Dean Mikkelsen

42 YEARS AGO TODAY on April 30, 1983, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

Directors removed from their posts at the:

🔹️National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

🔹️National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

🔹️National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

🔹️National Institute of Nursing Research

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Canadian PM Carney calls snap election, says Trump wants to break Canada Upon being sworn in as prime minister earlier this month, Mark Carney had said he could work with and respected Trump. On Sunday, however, he took a more combative approach.

"We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump's unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters after the Governor General approved his request for a snap election for April 28 reut.rs/41TCSID

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of people behind bars there.

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporter Secret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery. In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London. Continue reading...

‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

Interesting boat

***UPDATE***

First narco-submarine found in Africa after transatlantic voyage

Here-> www.hisutton.com/Transatlanti...

Tesla sales plunged 76% in February in Germany, Reuters reports Tesla’s (TSLA) German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January, Reuters reports. Earlier this week, data showed that Tesla also suffered major sales dec...

Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.

Russian Strikes Kill 20 in Ukraine After U.S. Cuts Support for Kyiv (Gift Article) The bombardment came after Washington’s decision to suspend intelligence sharing and hit a region critical for Ukrainian logistics and support.

“Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace,” @georgewbarros.bsky.social, an analyst at [ISW] who focuses on Russia and Ukraine, wrote on X. He added: “Ukraine has offered many concessions to start peace processes. Russia has offered zero.” @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Exclusive: US mulls how to ease Russia energy sanctions quickly if war ends, sources say The U.S. government is studying ways it could ease sanctions on Russia's energy sector as part of a broad plan to enable Washington to deliver swift relief if Moscow agrees to end the Ukraine war, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Exclusive: The US government is studying ways it could ease sanctions on Russia's energy sector as part of a broad plan to enable Washington to deliver swift relief if Moscow agrees to end the Ukraine war, according to two sources familiar with the matter reut.rs/3F7kS5R

"I think this should be the plan to rebuild Gaza."

Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli justice minister, says he doesn’t understand why Israel’s government is refusing to follow the Arab proposal for Gaza’s future, calling it “a good plan”.

🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/ro91h6

Frenchman Sears Trumps "Court Of Nero" In Scathing, Must-Read Speech Every now and again a piece of rhetoric perfectly encapsulates the time. The Gettysburg address was one such work. Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln hastily scribbed out the framework of the speech o...

Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7

What a wonderful idea…👇

Let’s. Do. This. ✨

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

Felonius’ EO targeting the law firm Perkins Coie

An Executive Order targeting a particular law firm?

Because they represented Hillary Clinton at one time?

Yep, we live in the dumbest timeline possible.

#DemVoice1

Gene Hackman died of heart disease days, suffered from advanced Alzheimer's, autopsy shows Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and died of heart disease and other factors likely days after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of a rare syndrome spread by mice, according to autopsy results released on Friday in New Mexico.

BREAKING: Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and died of heart disease and other factors likely days after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of a rare syndrome spread by mice, autopsy results show reut.rs/3DqNNBg

Many thanks to #TheWildRobot team for inviting me to attend #TheOscars & to the Academy for asking me to be a part of the ceremony. I will be presenting the award for Original Score with no wardrobe malfunctions whatsoever.🤞

Great news for money launderers!

Second that

Italy’s Saipem to Merge With Norwegian Rival Subsea7 in $4.9 Billion Deal Italian energy-services provider Saipem will merge with Norwegian rival Subsea7 creating a company focused on drilling, engineering and construction.

Italy’s Saipem to Merge With Norwegian Rival Subsea7 in $4.9 Billion Deal www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Italy and the UAE sign historic $40 billion investment deal In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about story 1, story 2, and so much more.   

Italy and the UAE sign historic $40 billion investment deal

Crazy times we live in.

Cannot argue with this logic.

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"

#PRESIDEMENTIA

A good read.

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH