caspb1.bsky.social
@caspb1.bsky.social
Coffee addict working for Sustainability, searching for authenticity. When all else fails, be strong be funny.
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Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚
April 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Punxsutawney Phil predicts four more years of fascism.
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Trump's firehose of executive orders is meant to inundate you and make you stop trying to keep up. I encourage you to keep up. Keep reading. Keep watching.
The Firehose Effect
Don’t let Trump’s deluge daunt you
substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise.

Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble
January 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hi- so how’s everyone doing today?
January 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM