More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”

Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

Homeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Nevada

The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.

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Ossoff: "I would address the president's few remaining supporters to contrast his promises with the results you've been delivered and to vote accordingly."

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds Original research involved 11,500 neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities and was published in Journal of Urban Affairs on 10 August #negativeresults are inportant 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

nature.com

They’ve already been using the shock gloves on children.

Alex Zucker@alexzucker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Bellevue Police Department, in Nebraska, has been using electric-shock gloves for three and a half years. “Road patrol officers check out the gloves before their shifts, and all school resource officers have a pair assigned to them.” nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.

Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan

The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.

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“The U.S. cuts, followed by foreign aid cuts from several other countries, forced 60% of women’s organizations to reduce their services” And note that the other countries, including the UK, did not have to follow the American example. They chose to.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.

For 10 years, journalists have just happily gone along with this “oh sorry I wasn’t prepped before this TV appearance” nonsense from Republicans and they just let this happen over and over.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

TAPPER: You voted for Blanche. Do you think it's appropriate for the AG to be participating in a partisan political event? CASSIDY: All I saw was that little snippet. I'm going to reserve comment because I was not aware of that before this. I will say Republicans are very strong on law enforcement

Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman

The FBI tried to drive Martin Luther King to suicide by threatening to publicly release illegally recorded audiotapes of his extramarital affairs unless he killed himself.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

The following R script downloads your public projects from the OSF. Set the variable "me" to your OSF user ID, which you can find at osf.io/profile after logging in.

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.

Zack Colman@zcolman.bsky.social · 3w ago

SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.

Okay, let's let Darwin take it from here.

People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid | New Scientist

Patients are requesting that blood transfusions come from people who they know have not been vaccinated against covid-19, which can cause dangerous delays

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RECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

Taylor Farms on Sunday said it was recalling more than ​a dozen prepared food items containing jalapeños, including ‌salsas and guacamole, from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella conta...

reuters.com

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3w ago

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

By the way, you’re not frightened enough of prion diseases, not by half. Did you know that Chronic Wasting Disease can be taken up by plants where an infected deer died, travel up into leafy tissues, and infect new deer? Or any other herbivorous mammal? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Plants as vectors for environmental prion transmission

Ecology; Biological sciences; Microbiology; Plant biology; Interaction of plants with organisms

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A story of the Iran war: February 14: Dan Caine warned Trump about the missiles March 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. April 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. May 1: Dan Caine warned abt missiles. August 3: Trump yelled at Whiskey Pete for not warning abt missiles. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/07/p...

Trump’s top general is ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited, sources say | CNN Politics

Over the last few weeks, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran — because the mil...

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If you are looking for web-based phage annotation, phage-annotation.org is live. Upload a genome to run Pharokka, Phold and Phynteny sequentially (see our recent protocols paper doi.org/10.1002/cpz1...). If you have feedback, please reach out Thanks to @ardc.edu.au for making this possible!

❤️ This win is long overdue. I also want to give flowers to the enduring work of @eddebtjustice.bsky.social led by Eileen Connor. Eileen is the world’s most brilliant litigator & one of my favorite pastimes is telling people about her work suing the pants off the Dept of Education.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

RFK Jr. led HHS just doled out $150 million to this firm to represent 24k+ kids which "bills itself as a “boutique” firm “known for elite counsel in high-stakes litigation, environmental, regulatory, and corporate matters.”" w/ "none" of its lawyers listing "immigration law as an area of expertise."

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Almost *everything* you see in this format, whether infinite power cubes or solar powered houses for the homeless that fold out of suitcases or French "bread libraries" for the poor is liberal catnip bullshit by content farms. Stop being idiots. Thank you.

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Good ... www.eenews.net/articles/jud...

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

The court denied the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 20 states.

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I read about this stuff all day long and this one just made my brain explode.

Valerie Gonzalez@valontheborder.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: An RGV mother deported to Mexico despite having DACA filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it notified her it would be terminating her DACA status because of “unauthorized travel” stemming from her deportation. apnews.com/article/daca...

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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