this is horrifying, unnecessary capitulation by an institution that absolutely knows better than this and both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @governor.ny.gov should be imposing consequences on mount sinai at the state level as a result

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

Shame on Mount Sinai Health System. They are cowards who cave to bullies instead of standing by their vulnerable patients.

“The submerged state” for the win.

Mack Butterfield@mack2114.bsky.social · yesterday

We’ve assumed for a long time that our groceries are safe, that food inspectors are on alert, and that it would be foolish, reckless, or just downright dumb to eliminate government workers whose job it is to keep us from eating contaminated or bacteria-laden food. All those assumptions are gone now.

Iranian town mourns after deadly strike on wedding

Iranian town mourns after deadly strike on wedding

Mourning turns to anger as residents of Kuhestak say Baloch communities are being placed in path of conflict People in Kuhestak, a predominantly Baloch city in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, are mourning after a strike on a wedding killed at least four people, including a child, and injured more than 60, according to local authorities. The blast hit at around 9.30pm on 1 September, turning a night of celebration into one of devastation for the small coastal community, which is on the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

Rex Huppke@rexhuppke.bsky.social · yesterday

What in the name of all that is holy is going on here?

Harvard eliminated its writing center so obviously this was the plan. At some point they will eliminate their writing courses and tell students to use AI and then complain about the writing. Watch. 💯 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...

thecrimson.com

I just sort of feel like if we're going to be talking about an explosion of antisemitism, we should be talking about Elon "sometimes the wily Jews disguise themselves as whites" Musk

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Americans really don’t understand how evil Canadians view this rhetoric. We think it’s just “Trump being Trump” and trolling for lulz, but Lutnick here is threatening the sovereignty of our closest ally and biggest trading partner. This is a catastrophe, not easily remedied.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Lutnick pushes fracturing of Canada: "This is about the Liberal Party & Carney trying to use a kerfuffle w/ the US to gai leverage. They've got the sovereign party vote in Quebec on Oct 5. They've got an independence vote that starts the process of Alberta, who always feels ripped off by Ottawa... "

tern: "Long Covid reveals itself in many ways, but all of them start with Covid" Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐎𝐡𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭🚨 20-yr-old ROTC cadet, Pierre Damas Bel took his own life after Trump removed his Temporary protected status & forced him to wear an ankle monitor. “Pierre died as a result of policy. And it’s our immigration policy that took his life." —Pastor Carl Ruby

The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last yr.

This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.

Newsom withheld *legislatively appropriated* school AC funds for 2 years. Now he's handing them to a fossil fuel company, the week after half a million kids had their school day changed by extreme heat. If that's not Trumpian, I don't know what is. Shameful. calmatters.org/environment/...

California lawmakers let schools' AC funding lapse, handing $191 million back to utilities

Despite sweltering classrooms and a heat wave, the state chose to return unspent CalSHAPE funds to ratepayers.

calmatters.org

We have a decade of research that says this is a bad idea. Beyond that, we have a decade of research that says this will absolutely fuck over marginalized folks.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.”

Do we think anyone is paying attention yet? It turns out that El Niño in the eastern Pacific has never been as violent as it is now. “The events don’t look anything like what we see in the pre-industrial era,” Cole said.

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...

arstechnica.com

I can’t with this insanity 🤯 “A data center linked to AI and bitcoin mining operations in El Reno, Ok., lost more than 3 million gallons of water after a private water line failed, raising fresh concerns about water-intensive data centers amid one of the worst droughts the state since 2022.”

Data center leaks 3 million gallons as Oklahoma faces severe drought

Data center leak wastes 3 million gallons in drought-hit Oklahoma, disrupting services and renewing water-use concerns.

newsweek.com

FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!

An unusual sight: a Massachusetts incumbent who lost. State Rep. Francisco Paulino, a Dem, has lost (big) to Celina Reyes, a progressive challenger backed by left groups. Paulino, who was recently indicted for benefit fraud, has repeatedly opposed Dem bills on abortion access.

TEXAS REPUBLICANS DID IT —63 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY Tarrant County, they voted 3–2 to close 92 Election Day polling locations, cutting the number from 316 to 224. More than 100 people showed up to speak out before the vote. Republicans did it anyway. Closing nearly 30% of the polling places.

“Moulton exemplified the reactionary, left-bashing panic and capitulation to Trump we saw from many congressional Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election. Almost two years later, he got what he deserved: an electoral whupping.”

Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3d ago

newrepublic.com/article/2150...

Are we great again yet?

Wendell Berry passed away today. I love and return to the Peace of Wild Things at least every couple of months. A gorgeous work of art. He lived a long life and I hope it was a good one. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

nytimes.com

this reminds me of how tons of MAGAs were slobbering over how “manly” and “tough” the Russian special forces looked in their propaganda and then months later they got humiliated in the battle of hostomel airport because it turns out competence and logistics matters more than looking tough

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

I am begging healthcare workers to stop doing this. You should be masking by default. With everything we know about how COVID is transmitted it’s ridiculous we don’t have mandatory masking in healthcare. At the bare minimum, you should mask mirror.

The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.

New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data

The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).

washingtonpost.com

For me learning this stuff meant years of giving words and ideas away for free. I can't help thinking of the TV production person who came to my house years ago, fully excavated me for ideas and contacts, then fucked off back to London. I essentially researched her whole documentary for her, unpaid.

Jez Conolly@jezconolly.bsky.social · last wk.

I’d just add that it should be perfectly valid for a writer to say ‘cross my palm with silver’ and, with the minimum of fuss, expect receipt of funds in due course. It’s not too much to ask. This is always worth a watch. youtu.be/S-kiU0-f0cg?...

I went to the Vernon Cadet Training Centre as a kid. I also know the woman on the right. we volunteered with kids together, she is a model citizen. this shit is sickening.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

For those keeping score at home, the United States is now without an Army Secretary, Army Deputy Secretary, and Senate-confirmed Army Chief of Staff -- all in the midst of an ongoing War with Iran that everyone in D.C. has quietly conceded Trump already lost.

the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.