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Hero Image: The Quiraing, Isle of Skye Photog: George Hiles Source: Unsplash Avatar: Climate temperature bars: https://showyourstripes.info/l/globe June 21 is int'l "Show Your Stripes Day" https://www.reading.ac.uk/planet/events/show-your-stripes-day
1 hour and 44 minutes from now, a rocket will crash into the Moon. [my suggestion: keep audio very low while waiting. this astronomer speaks very loudly.] Thanks @drspacejunk.bsky.social for sharing!
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 12h agoI don't know if anyone else is live streaming the impact (it's not like a rocket launch, we'd be lucky to see that plume as Einstein crater is hard to see) but this astronomer is streaming using a Celestron RASA 8-inch telescope 🧪 🔭
🌊 Nearly 90 California lawmakers have sent a clear message: No new offshore drilling and continued strong protection for California’s iconic coast! 🧵
Frances Perkins was the patron saint of American workers and an inspiration for me during my time as labor secretary. She was the guiding light behind the creation of Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the National Labor Relations Act, and much more.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · yesterdayToday's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Polymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!
Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterdayThere is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
If we trust Steve Kornacki at all, he's saying he doesn't see how Stevens gets within 20,000 votes of Abdul, despite all the remaining votes.
Fascist billionaire propagandist: “I am NOT a fascist billionaire propagandist!”
David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
I like McMorrow - I think she picked/got stuck with bad consultants for her Senate campaign and got bad advice. I actually think that in a 2-way race against either Stevens or El-Sayed, she would have won, but in a 3-way race her lane just wasn't there.
Ignore all polls, assume every race you care about is on a knife’s edge, fight accordingly
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 14h agoLooks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
The NYT could have written a news story about this, with actual sources. Or at the very least they could have interviewed Ellison & asked him some tough questions. Instead they just handed over the most valuable media real estate in the world to a billionaire nepo baby to lobby for his company.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h agoI spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
Back on Feb 18, I interviewed Jocelyn Benson, who told me Dem Secretaries of State were running table-top exercises for these types of scenarios. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoSchiff: What more will happen? You know, really, the sky’s the limit. We have to anticipate they could create some provocation at a polling place to create a pretext to call on the military or to seize ballot boxes. And we’re going to be prepared for whatever they throw our way…
Something I learnt recently: Amazon stores all the highlights you make in Kindle here read.amazon.com/notebook which you can copy into an LLM to turn into structured notes. That way I can spend more time doing something I like (reading) and less time on something I don’t (making notes)
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
The especially fucked up thing is that Wyoming is much more generous toward higher education than neighboring states.
Universityes yn red states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun. Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
plese refrain from airing any harmful prejudices about different states/regions -- thys ys about the loss of academic fundinge and ys the case, increasinglye, everywher
"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy. The University of Wyoming will be the only R1 institution, the only state flagship university, and one of two land-grant universities that do not offer a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...
"Palestinians in #Gaza City held a mass funeral for 112 members of the Hassayna & Abu Sharia families whose remains were recently recovered from beneath rubble years after an #Israeli strike in 2023..." m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JeR... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #GazaNews #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
Mass Funeral Held for 112 Palestinians Whose Remains Were Recovered After 2023 Gaza Strike | AH1G
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Perhaps the most breathtakingly racist election result since David Duke won the primary for governor.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 13h agoSeems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.
@factsmustwin.bsky.social Beyerstein has worked on this topic beginning back in the Dark Ages of 2020 during the rampant COVID infections & the massive disinformation attacks on science & scientific method from the servile GOP, to anti-vax jerks, & every reactionary xtofascist 'murican.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h agoZoonotic hypothesis has a lot of evidence to support it, the lab leak hypothesis has none.
Zoonotic hypothesis has a lot of evidence to support it, the lab leak hypothesis has none.
Uber blames survivors
Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · yesterday“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
This is a tragedy for the rights of all artists --and their right to being paid for sampling and use of their work.
René Walter@rawx.bsky.social · 12h agoGEMA wins legal dispute against Suno to stop them from imitating "nine well-known songs by German artists without permission" from Helene Fischer, Alphaville, the Boney M. hits “Daddy Cool” from 1976 and “Rasputin” from 1978 to Lou Bega's 1999 version of “Mambo No. 5”.