A refresher vid. The U.S. Constitution says “No person shall be deprived” not “no citizen.” Video: buff.ly/D6rwOwG

Please, sir, into my veins

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 7d ago

"Helping working people to afford lives of joy” This is absolutely why Mamdani is succeeding in New York and is so beloved.

From the margins of our unmitigated climate-change dystopia. "The Danube hit record-low levels due to severe heatwave and drought in Hungary. Maximum water-shortage alert is active, and a reactor block at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant has been shut down." ❤️‍🩹🌍⚠️ 📷 hvg.hu

On Friday, Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the National Museum of American History informing visitors that the museum presents history inaccurately. The order is the latest attack in a campaign by the Trump administration to discredit the Smithsonian.

The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade

Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...

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This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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*Yelling from the rafters* One and a half million Americans died and we still have no moment of silence, day of remembrance, or means for collective mourning.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

I could write so much about this--the weird American sexualization/puritanism around bodies (and glorification/liberalism around violence).

J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈@jaspar.bsky.social · 7d ago

I mean, lol. That said, having lived in other countries it is really weird how hung up on nudity Americans are. I can’t help but feel like there’s something unhealthy about treating our bodies like they’re inherently shameful and must be hidden except for when we want to objectify them.

Ok – I am motivated to report a story on this. If anyone knows anyone who's studied or thought a lot about how to design better public sports/athletic policy, lmk

Ethan Freedman@ethanpfreedman.com · last wk.

The Chicago Park District has tennis courts at dozens? multiple dozens? of their parks all over the city, but offers classes at just one of them. If you don't get in, you're stuck with private groups and coaches that charge vastly more per hour.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

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TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

Materials science trained person here. Yes.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh god. People are going off on food grade silica powder now. Don't breathe it because any powder of anything is going to do bad shit to your lungs in high enough amounts. But it's not going to give you cancer if you eat it.

FCC censorship czar Brendan Carr is threatening the broadcast licenses of eight local ABC stations because Trump doesn’t like the network. Use our action center to file a public comment with the FCC telling him to follow the First Amendment and back off.

📣 Take Action: Tell the FCC to leave ABC’s licenses alone

Make an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.

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👇Another beyond belief outrageous AI activity

Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · last wk.

Is there anything that more exemplifies the anti-intellectualism of the current age? AI companies like Anthropic are buying rare books, breaking the spine to allow for fast scanning, then shredding them... even if they're the last copies on the planet. (Tweet 27/7/24. Full text in ALT)

English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College boingboing.net/2026/07/29/e...

English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College

An English professor at South Florida State College was fired for assigning an award-winning short story to her freshman class. Now Vinita Prabhakar is suing her former employer, reports the…

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a) when people talk about pandemic learning loss from distant learning, what is the counterfactual? what would have happened if kids kept going to school where lots of people got sick all the time? b) vaccinating kids & teachers sounds like a great way to do in-person school safely

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.

To whom do we report the Department of Education for bullying?

“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.

A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.

In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.

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When people say the govt has no influence on their life.

Big John@dcbigjohn.bsky.social · last wk.

Collect all 12!

“It was annoying,” the person arrested for clapping at a data center meeting told 404 Media. “My wife was on the way up to the podium. The time for my wife's speech hadn't even been reset yet.” www.404media.co/clapping-is-...

“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

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It's so funny to me that I worry about using acrylic paints in my paintings, and there's a petrochemical giant that's like "tell you what, lets dump our whole inventory into a river"

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.

ICYMI: plastics giant Dow Chemical, not content with the quantity of microplastics in the air, water and soil, wants to make it legal to dump plastic nurdles directly into water sources in the US.

🧪🧬👩‍🔬 Please read the article. We have more work to do as scientists and as members of a democratic society.

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3w ago

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

Bridge over troubled waters... Sandbanks as far as the eye can see: aerial footage shows the dried-up bed of the Loire River near Varades, in Loire-Atlantique, as France experiences its third heatwave in two months #climate Sponsored by ARAMCO

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Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 3w ago

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

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Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos | TechCrunch

Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an...

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America’s farmers and cattle ranchers are warning that data centers are gobbling up farmland acreage, electricity and water needed to raise livestock and grow crops. “It’s almost like the wild west to see who gets there first.” on.wsj.com/4ph1S7P

A New Foe Has Emerged for Data Centers: Farmers

Growers, ranchers and companies warn of too much farmland being used for AI data centers, siphoning water.

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Tonight I happened across several images of people living and loving authentically and I cannot express how much joy it brings me to see good people living well. Keep it up, lovelies. Your happiness is my happiness.

One of the things @modacitylife.com talks about in this pod is the benefits *for children* of being able to build a spatial map in their heads by moving through space on a bike, rather than than just: get in a car, see a blur in the windshield, get out in different place.

The many social and psychological benefits of low-car cities

A few years ago, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver, Canada, to Delft, a small city in the Netherlands where 80% of journeys are taken by foot, bicycle, or public ...

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William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am running (or walking/cycling tbf) chauvinist for this reason: i will in some sense know your neighborhood better than you with a year of doing this than you will after a decade of going everywhere by car.

I'm not sure most people understand that the proposed OMB rule is not just about NIH. In addition to scientific research, it would cover federal grants that also fund healthcare, public health, education, housing, clean water, transportation, and job training. Total $1.1 trillion.

Y'all, tomorrow I fly to Ecuador, where I will travel deep into the Amazon jungle and camp several nights under the thorny trees with critters and local and non-local people. I'm so excited! Also, as a bleeding woman, I hope the water level is high enough that the pirhana are in a good mood.

“No serious epidemiologist would reason in this way, @candiceodgers.bsky.social said. Both Gray & Haidt tended to downplay other obvious factors, such as the severe adult-MH crisis that unfolded during the same years.‘Caregiver mental health is by far the strongest predictor of childhood MH’.”🧪🛟

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 4w ago

"What if It’s Not the Phones? An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

It’s not just climate scientists that are aghast… #GreekSky 🧪 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #GlobalScorching

Futurism@futurism.com · 4w ago

"Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected."