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sometimes data 📝, often 🚲 reporting using computers @themarkup.org / @calmatters.org signal: @mali.21
Over the past year, @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org gained rare access inside St. John's Community Health in Los Angeles, tracing the human toll as patients and doctors fight to hold on to Medicaid funding. Watch the full documentary at the link below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2C...
Inside California's Fight to Fund Health Care
YouTube video by Evident
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for me, the most devastating closure in portland in the last 5 years was the chickpea ice cream place. that ice cream was dope. it was an actually rich and creamy vegan ice cream that made you full really fast and also weirdly satisfied any protein cravings. like what the fuck
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
Remembering Nam June Paik on his birthday 🎂 A portrait by his Fluxus colleague George Maciunas, at the Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963
Les Femmes se battent, by Louis Léopold Boilly, 1818, 📸 by @CTriballeau
good thread on how this is a much larger problem than simply blaming a single DOGE cut
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoFound the FDA's "Hey guys, we've been having more & more Cyclospora outbreaks in the US since 2017. Here's what we're doing to try & head that off, please fund more of this!" document. Kinda sobering! www.fda.gov/food/foodbor...
hello i am here to tell you actually probably don't need to be panicking about the explosive diarrhea parasite a thread: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
No, You Shouldn’t Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora - Consumer Reports
A parasite called cyclospora has sickened thousands with explosive diarrhea. Here's what you must know and how to reduce your risk of infection.
consumerreports.org
This mother called the local police for a mental health call and got HSI agents, who shot her son dead. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him
Jonah Neal, 25, was struck by a Homeland Security Investigations agent in May. There have been at least four deadly shootings related to the task force.
npr.org
I think we would be blown away by how few people there are, comparatively. The Roman Empire in Jesus’s time had a population no greater than 60 million people and was like a third of the global population. England in the 1400s was like two million people.
Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w agowhat is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
newyorker.com
screenshots of people on bluesky histrionically losing their shit about a goofy joke are a thousand times more entertaining than a screencap of right wing pseudo-journalists saying heinous cynical shit on twitter. food for thought
#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds
Private prison company CoreCivic sold two California properties to the Department of Homeland Security. It will continue operating them as ICE detention centers.
calmatters.org
Cabo Verde holding the European and World champions to draws in normal time with a team of journeymen pulled from across the diaspora has to be one of the all time great world cup performances.
"numb" by linkin park (2003)
🧵 We are unionized! We are the staff of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit investigative newsroom dedicated to breaking the surface level on deeply rooted issues in the city. We just formed a union and got voluntary recognition from our management!
On this week’s “More To The Story,” host Al Letson speaks with @chanda.blacksky.app about translating the mysteries of the cosmos into a language anyone can understand. Listen here: bit.ly/4eGFh0W
Podcast producer Sabby Robinson knows firsthand how important layoff protections are in a union contract: “I started about 3 months ago, right after I got laid off from the Washington Post.” We deserve seniority-based layoff protections that are standard across the news industry.
I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”
IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it. “A 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"
Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, U.N. commission says
The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the findings a “libelous sham.”
washingtonpost.com
“I have heard from our managers at ProPublica that they don’t intend to replace us with AI. And that’s great. But we’re gonna need that in writing.” This is why we’re fighting for protections against artificial intelligence:
Try to have more of this energy in life. You’ll be happier, trust me.
