Oh jeez. NYT changed their original headline (left) to the less interesting one (right)
Lyn Jeffery
@lynj.bsky.social
Using futures to change the present. Researcher, teacher, foresight learning experience designer, citizen; works at Institute for the Future. Currently drawn to walking in forests, cooking, scruffy dogs, China, California, and New England 💚💚
Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”
“There should be no doubt that this heartbreaking loss is the direct result of inhumane conditions perpetrated by GEO Group and the Trump admin. Delaney Hall must be shut down, and justice must be served on behalf of Edwin and every person whose life has been upended by the daily cruelty”
Senator Andrew Zwicker@andrewzwicker.bsky.social · last mo.Statement on the Death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo at Delaney Hall:
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
reuters.com
Not one word in this article comes close to indicating how vile it is that the FBI is trying to blame the victim here. Repulsively inadequate journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
F.B.I. Searches Houston ICE Shooting Van for Drugs
Federal investigators believe illegal drugs were inside the vehicle, though the immigration agents involved in the encounter do not appear to have known that.
nytimes.com
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 2mo agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
Update: We are nearly 2 hours into Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing and he has yet to mention the Dow. Right now, the Dow is over 50 thou.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Coons points out that while Blanche claimed during this hearing that he's "not celebrating" Trump's pardons of violent January 6 insurrectionists, during a conservative event he sang a very different tune and praised Trump for the pardons
Former DOJ pardon atty Liz Oyer says then Dep AG Todd Blanche "fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation." www.lawyeroyer.com/p/my-letter-...
My Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the Nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General
As Deputy Attorney General, Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again.
lawyeroyer.com
We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Scott Wiener’s Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism Looks Like - Assigned Media
An opportunist at the Trans Pride March in Sanfrancisco harnassed suspicion and hatred of Jews for his own purposes.
assignedmedia.org
I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.
America’s traditional immigration policy permitted freedom of movement. America’s Founders believed that the United States should be, as George Washington repeatedly put it, “open to receive not only the Opulent & respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions.”
It was called Freedom 250 because that's how many people went.
BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election? TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that B: So you're going to use the same script
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
rpc.state.gov
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
nytimes.com
“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Who knew what? When did they know it? How close were they to Trump's inner circle? And can anyone within or around the orbit of this regime be trusted to put the interests of the American public above their own pocketbook? It is maddening that we even need to ask these questions.
A must-read.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 8mo ago🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
science.org
Cannot recommend taking the time to read this article more strongly. Truly compelling reporting that does the best work I have seen in a long time depicting the jobs that AI is creating: precarious data works. Huge congrats to @joshdzieza.bsky.social.
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 6mo agoAI companies are hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine: chefs, management consultants, archivists, private investigators, rental-counter clerks. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.
AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.
The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
theverge.com