Notices by Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)

#ImpeachRFKJr

QT Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
2024 March 31

It cannot be underscored enough: RFK obviously sees infectious disease as a good thing. He speaks of it as if it's almost a cleansing ritual, and of course, the people who died are who he's imagining are "cleansed" from the gene pool.
https://bsky.app/profile/amandamarcotte.bsky.social/post/3lllvm5ulok2c

Remove Bhattacharya and #ImpeachRFKJr , United States.

QT Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social
2025 March 30

Jay Bhattacharya said in his confirmation hearing that he plans to restore NIH to its former glory & repair public distrust of science.

Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-080.html

https://bsky.app/profile/angierasmussen.bsky.social/post/3lllrztx3rc2t

@inthehands

If I understand correctly; there is an additional potential cost to Tesla:

If it sells fewer cars, it gets fewer carbon credits. Then it may end up paying a penalty to the other car manufacturers it had arranged to sell them to.

Some of this happens under EU rules: https://futurism.com/tesla-sales-carbon-credits-europe .

Good to read More Perfect Union rightly emphasizing that this is an illegal order; which must be disregarded by everyone.

And, yet again, USA: Require that your members of Congress act to stop this and to #ImpeachTrump .

QT Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social
2025 March 20

We knew this was coming so it’s not surprising, but it’s shocking nonetheless:

Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lktlz2wu4s2j

@inthehands @hasani

Paraphrasing:

"No, we will not try to short these stocks. That would be irresponsible."

@hasani @inthehands

The managers of my retirement fund have sent around notices lately about how they are acting to reduce the risk to everyone's money during the current crisis.

Including specific discussions of Nvidia and Tesla.

@inthehands @drahardja

I like the TGV, Frecciarossa, and China HSR.

But I am particularly jealous of the Shinkansen and how it is rolling out long-distance maglev.

70 F high temperatures and wildfire risk warnings in #Minnesota in mid-March.

I do not like this much.

(And the high winds go along with the 40 F temperature swings in a week.)

QT Alerts from NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN (UNOFFICIAL) @mpx.nws-bot.us
2025 March 9

Special Weather Statement issued March 9 at 3:12PM CDT by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

https://alerts.weather.gov/id/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7dc9f96059d14af6eeccb8f6229a35ae3b3d4f93.001.1

@hellomiakoda Legality of photographing marked ballots varies by state: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_selfies .

Saying who you voted for is always legal.

Here in Minnesota, sharing photos of marked ballots is illegal with a penalty of the ballot being considered as spoiled and not counted. So I have only shared photos of ballot return envelopes, which is allowed.

QT Democracy Now!
@democracynow.org
2025 March 7

Democratic Congressmember Al Green of Texas says Congress should impeach Trump. "Impeachment is a remedy for a runaway president who believes that there are no guardrails," he tells Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/7/impeachment_is_a_rremedy_for_a

I was a preemie who needed two weeks in NICU.

The chart started with "emergency intubation" and went from there.

And a reminder, USA:

Most NICU spots are paid for by Medicaid. Today is a great day to tell your Representative to vote against any cuts to the program.

QT nai @astoldbynai.bsky.social
2025 February 25

13. What has been your closest experience to death?
https://bsky.app/profile/astoldbynai.bsky.social/post/3liwgr3vfos2e

Holding political figures accountable when they commit crimes.

What a concept.

QT Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com
2025 February 18

"Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was charged on Tuesday in a plot to overturn his 2022 election loss, the office of the country's top prosecutor announced in a legal document released on Tuesday."

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-general-prosecutor-charges-bolsonaro-alleged-coup-plot-2025-02-19/

https://bsky.app/profile/robsonfletcher.com/post/3liijjpyjvk2i

"The Guardian Media Group management wants to feed its reporters' work into an automated plagiarism machine."

It remains way past time to shut down ChatGPT and everything similar.

https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai

@whknott@mastodon.social @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus

My grandfather still had a German technical dictionary along with the French one from his time in college studying geology just before WWII.

@dpnash @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus

Similarly; there is a lot of geology that was first done in German - e.g. both "Triassic" & "Jurassic" come from German, and "Cretaceous" came from French but gets abbreviated "K" from German "Kreide".

But the operator of the account above seems to have confused the obviously false "all science was German" for the true "the Nazis destroyed German science" that is the point of the thread.

So I am done.

@inthehands

I understand the point.

But then I think about the consequences of systems failing: people endangered by degraded weather forecasts, by the power grids destabilizing, by ATC going down, by VA and NIH hospitals not being able to buy supplies.

Which is what happens when arsonists are allowed to mess things up.

51 Republican Senators just voted to kill Americans and many people elsewhere in the world.

If you are represented by them, hold them accountable; USA.

And do not allow RJK Jr. to remain in government.

QT Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social
2025 February 13

Republican Senate did it, they confirmed a man, RFK Jr., who promotes crackpot pseudoscience (nonscience), to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Service.
https://bsky.app/profile/stayinalive2.bsky.social/post/3li33zlvjw22w

@inthehands @alfiekohn

Christians doing horrific things and using their religion as a pretext is not hypocrisy - especially when the particular varieties of Christianity concerned have been deliberately constructed to promote white supremacy / misogyny / etc.

I make this point because there is still a pervasive "This person is a Christian so they should be a good person by default" social stereotype; which helps the offenders get away with so many evil things.

#subpost

No, nuclear bombs cannot help with global warming.

You would get nuclear winter followed by UV spring and an accelerated global warming summer.

And I thought we had settled this back in my grandfather's time.

#subpost

No, news outlets, you really do not need to run propaganda for Donald Trump's illegal executive orders on your op-ed pages.