This is wild. North Korea built an entire town inside the DMZ for a population that was never going to exist — brightly painted apartment blocks with lights that switch on and off on a timer, and, by most accounts, not a single family living behind any of the windows share.google/ysElRtt6GFeL...

North Korea built an entire town inside the DMZ for a population that was never going to exist — brightly painted apartment blocks with lights that switch on and off on a timer, and, by most accounts,...

A monument to propaganda so elaborate that even its creators may have stopped believing anyone would move there.

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gotta respect a systems thinker

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 9h ago

One of the impressive things about Dr. Abdul M. El-Sayed, MD is that he is an author of over 100 scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters, including this one: SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND POPULATION HEALTH

I remember when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General for three minutes when Hillary was being investigated for mishandling classified information, and the republicans cried bloody murder. Now, the AG nominee is covering for pedophiles and that seems okay. WHAT THE FUCK?

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AI Engineer Claims to Have Deciphered Linear A - GreekReporter.com

An AI engineer working outside academia says he has deciphered Linear A, a Bronze Age writing system from Minoan Crete.

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Flock cameras’ days are numbered. Across the country, communities are removing them city by city. Thank you to everyone who is standing up, speaking out, and fighting back against their expansion. Here’s the cities that have fought back and won! Denver CO, Austin TX, San Marcos TX, Evanston IL,

How is this related to the RFK Jr. Peptide stuff? Judge sentences peptide vendor to nearly 6 years in prison for "an incredible trail of harm" - CBS News share.google/FVrD9xr76Cso...

Judge sentences peptide vendor to nearly 6 years in prison for "an incredible trail of harm"

A federal judge sentenced the owner of a peptide company to nearly six years in prison after finding the business deceived customers and sold products that were adulterated with steroids.

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ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.

On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.

Bout damn time!REP. LARSON SAID: When you’re not able to uphold the Constitution, are careless with classified information, and treat our military like a video game while American troops are dying and civilians are being killed, you've lost the right to lecture ANYONE about patriotism or leadership.

Today (day 3 of this superb @cape-team.bsky.social conference), I'm jazzed to present work toward my next book, The Health Care Trap: How U.S. Federal Law Entrenched the Power of Private Insurance (under contract with Cambridge University Press). I also have an SNL reference on one of my slides. 😎

Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE)@cape-team.bsky.social · last wk.

Live Soon: The annual #APE conference starts today at noon ET! Register (yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...) and join today's events 👇👇👇

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

"It works" -- Ron Johnson is using his questioning time to tout hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin 🙃 (I guess we should've put lightbulbs up our assess too 🥴)

Hey, it’s almost like Medicaid and marketplace coverage losses —> hospitals’ uncompensated care —> hospital closures was a completely predictable path amid attacks on Medicaid and the ACA. Spoiler: It’s Republicans who’re getting screwed the most. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most

Trump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who themselves are enrolled in Medicaid.

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Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7d ago

Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

Probably because we shouldn’t be administering treatments that sound like they were recommended by Dr. Spaceman

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

"The cruelty is the point." .. (Adam Serwer) .. (cartoon David Horsey) #politics

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

I have a piece coming out on the bad politics & bad policy of the Trump Administration doing this, but I also think this connects to my New Republic piece on Dems’ failure to take victory laps. Did seniors even know the Medicare Pt. D subsidy came out of the IRA? (No) newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Trump’s Budget Bill Has a New Trap for Democrats

Blue state leaders want to mitigate the harms of Trump’s budget bill. But will cleaning up another Republican mess only serve to let the GOP off the hook?

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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

#MAGACultMorons always blame someone else. F*ck rand paul

I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.

I am reading about the fires in France. It says "the fire has a life of its own" (because it generates lightening which causes new fires to spread). But nature is always life "of its own". Humans just ignore that they are nothing but guests on a planet that is and always has been in charge.

NEW: A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough:

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

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Elephants in Mozambique's Gorongosa Park are being born tuskless at rates approaching 33% — a genetic signature of 15 years of civil-war ivory hunting that the population is now passing to its daughte...

Fifteen years of ivory hunting during Mozambique's civil war left a genetic mark on Gorongosa's elephants that is still visible in their daughters' skulls today — roughly a third of females now born w...

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The Atlantic is really trying to rage bait me into some clicks. I am not doing it, even if there is a caveat to "Public Health needs MAHA" or "The Bible belongs in the classroom". Not doing it.

It will take decades to clean up the rot from the Trump administration.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cecilia Vega says she was pressured by Bari Weiss and other CBS execs to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. "Never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics."

Just started first episode of The Diplomat. I had to turn it off because having a portrayal of a competent executive branch seemed too fictional right now.

White House admits it scrapped grants to blue states because they didn’t vote for Trump. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... -

White House admits it scrapped grants to blue states because they didn’t vote for Trump

Team Trump admitted it withheld federal resources from states based on local voters casting ballots in ways the president doesn’t like.

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8 million Americans lost healthcare so corrupt Trump could hand billionaires a tax cut and call it beautiful. Trump puppets voted for this law knowing exactly who it would hurt. We won’t forget who chose profits over people. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption

Don't know who he is, but that resume is enough to get my approval.

Scroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.

This right here….. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA DID INTERFERE!

Thanks a lot, Trump: theconversation.com/pennsylvania...

Pennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater − here’s why

Wastewater from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas wells is salty and radioactive, and doesn’t suppress dust. Two researchers explain why it keeps ending up on rural roads.

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