Another day, another WTF

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, Nick Miroff reports: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The French overseas territory St. Pierre et Miquelon (population 5,800) now has the highest tariff rates in the world at 99% Their exports are valued at just $3.5 million dollars a year. My guess as to what happened here is that they likely export a tiny amount (like $100 k

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/4j8e0DG

About time. Those penguins have been treating the US very unfairly for far too long. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

[Press Release] The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the ALICE Experiment , ATLAS Experiment, CMS Experiment CERN and LHCb Experiment. Find out more: home.cern/news/press-rel…

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science - on.ft.com/4imQT7D via Financial Times

Three.js turns 15 today! 🎉

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm economist.com/leaders/2025/0… From The Economist

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Living Colour: #TinyDesk Concert youtu.be/bzAI4F_ks5s?si…

"US science has been world-leading for decades, driving global innovation. It is currently being attacked and systematically destroyed by its own government through defunding, gutting of agencies and attacking universities." New paper from Christina Pagel journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

CMS found in Togo

Have we passed peak social media? - on.ft.com/4nwwIYe via Financial Times

I would find it very funny if USAID won the Nobel Peace Prize this year

- Immigrates to US at 15 dirt-poor - Undergrad at Hudson Valley Community College & SUNY Albany - PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - NSF postdoc at Harvard ... Nobel Prize! A testament to the US education and research system and the US would be poorer without it!

Happy Birthday to Mike Watt, American bassist, vocalist, songwriter, co-founder of Minutemen, Dos, fIREHOSE, and involved in several other music projekts, born on this day in 1957, Portsmouth, Virginia, US 📸 Mike Rahs #punk #punks #punkrock #mikewatt #history #punkrockhistory