Marv Clowder

Pounder of Keys, Swimmer of Seas, Enjoyer of ZZZzzzzs.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Candidate Rebecca Cooke confirms Trump's disastrous war in Iran is massively increasing diesel prices, completely destroying American farmers.

Rural America never voted for another foreign war. The White House is sacrificing the working class for imperialism.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Take it from the movies: when scientists start organizing, testifying, protesting, and speaking out as one, we have definitively crossed the threat threshold.

I’ve never seen anything quite like what’s happening now and I’m so incredibly proud of the scientific community.

[Herschel Pennymacker @pennymacker]

@AnneHatfieldVO I knew you’d appreciate this one. Also, I found a book called “101 Elephant Jokes” (c) 1964, Pyramid Books, in my father’s ceaseless supply of bullshit he left behind for me to deal with, so expect some trunk puns coming your way! (4.1 on Good Reads, but I peeked and it’s odious)

[Samuel 🇲🇽 @resisres]

🇲🇽⛏️ BREAKING — MEXICO MINERS WIN 1.5 MILLION PESOS EACH

Workers at Peñasquito, Mexico's second-largest mine, just won $85,847 per worker on average, 3.358 billion pesos split among ~2,000 union workers.

The mining union forced US-owned Newmont to pay the full 10% of profits the Constitution mandates, instead of the 3-months-salary cap companies usually push through.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“I’m Jake Tapper, tonight correspondent Laura Loomer dives into Hunter Biden’s deranged trolling, Kellyanne Conway reveals Joe Biden fell asleep watching TV again, and Ian Miles Cheong confirms Biden is the reason he’s never left Malaysia. Those stories and Catturd, tonight.”

[Iconoclast @ProfessorDNA]

@flash_man5 Zoomies!

[Free Palestine @BetwixtWorldss]

First it’s Pasadena and now it’s Long Beach. The US military “practicing” urban warfare in multiple cities should be a humongous red flag to all Americans. The fact that city leaders are rolling over for fascist drills shows all of us where the allegiance is and it isnt with us

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST TOOK MASS SPECTROMETRY FROM ANALYZING A FEW MOLECULES AT A TIME TO BILLIONS.

Researchers at Rockefeller University developed a new prototype called MultiQ-IT that can cool, trap, filter, and manipulate over 10 billion ion charges simultaneously roughly 1,000× more capacity than conventional ion traps.

Why this matters:
• Current mass spectrometers often analyze molecules sequentially
• Rare but important molecules can be drowned out by background noise
• The new design massively increases parallel processing
• Signal-to-noise ratios improved by up to 100×
• Could enable far more detailed analysis of proteins, metabolites, and cellular chemistry

The breakthrough was inspired by biology itself.
Instead of forcing ions through a single pathway, the system uses hundreds of tiny electrically controlled openings, similar to how molecules move through nuclear pores inside living cells.

The deeper implication is enormous:
Mass spectrometry is one of the most important tools in medicine, biology, chemistry, and drug discovery.
But unlike DNA sequencing, it has never experienced its own “GPU moment.”

This technology could be the first step toward that transformation.
Imagine mapping the complete molecular makeup of a single cell, tracking thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, or detecting previously invisible disease markers.

If scalable, this could do for molecular analysis what parallel computing did for AI.

What do you think could massive parallelization become the next revolution in analytical chemistry?

Follow for more frontier science and technology discoveries.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Trump killed Texas beef and with it, Texas BBQ

[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

[Marv Clowder @MarvClowder]

@warsurv (Which is to say, the video above seems to overstate the threat).

[Marv Clowder @MarvClowder]

@warsurv https://t.co/DVZh9rzFbe

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The U.S. economy added 172,000 jobs last month, double what was expected. The stock market then had its worst day of the year.

Read that again. Good news was the catalyst for the crash.

Here is why. A week ago Wall Street was betting the Fed would cut rates. Then the jobs number doubled forecasts, the 10-year yield blew past 4.5%, and traders flipped to pricing a rate hike by December. Not a pause. A hike.

Everything sold. The Nasdaq fell 4.2%, its worst day since April 2025. Bitcoin broke below $60,000 for the first time since October. Even gold, the place you hide, fell to a three-month low. A clean sweep.

Now the part almost nobody is saying. Look at where those jobs came from. About 70,000 were leisure and hospitality. Another 50,000 were local government, security and infrastructure. Economists tied the surge to early hiring for the World Cup, which starts June 11. And wage growth actually cooled, to 3.4%.

So the number that flipped the Fed and erased more than a trillion dollars in market value may be, in large part, a soccer tournament.

Sit with that. This is a market so addicted to cheap money that a strong economy now reads as a threat, and a one-month hiring blip can break it.

A market that falls on good news was never standing on the economy. It was standing on the promise of rate cuts. That promise died on Friday, over a jobs number that may prove to be a mirage.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose.

[Iconoclast @ProfessorDNA]

"schizoposting", interesting relative of "shitposting"

[Herschel Pennymacker @pennymacker]

Merlin bird app just identified a Mourning Dove, a Northern Mockingbird, and an 87 Nissan Sentra with rod knock.