. Let me urge it on you one last time. I think you'll love it.
Caitrin Keiper on the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion
Ahhhh, my spirit is soaring! Thank you @wxpnfm.bsky.social for a truly wonderful Throwback Thursday stuffed full of fabulous WXPN classics. Everyone! Go listen to the free livestream! This proud member since 1992 would not steer you wrong.
mRNA vaccines are the only platform that currently allows us to go from new pathogen to millions of vaccine doses in under a year. These vaccines saved 20 million lives from COVID. I remember crying tears of joy when I got my first pfizer shot in December 2020. Do not let them rewrite history!
NIH Director Battacharya on mRNA technology: "We should not be using as a platform for mass vaccination"
How climate messaging should be done
Motherfucking wind farms…
Universities and corporations must stop enabling this regime.
Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.
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Besides the Epstein diversion, the deployment of troops to DC is to create two chilling possibilities. One, to invoke the insurrection act and put down any demonstrations as the country goes south. Two, to suspend elections and declare martial law if the country turns against him.
You can never reconstitute data we fail to collect contemporaneously. That said, there are going to be a bunch of very smart and talented people who do their best to infer/interpolate/estimate/simulate the missing data now and later. We can repair some of the damage.
I want to remind everyone as we discuss the CPI/inflation numbers today, from July 30: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...
There are 15m Americans old enough to remember that. One of them is Marv Levy, now 100 years old, whose Buffalo Bills famously lost the Super Bowl 4x in a row. A sportswriter once asked him if the SB was a must-win.
“No, it’s not a must-win,” Levy said. “World War II was a must-win.”
So is this.
A remarkable book by Sebastian Haffner helps us understand the rise of fascism in the United States.
1/The headline in the WSJ read “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision.” It continued, “Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
I think the endgame won't be Sharpie moments, where bad BLS numbers are replaced with 'good' ones.
Instead it is creating so much confusion around the data estimates on purpose, so much noise and doubt, that they ceases to function as an independent gauge of what is happening under Trump.
ANTONI: “.. Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data.”
