🧵’d reply here that has a very satisfying twist, and probably the most glaring example of punch-left hypocrisy laid bare.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13h ago

Hopefully this means Dems are feeling pressure to quickly consolidate & let bygones be bygones

Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day! Ray Bradbury's greatest short story takes place on August 4, 2026 (in most editions; see alt text). If you haven't seen it, you must watch this incredibly disturbing animated Soviet version (Uzbekfilm, 1984.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP...

Was trying to do an annual update, but it has come to my realization that Trump wiped everything between FY2024 and FY2026 from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. @thexylom.com now has one of the last independent copies of data re: H-1B skilled workers in America's top higher education institutions.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...

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The Xylom@thexylom.com · 10mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com

Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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Please gaze upon this absolutely cursed relic I found on the CVS clearance rack

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

Philly?

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Best part is when he compares it to "the original epic" (which is rather famously nonlinear.)

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Matt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.

It's just insane how damn good these early 1940s Max Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons are...people will still be watching and enjoying these 100 years from now!

Feel like i can quit this game now www.maptap.gg July 19 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 94🏅 84😁 Final score: 934

Without saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?

Never Give Up Never Surrender

Alt: Never Give Up Never Surrender, says Mathesar

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Ian Betteridge@ianbetteridge.com · 2w ago

Without saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?

Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

The capacity to say something racist and excuse it with some version of "it's not racism if it's true" remains, for me, the ultimate litmus test for contemporary racial politics

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 3w ago

At the risk of fanning the flames of this: IW appears to believe that harsh criticism of him personally justifies restricting the academic freedom of everyone. If not, I’d like to hear him say that newly minted academics should be free to say he’s trafficking in bigotry.

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

"Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship."

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

what if I told you politicians are venal

Man's Funny Mind Blown Reaction

Alt: Dr Steve brule Mind Blown Reaction meme

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Cheri Jacobus@cherijacobus.bsky.social · 3w ago

After he golfed with Trump, Lindsey Graham became a different person. He was never MAGA. And I think it was more than just kompromat. I think his life or that of someone he loved was threatened. Same with Rubio. And others. Graham aged 30 years in the past 10

The only reason why this interview even happened was because I came across a Wikipedia 25 anniversary ad while scrolling on Instagram, and promptly flagged Dr. Hussain's work to our Managing Editor. Inspiration for stories can come from anywhere as long as you are curious about the world!

The Xylom@thexylom.com · 4w ago

NEW: Dr. Netha Hussain wears many hats: born in India and currently based in Sweden, she is a medical doctor, researcher, and award-winning Wikimedian, contributing in Malayalam, English, Swedish, Kannada, and Hindi. www.thexylom.com/post/dr-neth...

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

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Inside you are two ways of imagining Sisyphus