Cindy Kendall

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[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.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The punishment for a president failing to disclose millions in day trades shouldn’t be a $200 parking ticket.

PUNISH THE CORRUPTION!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The three most remarkable papal tweets — ever?

[Representative Val Hoyle @RepValHoyle]

With everything going on in the world and in this country, we should be at work. I'm on my way to DC because the American people deserve representation. @SpeakerJohnson, why are you afraid to bring us back to do our jobs??

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

Congress is on recess.

This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

"Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had" https://t.co/hVK2DckXhS

[Emmett Voss @Emmett_Voss]

President Obama explains how he solves problems he's not an expert on:

When asked by Destin Sandlin (creator of Smarter Every Day) how he gets up to speed on unfamiliar topics, Obama reveals an approach rooted in the scientific method.

"Over the years you accumulate knowledge and you test hypothesis and propositions. So how I think about it today is different than the first day I walked into the oval office."

He explains that after years in office, he built a baseline of knowledge that changed how he consumed information.

Instead of going deep into every briefing book, he began scanning for what was different, looking for anomalies against patterns he'd already seen.

"I've learned to be pretty good at listening carefully to people who know a lot more than I do about a topic and making sure that any dissenting voices are in the room at the same time."

Obama describes a deliberate structure:

After an initial presentation, he makes sure to hear from everyone present. He asks whether anyone disagrees with the baseline facts.

He asks whether there's any evidence that contradicts what was just said. If there is, he wants that argument made directly in front of him.

"What I'm pretty good at is then asking questions, poking, prodding, testing propositions and seeing if they hold up."

He draws a direct parallel between this approach and the scientific method. Accumulate knowledge, challenge assumptions, pressure-test conclusions.

A powerful reminder that the best decision-makers aren't the ones with all the answers.

They're the ones who know which questions to ask and who to listen to.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

America stands with Pope Leo XIV.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.

Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

A federal judge just ruled that videos of DOGE staffers must stay up — and they are devastating.

Under oath, they couldn't define DEI. They admitted they never reduced the deficit. And they wiped out $100 million in humanities grants — including a Holocaust documentary — using ChatGPT.

The regime tried to bury this. It didn't work.
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[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

A measles outbreak in South Carolina (993 cases, 20 hospitalizations, 5 months) cost an estimated $35.5M- about 6.7% of the state public health budget!

Vaccinating the same group? Just $66K–$134K. Every $1 spent on vaccines could’ve saved $536.

Prevention isn’t just smarter- it’s dramatically cheaper. Put another way, more measles outbreaks means higher taxes - for everyone. 🤷🏽‍♂️

https://t.co/txs3qOaq1a

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Sara Spector @Miriam2626]

I used to get appointed to represent dementia patients who were no longer competent to make decisions for themselves. Many of them lost their ability to filter out inappropriate words from their speech. Just sayin....

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Who is proud of cutting Hospices? WTF is wrong with you people?

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"This isn’t cowardice. It’s a calculation: If allied leaders thought that their sacrifice might count for something in Washington, they might choose differently."
But most of them know that Trump will not even remember that it happened.

https://t.co/sPR7wLEMmF

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Call me crazy but...

Maybe the guy who was Jeffrey Epstein's business partner and preaches about the return of the "antichrist" shouldn't be controlling all military intelligence, national security systems, ICE ops, HHS/NHS/FDA data, IRS fraud detection, predictive policing, CDC analytics, & 30+ government agencies?

I know, I'm just a conspiracy theorist, right?

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"No amount of competence, combined with sufficient depravity, can bring these prosecutions. They just don't work. But Donald Trump doesn't care about that because he's detached from reality. He's a deranged narcissistic sociopath."

[Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer]

The America they want to make great again turns out to be Salem, Mass. circa 1692.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell today:

“There is effectively zero net job creation in the private sector.”

Zero.