LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
John Elegance
@aknownscientist.bsky.social
Yeah? Well that’s just like uh, y’know, your opinion, man.
"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
newrepublic.com
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
nature.com
Diarrhea in the lettuce, glass in the popsicles, E. Coli in the berries, screw worms in the beef, salmonella in the chicken & eggs, listeria in everything else. Man I love deregulation. Libertarianism is such a great philosophy.
I remember media trying to equate Hassan Piker and Nick Fuentes, and one reason that doesn't hold water is the media has been way more dogged in demanding that every Democratic candidate condemn Hassan Piker than they ever have been about demanding that from people who meet w and boost Fuentes.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoCBS: You campaigned with Hasan Piker during the primary. Dem Senate candidate, while images of Piker flash on the screen: I didn’t campaign with him, and I don’t know where that came from. CBS: Ah well… would you want to campaign with him in the general? Candidate: I don’t really know who he is.
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
A good way to think about the relevance of James Carville is if someone who worked on Grover Cleveland’s successful 1892 campaign spent all their time critiquing FDR’s 1932 campaign as not being the real Democratic Party that Cleveland represented.
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
futurism.com
A House primary in Florida pitted a congressman who cheered on Palestinian starvation against a manosphere influencer who posted approvingly about Hitler. It might just be the future of the GOP www.vox.com/politics/499...
The worst primary in America just ended
An Islamophobic Congress member beat an antisemitic influencer. It may be a sign of the GOP to come.
vox.com
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
motherjones.com
Aug. 18, 1926: Commonwealth College in Arkansas, which trains organizers for the labor movement, is denounced as a bastion of “free love” and “Sovietism” by the American Legion. Members are urged to “march in a body to the institution and forcibly close its doors.” 1/2
So far this year 7.2 million acres have burned across the United States, the largest year-to-date area in the past decade and nearly double what it was at this time last year, www.nifc.gov/fire-informa...
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center
nifc.gov
The reason the White House is so sensitive about Trump and his relationship with Natalie Harp is because, well . . . because it's a bit awkward
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 6d agoThe incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes
Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
NEW from @attackerman.bsky.social at @forever-wars.com: "One official running Operation Predator, Frank Figueroa, pleaded no contest to exposing himself to a 16-year old girl in an Orlando mall. The Border Patrol agent John Daly III moonlighted as the East Valley Serial Rapist."
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
forever-wars.com
ABC has a nifty case here given there is evidence that FCC boss Brendan Carr colluded with right wing local broadcasters to effectively manufacture evidence falsely claiming that ABC violated the law by hosting James Talarico last February
ABC Shows A Backbone In FCC Fight, Shows FCC Manufactured A Controversy Surrounding James Talarico
ABC/Disney, like most major media companies, has spent much of its time during America’s bout with authoritarianism being a feckless wimp. The company was quick to ditch its already fleeting …
techdirt.com
Exclusive: The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf once Iran war ends
The analysis, according to officials and others familiar with the matter, was not yet a formal review and will include whether to rebuild bases battered by strikes.
washingtonpost.com
finally some good news: the weirdos who tried doing The Olympics For Steroids lost $60 million and their stock tanked
ENHANCED GAMES: May event cost $60 million; second-quarter 2026 results show net loss of $61.924 million; stock down 77% from debut - The Sports Examiner
ENHANCED GAMES: May event cost $60 million; second-quarter 2026 results show net loss of $61.924 million; stock down 77% from debut - The Sports Examiner - Your all-in-one coverage of Olympic-sports n...
thesportsexaminer.com
“.. The reservoir is now about 30 feet away from the point at which turbines would stop producing hydroelectric power.” #WaterCrisis www.bostonherald.com/2026/08/17/l...
The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.
Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 6d agoI‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
nbcnews.com
NEW: An activist called far-right lawmakers "bullshit" over a proposal to cut nearly half of all polling places. Eight days later, he was in jail. (Gift link).
He Cursed at a Public Meeting. Then He Was Arrested.
Police charged Fort Worth resident E. J. Carrion with disrupting a meeting, a Class B misdemeanor, after his public comments. He says that won’t stop his activism.
texasmonthly.com
I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.
Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik
A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
theguardian.com
RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
“House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his opposition to Medicare for All on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea—and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year.”
Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
levernews.com
There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
Yes. The conventional wisdom is that the lab leak has been suppressed when in fact it has been given far more credibility than it deserves. Scientists should explore every possibility but the lay public should know that spillover has a ton of evidence and a leak has none.
Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 4w agoGiven the overwhelming demand (🤥), here are the editorials I've written on covid origins: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
