Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d agoanytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse
Enes Kanter is still only 34 and the last NBA game he ever played in was when he was 29. The only reason he has time to be doing all this is because he suuuuuuuuucked.
Just a reminder of how much attention the US media paid to the Claudine Gray Harvard plagiarism “scandal” vs how much they paid to Israel shooting a 6-year old girl with 300 bulllets during an ongoing genocide
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoThe Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. https://cnn.it/3U6I6jU
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Police force with incredible amount of corruption cases hanging over it continues to lead their multi-million dollar public relations horses into public spaces to defecate as a sign of their respect for the people of Toronto.
BREAKING: An 82-year-old American has been left bleeding from his head after Israeli soldiers flashbanged him in the village of Turmusayya, in the West Bank. Soldiers then confiscated bystander phones and deleted footage of the incident. Trump just welcomed Netanyahu for the eighth time.
“They should never have gone back, but the laws of this country made them go." After a couple was found dead in Guatemala, with their baby crying beside them, @hurwitz.bsky.social spoke to the friends picking up the pieces for three newly orphaned girls.
She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.
A St. Louis mother took her three daughters to reunite with her deported husband in Guatemala. Neighbors found the couple bound and shot in a sugarcane field.
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more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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she does not support abortion rights. that is a flat-out lie being made by The Very Respected Newspaper, and it's something that can easily be debunked by looking at her public voting record.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoSenator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court in 2018. That has emerged as a major issue in her first re-election campaign since Roe v. Wade was overturned. nyti.ms/4xatnT9
I was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.
Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Mount Holly Springs is a tiny Pa. borough - 4 cops covering 1.4 square miles, pop. 2,300 It's turned a staggering 32 immigrants over to ICE in just 4 months since teaming with the feds The cruelty of mass deportation has come to small-town America. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in Central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
Whoops, was that the duress password?
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“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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the hospital just lets you take a baby home, it's outrageous
Marmalard@marmalard.bsky.social · 4w agoFirst nights at home with the kid is still vividly terrifying 18 years later.
Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.
Came across this DSA propaganda today they want to legalize duck-eyeball marriage and will splinter democratic voters to do so, leading to a thousand years of maga rule
The IOC and NCAA only adopted these positions after direct threats from the Trump administration. They didn't come to this policy voluntarily. Yglesias knows better but his wealthy backers want him to keep pushing this line to get Dems to abandon trans people.
"Never in my career until now have I felt that those edits, those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics," Vega said, according to audio obtained by @status.news "That's the difference." www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
Vega Breaks Her Silence
The fired “60 Minutes” correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.
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Video available online shows police shot this man at point-blank range while he was already on the ground. Police in the United States have killed more than 10,000 people since 2016 alone.
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · last mo.Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
“At no moment were the agents in front of the vehicle." “Cornered." “Lorenzo stopped the van, the officer shot him anyway.” Court filings detail accounts of deadly Houston ICE shooting contradicting officials w/ @alexnguyen.bsky.social @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...
ICE shooting passengers say agents rammed van before firing
The newly-released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
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More outstanding reporting from Bolts.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
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Three Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, as forces expanded the so-called “Yellow Zone” https://aje.news/7ns8og
