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NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language. n.pr/4wDrhLF

Update: Sister is self evacuating from the fires due to extremely poor AQI. 1700 at the sensor down the road from her. The smoke is choking them out. So she’s coming here! Yay for me. Sad about the reasons.

Ones and Sixes > Double Negative > Hey What still heartbroken that we'll never know what was next

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

104° in Boulder, where half the housing stock in the county had no air conditioning as of 4 years ago per @coloradosun.com

Key findings from Boulder’s heat mapping project will help scientists find ways to keep the city cool

The hottest areas of Boulder aren't only in commercial areas. They’re often in places with more affordable housing residents.

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Chris Bianchi@bianchiweather.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wow: 104° so far in Boulder ties their hottest day on record (Boulder Airport). Hottest day since July 11, 1954. Also hit 104° in Boulder on June 23, 1954. And still time to break that record... #COwx

Spokane is now among the growing list of western communities to experience a major urban conflagration initiated by wildfire. Almost everyone there will have a direct connection to this devastation. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Wildfire in northwest Spokane destroys 640 structures

The Old Trails wildfire in northwest Spokane destroyed 640 structures Saturday, according to Cody Rohrbach, Spokane County Fire District 3 fire chief.

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We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.

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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sorry to my ancestors for how much I enjoyed the ~lime leaf chile~ hot boiled peanuts at Rougarou if it helps, the fennel in the field peas really was a bridge too far

Your average Peanuts-protagonist is pro-hoe

Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.

Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.

A month after the Tuberculosis case was confirmed, Adams County Public Health said it still doesn't have the information necessary for its investigation.

Aurora demands GEO comply with TB investigation as health department remains locked out of facility

A month after the Tuberculosis case was confirmed, Adams County Public Health said it still doesn't have the information necessary for its investigation.

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NEW: Jeffco Public Schools has sued the Trump administration to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from pulling more than $50 million in federal K-12 funding, a step the federal government has threatened to take over policies supporting transgender students, the district announced Tuesday.

Jeffco Public Schools sues Trump administration to prevent it from pulling funding over transgender policies

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a functional political party would make hay with this

Highway 78 is closed, significant debris flow reported on Beulah Hill. Get to high ground NOW in/near Aspen Acres Fire scar

Chris Bianchi@bianchiweather.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: Flash Flood EMERGENCY (highest level of alert) for the Aspen Acres fire burn scar. 1-3" of rain has fallen on the middle/north side of the scar, significant flooding ongoing/imminent just north of Beulah. AVOID any area near the burn scar! This is very serious. #COwx

if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

So, we're just here now.

This is nothing short of a white supremacist operation to purge those deemed undesirable by the regime.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

Boy does "affect not interests" really sum up a lot of things

Paul Nadeau@pauljnadeau.bsky.social · last wk.

Things like this need more attention...this new paper by David Autor, Anne B., David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds that not only have tariffs not only failed to raise employment, but people in tariff-exposed regions supported the tariffs because they're "confrontational" It's affect, not interests

Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗

Supporting a nuclear strike on DC home rule … to battle a 20 cent fee that will raise money to help feed poor families in low-income communities. Please. Just do it. Cancel your DoorDash.

DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...

NWSL commentator and Denver Summit co-owner Jordan Angeli follows xx-xy athletics, a transphobic organization dedicated to “protect women’s sports and spaces”

Is it stunning? Or is it something literally every sentient person knew already? Something that the media should have been able to point out a long time ago, without waiting for an official admission?

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Following a presidential proclamation that shrunk Bears Ears National Monument by 90 percent and dissolved its historic Inter-Tribal Commission, the federal government is removing Tribal seals from monument entrance signs. bit.ly/4vQzP0t

Vince Boelter was sentenced to life in prison today for the assasination of a Minnesota state legislator, and other crimes. The feds said they could find no motive -- or perhaps they just didn't want to say. But actually, there was an obvious religious motive. bit.ly/4vJe5ni

Did religion motivate assassination of Minnesota lawmaker? • Minnesota Reformer

In June, the assassinations of Melissa Hortman, the speaker emerita of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband Mark Hortman, and the attempted murder of Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffm...

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Here is an account of the police shooting in Madison today that does not directly contain any video but does contain eyewitness accounts, if that's something anyone is looking for www.wpr.org/news/man-sho...

MPD: Man shot, killed by police on Madison's east side after officer was injured with knife

A person was shot by police on Madison's near east side Wednesday.

wpr.org

My dentist stopped taking my insurance so I had to take my root-canaled tooth broken below the gumline to a new guy. Before he started he said “we can stop at any time for any reason.” Now I’m running for president on a two-plank platform: single payer healthcare, and mandatory dental school for men

This story is updated after interviewing the woman who filmed the encounter. "The idea they had to wait to trap her in a jetway in a Denver airport just reeks of cruelty and trying to terrorize people," she said.

Elizabeth Hernandez@lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: 'Help us! ICE is here!': Video shows woman detained at Denver airport while boarding Southwest flight www.denverpost.com/2026/07/22/d... via @denverpost.com

no doubt this was a literal execution. ACAB. cannot be reformed. start from the ground up.

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

oh they *will* be receiving an email from me. if you know DC at all, you know that its right to self-determination as a city of locals like any other has been uniquely vulnerable as a partisan political football for literally ever. it's indefensible—unless it's a tax dodge opportunity, DOORDASH, wtf

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

John Cornyn has told the WH he won't move forward the ambassadorial nominations of Trump allies Kari Lake (Jamaica?!) and Doug Mastriano (Slovakia) without a commitment to distribute PEPFAR funding, saying it's both the compassionate thing to do and in our self-interest to have friends in Africa.

Exclusive: Cornyn threatens to sink Trump nominees over PEPFAR

The Texas Republican told Semafor he would not support action on two ambassadorial picks without movement on the AIDS-fighting program for Africa.

semafor.com