To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

gadgetreview.com

Click through for all 6 drawings by national treasure Ann Telnaes.

Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social · 4d ago

My collaboration with the great satirist, Andy Borowitz @borowitzreport.bsky.social anntelnaes.substack.com/p/unfit-to-s...

The outrage over the Cornell gang rape case is having impact:https://abcnews.com/US/district-attorney-reopens-case-alleged-cornell-university-gang/story?id=136806149

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

abcnews.com

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

cornellsun.com

Let’s go cats

She's bragging about starving children

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Brooke Rollins: "This is the magic of Trump 2. We learned our lesson in Trump one. We had four years to prepare. And then we were able to come back and just start deconstructing the administrative state. So we’ve moved almost 6 million people off of the SNAP program."

so youre in favor of trans kids playing high school sports? “i find it absolutely disgusting and weird how obsessed you are with children’s genitals. but yes, i believe children should be allowed to play high school sports, a thing that has been happening for decades without issue or controversy”

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Fellow Texans—this is such an important election. I urge you to confirm your status. It takes 30 seconds.

Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state’s Voter Suspense list ahead of the fall’s contentious midterm elections. Texans still have time to check if they’re registered to vote before the October 5 deadline. Here’s how.

we simply didn’t have to do this vaccination was working we solved this problem it was over with we did not have to do this

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

He’s got that box thing making the back of his suit jacket stick out again. Maybe some enterprising journalist could ask what’s going on with that? Is it a tactical diaper or something else?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

get a load of the state of the back of Trump's right hand. His injured skin is so discolored it's almost glowing.

Solar panels are near 1000 times more efficient than corn at capturing the solar energy that falls on a given land area. Electric cars waste only 15-20% of the chemical energy in the battery; 80-85% of the battery energy goes to moving the vehicle down the road. leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

How Solar Could Free Up 29.8 Million Acres of Prime US Farmland

Corn is a Shitty Solar Panel: 160x more energy from an acre of solar than an acre of corn ethanol

leahy.substack.com

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Investors are catching on that Musk is a fraud, who has gotten rich by bilking the government for contracts and riding on the coattails of other inventors. His white supremacy and Cybertruck nightmare is killing $TSLA, and $SPCX has no path to profitability.

"It's worth dwelling on the significance of this finding. In studying how to improve other lines, planners wouldn’t even consider replicating what works on the NEC, the nation's one really successful passenger train line. That's a shanda." -- www.planetizen.com/features/138...

Why are America's trains so slow?

A brief historical inquiry.

planetizen.com

This this this this THIS!

Erin Lockwood@erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Look, I'm all for the CFTC cracking down on people like the teleprompter guy doing obvious prediction market insider trading, but there's another sense in which those cases are just the smallest of potatoes compared to the scope and scale of financial crimes happening in this administration.

More of this, please.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions

9.12.25

jessica.substack.com

I wrote something longer analyzing the Heritage report, please read: bsky.app/profile/kate...

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3mo ago

For my newsletter, I wrote about that Heritage Foundation report calling for a reworking or even the end of Title IX in women's sports. It's a Trojan Horse and we must not welcome it. www.burnsnotice.com/the-heritage...

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction

He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.

publicnotice.co

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

If you’re living in Maine and not sure what the next move is, supporting Andrea LaFlamme is a good one. If you live outside of Maine and know people here, help spread the word!

Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m ready to answer the call.

Yes. This. A thousand times.

Bryan Fischer@bryandfischer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Poch: "It's not linear that you are going to grow. "We can compete. We need to keep improving a lot of young players with a lot of potential and future. A generation of young kids are coming behind."

Dear Folarin Balogun, If asked about it, say: “I always want to play, always want to do my best for my team. I have no say in any administrative decision, and don’t know how that works. If they say I can play, I play. If they say I can’t, I cheer on my teammates wishing I could play. That’s it.”

my plan as the leader of an american adversary is simple: ship millions of pregnant women to america to give birth. we will then have the child return and spend the next 18 years creating an anti-american super soldier. our plan ends with the child returning to the us to vote for zohran mamdani