Notices by Rich Stein (he/him) (runrichrun@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm
Looks awesome! Hope you don't receive this comment until you're out of the backcountry and back to civilization.

Stay safe and enjoy!!

@killyourfm @intrepidhero
~End of Aug., early Sept.?
Long Trail, VT https://www.greenmountainclub.org/the-long-trail/
100 Mile Wilderness, ME (go all the way to Katahdin https://blog.hiiker.app/2023/02/27/hiking-the-100-mile-wilderness-of-the-appalachian-trail/
South on the AT from ~ ME-NH line to somewhere in VT (Killington =~200 miles) — covers the Presidentials and much of VT, beautiful, rugged sections https://traildistance.com/

Those are suggestions that will take ~10 days to 3+ weeks, depending on length. Nice weather that time of year (hotter as you go further south)

Keep us posted

@killyourfm @intrepidhero
100%! Great places to lose yourself in the east, too!!

@bruces
#SoMuchWinning

Thanks trump. Thanks Vance. Thanks Hegseth. Thanks Rubio. Thanks musk. Thanks Putin.

"Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war"
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1160936
#Ukraine #Russia #US #UnitedStates

French army chiefs called to Paris by Macron for crisis meeting
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/emmanuel-macron-donald-trump-french-army-chiefs
#France #Ukraine

Version of H5N1 bird flu virus that killed a person in Louisiana & severely sickened a teenager in Canada has now detected in Nevada dairy herds —

Kicker: “'No caring public health personnel can currently in good conscience recommend that sick, undocumented farm animal caretakers or flock depopulation employees get tested, knowing that ICE could show up at testing sites to demand citizenship verification.'”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-02-05/deadly-version-of-h5n1-bird-flu-spills-over-into-nevada-cattle
#AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #PublicHealth #H5N1 #UnitedStates #ICE

Disappointing. I held a modicum of hope re. Bessent:

"...
Reports suggest incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has granted access to members of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) - which is not a government department, but a team within the administration - to sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.

The division handles payments of nearly $6 trillion for programmes like Social Security, ... salaries..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77rkg5dm3vo
#USpol #Bessent #DOGE #musk

@ZhiZhu
I prefer the Stat headline:
"‘This is censorship’: Trump freeze on communications forces medical journal to pull HHS authors’ article"
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/01/26/trump-freeze-hhs-research-integrity-paper-pulled-from-journal/

Very cool thread — "Post the amazing things you have done with federal funding"
https://bsky.app/profile/alexwild.bsky.social/post/3lgtdgz4w3s2c
[Was part of a project to rank & classify nuclear threats around the world. Still in use last time I checked.

More speculative, but also helped identify & quantify impact of cancer around the world, esp. in developing countries; as a result, the WHO — that one — shifted some attention to & began raising more funds for chronic disease management over NCDs.]
h/t @alexwild
#FederalSpending

World's gonna get wild at 12:01pm on January 20. 😕
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113788230849239513
#geopolitics #US #UnitedStates #USpol #Canada

@Gargron
Happy holidays!! All best wishes! 😊

@skinnylatte
Do you get deliveries from Weee? They have a large catalog of items (and they're not Amazon, thankfully).

Actions have consequences — eventually:

"The United States Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a budget for the 2025 fiscal year, or else face the shuttering of nonessential government functions."

"trump and his allies have pressured Republicans in the United States to ditch a short-term spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/facing-government-shutdown-trump-and-republican-allies-scuttle-budget-bill
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #Republicans #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

Shocked (not) — Musk helped kill that congressional spending bill, but much of what he spread was misinformation
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-misinformation-government-shutdown-bill-budget-trump-musk-1235b15b425856bf902d0c8133eec222
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE #musk #misinformation

Somewhat speculative but a good overview of what the impact of a US Government shutdown might be, as well as some history of shutdowns. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/why-is-the-government-shutting-down/ v @Poynter
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

House rejects counter-budget plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-musk-johnson-e4b5c93d12838d180740a35daecc118d
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #Republicans #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

@glynmoody
Musk is worse than a rogue state:
- There is no supranationalist coalition attempting to rein him in.
- Musk is a fool's fool and a sycophant, with an intel 🙃 staff of one (himself). He is a gullible lackey of those with the worst intentions.
https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/113685139404670139
#musk

Thank goodness!
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241213/p2a/00m/0li/035000c
#Tokyo #Japan #PipoKun (🤔... not sure about this hashtag...)

Everything happens in London —
"... only the second time an elite five-day tournament will be held outside Japan."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241205/p2g/00m/0sp/030000c

BTW, here is full coverage of sumo wrestling in @mainichi: https://mainichi.jp/english/sports/sumo/
#Sumo #Japan #London #rishiki #sports