Good and important messaging, but it is striking how Muslim candidates are repeatedly defamed as “terrorists” and then have to turn around and issue such statements when there is no similar expectation that Christian or Jewish candidates need to do the same for their Muslim-American constituents.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Happy Monday, I’m going to say something that sucks: it’s worth understanding that the clips of RFK on CNN are circulating in MAHA / MAGA world as an absolute fucking victory lap. Looks bad to us, but to them, it’s aura farming content gold. We have no idea how to counter that so far tbh

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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I love em dashes and I'm not going to give them up because robots that write badly also use them.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts

Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide

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If we want to talk about undercovered stories, the fact that DOGE is responsible for the wildfire smoke that the Midwest and East Coast experienced last week is up there.

Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6d ago

DOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/07/30/doge-grant-freeze-left-minnesota-forest-vulnerable-to-wildfires/

This story is horrifying. I was waiting for the moment when private equity was mentioned and then there it was. This is the sad result of a society that values rich people and their money, more than human life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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TBH I think "it is unlawful to destroy sufficiently rare books that are no longer in print without government permission" would be a totally fine law to pass.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The IRS is imploding.

The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”

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And no school has to cut those scholarships. None of those state laws or executive orders hold up if they fight.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

“A database of more than 38,000 scholarships maintained by the National Scholarship Providers Association shows the number of grants with women-specific eligibility criteria has declined 19% since 2023,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wow, this is pretty cool www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

RSV Preventive Agent May Protect Against Another Serious Infection

French babies who received nirsevimab had lower rates of invasive pneumococcal disease

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Lol

New @annamerlan.bsky.social just dropped!!!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

She's charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.

Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children's Health Defense says it was the vaccines.

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ICE would need 900,000 gallons every day—more than double the capacity of the entire town’s water system—to provide adequate water for drinking, bathing, and flushing.

How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town

“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”

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What a photo.

This story really hurt my heart, a bunch of grownups decided it’s OK to experiment on a little girl, because she’s falling behind at school. She had the mild form of a cognitive genetic disorder and likely would’ve had a normal life expectancy. She was six.

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

science.org

I didn’t really have any interest in seeing The Odyssey until I read this. open.substack.com/pub/flintdel...

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

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Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

This is an absolutely enraging story about how vile SFPD’s record of investigating rape is. Worst in country for cities its size. But that’s only the beginning sfstandard.com/2026/07/20/s...

Her rape kit had a DNA match. In San Francisco, that’s not enough

SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.

sfstandard.com

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

tania ⊹@synthstatic.bsky.social · 3w ago

WOW THIS PHOTO IS INSANE LORE NOW Lamine Yamal and Messi will now be competing against each other 19 years after this photo at the World Cup Final

beyond the existential q, the math for this is bonkers. its based on annual incomes of graduates over a period of three years, not lifetime earnings, which college has a large impact on

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

(This will encourage colleges to admit fewer students they don’t project as high earners, which will further cement our current status quo.)

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

To people in Ontario, if you have a car, check on disabled and aging neighbors to be part of their escape plan. I wrote this for @motherjones.com due to LA wildifres, but it's applicable everywhere. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Your local government isn't ready to evacuate disabled people

California's fire-prone counties left people to die. Other communities don't have to.

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been gutted under this administration, and now its grantees are receiving termination letters en masse. Please help us report by submitting your grant and spreading the word! 🧪

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 3w ago

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

This year’s Olympics of Art featured a talking poop and a woman swimming in purified pee water. After the US exhibit’s controversial selection process-- new ideological guidelines and a commissioner whose last job was running a pet food store-- I wanted to see what America had to say for itself.

26 Meta workers who recently "took, requested, or were approved" for medical leave allege they were part of mass layoffs because internal AI systems (one of which is called Metamate) dinged them for factors like lack of "productivity and output metrics" and not enough "AI-token consumption"

Complaint – #1 in Does 1 through 26 v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (N.D. Cal., 4:26-cv-07122) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT against Meta Platforms, Inc. ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-22205934.). Filed by Does 1 through 26. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet)(Cowan, Barbara) (Filed on 7/13/2026) (Ente...

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