James Fallows responds to Trump's statement about Robert Mueller's death — "Good. I'm glad he's dead":

"Any head of state who can say this in public about a countryman, even about a political adversary, is a moral monster."

#RobertMueller #Trump #MoralMonster #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/one-man-a-hero-one-man-a-monster

"Whether Jane Doe #4’s trafficking and rape allegations against Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell are ever proven or disproven is ultimately a matter for evidence, corroboration, and law. What cannot be denied is that her testimony exists, the FBI considered it important enough to document repeatedly, and details provided to the FBI and released in the Epstein files have now been corroborated."

~ Dave Shuster

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #JaneDoe
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-fbi-believed-her

Update. It turns out that the National Academies of Science (#NAS) did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 acquiesce in this #censorship of #climate science. In a short statement (March 11), it said that “The manual, including the chapter on climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/

PS: Bravo to the NAS. Although it's not part of the govt, about 85% of its funding comes from govt agencies, making it highly vulnerable to retaliatory defunding. It's the first agency I've seen with that level of vulnerability flatly reject a Trumpist demand to censor research.

EDIT. I meant to make this a threaded reply to my earlier post on the same subject, before we knew the NAS decision. But I inadvertently made it a separate post. Here's the earlier post (Feb 11, 2026).
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116052723394052889

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116248832950638355

Here's one championship team Trump won't invite to the Oval Office.

He gave them the incentive they needed.

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

Khamenei's killing renews questions about US assassinating foreign leaders
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/g-s1-114070/assassination-iran-supreme-leader-questions-democracies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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