Lisa
@notrocketscience.bsky.social
Likes: space, science, history, ice cream, books. Dislikes: mosquitoes, willful ignorance, fascists. Was r0cketscience on the site formerly known as Twitter.
While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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I think it's worth pointing out that government agencies are giving each other advice on how to intentionally provide vague information that would make FOIA requests useless.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · yesterday“Earlier this year, we reported that police in multiple states were being told to be “as vague as permissible” about why they were using Flock because their searches could be obtained using public records requests, and that warning was being shared by the FBI and Department of Justice.“
🧵 Are you following what could be this year's most consequential East Coast ocean story? Odyssey Marine Exploration is asking the Dept. of the Interior for a lease to mine ~2,500 sq. miles of seafloor off Virginia's coast. Here is why this raises major red flags: 1/7
Decision makers in federal, state, and local governments, along with the people charged with shepherding your retirement funds, cannot stop giving this guy as much money as they possibly can.
George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterdayElon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
One tiny bit of good news for the moment! Please don't stop pestering your senators, though!
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 8h agoSCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!
So Trump's big plan is... making everything more expensive? Yep, that tracks. @americasvoice.bsky.social's newest report confirms what we already know. Mass deportation = higher prices at the grocery store, slower construction, emptier job sites. #EndtheICEtax
America's Voice@americasvoice.bsky.social · 10h ago"America’s Voice analyzed 12 months of federal price data ending in June and found costs are rising fastest for foods whose production relies heavily on immigrant labor." via @cnbc.com
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
Trump desperately tries to hide his failures, and nearly everything he does is a failure.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h agoLet's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
I find myself burning with incandescent rage at the way all the civics and constitutional rules and laws I learned my whole life are actually just suggestions if the ppl in congress have a deficiency in courage "A gentleman's agreement only works if the ppl involved are gentlemen "
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Trump is letting Wall Street firms pay up to $100,000 a month for faster access to his Truth Social posts. That includes announcements that move markets. This pay-to-play scheme reeks of corruption. Wealthy traders should not get an advantage over working Americans.
Thinking about this in conjunction with the article released on how the protection of solar farms made berries sweeter. We can make conditions safer and more pleasant for people while helping communities and the earth at the same time.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2d agoYesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou
Space Caligula to assault moon with his rubbish on Wednesday.
Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 2d agoPart of a SpaceX rocket weighing 8,800 pounds is about to crash into the moon at 5,400 mph, releasing an amount of energy equivalent to about 3 tons of TNT. WOW! And, the event might be visible from the East Coast by telescope early Wednesday. More details: www.capitalweather.com/part-of-a-sp...
“The Lower Pecos Canyonlands contains thousands of archaeological sites dating back more than 10,000 years, including hundreds of sacred murals painted by the ancestors of the Indigenous communities that continue to occupy the region. The oldest surviving paintings are about 6,000 years old”
IFLScience@iflscience.com · 2d agoUS Government waives laws protecting Native American graves to build border wall. www.iflscience.com/us-governmen...
This is exactly how and why I ended up posting all my bad drawings
Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 2d agoThe “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
So far by my count he’s wrecked the rose garden, the east wing, and the south lawn. When he eventually leaves office, will there be a blade of grass left on the site?
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
I wrote yesterday: "Oil markets might even be easier to manipulate [than the general public], since they're inflected with the motivated reasoning of people who own capital and demand it appreciate in the short term. Tomorrow's problems are for broke boys to worry about."
US says deal to open Hormuz possible ‘today or tomorrow’
US Treasury chief says deal would include freedom of movement for commercial ships, as another vessel hit in Hormuz.
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Get wrecked. Thrilled the judge in this case saw through the BS of xAI's lawsuit, pointing out a lack of due diligence and waiting until a few days before the law went into effect even though it passed 3 months ago. Awesome job, Minnesota! minnesotareformer.com/briefs/nudif...
Nudification law to go into effect Saturday after judge denies delay request from Musk’s AI company • Minnesota Reformer
A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the requ...
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American Healthcare Systems is the company that owns Vista Medical Center East. Court records, tax bills, and hospital inspections indicate that AHS has been sinking hospitals into financial chaos, leaving millions in unpaid bills—while its mansion-collecting CEO gallivants on a private jet.
Lake & McHenry County Scanner@lakemchenryscanner.bsky.social · 2d agoOver 30 employees were laid off after a staffing agency ended its contracts with Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan after the hospital failed to pay the company for its services. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/03/o...
