Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

If we fully fund the renovation, we will never get a dime out of Dundon ever. He's the bully demanding payment to cross the street. And so many people are insisting we need to pay the bully

Mangroves are 10x better at sequestering carbon than tropical forests www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/hab...

Protecting Coastal Blue Carbon Through Habitat Conservation

By absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, coastal habitats play an important role in protecting the climate. Learn the basics about coastal blue carbon and what NOAA Fisheries is doing to protect coast...

fisheries.noaa.gov

7) What is actually happening on ICE flights is already so bad! When you make shit up or “just ask questions,” you: a) Take the focus off real people who are SCREAMING for help about real abuses, b) Ignore actions YOU could be taking TODAY to try to relieve their suffering.

Please for the love of God, stop telling me about Pinochet’s death flights and suggesting ICE is doing them. 1) The doors on the charter jets ICE uses cannot be opened midflight. It is physically impossible. 2) Even if depressurized, the door would fly off and/or bodies get sucked into engines

If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

This is low key one of the most important popular studies that supports the societal importance of art history. So much so that I am doing everyone here a solid by not allowing the article preview to show, the images of which will haunt you for life. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

i don't know why musk always having a 1/3-developed mustache isn't more of a tell here, it's a miracle he doesn't have a rat tail and call himself padawan

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

Only real heads will get this, but: The documents helpfully released today by John Solomon appear to indicate that the FBI never continued its counterintelligence investigation against Trump once Mueller was appointed www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

erininthemorning.com

This is the tactic going forward: buy these “turnkey” facilities from GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle, etc., and then turn around and contract them out for operations. The prison contractors make a pretty penny off the sale and ops contracts. ICE gets to run supremacy laps around state laws.

Moda Center Public Meeting thread here! Gonna try to keep up as best I can with this today. Feel free to add any comments on any posts to add extra details.

Maybe we can have one across the street. Not sure if it would fit in two acres, but this would be a great location for it. www.loopnet.com/Listing/718-...

Willamette Week@wweek.com · yesterday

Generations of figure skaters grew up on the mall’s ice, the only public rink within city limits. Now they’re looking for what’s next.

Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterday

Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

(pointing at an unsuspecting pile of leaves and suspended branches over a large sinkhole) they're making a bluesky for podcasters

Always shocking when you're scrolling the feed and suddenly see your own face.

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 8h ago

Since 2021, EFF has been advocating against the use of armed robots or drones by law enforcement. This call has only become more urgent. Lawmakers need to act now. Learn more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.

Today we are holding a public hearing on the Moda Center Term Sheet. This is an opportunity for Portlanders to express that any public investment must be met with transparency, accountability, and a clear explanation of community benefits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8e...

Portland City Council AM Session 08/05/26

YouTube video by eGov PDX

youtube.com

Data centres here in Ireland accounted for nearly a quarter of all electricity usage last year (a FIVE-fold increase in ten years)! AND these companies get a discounted electricity rate which is subsidised by us ordinary domestic users 😡 www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Data centres account for 23% of electricity usage - CSO

The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.

rte.ie

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

This is the right thing to say and I wholeheartedly support it and believe it but it is frustrating and aggravating that he's been saying this for months and months and, like Mamdani, some people on here take this as a rhetorical pivot after the primary rather than just sincerity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

I PLAN 50 ACRES OF GARDENS POWERED BY PEOPLE HIRED THROUGH A GENEROUS GRANT SOMEONE GAVE ME FOR NO REASON.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 14h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Most people are primed to believe that censorship and surveillance lead to more safety. Anytime we get into a debate between "freedom" and "safety" we are always going to lose. The digital rights movement needs to chart a new path and show how we can stop Big Tech without trashing human rights.

We @fightforthefuture.org and our growing coalition have been beating back these misguided "protect the children" internet censorship and surveillance bills for literally 10+ years. We're good at it! And we can keep doing it. But to really win on this, we have to radically shift the narrative

Here's some more good news from today's hearing: it seems like the SCREEN ACT totally failed. This was one of the most dangerous bills being considered: it would have created an Internet-wide ID check regime that would be a censorship and surveillance nightmare for marginalized communities.

Despite all the rhetoric about "reining in Big Tech" we heard today, it's essential to understand the push for this "kids safety" legislation as something that most Big Tech companies WANT. Microsoft, OpenAI, Snap, X, Apple, and now Meta all support KOSA because it benefits their monopoly status

THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

cbs12.com

We got some quotes from @wyden.senate.gov about his wild report yesterday about banks withholding suspicious activity reports about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire because they wanted to keep the lucrative relationship. Crazy conduct and Wyden has some good solutions for it.

Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect

The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’

prospect.org