Matt
@mbinkowski.bsky.social
Patent Attorney, MSU Spartan Fan, Dad, Former SMB member, Left-leaning, Amateur Radio Operator (NQ8S)
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NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.
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Just thinking out loud here, but it's so weird how wealth and income inequality keeps getting worse no matter how many times we cut wealthy people's taxes.
I wish somebody smarter than me could figure this out.
I wish somebody smarter than me could figure this out.
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Just thinking out loud here, but it's so weird how wealth and income inequality keeps getting worse no matter how many times we cut wealthy people's taxes.
I wish somebody smarter than me could figure this out.
I wish somebody smarter than me could figure this out.
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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
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Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
I wonder how much Joe Buck paid for that jacket.
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I wonder how much Joe Buck paid for that jacket.
As a patent attorney with a very full docket of work, I wonder why Vox thinks we're running out of ideas.
And, no, I didn't read the article.
And, no, I didn't read the article.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
As a patent attorney with a very full docket of work, I wonder why Vox thinks we're running out of ideas.
And, no, I didn't read the article.
And, no, I didn't read the article.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
We'd actually learn something useful
CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We'd actually learn something useful
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New Hallmark Movie:
He's a Christmas tree farmer. She's his high school ex-girlfriend back in town as a lawyer for an AI Company that wants to turn the farm into a data center because of the water
Tune in for Center of Christmas at 9.
He's a Christmas tree farmer. She's his high school ex-girlfriend back in town as a lawyer for an AI Company that wants to turn the farm into a data center because of the water
Tune in for Center of Christmas at 9.
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
New Hallmark Movie:
He's a Christmas tree farmer. She's his high school ex-girlfriend back in town as a lawyer for an AI Company that wants to turn the farm into a data center because of the water
Tune in for Center of Christmas at 9.
He's a Christmas tree farmer. She's his high school ex-girlfriend back in town as a lawyer for an AI Company that wants to turn the farm into a data center because of the water
Tune in for Center of Christmas at 9.
Sounds completely legal.
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Sounds completely legal.
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“We make our purpose.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“We make our purpose.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!
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Just like they used to say when Biden was president!
The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Just like they used to say when Biden was president!
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We shouldn’t have to live like this. I’m not THAT old, and I remember we *didn’t* live like this. Powerful segments of society have made a choice that the regular scene of dead bodies in classrooms is an acceptable cost of doing business, and we shouldn’t have to accept that. I’m sad and I’m angry.
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We shouldn’t have to live like this. I’m not THAT old, and I remember we *didn’t* live like this. Powerful segments of society have made a choice that the regular scene of dead bodies in classrooms is an acceptable cost of doing business, and we shouldn’t have to accept that. I’m sad and I’m angry.
The LA Bowl logo is pretty bad.
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The LA Bowl logo is pretty bad.
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Why is @CBSNews using the BBC to cover the Brown shooting?
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why is @CBSNews using the BBC to cover the Brown shooting?
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Imagine being a Michigan hater, spending years trying to come up with the truest, meanest, most hurtful thing you can say to a Michigan fan, and then a Michigan fan finds the words himself. Ouch.
December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Imagine being a Michigan hater, spending years trying to come up with the truest, meanest, most hurtful thing you can say to a Michigan fan, and then a Michigan fan finds the words himself. Ouch.
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“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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Anti-vaxxers do not care how their own decisions affect others even if it means death.
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Anti-vaxxers do not care how their own decisions affect others even if it means death.
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
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Trump losses are really piling up this morning
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Trump losses are really piling up this morning