Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.
Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.
Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.
William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.
In 1899, Isaac R. Johnson patented a folding bicycle frame that could be folded or taken apart.
This invention made it easy to store bikes.
Isaac R. Johnson was born sometime in 1812 in New York. While he was not the first to invent the bicycle frame, he was the first black man to invent and patent one, particularly one that could be folded or disassembled for easy storage.
In fact, Isaac Johnson's version of the bicycle frame is similar to the version we ride today, as modern bicycles have the same pattern, but they do not fold up. Johnson's version was a folding frame that could be stored in small spaces; it was frequently used while traveling and on vacation.
The patent was originally filed for by Isaac R. Johnson in April of 1899, and it was assigned the publication number: US634823 A. The only information we have about Isaac R.
Johnson comes from the information he filled out when he filed his patent.
We know he lived in Manhattan, New York, based on this documentation. According to the paperwork, this bicycle frame is an improved version of any previous bicycle frame due to its ability to be disassembled and stored in a truck or other small storage area.
The “Central Casting” comment has been believing one of two things about King Chester Cheeto:
1.) He’s got dementia and his grasp of reality is slipping away.
2.) He really thinks it’s all a reality show, and someone asked him if we would be the star for season two of this cast
@atrupar It’s not a coincidence Trump thinks Hegseth is from “central casting” - actors often play crazed military/LE characters in films. Case in point:
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine." - General William Tecumseh Sherman
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.
I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.
Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.
Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.
That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.
Sea turtles are considered one of the oldest living species on Earth, but it’s been a mystery where their babies go after heading out to sea. Known as their “lost years,” the lack of information makes it hard for conservationists to protect these turtles. (from 2025)
https://t.co/As1mAwmqW5
CBS News Radio is shutting down tonight after nearly a century on the air.
The storied service started in 1927 and gave rise to such icons as Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.
Together, they and their colleagues brought history into our homes:
From the liberation of Nazi camps in Germany, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, to the deadliest attack on American soil, 9/11.
The company announced the closure in March, blaming what it called "challenging economic realities."
To borrow Mr. Murrow's famous phrase, we wish everyone at CBS News Radio one final "Good night, and good luck."
Hey Jeff, you’re right. Raising your taxes WON’T directly help the teacher in Queens, or this teacher in Buffalo…
But the fact that the GOP, the people you support to keep in power, could do things to help the; but they don’t use your tax dollars in that way are the problem.
Under Bernie's 5% billionaires wealth tax, Jeff Bezos (worth $279 billion) would owe $14 billion more in taxes and starting teacher pay in America would be raised to $60,000.
The average starting teacher would get a raise of nearly $12,000 & Bezos would still have $265 billion.