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Calistoga, a rustic and scenic town at the north end of the Napa Valley, famous for its mud baths, has rejected a proposed data center on town fair grounds. Residents were concerned about house, water usage, and pollution.

#SayNoToDataCenters

Omar Yaghi, who won last year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, is leaving the US for Tsinghua University in China.

The stars like Yaghi, who was at UC Berkeley, can leave. China benefits. Trump and Vought and Kennedy are killing US science for no compelling reason.

🧵The @newyorkermag.bsky.social has a devastating, in depth examination of the Camp East Montana detention center constructed at Fort Bliss near El Paso. The story focuses on several migrants held there, inclding Rey, who fled Cuba in the 90s on a raft fashioned from a truck tire.

🧵Over 200 cases filed by ICE alleging assault have been tossed by the courts, led to acquittal, or were dropped. Only 4 out of over 400 have resulted in conviction.

🧵Keep your rotting hands off our cherry trees, Trump!

Trump wants to redevelop a public golf course in DC.

"A photo of the architectural plans obtained by The Washington Post and The New York Times appeared to show the East Potomac Golf Links covering the entirety of East Potomac Park ...

As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said in an earlier dissent, it's Calvinball

Calvin And Hobbes Baseball Slide Show Double Play Who'S Out Depends Calvinball

Alt: Calvin And Hobbes Baseball Slide Show Double Play Who'S Out Depends Calvinball

Keep The Republic 🏳️‍🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social

At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home.

Dr Debra Houry was chief medical officer of the Center for Disease Control when RFK Jr took over the Department of Health and Human Services. He met with her once, for one minute, despite fully overhauling the vaccine protocols and canceling flu vaccine ads in the middle of a deadly flu season.

This shows a different reflecting pool - the pool of investor losses in Trump family crypto companies. Investor losses mirror Trump family profits. Really a way for people wanting something from Trump to pay him under the guise of investing. Probably some chumps too.

🧵This is quite a story. The Redwood Bark student newspaper of Redwood High, alma mater to Gavin Newsom, David Strathairn, Peter Horton, Pete Carroll and Robin Williams, ran a piece about Marin County appearances in the Epstein files, including a meeting arranged with a woman named ....

#HealthcareNotWarfare

Hegseth tried to say the war against Iran cost $37.5B - @stephensemler.bsky.social at Popular Info pegged the cost at $103B in the first four months.

That is about what Republicans cut from Medicaid per year in their Big Ugly Bill last year.

#TrumpsWarOfChoice

@juddlegum.bsky.social & @stephensemler.bsky.social have done the math at Popular Info - in four months Trump’s disastrous war has cost $103B - one year of Medicaid cuts. We are worse off strategically than before it started, and there is no end in sight.

🧵The science of attribution to climate change of extreme weather events is improving dramatically according to an expert panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences.

This improvement figures in a $50B suit against fossil fuel companies for the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave.

🧵 You can comment up to 11:59 PM EDT tonight on Russell Vought's proposal to politicize federally funded scientific research.

"The proposal has already received roughly 90,000 public comments"

Rose from the Titanic had a 20 min conversation with Mitch McConnell today.

But seriously, @govandybeshear.bsky.social needs to just call a special election. Let the Republicans prove Mitch is alive.

#KYSpecialElection

🧵Sean Parnell, Pentagon chief spokesman, is apparently just the kind of guy Pete Hegseth views as high testosterone.

His ex-wife testified in 2021 that he beat her, forcing a suspension of his Trump endorsed campaign to be US Senator from PA.

He wrote a military novel featuring graphic...

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social

Yesterday I wrote about the Pentagon trying to control information and avoid questions about the Iran war, and I asked the public affairs office about its press briefing drought. After publishing, I received a revealing statement from Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell... 🧵

The Pentagon avoids questions as the US war with Iran escalates | CNN Business

The public deserves transparency about the US war in Iran. But that’s not what we’re getting — not even close.

#BlueWaveIn100Days

Let's go! The Republicans and Trump are vulnerable as his policies are INCREDIBLY unpopular. We can get the House & Senate with energy and turnout!

In CA, let's send Democrats like @marnivonwilpert.bsky.social in CA48 to the House!

Trump's fair = E Pluribus No-one

🧵ICYMI: A note of hope from @katharinehayhoe.com, via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social : " There’s already more solar than coal on the Texas grid, and for the first time on record last month, solar generated more electricity than coal across the whole U.S.—12.8% versus 12.2%. ...

🧵 Michelle Goldberg: No wonder Musk hates The Odyssey - Christopher Nolan has made a film rooted in real effects rather than CGI or AI.

Carl Sagan, how much has Trump made from his corrupt enterprises and illegal stock trades as POTUS?

#TrumpRepublicanCorruption

"From the redwood forests
To the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me."

From these redwood forests (yesterday) to you, from California Happy 4th! I love this country and believe we can survive the worst including Trump and the corrupt Republicans.

Lindsey Graham's final words were "I just had a wonderful 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell "

Lindsey Graham (Kate McKinnon) - Man of Convictions

Alt: Lindsey Graham (Kate McKinnon) - Man of Convictions

This defense bill also includes the SAVE Act as a rider. The SAVE Act is a voter suppression instrument, pure and simple. Henry Cuellar, Jared Golden, @adamgrayca.bsky.social , Don Davis, Vicente Gonzalez, and @gluesenkampperez.house.gov should be ashamed.

California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social

BREAKING: Six Democratic House lawmakers crossed the aisle to join a majority of Republicans in passing a nearly $1.15 trillion annual defense policy bill… Thoughts?! 🤔

6 Democrats cross aisle, join GOP to back annual defense policy bill

Six Democratic House lawmakers crossed the aisle on Wednesday to join a majority of Republicans in passing a nearly $1.15 trillion annual defense policy bill.  The Democrats who backed the 202…

Hey all those up in arms about the brilliant and gorgeous Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o playing the mythological Helen of Troy (who was born from a swan egg) I am sure you objected when the talented Linda Hunt won an Oscar playing an Indonesian man in The Year of Living Dangerously