A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Gerard Harbison
@gerardharbison.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Irish and American; raised in Dublin, though born in England. Happily married (hope my wife feels the same!) Travels, watching birds. Grows plants. Snarks. Lives in Melbourne Beach, on the Atlantic Coast of the stupid state
Hilary Scholten (D) stabs Abdul El-Sayed in the back on @cnn.com. Of course Jake Tapper is OK with that.
OK, this is my dumb conspiracy theory of the week. "Never mind the size, it's the airflow" www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
Tour de France Femmes cyclists face checks after claims that padded bras aid aerodynamics
Riders at the Tour de France Femmes were subject to extra clothing checks before Tuesday’s stage following claims some could be using extra padding to seek an aerodynamic advantage
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I listened to an extended interview with Abdul El Sayed on NPR. Hard not to be impressed with this candidate. And his opponent is a moron.
The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
nytimes.com
This afternoon on @cnn.com: Sean Davis, Jim Jordan, Kevin Bessent. All Republicans. Not even a contrary opinion.
A balanced panel on today's @cnn.com: two Republicans and two Democrats, all of whom hate the left.
Mary Trump: “Donald never actually made any money in his life. He inherited a lot of money. Lost a lot of money. And has since figured out how to leverage the power of the presidency to grift. He was never a billionaire until now. Nobody should use the power of the presidency to enrich themselves.
Interrogating a scientist before a partisan political tribunal evokes the worst excesses of Stalinist Russia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing
Adviser to Trump and Biden for pandemic says Republican senator has ‘unhinged obsession’ with him
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Juvenile yellow-crowned night-heron, this morning, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
One of the stupider right-wing lies. The Democrats couldn't finance a round-trip ticket to Buenos Aires at the moment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup
President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’
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Boy George also has a problem distinguishing sex from false imprisonment and GBH. The courts sorted that out for him. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again
Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack
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With 121 words to try from on guess number 2, I guessed the right one. Maybe I'll go play the lottery.
@joho.bsky.social doesn't hold back on challenging Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee and their over-the-top endorsement of Jay Bhattacharya. From "In COVID's Wake" to this doozy of a piece, he was a hero to them. Now? Crickets. sciencebasedmedicine.org/macedo-lee-m...
Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health
From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.
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Barnes and Samson are a pair of right wing ideologies. Barnes has previously tried to interfere with Spain's judicial system. Brazil is entirely correct to ban them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/w...
Brazil Blocks Visit by U.S. Delegation Seeking to Question Election System
Brazilian authorities refused to grant visas to two senior U.S. officials out of concern they planned to sow doubt about the security of the country’s voting systems.
nytimes.com
Gloriously ironic that the nation which invented the chain gang is levying tariffs based on the use of 'forced labor'
‘American Soldier’, a piece of linguistic doggerel written to celebrate the idiotic Iraq war, now playing in my gym. Between that and the Jesus music, I’m getting pretty pissed off.
Israeli real estate companies are marketing land belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank to Jewish American buyers.
Islamophobia for middle-brows: presenting The Spectator. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik
A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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It's 11:42 pm in Madrid. Time to go out for a celebratory dinner!
What is this, the muppet version of Seven Nation Army? Shoot me now.
There's are many reasons previous generations banned or heavily restricted gambling. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa gives fraud ‘an open door’ with betting, says Council of Europe chief
Alain Berset said Fifa’s deal with a prediction market company and Folarin Balogun’s reprieve meant urgent work was needed on ‘the integrity of the sport’
theguardian.com
I don’t like Dan Burn. And I’m delighted he’s become a caricature of himself. A joke.
Is the smoke from the Oregon wildfire drifting into Alberta? Oh my! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/w...
Dozens of Wildfires Are Suddenly Burning in Oregon (Gift Article)
The state told thousands of people to be ready to evacuate.
nytimes.com
🧵Haaretz reported that the Israeli army has closed dozens of investigations into alleged war crimes committed during the war on the Gaza Strip after delaying the announcement for months out of concern that the cases could be used as evidence in ongoing legal proceedings before international courts.
