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The new week is upon us. We are 174 days into this presidency. We are 12% of the way in. We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history. We have stood firm. We have no king. We have survived. We are the people.

“We know nothing about the people who hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.” ~MTG Who wants to tell her?

"As an emergency health care worker, FEMA responder and proud woman of faith, I know this tragedy stems from years of climate denialism and reckless cuts to science, preparedness and infrastructure." --Powerful words from Dr. Nathalie Beasnael, writing in HuffPost.

Search and Rescue is an immediate process, keyword: rescue. Noem held up FEMA SAR teams for 72 hours. This was a flood situation, but at sea 72 hours is when the Coast Guard switches modes from rescue to recovery. After 72 hours, you’re dealing with body recovery. Noem should be held accountable.

Good morning. We woke up today feeling hopeful for cracks in the ICE, in all the darkness, that will let in the light. From Leonard Cohen’s Anthem:

The WHO now recommends injectable lenacapavir twice yearly for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This is a big step toward expanding HIV prevention options globally, particularly among those who face challenges with daily adherence to other forms of PrEP, stigma, or access to health care.

The weather is trying to kill you. You have two important advantages to stay ahead of it and it’s up to you to protect them. 1. The thing between your ears. 2. The National Weather Service.

Is your job is so important you’d do it for months without pay? Some health workers focusing on HIV in Uganda are. US lawmakers have until July 18 to vote on a “recission package” that formalizes DOGE cuts. If they reject cuts to PEPFAR, they could save millions of lives globally. Call your reps!

We at #altCDC have been working on our vision for the future of public health and we’re excited to share it with all of you. Together, we can demand better, push for change, and lay the foundation for a public health future that serves us all. #futurevision #publichealthsaveslives

Andrea Gibson was Colorado's poet laureate & a national icon for the LGBTQ community. Today, they slipped out of their cancer stricken body to become a more luminous being. They had written a poem for the occasion which I share with you now: LOVE LETTER FROM THE AFTERLIFE

There’s a tropical disturbance just off Florida’s east coast, heading straight for the beach and the Jacksonville radar is down for the count (offline). That’s. Not. Good.

The Supreme Court must be destroyed. “Given the Supreme Court's ruling, HHS is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its RIF. Accordingly, you are hereby notified that you are officially [fired].” The rightwing SCOTUS allowed the Trump/DOGE mass firings, as we predicted. #NIH #science

📣 We crossed a big milestone of 150k followers today with support from all of you. What a ride it’s been since January. 🍊🤡🎢 To celebrate, we’re doing an Ask me Anything (AMA) 🗓️Wed July 16 at 6pm EST. Folks that won’t be available can DM us questions in advance and we’ll answer them this week.

ICE: Institution of Caucasian Ethnicity

Important TB modeling work in the wake of USAID defunding. Upshot? Avoidable disease and death. “Our modelling suggested that termination of USAID funding might lead to 1·4 million (95% uncertainty interval 1·1–1·7) excess tuberculosis episodes and 537 700 (451 900–662 300) excess deaths by 2035.”

I have posted on here before that DOGE is stripping Gov data to build Grock because Gov data was the last bastion to be scraped. I also said mush would use this to get a leg up on Gov contracts. Welp, to all you ppl not watching the same shitty game…

MAGA woke up this morning and automagically realized they voted for a child rapist. They’re a little slow on the uptake.

"The Trump NIH animal research move is not about organoids, or animals. It's about politics." New contributed post on our blog today, about political wedge issues. 1/ 🧪

Can we get a consult about granola bars?

AOC called Trump a rapist… Trump didn’t hit back.

Dems need to be campaigning for mids right now and I mean setting up flatbed trailers in Walmart parking lots and preaching! They have nothing else better to do right now. Get serious about taking Congress! Defund Trump! Fund critical programs!

I’m sexy and I know it.

Prisoners are going to be standing in water soon.

Crazy shelf cloud moving over Tampa Bay right now.

From USGS: As of the morning of Sunday, July 13, earthquake rates at Mount Rainier continue to decline. Interpretation remains consistent with water/fault interaction. No sign of magmatic activity. Most recent status update is at ow.ly/EFVg50WoSEz

"We don't need no education" - Pink Floyd, 1979 "It's no YMCA, but let's go with it!" - Donald Trump 2024 "All in all, you're just another brick in the wall. If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" - SCOTUS 2025

What this is really about is a return to segregation-era tactics dressed up as “reform.” He’s removing civil rights protections in education.

You know all these import taxes we are paying is for him to have a 747 from Qatar with an indoor putting range. Right?

As I stated yesterday, he doesn’t care about Russia blowing up nursing homes in Ukraine. He’s just trying to distract the maga crowd to get them to stop talking about Epstein.

The Texas disaster isn't on any federal employee or agency. But, I'm not so sure about this one... I'll wait for more info, as it appears there will be investigations, but it just seems like NPS didn't make good decisions, and that may be because of staffing levels outside of its control.

"Tesla warns owners in manuals that its cars cannot drive themselves and they need to be ready to intervene at all times." Then... what's the point? We're not going to make people better drivers by creating systems that take their hands off the wheels.

WTF do we even buy from Russia? AK-47s are made in Florida. The best selling vodka in America is made in Texas. There’s some Russian oil that makes it into our markets, however it’s imported as a product from third party countries. We don’t really buy anything (important) from Russia.

If you buy foreign goods, you’re paying import taxes and funding ICE. If you buy American, you’re destroying trade. There is no correct answer.

Knock, knock, motherfuckers.

Elon: Trump is in the Epstein files. Trump: Here, take some poor people's money Elon: Grok like red hat no little mustache man

What any president should do: not so quietly transfer B-1s from Texas to Europe, order 60,000 Marines to Eastern Europe and tell Putin that his time was limited and short to order a full withdraw from Ukraine before catastrophic and irreversible action began.

Good morning ppl! I hope you had the opportunity to put down your fucking phone this weekend and look at shit outside. Reading my swears, while tv Dr recommended to relieve the anger of screaming into the void. Is also not fucking healthy for you. Go commune with ppl ok!

As Lowly’s human car and Malarkey promote Elsa, this study backs up everything ppl have been reporting about the issues with it. And I’m fucking dead over it! My fave take-a-way, Chinese call centers think its most bullshit & in the end causes more damn work. 😂 www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/a...

Wow, there must be a missing pedo list or something happening. Quite the distraction. I'm glad it's happening; but it isn't out of concern of Ukraine. It's out of concern of saving his own butt. The MAGA crowd hates Ukraine... this will give them something different to bitch about.

We have not, nor will we, win on every front. We have survived in that we can still say Trump is orange clown that can't properly blend his makeup without being jailed. We can move freely from state to state. We aren't rationed goods. We are having this conversation. We have not complied in advance

This is extremely bad: “expect placement by political appointees.” This is Lysenkoism, politics controlling science, and we know how it ends: with the death of science. “For successful science, reality must take precedence over politics, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Have recently had several journalists DM me for interviews. I’m happy to direct legitimate journalists to an appropriate current or former NWS/NOAA staffer, but I don’t do anonymous interviews. I’ll help, I’m just not here for a grift. Have contacts at both weather and ocean service.

With churches now able to openly endorse candidates and become full time political centers, Dems will never again be in the White House. Best we can do is get control of Congress and hold it.

Bootstraps! Target practice starts at 1500!

This entire system has been fascinating to watch. Check out that big area over Tampa Bay where there is no heat rising off of land…

There’s no A/C in the tents. Because it’s an airport, it has a weather station and I posted a link to that weather station yesterday if you want to bookmark it.

Not how science works.

Please comment on this — about animal research/real biology — before 5pm ET today! And don’t just comment, post your comments publicly! It is unclear in the Trump FDA/NIH what will happen to your private comments. If you copy your comments into this thread we will amplify them.

There should be a worldwide moratorium on AI in defense tech. And any nation who refuses, should be isolated economically. If people starve, they starve.

Don’t sleep on clean energy, which is one of the biggest science topics of our time and it’s blowing up, at scale.

I’m going to head over to the klystron control center and see if I can’t get a tornado to take out this data center. It needs destroyed.

Makes one almost feel sympathy for Murdoch, Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel.

The best thing he could have done is said nothing.

I wonder where the sfc low is.. 🤔

Is your job is so important you’d do it for months without pay? Some health workers focusing on HIV in Uganda are. US lawmakers have until July 18 to vote on a “recission package” that formalizes DOGE cuts. If they reject cuts to PEPAR, they could save millions of lives globally. Call your reps!

It’s an iced tea and Tommy Emmanual kind of day.

With churches now able to openly endorse candidates and become full time political centers, Dems will never again be in the White House. Best we can do is get a Congress and hold it.

You’re going to see the Gulf improperly referenced in a lot of NHC products this season. When that happens, understand that it has been hard coded in AWIPS (system used to issue various products). The below was hand written. It’s only “Gulf”. Thank you, NHC!

WTF do we even buy from Russia? AK-47s are made in Florida. The best selling vodka in America is made in Texas. There’s some Russian oil that makes it into our markets bought it’s imported as a product from third party countries. We don’t really buy anything (important) from Russia.

Listen up, Seattle. 🏔️ 🥵 😎