Mark Sumner 🇺🇦

Author, journalist, old guy. Science, climate, space, transportation, energy, and how human selection drives the evolution of all of the above. www.unchartedblue.com
Joined July 2023
  • Trump is trying to make Kaseniia Petrova into a present for Putin, knowing full well she faces torture and imprisonment — at best — for the crime of speaking against Russian leadership. The charges are ludicrous, the threatened action is sickening.
    • HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France. The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont. 🧵
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    the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible”
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