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all possible futures are now radical. NOT GREAT, BOB! i think i want to abolish cars. http://archive.fo gets around paywalls
This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayThis likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.
Private equity strikes again: Fender's sudden decision to enforce its copyright on the 1950s Stratocaster design, 70-odd years later, is creating havoc in the guitar world. Misha Angrist has an absorbing account at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-622/
Guitar villain / Adult dirigible
Misha Angrist on the fiasco at Fender, and then it’s up, up and awaaay with Michael Kupperman
flaminghydra.com
a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
Nepalese mystery bird!
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 7h agoFound only in Nepal, the spiny babbler is the country’s sole endemic bird, yet it remains understudied and vulnerable to habitat loss. Scientists are calling for global attention to protect this elusive species and its threatened habitat. @bibekbhandari.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
A recent report by county commissioners summarized four years of deplorable water quality and sanitary conditions in LA County's only jail for women. Brown drinking water. Blocked sink drains w/ tampons to stop bugs from crawling out. Mold everywhere. lapublicpress.org/2026/08/la-j...
LA County women’s jail under scrutiny over brown water, bugs and broken plumbing
A recent report details worms in drinking water, brown water from faucets, pests crawling from drains, mold and plumbing failures at LA County’s only jail for women.
lapublicpress.org
If you live in LA County and own a car, you can sign up to get paid up to $600 to not drive for 5 weeks thesource.metro.net/hey-la-count...
Imma keep it a buck... if JD Vance the artist formally known as James Donald Bowman lifted his finger to get sassy with me on Al Gore's internet ... imma clear him out
Amid speculation from the public that a deadline had passed to replace Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, whose health status and ability to return to office are presently unknown, Gov. Andy Beshear has reiterated that no such deadline exists.
Beshear Rejects Notion That a “Deadline” Has Passed to Replace McConnell
The Kentucky Republican senator has not made any public appearances since June.
truthout.org
This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoMax Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
Apparently it’s unprofessional to have a murdered son
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 3h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
Nolan Wells’ Mother Under Investigation With Nursing Board After Complaint, Lawyer Says
Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, is under investigation by the Mississippi Board of Nursing after an anonymous complaint.
mississippifreepress.org
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.
I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50
All the projections I've ever worked with predicted an acceleration in the rate of global warming if we continued to increase our emissions. The fact that so many people are shocked about this honestly surprises me. I guess no one ever reads things like the IPCC or National Climate Assessment 🤷♀️
honestly, ever since i moved i feel like i'm on the verge of a psychotic break. and suddenly insight timer keeps giving me notifications to step outside and calm down, so i think it knows?
As temperatures regularly exceed 110 degrees, an algorithm decides who gets a shot at landing a "cool bed" in prisons where AC is lacking. This isn't an episode of Black Mirror. It's reality in Texas prisons.
Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC
The system for choosing who gets a "cool bed" is arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.
motherjones.com
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science announced Tuesday that two of its paleontologists had identified a new bird-like dinosaur species after first discovering an unusual skull fossil in San Juan County in the summer of 2005. sourcenm.com/2026/08/05/n...
New Mexico scientists announce discovery of ‘beefy’ new bird-like dinosaur in San Juan County • Source New Mexico
Dinevenator robustus may have been up to 10 feet long and lived in New Mexico more than 70 million years ago.
sourcenm.com
Sunrise reveals a Pacific Northwest overwhelmed with wildfire smoke. Combined with rising temperatures in the region, any outdoor activities should be limited as much as possible. weather.gov
how do you get rid of a zionist on the board of your non-profit? like, a participating in west Bank settler conduct kinda zionist?
everyone is bugging the ever-loving SHIT out of me already this morning.
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
nytimes.com
What does high-quality shade look like? And after what we saw at the World Cup, does LA have any hope at deploying these solutions for even larger events? I tapped two @weareshadela.bsky.social experts to give their frank opinions on LA's best (and worst) attempts at combatting extreme heat
Hot or Not? World Cup edition
Two experts evaluate the shade interventions at this summer's tournament
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Shuang Yang—Chang’e 7 will land near the Moon’s south pole Shackleton crater later this year and deploy (via tether) a seismometer that is planned to survive for 8 years. This might be the first node of a long-lived *international* geophysical network! #AOGS2026
