Ed Costello
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Earth has only ONE atmosphere. Try not to pollute it with CO2 or unkindness.
The Department of Homeland Security is deploying AI systems that already exhibit many of the governance problems AI scholars warned of. They are largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed and a preview of how AI could reshape executive power, writes @camillemackler.bsky.social.
Immigration as a Test Case for Executive AI Governance
DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power.
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Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 8h agoFormer J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Elon Musk has fused himself to the US government. Hear how that historic partnership continues to shape our reality on @revealnews.org's “More To The Story with Al Letson.” Listen here: tinyurl.com/4hjneszr
…and they’ll know you are Christians by your love, by your love/and they’ll know you are by your love…” 🎶 🎶 religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p... Updates
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, an opponent of Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to be the state’s next governor. She’ll face off against a Republican who opposes virtually everything she stands for. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Michigan election chief Jocelyn Benson to face prominent election denier in governor’s race
Benson has been a frequent target of election deniers and anti-voting activists, who falsely accused her of perpetuating voter fraud during subsequent elections in the Great Lakes State.
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary race for Senate in Michigan on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, defeating Haley Stevens, a four-term moderate. This victory signaled liberal voters’ anti-establishment mood and shifting sentiment against Israel. nyti.ms/4hgCOvS
New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
Officials are resisting the misinformation spread by the White House and influencers.
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Many pediatricians no longer trust the CDC on vaccines since the Trump administration replaced the agency’s vaccine advisory board. So they’re sending patients to alternative sources. @nepublicmedia.bsky.social
Pediatricians and Health Departments Sidestep Trump's CDC on Vaccine Guidance - KFF Health News
When the Trump administration upended years of vaccine advice, it left pediatricians in a quandary. Many say they can no longer direct families to the CDC as a trusted source of information. So some are creating their own.
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Wishing a happy 80th birthday to physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, who after becoming the second Black woman to earn a PhD in Physics (1973), went on to a long research career at Bell Labs in the 1970s and 80s, and ultimately to the presidency of Rensselaer from 1999 to 2022. #BlackWomenInSTEM ⚛️
The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.” www.newyorker.com/books/what-w...
Four Histories of Race in America
The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.”
newyorker.com
Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence wins Michigan battleground House primary
Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence wins Michigan battleground House primary
The progressive defeated two moderate opponents and will face Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) in November.
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"Last year, the Biden administration allowed Finance Committee investigators to look at portions of the file in person over at the Treasury building." Now I wonder why the Biden admin didn't make this all public when Biden was President. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
As Trump Downplays Epstein, Wyden Unveils Details of Treasury’s Undisclosed Epstein File | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
As Trump Downplays Epstein, Wyden Unveils Details of Treasury’s Undisclosed Epstein File
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You know, I haven't been keeping up w/ the Epstein files, but I have long been suspicious that Trump is covering up something financial in there that hasn't yet been exposed. Don't get me wrong - I think the pedophilia should be punished severely, but ask yourselves when was the last time that...
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
Firefighters in eastern Washington are struggling to gain the upper hand on the wildfires devastating the Spokane area. https://to.pbs.org/45HJBYe
Man charged with arson as Washington wildfires devastate Spokane area
Firefighters in eastern Washington are struggling to gain the upper hand on the wildfires devastating the Spokane area. The three blazes have forced tens of thousands to flee and destroyed more than 7...
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Isn't that Cadet Bone Spurs in the middle?
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · yesterdayThis is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror
On top of the content of his responses, Miller has the deadest eyes I've ever seen
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
here’s the thing about max miller: he’s just your run of the mill MAGA chud who’s used to doing whatever he wants with zero consequences. but now he’s actually being forced to explain himself and claw his way out with excuses that would pass muster in Trump world but not with normal people.
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NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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