Strongly suspect this will end up having a bigger long run impact on the average New Yorker than the more sexy headline grabbing campaign promises www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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Incredible Wall Street Journal reporting on how this war succeeded in making the Iranian people rise up…to support hardliners within the regime. Secular women showing up to rallies to change “We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba,” things of that nature. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
This is the future of climate change denial as it becomes more difficult to ignore, it'll just be endless scapegoating
It's the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system. (🎁 link as always) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet (Gift Article)
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.
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If you're thinking "Wait, why does a house that's worth $3.9M only pay $1,447 per year in property taxes?" Contrast that with a house down the street that's worth $3.4M and pays $36,591 per year! That's California Prop 13 (1978) at work!
I charted city property tax revenue in real dollars vs the Seattle-area inflation rate for my little city. Everything is bad but post-COVID inflation (including tariffs, trade wars, wars, labor, etc.) is just killing cities. Road construction costs are up like 70% year over year.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoWashington has an utterly insane provision in its constitution saying that cities can only increase property taxes by 1% a year, and predictably, a bunch of cities are going broke.
Good Lord almighty wetmountaintribune.com/2026/07/14/c...
Custer GOP leaders mock the death of firefighters in a spectacular tantrum over canceled fireworks show
During the evening on July 1, a towering pyrocumulonimbus cloud from the two-day-old Aspen Acres Fire appeared more like the top of a volcano blowing off to residents in the Wet Mountain Valley. As st...
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Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Leader Jeffries makes it clear Supreme Court reform is part of the vision to restore America in service to the people. @americanprogress.bsky.social IDEAS Conference
Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...
Why the Obsession with Ivermectin?
The quacks sure seem to love ivermectin. But why the fixation on this specific drug in the first place.
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I encourage you to stop on in to the 'Shale and Well Met' for a pint of.. well, I'm not sure what. But boy is the company great!
You've heard of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), tirzepetide (Mounjaro/Zepbound). But there are new drugs coming, ones that leave these in the dust, and leave clinicians and scientists asking: Can people lose too much too fast? www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... By me.
The next wave of GLP-1 drugs are coming—and they’re stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound
The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than current treatments. But experts wonder how much is too much
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D'you ever get a stupid idea in your head and then you can't do anything else until you get it out? 🎣
You don't have to like Israel's current government! You don't even have to agree with the political process that went into the creation of the Israeli state! But in this context, posting about "the Israelis" is just posting about "the Jews".
Torres is a no and DNC Vice Chair Kenyatta says its a mistake
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · 11mo agoLatest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
But I am really struck by the rapidity and scale of the government's retreat from its much more extensive and destructive list of demands that it tried to impose on schools at the start of this mess. It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no." But still, a notable shift.
There are bad things here, including the transparently bad-faith mess about reporting students races + SAT/ACT scores to the government so they can falsely accuse Cornell in the future of illegal race-based affirmative action (a move that imperils perfectly legal class-based affirmative action).
Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way. I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
