This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Roughly 25 MILLION Americans have Medicare Part D plans and will learn their 2027 rates this fall. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy

Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.

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This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.

Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.

Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only

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Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club

“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...

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“The approval came despite a flood of opposition from astronomers, wildlife experts and others who say the light from the mirrors could distract airplane pilots, wreak havoc on astronomical observations and interfere with circadian rhythms…”

Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP@cancercommunicator.com · 3mo ago

"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Everyone has a role to play in combating the surveillance state.

a small sacrifice to pay for access to suicide-instructing machines

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3mo ago

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

found a midterm ad to run on a loop

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

Happy Pride! Explore this amazing quarterly release and peep the link to the collaborative queer futures playlist at the end… 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

The Sexual Health Exploration Project@sexploreproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy IT’S ALWAYS Pride Month! As we wrap up our yearly celebration of all things queer, we invite you to explore our newly released quarterly report on Queer Futures: Beyond Celebration, Toward Liberation. Viewable on our website: www.sexplorationproject.com/quarterly-sp...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

The vote or die contingent is mad that people voted?

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

#DataCenters You know what to do.

“…a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok” is my personal hell.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“The company is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.”

30, 50, 70, and 100-year sentences for the Prairieland defendants so far. Dark day, man. Truly.

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

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NEW: I reported on the FDA approval of Xocova (ensitrelvir). The post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) drug for COVID-19 will be available in mid-July in the U.S. with a list price of $1,400. thesicktimes.org/2026/06/23/f...

FDA approves COVID-19 antiviral Xocova as PEP. But will it be accessible? - The Sick Times

Shionogi, the Japanese company that makes Xocova (ensitrelvir), said the post-exposure prophylaxis drug will be available in mid-July in the U.S. and will have a list price of $1,400. But its impact w...

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Lol the trump regime got taken to the cleaners. Masterful gambit sir etc etc

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mehr releases what it says are details of the Iran-US MoU:

After winning a huge settlement with opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is spending that money on addiction treatment. A new treatment center will use traditional cultural practices to help citizens get into recovery. www.kosu.org/cherokee-nat...

The opioid epidemic threatened Cherokee culture. Now, it's being used to fight back

The first tribal nation in the U.S. to sue opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is using settlement money to build a culturally competent healthcare system for people struggling with addiction,…

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Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo ago

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · last yr.

i made a helpful reference

🚫 autistic people can’t understand social norms ✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind

Good Old Claire@illusclaire.bsky.social · last yr.

If we stopped saying “autistic people can’t understand social norms” and started saying “autistic people can’t sanction social norms” nobody would like us any better I suppose

The repressed conservative ideas courses are so popular that the government has to make students want them.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

I've not used Google search in close to a decade because it's so bad as an actual search engine (I use Ecosia). I'm hardly going to start now it's not even pretending to be a search engine and is just a misinformation-generator

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Counterpoint: No I will not

you know how badly you have to fuck up to throw a WORLD CUP and have nobody come?

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

"kids can't transition it's dangerous they don't understand!!!!!" okay bitch when I was in school the high school quarterback literally died during a football game and he is not the first or the last student athlete who died like that. weird how you don't advocate to stop that