p.a.lapid, phd ☃️❄️🧧

Fighting for America while fighting to be American.

photosynthesis: the ultimate tech tree goal

That Russian Revolution arc is LONG—the only one I lost track and dropped off. Will try again in a bit

The Jan 6 plaque has finally been hung at the U.S. Capitol

Happened at 4am

Happened three years late due to politicized foot dragging

Was just reading about Stalin’s Great Terror and how it impacted women in Soviet Russia in Julia Ioffe’s “Motherland”

Contagion is a MF

A painting of a bird beside the text "are you trying to give me a fucking aneurysm?"

I have seen this ad!

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

Alexandria’s forever war?

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

nice! i therefore choose to be a beaver 🦫

A painting of a bird beside the text "i always wondered what would happen if we put a total fuckin' moron in charge"

With each day bringing news of another country joining the war I am really worried that we're doing August 1914 with nuclear weapons.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

So is where I feel the need to remind folks that the selective service system still exists.

But in practice, yeah. Super-lazy back-of-the-envelope, holding all of Iran might require c. 600,000 ground troops. (~3x our max Iraq deployment).

But you also need rotations, so 2x or 3x that.

is that an otter 🦦? Sure looks like one

This is Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers, an aviation survival technician based out of Astoria, Oregon.

He died Thursday after suffering critical injuries Feb. 27 during a rescue off the coast of Oregon, the Coast Guard says.

RIP.

Absolutely gorgeous dataviz from W.E.B. Du Bois. There's an amazing book detailing many of these.... papress.com/products/w-e...

Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.

i zoned out yesterday afternoon helping folks in the community with tax returns. prolly better for my mental health at this time, even though I love and miss my COYSky peeps

Good thread and article.

One factor it doesn't mention is that survey response rates have fallen a lot. The CPS (households) has gone from near 90% to <70%; the CES (estabs) from 60%+ to 42%; the JOLTS is in the low 30s. That hurts reliability and increases revisions.

www.bls.gov/osmr/respons...

For decades, women have provided critical services within the federal government. Women give quality healthcare, inspect food, provide disaster relief, fight wildfires, track down polluters & help veterans. We're honored to support women that work toward a government that works for everyone.

I thought California had a ban like this in the past? probably got overturned by SCOTUS though

everyone mistakes me for mid-30s all the time! unfortunately for this role, I’m Filipino

Great new article on our report on barriers to access in Social Security disability programs.

Read all the way to the end. The closing quote from @ksavin.bsky.social is a banger.

I’m here to confess my frequent use of @alexlibraryva.bsky.social weekly WaPo access as needed (primarily weather)

WaPo Pitchbot is fully activated

And the over $1 trillion dollar cut to Medicaid will absolutely undermine even this relatively good labor market.