Mary Feeney
@mkfeeney.bsky.social
Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector
Miller or Platner, when did it stop being OK for politicians to say, "I dont know the truth of the matter, but domestic abusers shouldn't hold office". Just some boring middle of the road, "no comment about this exact person, but I have a moral compass" type response
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
1. the people representing us are complete idiots 2. how is the AI this bad at such a simple task?
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
"clips of everyone one of you doting on a guy who was more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people..." before realizing this was Sen Moreno, I thought he was talking about Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
It's the reverse (Musk carried out Vought's agenda). Vought has long planned this destruction (executive takeover) of the administration state. DOGE fit his plan, so he allowed Musk to run with it.
Revolving Door Project@revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · last wk.Russell Vought is carrying on Elon Musk's destructive DOGE legacy.
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.” 💗🏳️⚧️💗🏀💗
Cool cool. Your WNBA season tickets also get you this mediocre League Pass app!!! Where AllStar content is only available outside the US & Canada (b/c surely there's a massive untapped viewership in countries where the WNBA does NOT play)
⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡
Report: Hegseth torpedoed trailblazing San Diego admiral's promotion
Rear Adm. Amy Bauernschmidt was one of seven one-star admirals to have their promotions nixed — five of them women or people of color, the New York Times said.
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I wish this so much for my neighborhood park in Phoenix - the fields & courts are packed once the sun goes down, but we need lights on longer!! Instead the lights go off & our city bans people and providing food & water to people in public parks.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoThis summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
Hanging out in Idaho. At a place just off "confederate lane" near the Plantation business center, and within eye sight of a few confederate flags. Idaho wasn't even a state during the Civil War, but the city & residents are out here commemorating losers.
This is a huge deal - New York City is getting it's own Public Interest Technology Crew! (PIT CREW) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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This really deserves a write up in the New Republic - do they have someone with expertise in history who can offer context on this?
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4w agoA Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.
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China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.
China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing…
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Like so many other things, if Trump had just kept his mouth shut & let FIFA say "we revised and reversed the decision" it would have gone forward w/out nearly as much criticism. BUT he announced it & took credit for it - so whether true or not, of course Infantino & FIFA appear corrupt
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
"Cheyenne’s [Wyoming] Board of Public Utilities isn’t accepting industrial wastewater associated with data center systems until further notice after a contractor for Meta Platforms contaminated the city’s wastewater system." The discharged wastewater was contaminated with Cupriavidus gilardii.
Cheyenne Won’t Take Data Center Wastewater After Meta Contractor Contaminated System
Cheyenne announced Thursday it's suspended taking wastewater associated with data center systems after a Meta contractor contaminated the city’s…
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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️
Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
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'In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory.' I could swear that there are actually quite a few haunting truths that *haven't* been seared into American national memory...🤔 apnews.com/article/iran...
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children
The Feb. 28 attack on a primary school in southeastern Iran was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.
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Trump’s Department of Education and Secretary Linda McMahon tried to politicize the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program by only allowing employers who agreed with the administration’s agenda to qualify. We sued, and today, we won on behalf of nonprofits, local governments, and labor unions.
I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI