America’s biggest corporations shelled out millions to support Freedom 250 and then did not disclose the payments on lobbyist contribution reports due to Congress last Friday. Trump himself is the chair of Freedom 250. trib.al/bb9On0R

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

FAA proposes giving airlines flexibility on flight emergency medical kits reut.rs/4xlBQ69

FAA proposes giving airlines flexibility on flight emergency medical kits

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday proposed giving airlines flexibility in requirements for emergency medical kits ​on commercial flights.

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Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn. True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote. But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”? Can’t get any more craven than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn justifies his support for Blanche: "That's one of those things that can't be remedied by a 'no' vote"

Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d ago

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

The Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) is one of the only armadillo species capable of rolling into a completely sealed sphere: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

the most annoying thing about the What We Should Have Done With COVID discourse is that the actual viable option to accept more health risk in exchange for less disruption was not to rawdog the plague, it was to push the vaccine wide earlier with worse trial data

Vengeance Denied?

Vengeance Denied? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Well that sounds comprehensive: Federal prosecutors moved on Friday to drop charges against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, acknowledging that a contractor hired by the Trump administration had “botched” its renovation. In a motion filed in D.C. Superior Court, the U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro, […]

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Ironically, the biggest accessibility benefit when Philly switched to a BMD-based system was that the new machines were so heavy and cumbersome that they had to make sure all polling stations were wheelchair accessible, because there was no other way to bring the machines in.

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Hi! You're my Senators. Can you make sure the issue of ending Trump's $1.8B Slush Fund deal gets dealt with during Todd Blanche's confirmation hearings?

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 6d ago

Todd Blanche promised that the $1.8B slush fund for insurrectionists was dead, yet he refuses to put that in writing and Trump says he may temporarily pull Blanche's AG nomination instead of heeding demands to put the promise in writing. Sure looks like Blanche lied about the slush fund being dead.

overlooked fact: Blanche also changed the rules so he rather than the Bureau of Prisons decides where federal inmates are housed. So protesters can be sent to max security and Trump’s friends to country club prisons.

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.

On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.

And wow, this hearing has gone wildly off the rails already. Rand Paul has had security remove Fauci’s attorney from the room.

My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Yearly bear cam maintenance staff reporting for duty.

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

Reading @amalelmohtar.com's The River Has Roots, for Hugo voting; it's too late to also nominate it for poetry... Much different version of the Two Drowned Sisters ballads than @tkingfisher.com's "Thing with the Armadillo" book's version :-)

I wrote a mildly famous essay about it not long after whose title sums it up: in text-based communications, the autism spectrum runs backwards. Neurotypicals are missing the social cues they depend on; autistics PREFER to interpret plain-text. So the "normals" are the ones throwing tantrums. (2/2)

Evergreen post, unfortunately.

TakamineBill@takaminebill.bsky.social · last wk.

But how will this benefit the Big Oil companies?

Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception

If you make me take my phone out at the store to buy toothpaste I am going use it to buy toothpaste online

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Alaska Removes Citizens From Voter Rolls Just Before Midterms

Alaska has removed thousands of people from its voter rolls, claiming they might not be citizens.

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#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Minneapolis! Pediatric trial of a new pneumococcal vaccine, control group receives the already-approved one.

Kimberly Reese@childsplease.blacksky.app · 2w ago

I'm recruiting for a pediatric pneumococcal vaccine study for children 15mo to <5 years in Minneapolis. No placebo, standard side effects. 2 in person visits and a phone call and requires a couple 5ml blood draws and a week of reaction monitoring surveys. It is well compensated. Message for details.

R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.