Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶

Music Therapist, PhD Candidate (ABD), International Psychology+Trauma Focus; CPP & Advocate, Humanist, Intersectional Feminist, Work in Progress

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

In my opinion, no man or woman should be granted a lifetime appointment to any job. If that person is corrupt or becomes corrupt, you have to deal with their ill behaviors for a lifetime.

There should be term limits and possibly age limits. Guess how many Justices have been impeached and removed from their seat? That's just my opinion.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

I spent 9 years documenting border wall construction across Arizona. I watched DHS pump millions of gallons of groundwater, dynamite sacred sites & slice apart wildlife corridors.

We can't let them bring this kind of devastation to Big Bend.

[Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶 @MJH_MT]

@RealMartyT7 @1zzyzyx1 💯%!!

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Scott Pelley dedicated 24 years at CBS, risking his life to report the truth. He doesn't deserve this treatment from Weiss, CBS, or Trump. He has done more for this country than most realize. Walter Cronkite would be proud. #DemsUnited

[Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶 @MJH_MT]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶 @MJH_MT]

Well, the world is fucked.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Managing Partner of the Measurement Practice at The Baseline Group. I do not fix problems. I remove the instrument that proves you have one.

This week three clients, in three different industries, paid me for the same insight: you do not have a problem you cannot measure.

The Practice has one product. A client comes to us with a number that embarrasses them. We do not lower the number. We retire the instrument. The number continues. It simply becomes unobserved, and an unobserved number, legally and reputationally, is a number that does not exist.

I keep a document called the Measurement Liability Register. It is a spreadsheet. Column A is the metric. Column B is what the metric currently shows. Column C is the eighteen-month projection if nobody intervenes. Column D is remediation cost — fixing the harm. Column E is decommission cost — retiring the instrument. We call the gap between them the abatement delta. In every row I have ever entered, Column E is smaller than Column D.

That is the entire business. That is slide one. There is no slide two. There is the Register.

My first client this week measures the ocean.

The National Science Foundation is decommissioning more than nine hundred ocean-observing instruments. Among them are the moorings in the Irminger Sea, which is the part of the North Atlantic where scientists watch the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation for signs that it is approaching the tipping point past which it stops. The AMOC is the current that keeps Europe a place where people live. The moorings have been recording its slowing for years. Recovery of the instruments is estimated at fifteen months. During those fifteen months the current will continue doing whatever it is doing. We will simply not have the readings.

My contribution was the phrase. The official language is that "previous data remains accessible." I sold them that phrase at a working session in March. It is a beautiful phrase because it is true. The data we already collected is still accessible. It is the data we have not yet collected that is the point, and you cannot make a phrase about data that does not exist yet, so the absence sits in the future tense where no press release can reach it. The thermometer is not broken. The thermometer is removed. The fever is a matter of opinion now, and the opinion has fifteen months to form.

My intern asked me, in March, whether the current would collapse during the gap. I told her the current is not my client. The instrument is my client. She has not asked a second question.

My second client this week measures its own employees.

Walmart's shareholders met for their annual meeting and were presented with a proposal. The proposal, filed by a workers' group called United for Respect, did not ask Walmart to change anything. It did not ask them to slow the automation. It did not ask them to hire more people. It asked for a report. It asked the company to disclose how its AI and algorithmic productivity systems affect worker injury, burnout, and turnover. The proposal asked Walmart to look.

The proposal received 4.95 percent of the vote.

What 4.95 percent means, precisely, because precision is what I sell: it does not mean the shareholders believe there are no injuries. It means a little over ninety-five percent of the voting shares declined to fund a sentence describing them. The company's position, which The Baseline Group helped refine, is that Walmart uses AI with "responsible use and human judgment." That phrase does work. "Responsible use" is a claim about intent. "Human judgment" is a claim about a human, somewhere, judging. Neither phrase is a number. A phrase cannot be subpoenaed the way an injury rate can. The proposal wanted to convert the phrase into a rate. The vote kept it a phrase.

The thing about an injury you have not counted is that it is not yet an injury. It is an anecdote. A counted injury is an OSHA recordable, a workers' comp reserve, a line on a 10-K risk factor. An uncounted injury is a story the worker tells, and a story is not a finding, and a finding is the only thing that has ever cost my clients money. The proposal would have produced findings. Ninety-five percent of the shares understood this better than the worker who filed it.

My third client this week measures whether anyone did anything wrong.

For fifty-four years the Securities and Exchange Commission ran something its targets called the gag rule. When you settled an SEC enforcement action, you signed a clause, Rule 202.5(e), promising never to publicly deny the allegations. You could pay the fine. You could "neither admit nor deny." But you could not stand up afterward and say you were innocent. The silence was the second half of the penalty. The fine cost money. The gag cost the ability to defend yourself in public, forever.

On May 18, 2026, the Commission rescinded it. Press release 2026-45. Settling parties may now publicly deny the allegations they paid to settle. And here is the line that earned my entire fee, because I did not write it but I recognized it the instant it was published: the Commission stated it will not reopen proceedings or vacate settlements if a party breaches an existing gag clause. Not only is the rule dead from here on. The old gags are now unenforceable looking backward. Every executive who ever signed one is released. They paid the fine. They kept the money. And now they may announce, on a stage, to a camera, that they did nothing wrong, and the agency that fined them will do nothing back.

This is the purest item in my Register. The other two clients stopped measuring a harm. This client retroactively unmeasured an admission that was never made in the first place. "Neither admit nor deny" was already an instrument that recorded nothing. The gag was the calibration on the nothing. Now even the nothing speaks, and what it says is "innocent."

I present all three on the same slide. I call the Thursday meeting the Exposure Review — my associates call it the kill sheet, which I have asked them to stop doing in front of clients. The slide has three columns. NSF. Walmart. SEC. The rows are identical, because the structure is always identical. Row one: the harm continues. Row two: the instrument is sunset. Row three: a phrase replaces the instrument. Row four: the phrase cannot be subpoenaed. The ocean keeps slowing. The workers keep getting hurt. The settlements keep meaning nothing. None of that is on my slide, because none of that is measured, because that is the work, because I am the one who removed the part where it would have been.

The Register has a footnote. The footnote says: "An instrument decommissioned is cheaper than an outcome corrected by a factor that increases with the severity of the outcome." I have never found a counterexample. The worse the harm, the better the business. The AMOC is the largest item I have ever entered in Column B, and the cheapest I have ever entered in Column E, because a mooring in the Irminger Sea costs almost nothing to stop reading, and the thing it was reading is the temperature of the habitability of a continent.

People believe the institutions are failing to measure these things. The institutions are not failing. Failing would imply they tried. I am retained precisely because they succeeded. There was an instrument. There is no longer an instrument.

Fifteen months from now the current will not have a reading attached. The injuries will not have a rate. The settlements will not have a finding. Which is to say none of it will have happened, in the only sense my clients are obligated to recognize, which is the sense that can be written down.

I do not make the harm go away. I make the row go blank.

A blank row is the most expensive thing I sell and the cheapest thing my client will ever buy. The spread is the house.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Sweeping cuts in humanitarian aid have made pregnancy and childbirth dangerous in parts of Africa, with the Central African Republic among the worst affected nations.

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[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

At a time when ocean temperatures are smashing records and scientists are still trying to understand how fast the system is shifting under climate change, they are talking about scrapping a 368 million dollar early warning network that has ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR by tax payers.

This is not just a few sensors in the sea. It is a network of ~900 instruments measuring temperature, currents, carbon, chemistry and ecosystem change. It was designed to deliver long term data over decades.

This would effectively end key long running records and that matters because ocean data only becomes powerful over time. You cannot rebuild a continuous climate record once it is interrupted.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[ALLAN BATES @ALLANBATES1]

@atrupar

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶 @MJH_MT]

@hiphoperaganda @RpsAgainstTrump 2/ & extreme desire for admiration. To be dx’ed w/NPD, only 5 out of 9 criteria must be met; DJT meets ALL 9!
Info found at https://t.co/cjXmxztacB under:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Symptoms & Treatment

[Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶 @MJH_MT]

@hiphoperaganda @RpsAgainstTrump “Psychopathy” was reclassified under the DSM-5’s Personality Disorders (PDs) Clusters A, B, & C. AND YET: the behaviors/emotional traits ascribed here to DJT are DEAD-ON as Narcissistic PD under Cluster B, which traits include grandiosity, inability to empathize with others, 1/

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Just Do It!!!