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The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

Op het dorpsplein van Almere Buiten

Senate picks fight with House GOP on the "big, beautiful bill" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/senate-trump-budget-bill-medicaid-taxes-salt
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p2#a250617p2

Dependent Randomized Rounding for Budget Constrained Experimental Design
Khurram Yamin, Edward Kennedy, Bryan Wilder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12677 https…

Dependent Randomized Rounding for Budget Constrained Experimental Design
Policymakers in resource-constrained settings require experimental designs that satisfy strict budget limits while ensuring precise estimation of treatment effects. We propose a framework that applies a dependent randomized rounding procedure to convert assignment probabilities into binary treatment decisions. Our proposed solution preserves the marginal treatment probabilities while inducing negative correlations among assignments, leading to improved estimator precision through variance reduc…

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Max Volbers, Anne-Suse Enßle, Elisabeth Wirth, Felix Gutschi, Jonathan Volbers & Max Volbers:
🎵 Pulchra es, amica mea (arr for recorder ensemble)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bDDiQDS6Bvwwrjdy6NlfP

At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Public Servants
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Oy - the monster is trying to become even more monstrous.
"Trump promises expanded immigration crackdown after ‘No Kings’ protests"
(And this is on top of FFOTUS' order to allow medical providers to discriminate against [and refuse medical care] to pretty much anyone for almost anything.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Max Volbers, Anne-Suse Enßle, Elisabeth Wirth, Felix Gutschi, Jonathan Volbers & Max Volbers:
🎵 Pulchra es, amica mea (arr for recorder ensemble)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bDDiQDS6Bvwwrjdy6NlfP