Gregory Pijanowski

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Science teacher, history buff, traveler, photographer, likes dogs and cats equally, but no, I don't play basketball. Blog at: https://www.pigeonroost.net/

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It's been a long time (thankfully) since America experienced a prolonged deflation but it used to be fairly common in the gold standard days...and probably the biggest reason we don't have a gold standard anymore. The result is usually double digit unemployment.

Deflation is bad www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/o...

Opinion | Can We ‘Make America Affordable Again’? Should We?www.nytimes.com History says that deflation is terrible for the economy.

People joke about weather forecasts but in when the rubber hits the road, this would be very upsetting and in the end cost lives (albeit not lives the GOP values).

I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Not really surprised, offline the reaction was very, very muted. Most people seemed to want to enjoy their summer without the histrionics.

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

Absolutely, not just the right to an abortion but in many states the right to proper health care in the case of a emergency during a pregnancy.

It's like everyone forgot Dobbs in the last month. I know a lot of pundits don't think it's still a big deal. I vehemently disagree.

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"[C]ultivating a culture of political violence necessarily involves unleashing forces and permissions that one cannot contain to one’s political enemies." @benjaminwittes.bsky.social on the recent assassination attempt against former President Trump.

A Victim of Crime and a Threat to Democracywww.lawfaremedia.org In defense of our “grossly irresponsible talk.”

Such loyalty to a person who'll give them nothing...I am so glad I moved out of that culture.

Just as a side note, I've been to Middletown, OH and never thought of it as Appalachia (I've been to the real deal in WV).

This is a speech by a guy who is terrified newcomers will upend his local fiefdom.

I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

Guys, try growing a pair.

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

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I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again. I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.

during my K-12 years, RFK, MLK, were assassinated and attempts were made on Wallace, Ford (twice) and Reagan...it kinda does give a different perspective.

I'm going to get yelled at for this, but the guy who wrote this is young enough that 2016 would have been the first presidential election he could've voted in. Maybe let someone who participated in one election without Trump on the ballot assess how "historic" everything in this campaign has been?

The civility ruse, Rod Serling was on to that game 60 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4b...

No Time Like the Pastwww.youtube.com Excerpt from the Twilight Zone episode "No Time Like the Past." Original air date: March 7, 1963. Mr. Driscoll (Dana Andrews) and Mr. Hanford (Robert Cornthw...

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

Yeah, the assumption with statements like this is the guns will always be pointed away from you...I'd like to think some self-reflection would occur but from what I've seen so far, probably not.

A reminder that Donald Trump has spent years fanning the flames and fomenting political violence. Recall 2016, when he said the "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court picks if she won. This era of violent political rhetoric should've ended in 2016.

This fall, teachers all across the nation will lead K-12 students in active shooter drills. If you are opposed to the political violence that occurred today, lets oppose school violence as well and bring about sensible policies to reduce both.

Thread...on the econ front, Americans would receive a true education on who really puts food on the table.

The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

This is peak social media dumbness. None of us here (except those employed by the Times) know what internal discussions are going on there...and it ain't easy to find another journo job these days.

I see the fucking nimrod caucus on here has run off another prominent Black figure. awesome work guys

It should not be forgotten that no one is more responsible for the myth of Trump as a business genius than the NYC media. It was always left to smaller outlets like the Village Voice to do honest reporting on him.

This is actually a good idea...

I genuinely wonder what would happen if Biden gave prepared remarks that were basically five minutes of uninterrupted, verbatim transcripts from a Trump rally and, after everyone just stared at him aghast, he just launched into a tirade about how this is just Trump shit and maybe go cover that.

As I like to put it, red counties only produce 30% of GDP, high higher crime rates, and lower life expectancy. I would not expect extrapolating those local/state policies nationally to produce positive results.

Seems worth noting that the Republican platform makes a big deal out of fighting crime and inflation, both of which have been plummeting

Students ask me about Musk/Mars all the time and I tell them the hardware (rockets and so on) are possible but still very costly while the biophysical/psychological challenges remain a formidably challenge and yeah, eugenics is not going to fix that one.

LOL-in-horror moments of new @nytimes.com puff piece on Elon Musk: Reporter dutifully reciting Musk's BS about buying Twitter to "test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars," and not realizing "selective breeding" is Nazi eugenics. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Thermonuclear Blasts and New Species: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Marswww.nytimes.com SpaceX employees are working on plans for a Martian city, including dome habitats, spacesuits and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.

Private equity mentality and space are not a good mix: qz.com/starliner-up...

The Boeing Starliner crew might be stuck in space for the rest of the summerqz.com Boeing and NASA are tenatively targeting a return date at the end of July

Beating a dead horse here but imagine if Biden had said this (among many other things)...

Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon anymore’

Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon anymore’www.theguardian.com Ex-president returns to campaign trail in Doral and makes baseless accusations but doesn’t name running mate

This is the Saturn V IBM Instrument Unit mounted above the 3rd stage at JSC. This 18 foot wide unit controlled navigation, guidance, and sequencing for the Saturn V. The computer inside had a memory of 32K (about half a Word page). www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBJx...

Saturn V IBM Instrument Unit - Johnson Space Center.www.youtube.com

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My personal favorite Inhofe moment was when he held up a piece of paper with the names of 17 climate criminals (including me) while standing next to a stack of laws threatening to prosecute us for something or other. amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

US Senate's top climate sceptic accused of waging 'McCarthyite witch-hunt' | Hacked climate science emails | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com <p>James Inhofe calls for criminal investigation of climate scientists as senators prepare proposal that would ditch cap and trade</p>

Props to Whataburger - my go to fast food place when I'm in Texas (no way am I going to Jack in the Box).

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

When I talk to people who are into crypto, their thing tends to be they want to evade paying taxes and not be bugged by the IRS (not surprisingly, they are Trump fans). They think of flourishing is not paying taxes - they are not above using the gov't themselves, they just don't want to pay for it.

As an aside, because I led the WH crypto & climate report (www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...) I spent a lot of time reading crypto stuff. Encouraging “human flourishing” was this weird in-group term that nearly all of them would use describing crypto. Human flourishing also needs a livable climate.

FACT SHEET: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States | OSTP | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov Climate change is one of the most pressing problems confronting our nation and our world, and President Biden has taken bold steps to address it with legislation and policy. Among the President’s comm...

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If you thought Hubble was impressive, wait until you meet the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (due to launch ~late 2026). It has Hubble quality imaging over a field of view 200x larger 🤯🔭🧪

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He literally four days ago signed a bill to fight Parkinson's because it's an issue his administration has been working on for awhile, might it be related to that, you weirdos? www.parkinson.org/blog/awarene...

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

President Biden Signs Parkinson's Bill into Lawwww.parkinson.org On July 2, President Biden signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act — the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson’s.

A problem I don't have...

Father-in-law, film professor, shares his name with an expert on nuclear proliferation, which throughout the years produced a variety of hilarious misattributions for both.