Christine Woodside
@cwoodside.bsky.social
Writer. GOING OVER THE MOUNTAIN and LIBERTARIANS ON THE PRAIRIE. Next book on struggling NJ farmers. Editor, Appalachia Journal. Connecticut based, pieces of heart in NH, NJ, PA, CA. Formerly homeless on the philosophical and mountain trail of the AT.
For decades the State of the Union Address has amounted to an “I’m Great” monologue. Partisan politics at its worst. Tonight’s will represent the most self-serving of a devolved tradition: misrepresentations, blaming of the innocent, pandering to ignorance, verbal abuse. Kudos to those who skip it.
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For decades the State of the Union Address has amounted to an “I’m Great” monologue. Partisan politics at its worst. Tonight’s will represent the most self-serving of a devolved tradition: misrepresentations, blaming of the innocent, pandering to ignorance, verbal abuse. Kudos to those who skip it.
The president is methodically building his own king-like power. Every phrase and topic he brings up deserves close scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: The One Idea That Connects Trump’s Recent Actions
President Trump’s team has embraced the unitary executive theory, a legal ideology that argues that the Constitution prohibiting Congress from placing any limits on the president’s control of the exec...
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February 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The president is methodically building his own king-like power. Every phrase and topic he brings up deserves close scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Reposted by Christine Woodside
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
The announcement of the Netflix remake of the “Little House”frontier stories fails to mention that much of what we believed about Laura Ingalls Wilder from the books was sculpted, sometimes made up, by Wilder’s secret collaborator, a founder of the Libertarian movement, Rose Wilder Lane.
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The announcement of the Netflix remake of the “Little House”frontier stories fails to mention that much of what we believed about Laura Ingalls Wilder from the books was sculpted, sometimes made up, by Wilder’s secret collaborator, a founder of the Libertarian movement, Rose Wilder Lane.