DrDinD.bsky.social

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Retired physics prof, forever lefty political nerd. Born at 315 ppm. In a relationship. Reform the Democratic Party! NO NO NO on the SAVE Act! Reconstitute ICE - you can't make good ICE from polluted water!

WIRED headline - Ara Rosenthal The Big Story Jul 22, 2026 6:00 AM A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework. PIcture of student reporter Ben Mueller.
Mitch McConnell subbing in for Bobby Ewing in the scene where Ewing, played by Patrick Duffy, was in a shower after his death was revealed to be a dream. In real life, Duffy wanted back on the show after a year hiatus
Popular Information headline The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days Stephen Semler Jul 08, 2026 Image of explosion -caption Cars drive down a highway as smoke billows after overnight airstrikes on oil depots on March 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
Maya the Boxer with an I Voted sticker
SF Chronicle Headline Politics Republicans can’t stop talking about a California dog who voted. Here’s what really happened By Sara Libby, Staff Writer Updated July 21, 2026 1:28 p.m.
NPR Headline Health After Trump's reelection, these U.S. scientists found jobs in the U.K. June 30, 20266:00 AM ET By Jon Hamilton [Images of Tamara Swaab, Ron Mangun, and Megan Peters] Caption: Scientists Tamara Swaab (left), Ron Mangun and Megan Peters are all leaving the United States to work in Great Britain, which is actively recruiting international scientists. Courtesy of Tamara Swaab, Ron Mangun and Megan Peters
Sean Parnell during his failed 2021 Senate campaign
William Shatner with his eyes closed in the famous Twilight Zone episode where there is a monster only he can see on the wing. The monster at the window is replaced by Mitch McConnell
Amelia Earhart in the cockpit with Mitch McConnell looking in the window
Cast of Young Frankenstein in B&W publicity still- Terri Garr, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Head of Mitch McConnell replacing Petet Boyle as the monster, Mel Brooks from left to right at the lab table on set
Cumulative co2 emissions by country, 1850-2020. Us is 1, followed by China. Us cumulative emissions in tons are 417B, Canada 34b
A Reporter at Large Locked Away On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. By Jonathan Blitzer July 13, 2026 Imagr of ICE officers with handcuffed detainees behind a fence The Trump Administration’s goal, a former ICE official said, “is to make detention look and feel so bad that people leave.”Illustration by Anuj Shrestha
Rose from Titanic on the wooden plank serving as a raft with McConnell bobbing in the water next to her in his pink and white checkered proof of life shirt
Michael Jackson as a zombie in the Thriller video, with McConnell in his pink and white checkered "proof of life" shirt dancing as a zombie behind him
Monty Python dead parrot sketch with McConnell head on the parrot and Michael Palin as the owner saying "He's just restin'" (John Cleese is holding the cage)
Kristen Roos and Tatyana Reisini of Charlotte NC
Graphic of assault cases filed by ICE under Trump 2.0 191 have been dismissed, 22 have gone through trial and led.to acquittal, 4 have been convicted, 249 pled guilty, 95 are pending.
Art from Ny Times magazine article about a 2007 data center theft in England Picture shows thieves surrounded by the outline of a head walking down a corridor in a data center with servers on either side and a huge dog
Black and white image of Rudy Marcus, creator of electron transfer theory in chemistry
NY TIMES HEADLINE Top Science Panel Backs Research Linking Extreme Weather to Clima te Change Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming. Image of a helicopter flying in front of a raging wildfire
Map showing locations of 700+ wildfires in Canada including ~100 in Ontario. Smoke from these fires is causing unsafe air conditions in many American cities.
Ny Times headline A.I. Is Running on Borrowed Money Risk is rising as big tech companies like Oracle — the ultimate financial source of the Ellison media empire — need to turn to the bond market for staggering sums to finance data centers.
NY Times editorial headline Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics? David Wallace-Wells and Robinson Meyer discuss whether the gathering coalition of Americans against data centers could be the next Occupy Wall Street movement or Tea Party.
Microscope slide showing small.blue donkeys and red elephants
Mary Oliver, sitting on a hammock
Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
Jason Walsman
Marley's ghost with Mitch McConnell head
Dr Debra Houry
2025 Chemistry Nobelist Omar Yaghi
Cow Palace in Daly City CA
The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days Stephen Semler Popular Info headline Image of explosion in Tehran
Student typing on a laptop
Whoopi Goldberg as medium Oda Mae Brown in Ghost Added caption "Just spoke with Mitch McConnell..."
Mathilde Poyet and Mathieu Groussin
Sycamore at sunset last night, Berkeley CA
Manny Yekutiel
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint clink champagne glasses in North by Northwest
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest
Sketch from data center proposal. Left, fairgrounds under utilized off season. Right, heliport, huge building, huge parking structure
Calistoga, California
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park 6/3/26
Trump post suggesting Ossoff looks like Pee Wee Herman
Left, Trump golf course plans, right, cherry blossoms in Potomac Park.
NY Times headline Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’ Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil fuel use started rapidly warming the world. Image of person standing by dripping fire hydrant to seek heat relief
Image of El Capitan "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS" Carl Sagan
Overview of nearly empty Capitol Mall in DC from Trump's National State Fair
Steve Rattner generated bar chart showing Trump family gains and investor losses in 4 Trump family crypto ventures, World Liberty Financial, $TRUMP, Alt5 Sigma, American Bitcoin
Defector.com headline Cade Cavalli Insists There Was Nothing Racist About Calling Willson Contreras “Boy” By Chris Thompson 10:45 AM EDT on July 1, 2026 Image of nationals and red Sox players in brawl last night
Image of Teddy Roosevelt with quote from his essay "Lincoln and Free Speech" written in 1918, criticizing the suppression of speech during WW1 by the Wilson presidency. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president....is not only unpatriotic and servicle, but it morally treasonable to the American public." In this post, Prof. Gordon Thomasson from Broome Community College in NY argues that the essay was mostly self-serving, to tee up a possible presidential run in 1920 by Roosevelt. The piece excerpts a Doonesbury cartoon from 2002 with Megaphone Mark interviewing a conservative idealogue on his radio show who suspects that the quote, cited in full, is from Osama Bin Laden - Mark reveals it is from Roosevelt. https://newroseandcrown.org/theodore-roosevelts-1918-wartime-essay-lincoln-and-free-speech/
Poster for Poets For Science exhibit at Kent State University Quote from the poem Zinc Fingers by Peter Meinke "Though scientists inform us that criminals have insufficient zinc I've always believed it's insufficient gold and silver that gets them going"
First lage of Jackson concurrent opinion. Sorry, cannot copy text from posting
A woman walks beside the SCOTUS
Harshita Nair and Mahial San, taken by surf near Panther Beach two weeks ago
Katrine Rezniak, LinkedIn Employee making $180K per year
Daily Mail headline MAGA fan accused of mistreating at Donald Trump's Great American State Fair in latest setback for embattled event Image of goofy maga man in red white and blue overalls with read white and blue hat , image of DC mall with few people attending
Eli Lilly headquarters with Trump head next to logo