Days after Nick Judin reported that Mississippi had suddenly denied scholarships to 170 Mississippi foster students, a nonprofit has pledged $800k and colleges are working to ensure their education isn't disrupted. Lawmakers are also vowing to fix it. This is what impactful journalism looks like.

Mississippi Nonprofit, Colleges Help Foster Students Denied Scholarships as Lawmakers Vow Fix

The Woodward Hines Education Foundation is dedicating $800,000 to help fund Mississippi foster students denied full-ride scholarships.

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“Gustavo” is harvesting mangoes in Coachella, CA. “This is very hard work. We start before dawn, but temps are already near 100° while we’re working. It’s physical labor, and it’s hard to do in this kind of heat.” Today’s high in Coachella is forecast to reach 109°. #WeFeedYou

While commercial power has been restored to the neighboring summit of Cerro Tololo, the service is unreliable, and generators are still in use. The summit of Cerro Pachón has not yet been reached. Thank you all for your continued patience.

Chile Storm Recovery Update: 5 August 2026 Restoration efforts continue at NSF NOIRLab's Chilean facilities, which include NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, following July’s historic winter storm. Our staff is safe, and the telescope is secured. 🧵

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

The only objection that matters. Redacted.

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you! 🥞☀️ The setting Sun in this NOIRLab #ImageOfTheWeek of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory looks flattened due to atmospheric refraction. The atmosphere also filters out bluer wavelengths, leaving just the vibrant orange colors you see here 🌅

That would be Fields Park across Naito from what's left of Centennial Mills.

The Oregonian@oregonian.com · 2h ago

After a fire consumed much of the long-vacant Centennial Mills warehouse, Portland Parks and Recreation is closing the park next door. https://mrf.lu/21TLM

Major congratulations to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @donavanmckinney.bsky.social & @wewill2026.bsky.social for their victories in Michigan. Proud to support them. (1/4)

This page cites the Iran war the U.S. is currently fighting as an example of Trump "Ending Wars and Fostering Peace"

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h ago

in case you were wondering whatever became of the us institute of peace, the once-venerable congressionally chartered think tank is now a propaganda site www.usip.org

Dylan Ford, 29, was arrested by the FBI for allegedly exchanging explicit messages and videos with multiple children under the age of 16. He was also accused of impersonating a colleague while talking to children online.

Lane County deputy facing child exploitation charges resigns

A Lane County deputy who was arrested last week on child exploitation charges has resigned from the sheriff’s office.

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🚨 @adamsmith.house.gov & I want to remind YOU: In Jan 2027 MORE cruel cuts from '1 Big Beautiful Bill' begin: States must contribute to SNAP, cutting the program by BILLIONS. Medicaid is SLASHED by $1T & most people MUST re-certify 2x a year! The GOP are REPEALING healthcare & making US hungrier. 😡

Please REPOST there are so many Americans that are not aware of these cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It’s so crucial to create as much awareness as possible.🙏

Peter Morley ♿️@petermorley.bsky.social · yesterday

I spoke with @deluzio.house.gov regarding the $1 TRILLION Medicaid & MAJOR SNAP cuts that will begin on January 1, 2027 from the BIG UGLY BILL. His POWERFUL response: "people who are eligible are going to lose out...these cuts will take away healthcare & food from people & we gotta repeal it"!

Just filed: Our opening brief in @aaup.org v. Rubio, asking the First Circuit to affirm Judge Young's conclusion that the Trump administration's policy of targeting pro-Palestinian protesters for arrest and deportation violates the First Amendment. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ex...

We're going to have to set up a whole new department just to get back all the money Trump and his cronies are stealing from us.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 1h ago

President Trump is an unimpressive person. He had no real intellect even before his cognitive faculties began to decline. His real estate career was mediocre at best; and he inherited most of it from his father before going bankrupt multiple times. trib.al/ji49PE1

President Trump is an unimpressive person. He had no real intellect even before his cognitive faculties began to decline. His real estate career was mediocre at best; and he inherited most of it from his father before going bankrupt multiple times. trib.al/ji49PE1

And the stock market will drop while oil/gas stocks rise. I guess the oil we stole from Venezuela isn't as expensive as he'd like.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

Trump on gas prices: "We may have to send it up again. You know what happens when we send it up, but we hope we don't have to"

in for @chrislhayes.bsky.social at 8PM tonight. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is our first guest, fresh off his win last night. see you then.

Portland Public Schools is starting to see its ongoing enrollment loss extend past the elementary school grades.

PPS Forecasts Enrollment Decline Will Soon Hit Middle Schools

Joanna Hou

wweek.com

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

As @kevinmkruse.bsky.social noted, this was the cover of the pro-free-market, not-progressive Economist one month before the election that brought Trump back to power. The economy had problems, hence the result, but a “total catastrophe” it was not.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Trump: "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe"

DOJ misses deadline to file formal answer or move to dismiss in @katiephang.bsky.social suit re Epstein docs. Asks for retroactive extension. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4h ago

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Jesus, is this incompetence or peak narcissism?

Helicopter Carrying Trump Flies Near Passenger Jet in Washington Airspace (Gift Article)

Marine One, the helicopter that ferries the president, came within less than a mile of an Envoy Air flight on Tuesday, raising new concerns about air traffic control in the congested area.

nytimes.com

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

When even Trump thinks Big Oil is “making too much money” off American consumers, you know it’s reached barf-worthy levels of excess profit.

ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked about the comparison some are making between himself and Abdul El-Sayed, who CNN projected will win the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan. https://cnn.it/3RRZGXZ

Two ballistic missiles heading to Kyiv according to radar screens.