Not David

He/Him, some form of chemist
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Incredibly flammable

[Not David @DavidTresp]

I woke up at 4:20 (the good) a.m. (the bad) and the sun is already coming up (the ugly)

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

You’re stacking numbers without context—classic tactic.

Aluminum:
The total sounds big until you realize babies are exposed to more aluminum from breast milk and formula than from vaccines over the same time period. And the form matters—vaccine aluminum is processed and cleared, not stored indefinitely.
Mercury:
This is outdated. The mercury compound (thimerosal) was removed from routine childhood vaccines in the U.S. over 20 years ago. What remains in a few multi-dose flu vials is ethylmercury, which the body clears quickly—not the same as toxic methylmercury.

“200 chemicals”:
Water is a chemical. So is sodium. Listing “chemicals” without dose or function is fear marketing, not science.
What actually matters is dose, form, and biology—not scary-sounding totals.

If these exposures were harmful, we’d see it at population scale after billions of doses. We don’t.
We do see what happens without vaccines—measles outbreaks, hospitalizations, and preventable deaths.

This isn’t a mystery. It’s just selective framing.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[roo @roomcguire]

“The Government Lies to Us” podcast from the government

[Roman 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @Rx410]

A little more than a year between these two pictures

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

Jesus I was not prepared for how long that list was gonna be

[caliphornia QING @caliphorniaqing]

I learned the parties switched sides in 8th grade..............

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it.

Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped yet. The rover was designed for a two-year mission and 20 kilometers of driving. It’s now driven 35.5 kilometers, climbed over 327 meters up the side of a mountain, drilled 46 holes into Martian rock, and is currently running its fifth mission extension.

The computer running all of this has 256 MB of RAM and a 200 MHz processor. Your AirPods have more computing power. Every command sent from Earth takes 14 minutes to arrive. Every photo sent back takes the same 14 minutes. When Curiosity drills into a rock, the team in Pasadena won’t know if it worked for half an hour. They’ve been operating on that delay, every single day, for 4,846 Martian sols.

The power source is 10.6 pounds of plutonium-238 generating about 110 watts. Less than a ceiling fan. It will keep producing electricity for decades because the half-life of Pu-238 is 87.7 years. The rover will run out of moving parts before it runs out of power.

And those wheels. Machined from single blocks of aluminum, 0.75 millimeters thick. Half a dime. JPL watched them get shredded by Martian rock starting in 2013, rerouted the entire mission path, taught the rover to drive backwards, and kept going. The wheels look like they lost a fight with a can opener. The rover is still climbing a mountain.

Every iPhone you’ve owned since 2012 is in a landfill. Curiosity is on Mars, 140 million miles from the nearest repair shop, running on a ceiling fan’s worth of nuclear power, sending data through a 14-minute time delay, on shredded wheels, doing geology that rewrites what we know about whether life ever existed somewhere other than Earth.

We built that. With 0.01% of the federal budget.

[Oklahoma Democratic Party @OKDemocrats]

Oklahoma Republicans love pointing to our Voter ID law, but the SAVE Act goes further, adding new federal requirements that your Oklahoma driver’s license, REAL ID, or even your voter registration card wouldn’t meet.

That’s not security. that’s making it harder to vote.

[Katherine Clark @TeamKClark]

Democrats introduced seven bills to fund the TSA.

Republicans blocked every single one of them.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview this month. https://t.co/4lN2WS4WdU

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Postmaster General David Steiner testified before Congress today with three options on the table.

Option one: do nothing and USPS runs out of cash by February 2027. Option two: severe service cuts and stamps over a dollar, which Congress and the public will not accept. Option three: raise the $15 billion borrowing cap that has not moved since 1992.

That cap should be $30 to $40 billion if adjusted for thirty years of inflation. Steiner did not arrive at that number through ideology. He ran the nation's largest waste management company and sat on the FedEx board. He said he did not understand how bad the crisis was until he took the job. "I'm not sure some of the people at the Postal Service realized how dramatic it was."

Six hundred thousand career employees. Every rural route in Indiana. Every prescription that travels by mail to a Noblesville senior who does not drive. Every small business shipping package from a garage in Elkhart. All of it runs on an agency legally prohibited from borrowing what it needs to operate.

"How long are employees going to work and vendors going to show up if we're not paying them?" That is the postmaster general of the United States talking to Congress today. The answer is not complicated. Lift the cap.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Don't normalize this behavior. This would be unacceptable from anyone, but from the commander in chief about our soldiers being shipped to war? Absolutely not.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Was the bombing legal? no. but was it moral? also no. did they anticipate the Iranian response? not really. but did they at least manage their alliance relations? again no.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

the only way I can interpret this vote is that congress is full of people in power using sex as leverage. Whether for status, promotions, or votes. There is *no* other reason to hide this information from the public.

Congress has a $18,000,000 dollar *PRIVATE* slush fund to pay off sexual harassment claims and we the people aren't allowed to know anything about it? LOOK AT THAT VOTE. 357 to 65. WTF.

Id like to file a claim of my own cuz as citizens we are getting f*cked.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOOM! Rep. Garcia just dropped some truth bombs about GOP's selective outrage.

"You don't fight fraud by singling out Dem states and ignoring states led by GOP.

OK and AL lead the nation in SNAP fraud.

Where are those hearings?

Where's the governor of Oklahoma or Alabama? "

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

@atrupar He's a liar. Killing 100 schoolgirls *first* is not defensive. Nor is it defensible.

[Not David @DavidTresp]

@Jacopo_della_Q The Andy Serkis versions are amazing.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Nobody on the Epstein List is arrested. But @FBIDirectorKash finds time to drink beer with olympic athletes. (The jet flight cost us $75,000 taxpayer dollars for this btw.) This administration is a literal joke.

[Siyab Panhwar, MD @DrSiyabMD]

This story gets increasingly infuriating and insane as you read it.

- Mom decides not to vaccinate kids against measles, because of the “unnecessary stuff” in the vaccines and the “damage” she has seen in other kids who got the vaccine. (???)

“Why do we need to add so much to our children’s bodies?” she asked.”

- Decide to believe antivax nonsense rather than your own doctors. Absolutely idiotic decision, but hey, it's your decision as a parent, fine.

- Kids get the measles (totally unnecessarily), and expose others in the community too. Brothers get lucky and recover. This kid unfortunately gets sicker.

- Parents say hmm, that’s weird, why is he getting weaker and drifting in and out of consciousness? I thought measles was supposed to be harmless and a quick recovery! (Guess the anti-vaxxers didn't educate them about the risks of measles encephalitis?)

- Kid taken to local, smaller, ER, admitted, and placed on antibiotics. God knows what chemicals and “unnecessary stuff” is in these IV fluids and antibiotics, but that doesn’t matter much now, obviously

- Unclear diagnosis at this time, doctors recommend transfer to a larger center for evaluation. Totally appropriate thing to do. Parents decline, and say, hey if ALL you're doing is just giving him antibiotics, we’ll just take him home and keep an eye on him and help him get better at home.

- He goes home, gets worse, unsurprisingly. Taken emergently to the large hospital. Damn near dies, in the ICU, hooked up to IV lines, tubes, pumped full of fluids and God knows what chemicals, to keep him alive.

- MRI consistent with brain swelling, etc, basically: measles encephalitis. Kid is essentially paralyzed.

Reminder, this is a serious and potentially deadly complication of measles. No cure. Totally vaccine-preventable condition, so this whole ordeal is totally unnecessary.

- Mom says, I STILL wouldn’t give my kids the vaccine, even if I KNEW this would happen. God has a plan.

So you would totally let this happen again to another kid of yours?

????????

How cooked are people's brains that they will sacrifice their own kids to... own the libs?

This is so tragic. That poor kid. Completely preventable. Basic public health should not be a partisan issue.

This administration could have done so much to rebuild the public trust in our public health institutions that was eroded during the pandemic, but nope.