Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued new rape and sex trafficking charges against them. The brothers, dual British-U.S. citizens, are prominent in the far-right, hypermasculine online community known as the “manosphere.”

Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike

On February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, missiles landed on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab, in a civilian area near the Strait of Hormuz. At least ...

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@joho.bsky.social doesn't hold back on challenging Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee and their over-the-top endorsement of Jay Bhattacharya. From "In COVID's Wake" to this doozy of a piece, he was a hero to them. Now? Crickets. sciencebasedmedicine.org/macedo-lee-m...

Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health

From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.

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The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-sorted database has created a new, nationwide mass surveillance system.

“Privacy for Profits”: ACLU Warns Flock Building a Nationwide Surveillance Network

The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-so...

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⭕️REPORT | Iran & Ukraine trade accusations as the two wars converge in the Caspian 🔹Iran’s Foreign Min. accused Ukraine on Sun. of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying an explosion killed one sailor & wounded another, according to a statement carried by Iranian state...

Impeachment. Now.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gift Lift NY Times: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Leading virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen dives into what the evidence actually shows about the origins of the Covid pandemic. Spoiler alert: It's not what Trump, RFK Jr. and Gabbard are telling you. Read: zeteo.com/p/tulsi-trum...

Tulsi, Trump, and the War on Fauci – Part 2: The 'Lab Leak' Obsession

Leading virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen dives into what the evidence actually shows about the origins of the Covid pandemic. Spoiler alert: It's not what Trump, RFK Jr. and Gabbard are telling you.

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"If you don't bring people to account, you're sliding back into what the international community tried to prevent after 1945,” says Israeli American genocide scholar Omer Bartov, warning that Israel is not facing accountability for its assault on Gaza.

Trump Is Dangerously Unwell. So Why Are These Dems Helping Him? As the president demonstrates his utter insanity, 13 Democrats vote to help him suppress the vote. zeteo.com/p/trump-is-d...

Trump Is Dangerously Unwell. So Why Are These Dems Helping Him?

As the president demonstrates his utter insanity, 13 Democrats vote to help him suppress the vote.

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A Peter Thiel acolyte proposes to take federal research funding away from Universities, destroy their mission, and give the money to venture capital instead. He also wants Universities to hand out PhDs like participation trophies.

White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science

The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.

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Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also profiting from the death and destruction.

As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity

Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also pro...

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The surgical mask shown in this article will do almost nothing to reduce particulate inhalation because it's just a splash guard. Wear a well-fitted respirator N95 or better

What you need to breathe easier when the air is full of smoke | CNN

Millions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to wildfire smoke. Here’s what you need to know masks, ventilation and staying healthy.

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A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.

Kalshi to allow bets on clinical trials, FDA decisions

Prediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on ​Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.

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What stage of capitalism is this?

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3w ago

A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.

“As cases of Cyclospora-related diarrhea explode, the focus has been on identifying a particular food or ingredient that might be the source of the outbreak. But that narrow focus is short-sighted,missing that there are deeper factors that jeopardize us all.” Insights from @drjudystone.bsky.social

It’s The Water, Not Produce, Likely Driving Cyclospora Outbreaks

Contaminated irrigation or processing water is more likely the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. There are many systemic failures, outlined here.

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“From my perspective, as someone who cares about higher education but has no personal relationship with Yale, even the posture of treating the Trump administration's investigation as legitimate in entering this sort of process is a betrayal to the entire Yale community.” abcnews.com/US/yale-face...

Yale faces backlash for talks with the Justice Department regarding its admissions

Legal experts weigh in on Yale's decision to negotiate with the DOJ for a potential resolution over alleged race discrimination in their admissions processes.

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We are regularly being subjected to collective traumatization by our own government. Repetitive state violence is a form of vicarious trauma that harms witnesses psychosocially, regardless of its political interpretation as justified or unjust.

Zeteo@zeteo.com · 3w ago

‘You Took Her Dad’: ICE Kills Maine Man in Front of Daughter in Bluey Pajamas The people of Biddeford, Maine, became the latest to experience the full horror of Trump's lethal immigration crackdown. Read today's 'First Draft' from @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/you-took-h...

ICE killed another person.

Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 3w ago

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

The latest attack of the MAGA regime against international justice and accountability—perhaps its greatest fear.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 3w ago

⭕️ Secretary of State Rubio threatened the ICC on Monday, saying the US would “teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve” & accusing it of seeking to become the “unaccountable arbiter of a new global law” that could arrest US citizens. The court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM...

Given how this cyclosporiasis outbreak is going, it’s safe to say that having folks like Jay Bhattacharya in charge at the height of COVID would have been a disaster. As @joho.bsky.social has said, these folks built reputations on how they WOULD HAVE done things. We’re living their incompetence.

Great explainer of role of law in dismantling public health 2 main legal problems for PH: SCOTUS’s extreme Unitary Executive Theory concentrating exec power, allowing POTUS to remove exec officials at will, extended to HHS Secretary (RFK Jr) + denying remedies for unlawful fed grant terminations

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oooh, can't wait to read this one by Samuel Bagenstos: Reconstructing the Public Health State. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Oooh, can't wait to read this one by Samuel Bagenstos: Reconstructing the Public Health State. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our own @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social

Scientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grants

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science

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The federal government’s deadly immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota earlier this year left in its wake human rights violations, widespread terror and laid bare the United States immigration enforcement’s volatile and abusive behavior, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Operation Metro Surge 'Brought Terror and Human Rights Violations to Minnesota Communities' - UNICORN RIOT

Minneapolis, MN — The federal government’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota earlier this year left in its wake human rights violations, widespread terror and laid bare the United States immi...

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NEW: The Minnesota 15 case is about thousands of pages of conversations harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build federal conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges a...

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This Week in Democracy – Week 77: ICE Kills Again, White Supremacists Descend on DC, and Trump Wants Birthright Citizenship Case Reheard Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term. Read now: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

This Week in Democracy – Week 77: ICE Kills Again, White Supremacists Descend on DC, and Trump Wants Birthright Citizenship Case Reheard

Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.

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Last week, we reported how Children’s Health Defense and other anti-vaxxers were publicly supporting Shaw, who is charged with the first-degree murders of her toddler twins, painting her as a victim of politicized prosecution. Our story here: www.importantcontext.news/p/plaintiff-... Now, this…

Plaintiff in Children’s Health Defense Lawsuit Charged With Murder

A mother who blamed vaccines for the deaths of her toddler twins and joined the anti-vax group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics has been charged with murdering her children.

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Lauren Weber@laurenweberhp.bsky.social · 4w ago

The lawyer of the mom who blamed flu shots for her twins’ deaths and is now charged with murder told me he is working with Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr., to share information and medical experts for her defense www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...