Rockin With Wife & Kids in Da Nort Woods of Da USA. Proud Microsoft employee & Scott County MN Citizens' Climate Lobby chapter lead. AZ #WildcatForLife
Here was my message to friends/family on Facebook whom I all know and are a diverse political group. Also included a brief description of what I heard/saw/learned while visiting Independence Hall during a summer family road trip in '19. #CountryOverParty#PrinciplesFirst#MN02
Sorry mendacious climate deniers. The #HockeyStick is longer and sharper now, as demonstrated by an independent group of ~80 paleoclimate scientists around the world: https://t.co/XQHw5QUpvD
He started it.
He fucked it all up.
He lied & lied & lied & lied about it.
He made them stronger.
He made us weaker.
He surrendered.
He lost.
And then he gave them billions & billions & billions.
MAGA, MAGA.
All the monstrous fossil fuel infrastructure exists b/c the negative externality isn’t accounted for. This enables #GlobalWarming & forces taxpayers to socialize the costs of #ClimateChange. It’s a direct assault on God’s creation and keeps America from being energy independent.
These monstrous wind farms—every one of which exists solely based on federal subsidy—are a visual assault on God’s creation that weaken the grid, disrupt marine ecosystems, and force reliance on foreign fuel when have near-limitless reserves of our own.
@StephenM All the monstrous fossil fuel infrastructure exists b/c the negative externality isn’t accounted for. This enables #GlobalWarming & forces taxpayers to socialize the costs of #ClimateChange. It’s a direct assault on God’s creation and keeps America from being energy independent.
Trump is getting fleeced by Iran
The deal:
• $24B cash + oil sales
• Just 60 days of open Hormuz
Iran pockets $30B+ in two months
Day 61, Iran can close Hormuz again, and repeat the extortion
Massive loss for Trump—Huge win for Iran
Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo
Are your summer vacation plans taking a hit due to rising inflation?
Headline inflation jumped to 4.2% in May — the last time it was above 4% was in April 2023.
The categories seeing the biggest increases over the last year are:
🛢️ Fuel oil (+58.8% change YoY)
⛽ Gasoline (+40.5%)
✈️ Airline fares (+26.7%)
With rising costs in both driving and flying, a staycation doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.
*This was made possible by public data. Visit https://t.co/LVLgFBXrE4 to sign our open letter to Congress.
This year’s graduates are sending a clear message about AI and jobs. We should listen. They’re reminding us that AI should serve people, not replace them. @Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more. That means helping people build the skills to use technology to create new opportunities. If we’re not doing that, we’re not doing our job.
Read my full blog here: https://t.co/01OgrlQAqO
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
Three scenarios discussed in our article illustrate the choices and risks we face. Let's aim for the green one.
We still have a choice, and are not yet destined to bequeath a much less habitable planet to future generations. Our children and grandchildren deserve a fair chance.
That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.
Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.
Great to see NHS England scaling Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 500,000 staff.
In early trials, staff saved an average of 43 minutes per day, helping put more time back into what matters most, caring for patients. https://t.co/Frm9SA5eoo
Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections, and other serious vaccine-preventable illnesses.
There were more than 28,000 cases of whooping cough reported last year, compared with around 7,000 in 2023.
https://t.co/H72SckTAiy