This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time. Navigate to whitehouse.gov/aliens/ and you will see a page that at first glance appears to tease unclassified information about aliens from outer space "walking among us." But as you scroll down it becomes apparent the White House is referring to immigrants in the US.
I realize the POTUS has said far worse in plenty of Executive Orders that are published on whitehouse.gov, but this is just disgusting to see.
ICYMI, the U.S. Postal Service just issued new rules that would require states to provide voter-level data on mail-in ballots in federal elections. CNBC reports the proposal would require states to submit to the USPS the names and addresses of voters receiving mail-in or absentee ballots, along with unique barcodes tied to each voter's outbound and return ballot envelopes.
"A federal judge on Thursday declined to immediately block the mail-voting provisions of the order, finding the challenge premature because agencies had not yet carried it out."
This is yet another effort by the White House to assert federal control over state-run elections. The USPS said the new steps were needed to detect potential issues for further investigation of voter fraud. Meanwhile, cases of actual voter fraud are vanishingly few mainly because they tend to be prosecuted mercilessly.
The proposed rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on June 2. Public comments are due 30 days after publication.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/postal-service-mail-in-ballot-voter-lists-trump.html
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10968.pdf
https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.
I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.
The Trump administration is tearing up 900 deep-sea instruments that took a decade to install and $370 million to build — scrapping the world's most advanced ocean monitoring network to save $48m/year. Real-time data on AMOC stability, marine heat waves, ocean chemistry, commercial fisheries? Gone. Congress twice voted to save it. They did it anyway by bureaucratic fiat through the NSF. No, not budget management, this is deliberate science vandalism — blinding ourselves to the ocean systems that regulate global climate, because the results were inconvenient.
#climatecrisis #trumpadministration #sciencedenialism #oceanscience #amoc
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116687129039392818
Advice I was given in my youth:
Print your slide on a full piece of paper. Put the paper on the ground. Stand on a chair.
If you can’t easily read your slide, neither can the person at the back of the room.
It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is *still* widespread practice.
