Rob from Maryland
@peromyscus.bsky.social
Birder, music lover. Inside the Beltway. He/him
Oh god no
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Oh god no
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Science is cool.
Trusting scientists is cooler.
Investing in research is just the coolest.
Trusting scientists is cooler.
Investing in research is just the coolest.
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Science is cool.
Trusting scientists is cooler.
Investing in research is just the coolest.
Trusting scientists is cooler.
Investing in research is just the coolest.
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Climate denialism, empowered by nihilists and know-nothings, undermining science & destroying the evidence that they previously just rejected. Meanwhile, out here in WA, roads are sliding into rivers (an unprecedented weather event) b/c it’s too damn warm to be raining this hard for this long.
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.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Climate denialism, empowered by nihilists and know-nothings, undermining science & destroying the evidence that they previously just rejected. Meanwhile, out here in WA, roads are sliding into rivers (an unprecedented weather event) b/c it’s too damn warm to be raining this hard for this long.
Oh fcking hell
I cannot even begin to express what a bad decision this is. Awful.
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.
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oh fcking hell
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NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
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White neighbors, reports from Latino and Somali businesses on Lake Street are that their numbers are down as much as 90%. Their clientele are scared to go out. We can help with this. Show up, show your support, spend money. And bring your whistles.
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
White neighbors, reports from Latino and Somali businesses on Lake Street are that their numbers are down as much as 90%. Their clientele are scared to go out. We can help with this. Show up, show your support, spend money. And bring your whistles.
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Sat in a Mexican restaurant on Lake Street. The door was locked to keep ICE out; someone was posted by the door looking outside and letting customers in. Whistles went off outside. Everyone went on high alert. People scattered.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Sat in a Mexican restaurant on Lake Street. The door was locked to keep ICE out; someone was posted by the door looking outside and letting customers in. Whistles went off outside. Everyone went on high alert. People scattered.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
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Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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The timeline could probably use a pupdate:
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The timeline could probably use a pupdate:
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Sunday reading; how @jon.wprb.com prepares for his world famous 25 hour Christmas radio marathon christmasagogo.blogspot.com/2025/12/jon-...
Jon Solomon on the 25 Hour Marathon
If you agree with me that Christmas stands for exuberance, excess and extravagance, than a 25 hour radio show filled with Christmas music is...
christmasagogo.blogspot.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Sunday reading; how @jon.wprb.com prepares for his world famous 25 hour Christmas radio marathon christmasagogo.blogspot.com/2025/12/jon-...
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-Finally, this Christmas I will swing an ALL-KRAFTWERK SET for the first time. Ready your bleeps and bloops.
December 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
-Finally, this Christmas I will swing an ALL-KRAFTWERK SET for the first time. Ready your bleeps and bloops.
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People often ask me (pictured) “Jon, what’s a way to ensure I find a place on your 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show?”
December 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
People often ask me (pictured) “Jon, what’s a way to ensure I find a place on your 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show?”
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I wrote about how I prepare to do a 25-hour radio show each year.
Sunday reading; how @jon.wprb.com prepares for his world famous 25 hour Christmas radio marathon christmasagogo.blogspot.com/2025/12/jon-...
Jon Solomon on the 25 Hour Marathon
If you agree with me that Christmas stands for exuberance, excess and extravagance, than a 25 hour radio show filled with Christmas music is...
christmasagogo.blogspot.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I wrote about how I prepare to do a 25-hour radio show each year.
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It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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December 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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"No fair remembering stuff," the Bible edition.
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"No fair remembering stuff," the Bible edition.
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Here are #bird pictures I did not post yesterday
#birds #birding #birdphotography 🪶
There will be better ones later today
#birds #birding #birdphotography 🪶
There will be better ones later today
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Here are #bird pictures I did not post yesterday
#birds #birding #birdphotography 🪶
There will be better ones later today
#birds #birding #birdphotography 🪶
There will be better ones later today
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So Google Translate now by default uses a Gemini version, though at least they still let us use the classic translation as an option. Needless to say, the Gemini version is abysmally bad!
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So Google Translate now by default uses a Gemini version, though at least they still let us use the classic translation as an option. Needless to say, the Gemini version is abysmally bad!
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
I discovered this when translating this bullet point from a teaching slide titled "What exactly is viscosity?"🍎
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles and Immune Amnesia | ASM.org
Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.
asm.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.