Ned Hamson
@nedhamson.bsky.social
Earth advocate, human rights advocate, pandemic wonk
How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842--a Century Before the First Computer | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2026/08/how-...
How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer
I’ve never quite understood why the phrase “revisionist history” became purely pejorative.
openculture.com
ICE pepper-sprayed NYC woman, 72, in the face. Gov. Hochul is peeved. - Gothamist gothamist.com/news/ice-pep...
ICE pepper-sprayed NYC woman, 72, in the face. Gov. Hochul is peeved.
A video on social media shows the officer pepper-spraying the woman in the face, turning and then walking away.
gothamist.com
Contributor: Weight loss from GLP-1s is leaving behind Black and Latino Californians - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Weight loss from GLP-1s is leaving behind Black and Latino Californians
Despite their elevated need, racial minorities receive significantly fewer prescriptions for these powerful weight-loss drugs.
latimes.com
Because humans are not pussy cats, just wanna be pussy cats, a #vegan plant based whole food diet is the healthiest for humans. "There is strong evidence that a plant-based diet is the optimal diet for living a long and healthy life, according to Harvard School of Public Health."
Vegan diet can benefit both health and the environment | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
There is strong evidence that a plant-based diet is the optimal diet for living a long and healthy life, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
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Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 5mo agoDo you see Charles Darwin and/or evolution denial or acceptance? Flat Earth or a sphere? Do we treat animals as different in mere degree, not kind? Do we inbreed plants and animals or not? What else by Darwin do we deny or accept? The Descent of Man www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...
2/ Investigative reporters mapped 31 companies and $1.27B in Mexican surveillance contracts since 2012. The company also runs more than 188 command centers across 26 of Mexico's 32 states. Full investigation and receipts: typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the US border - Type Investigations
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MAGA governor threatens to take over a city while fighting to hide his own emails #RawStory
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MAGA governor threatens to take over a city while fighting to hide his own emails
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3/ Grupo Seguritech started in 1995 as a small home alarm business run by a father and son, Shimon Picker and Ariel Zeev Picker Schatz. Today the firm runs at least 188 command centers and operates in 26 of Mexico's 32 states. That is what unchecked growth looks like.
Trump’s Minnesota governor pick tries to buy votes with pillows
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Trump’s Minnesota governor pick tries to buy votes with pillows
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DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
Remember when he drove on it with his entourage? Yeah... fuck'n idiot. He left deep tire marks.
Democrats did right by ditching Platner. How will Republicans handle Max Miller? #TheHill https://twp.ai/9OZgoD
How would an #economy function if it was *actually* oriented to the flourishing of people and planet, regardless of the profits, rather than the death cult that aims for profit regardless of the impact on people and planet? accidentalgods.life/barefoot-eco... #AccidentalGods #Podcast #Economics
Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inze Aponte
If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and su...
accidentalgods.life
#WeFeedYou in this heat.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · yesterdayWA workers under UFW contract are clearing off leaves for better growth and production of the wine grapes. "Miguel" says: Chateau Ste Michelle cares about us. When temps reach 95° we're sent home. In hot weather they bring us in early so we can work when it's safer." #WeFeedYou
The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it.
Mike Rogers Has Learned from Daddy Trump. He’s Trying to Pre-rig the Election.' "He knows he can’t win without voter intimidation tactics like putting cops at the polls" www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/345...
Abdul El-Sayed: 'Mike Rogers Has Learned from Daddy Trump. He’s Trying to Pre-rig the Election.'
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is lashing out on social media against Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who is advocating that police monitor election polls in Detroit.
deadlinedetroit.com
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
Indivisible MHK Endorsements and Reccomendations for August 4th Primaries
Vote NO August 4th to protect Kansas abortion rights!
“Federal law enforcement is protecting one party and prosecuting its opposition…They are confident they can avoid consequences. If they can break the law with impunity, elections are the only consequence they face, [so] they have every incentive to steal them.” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections
We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.
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NEW: 22 blue states and D.C. asked SCOTUS to uphold a block on Trump's anti-mail voting order directing USPS to only deliver ballots to states that hand over voter data to the federal government. The coalition warned that mail voters could be disenfranchised if the order goes into effect.
Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”
democracydocket.com
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
WOW. New reporting reveals that after Epstein survivors met with Todd Blanche, it was clear he hadn't even read the Epstein Files. He is unfit to be Attorney General.
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
During a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.
A Doctor Fact-Checks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CNN Interview
A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.
forbes.com
Let’s be clear about one thing. The people who were prosecuted and convicted related to January 6 were shit bags. They were always shit bags. They always will be shit bags.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that bars orgs from providing voter registration assistance during naturalization ceremonies. A victory for Elias Law Group and our client the National Council of Jewish Women. www.democracydocket.com/cases/uscis-...
🚨 League of Women Voters v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Learn more.
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Here we go again. tRump is back at the Supreme Court trying to force through mail ballot restrictions via executive order. USPS as ballot gatekeeper, eligibility lists, the works. Another blatant attempt to make voting harder before the midterms. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
Trump wants the Supreme Court to let him put new restrictions on mail ballots in the midterms, but time is growing short
Even if the justices side with Trump this time, additional legal challenges and time constraints would make it hard to implement before November.
votebeat.org
