Today, millions of Americans learned they are not alone. May this be the seed that grows the courage to take our country back.

Shout out to all who showed up!! ❤️❤️

I always thought about it like a kid with just one piece of Halloween candy. Once you eat it, it's gone, so you hold onto it as long as you can. So you can't have your cake AND eat it, you have to choose.

The honor of Corey Booker staggers the mind. He is the caliber of congressman one wishes for but rarely observes. Bravo!!!

Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Trump Administration — including Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency — has taken actions that risk creating unprecedented delays, degraded customer service, and unnecessary barri...

We have a paper out this morning on the risk of significant damage to Social Security from actions taken by the Trump Administration and DOGE.

Here’s a summary 🧵

www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

The part about Gen Z seeing change through a systemic instead of individual lens is something I've come up against several times but could never put my finger on it. Thanks for the great read!

The fundamental STRENGTH of Western civilization is empathy!

Happy World Engineering Day, to all of you who make our world work!

If civilization continues breaking down, those skills will come in handy!

Met Museum photo of an ancient Egyptian gold finger-ring with a mouse amulet. The mouse is seen in profile facing right. It is made from glazed steatite, greenish-blue in colour, and set into a gold mount. The mount has a swivel mechanism to show the underside of the mouse (not shown) which is inscribed with the cartouche of king Thutmose III. Ring diameter: 2.6 cm. Mouse amulet: height 0.6 cm, length 1.5 cm, width 0.8 cm.

Ancient Egyptian gold finger-ring set with a mouse amulet inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. Gold and glazed steatite. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1479-1425 BC

Squeak squeak Thutmouse! 🐭

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

No Loebs?!?

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

The cover of a book, bright red, by Omar El Akkad. The title reads: One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

Bahaha Mapquest still exists and they made a Gulf Of generator. gulfof.mapquest.com?name=Jay-bone+

KM3NeT

I began my professional physics career in the Neutrino Department of Fermilab, so I've always had an affinity for those slippery little particles.

Today's XKCD concerns a neutrino detector. In the ocean.

The Worst and the Dimmest It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.

www.the-reframe.com/the/