Done without Congressional approval and with no one in charge who is congressionally confirmed

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · yesterday

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

what in the WHAT

Pop Base@popbase.tv · yesterday

An Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.”

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...

Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns

Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

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this is legitimately very funny

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 6d ago

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Not a shock that DHS got key facts re alleged voting fraud completely wrong. The question is why do traditional news outlets often just run with initial press releases from DHS or Trump controlled agencies writ large as if they were legit and feature their framing in headlines, leads?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

sending every palantir executive to The Hague is fine by me!

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2w ago

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

This is the quintessential Bills fan emotional status. bsky.app/profile/loll...

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2w ago

Am I excited? yes. Am I filled with dread? Also, yes.

If the law stated REAL DAMN CLEAR that a frontier lab is found liable for punitive damages if its model escapes its sandbox and hacks shit, and if that law was robustly enforced, then the frontier labs would figure out how to build better sandboxes. This really isn't rocket science.

Two notes on this passage: -Aside from aligning the AIs so they, uh, properly serve humanity, the other thing you could do is set liability frameworks that make certain behaviors REAL DAMN EXPENSIVE for the model developers. Amodei is never gonna support that, because it'd be bad for him. But(...)

I am grateful that Amy Acton is safe, and hope those who were injured recover quickly. What a terrifying moment. www.wlwt.com/article/amy-...

Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured

Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.

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Shame on Mt. Sinai for capitulating with this settlement, which violates that legacy of inclusion, their own Hippocratic oath, and New York’s human rights laws. (3/3)

Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)

Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.

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at this point being a nazi edgelord online must be a prerequisite for working in the trump administration, no?

Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

My goodness.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

School principal Rajendra Dawadi's quick decision to evacuate his school saved at least 900 students from devastating flash floods in Nepal last week.

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in Texas, many of which haven’t been fully studied. wrd.cm/46s8TtK

Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.

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Tenure-track Psychology position announcement! If you are passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduate students and would be excited to teach Research Methods plus courses in your specialty area(s), please apply to our open position at Augustana University tinyurl.com/3au5y2zd #psychjobs

A piece of crop art that deserves more attention: Liberty Leading the People by Bethany Nagan, which earned a 3rd place ribbon. This is her first piece of crop art, and I think she used literally every seed in the catalog 😂. The parallels between this and the Guernica piece are beautiful.

Among the victims: a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes in Nepal. These programs could have helped foresee or mitigate this week's glacial flooding catastrophe. 1000 victims and raising

The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account@csilverandgold.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s genuinely difficult to articulate how evil destroying USAID was. And it’s weird bc some people are so committed to the US anti-imperial angle that they skip right over the “literally the worst excesses of capitalism, the world’s richest man just decided to turn off money to poor people” angle.

So they passed on the higher prices to us then pocketed them again with refunds. Just to be clear about what happened. Story: www.npr.org/2026/08/28/n...

Note the more immediate thing folks are missing abt these stories is that Elon was declared to have broken GA mail-in ballot law, he was referred for bribery prosecution (but not charged), and is being sued under two different theories, one stiffing workers, another fraud.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · last mo.

More than a few people have assumed Axios would have an especially slanted view on this, but pretty much every piece about Musk diving into the midterms ignores, well… all of it.

Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator, has been deported to the United Kingdom, DHS says.

Texans check your voter registration, especially those in Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties. From the article: Suspended voter registrations span the whole state, but these Blue/Blue leaning counties are targets: Dallas: +129,000 Collin: 56,000 Denton: 56,000 Tarrant: + 73,000

Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.

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I have served on this committee. “Professor Sisyphus joined the committee that was drafting the new strategic plan. They held planning meetings. Then they held listening sessions. Then they drafted a draft strategic plan. Then they held feedback meetings on the draft strategic plan…

Susannah Paletz@susannahpaletz.bsky.social · last mo.

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It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to recognize — and the article discusses this — that "underlying conditions" is a very broad category. You may have one even if you don't think of yourself as high risk. See long list here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...

What to Know About New Covid Vaccines for Fall 2026 (Gift Article)

The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.

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