Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data [via @yalee360.bsky.social]
Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly
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Toolbox: https://bsky.app/profile/diya25.bsky.social/post/3lj3ibzcnak2w Classroom: https://bsky.app/profile/diya25.bsky.social/post/3lmbz66vc7s2f Escape velocity! (I can EDIT there 😉) https://youtube.com/@qwillycitizenintraining?si=ugUuOX51ZNCKDthC
Great message for the last 5 weeks of the campaign.
Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Jack Smith gets what he’s been seeking.. a public hearing to answer questions about his criminal case against Trump. Tuesday. At the US Senate
Epistemic Injustice enters the chat. Again. Thank you, Mr. C, for sharing.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is fascinating. So much of what we’ve accepted for years is quietly being overturned. Here - the ovary is much more than an egg factory.
On the outside adviser urging Trump to declare martial losses in the face of losses on November 3. "“Believe me, our armed forces are a lot bigger than they are,” he said." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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The preservationist group fighting President Trump’s White House ballroom construction project announced a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign Wednesday to use for legal defense. https://www.washingtonsun.com/courts/trump-ballroom-national-trust-new-legal-defense-fund
The Top Group Fighting Trump’s Ballroom Announces a New Legal Defense Fund
The National Trust for Historic Preservation said the fund would provide it with resources to counter “current and emerging threats.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie: All Ears
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie: All Ears
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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING WSJ: Federal authorities have opened a probe into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer and accountant who are now his estate executors, according to people familiar with the matter.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d agoWAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
“If A.I. promises to transform the entire society, then the entire society is entitled to have a say, even a decisive one, over the use, development and direction of the technology.” Another banger from @jamellebouie.net, this time on AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Opinion | New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix (Gift Article)
The railroads were once the octopus that A.I. is now.
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Team Meteor here. But NeNe reminds me that there is still beauty and magic in this world. youtu.be/oS1DtbMXxzw?...
Nene Royal Goes FULL ROCKSTAR With “Seven Nation Army” By The White Stripes | The Final | AGT 2026
YouTube video by America's Got Talent
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Dammit. I am so mad I posted that. The Post pushed that, but doesn't say until the sixth paragraph that The Atlantic actually broke the news (and they don't link to the story when they finally acknowledged it). Here's a gift link to Nick Miroff's report: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
theatlantic.com
What a powerful, thought-provoking piece. I highly recommend you read it. I am still sitting with it. All I really have to say at present is we, as a nation, need to address educational inequality.
Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · last wk.Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
Trump is preparing to impose “sweeping sanctions” on the International Criminal Court, WSJ reports. Nothing says “we are international criminals” more.
#SLWRAE Seems like I need a hashtag handle for this. You know, for those “tap on glass” moments. Best not to dwell on why I am on Team Meteor. 😕 www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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New episode! Did the Court just save the election? @skyeperryman.bsky.social joins @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and me to discuss Trump’s attack on mail voting and the fight to protect democracy. \ Plus: can presidential pardons be put up for sale? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Did the Supreme Court Just Save the Election? With Skye Perryman
Podcast Episode · The Oath and The Office · September 17 · 1h 10m
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The Trump administration plans to spend $84,000 to shame the Smithsonian and harass the tourists who come to see the Star Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
theatlantic.com
"If the American republic fails in our lifetime, Howard Zinn and some of his followers should bear part of the blame as corrupters of America’s youth." -- Akhil Reed Amar The republic's failure is being arranged right now by people who quote the founders constantly and Zinn never. #howardzinn
Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda During a private fund-raiser, the former president warned that the technology could be “dangerous” if not managed urgently and with a clear plan By Evan Gorelick www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda (Gift Article)
During a private fund-raiser, the former president warned that the technology could be “dangerous” if not managed urgently and with a clear plan.
nytimes.com
Lynchings and assassinations, Ted? WTAF docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Toolbox for Defending Democracy
Toolbox for Defending Democracy These are letters written by an out of work electrician. I am an Everyday Jane. Life has had some difficult lessons. My story is your story. Different circumstances, s...
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w agoWill Republicans be asked to disavow their Republican colleague's extreme statements and the death threats from an attendee at the Republican convention? Hard to say, as there's no direct connection between them like Democratic candidates have with that Twitch streamer