Cheryl Rofer
Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos.
Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Banner: The invincible summer within
- Reposted by Cheryl RoferThis is why I believe it’s best to run campaigns based on bold, transformational change. You draw swing voters AND inspire new voters to get involved. It’s both good policy and politics!
- Reposted by Cheryl Roferthese *are* irregular forces. irregular abduction squads. they say they’re acting on behalf of the state but without a clear and delineated chain of command and authority that leads back to the ultimate source of authority in this country—the people—we have no reason to believe that’s true.
- An old complaint of mine is that news is structured for "stories," not informing us when things happened. As things repeat, that's becoming more important. So is this from "today," meaning Sunday, May 11? If so, say it. Same thing with the upsurge yesterday of the F-18 lost on Tuesday, May 6.
- We've gotta keep chipping away!
- Reposted by Cheryl RoferThere are very few examples this year of four Senate Republicans defecting from Trump on anything. The one below had no actual effect. Thom Tillis saying no to Ed Martin as U.S. Attorney for DC did.
- I don't post WSJ articles because they are so difficult to access, but istm it's become clear in Trump's second term that he has no concept of what wars and negotiation are about. It was pretty clear the first time around, but it's crystal clear now. 1/
- This is exactly it. Today's spectacle gave us nothing, but it made Trump happy to have all those newsies avidly listening to him and lickspittles like Lutnik doing their thing.
- Reposted by Cheryl RoferCurious why the west Texas measles outbreak only spread to a few of New Mexico’s border counties instead of running riot like it is doing in other states? Vaccination rates.
- Reposted by Cheryl RoferWest Texas Measles update: Cases passed 700 on Tuesday, but it wasn't much of a headline. Generally speaking for the past 1.5 weeks, cases have been slowing, with around 20 new cases per update. This is MOSTLY good news, but it would be a mistake to think this outbreak is over...
- Reposted by Cheryl RoferOTD 80 years ago—at 4:37 AM Mountain War Time—about 2,400 feet from the Trinity test tower in New Mexico, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the equivalent of 108 tons of high explosives atop a 20-foot-high wooden tower to test procedures and calibrate instrumentation for the first nuclear test.
